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A few weeks back, we got a taste for two-stage tentacle mechanisms. Itโs a look at how to make a seemily complicated mechanism a lot less mysterious. This week, weโll take a close look at one (of many) methods for puppeteering these beasts by hand. Best of all, itโs a method you can assemble at home!
Whatโs not to love aboutย animatronics? Justย peel backย any puppetโs silicone skin to uncoverย a clusterย of mechatronic wizardry that gives it a life on the big screen. Iโve been hunting online for a good intro to these beasts, but Iโve only turned up one detailed resourceโalbeit a pretty goodย oneโfrom the Stan Winston Tutorials series. Only 30ย seconds into the intro video, Iย could feel those tentaclesย waking upย my lowest and most gutteral urge to create physical things. Like it or not, I was hooked; I justย hadย to build oneโฆ or a few. This is how you built a very real animatronic tentacle.