Wolf Animatronic: mouth movement

Since I had trouble with the mouth movement on my animatronic wolf, the first draft,  i've been researching potential ways of setting up the servo for better movement. I found one set up on BPEsolutions.com  that I think I will give a try:

Hands and Ears

The previous week I decided to take a break from the animation scene drawings and start on some of the elements for my Animatronic sculpture(s). In hopes of making my wolf animatronic look as anatomically correct as possible I studied wolf ears and bone structure to start carving ears from foam and sculpt skeleton hands.

 

 

The ears are carved from upholstery foam, the ridges in the ear are to semi mimic a more anatomically correct look of a canine ear. I also found some nude colored fabric to line the inner part of the ear to look more like skin. eventually the outer part of the ear will be covered in fur and the inner part of the ear will be painted to give a more realistic look.

 

I also started to sculpt skeleton fingers for the sculpture, I'm still not sure if I'll be makeing one or more figures so I decided to create a mold of the fingers so I can mass produce them if I need to. I will be casting the fingers in Resin.

Character design Concepts

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