I've always been fascinated with animatronics since I first saw Chuck E Cheese as a child. I wasn't necessarily scared, just confused and nervously awestruck. Then FNAF came out when I was in middle school and it's like a whole new world was opened for me. I long to have the resources and time to dedicate to learning this craft. It's truly mesmerizing
Oh man, I just graduated from mechanical engineering and after a loooong while thinking about it I really want to get into animatronics and SFX. Great video.
@@Nolan357 I've been a professional for over 35 years, and can give you important advice. Do not get into this to make a living. Have something that brings in money beside this. The reason that I give this warning is that I and ALL of my colleagues have shut down their animatronics division including Rick Baker's which he shut down soon after CGI became as realistic as it is today. Everything is still going to VFX artists but in probably less than ten years, they will go the way of animatronics. A.I. already has surpassed what Digital VFX artists can do, and once full motion is perfected, they won't be hired at all. In ten years , there will be no more jobs for designers of any kind, unfortunately.
Hello will, for a long time I have been passionate about animatronics today I am over 50 years old and my spirit is still animated but unfortunately I live in a country where opportunities are few, but even so this video inspires me to continue I have worked many projects with moving parts in wood and over time I have started to use computers and printers etc thank you very much for inspiring many people I wish I had found this much sooner but it is never too late thank you
Your words are very inspiring!! Thank you for sharing, I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum, I'm 21 and want to get started in this world, but sometimes I think that I should have started years sooner
"Not the hero we deserved, but the Hero we needed" Srly tho, I am EXTREMELY interested in animatronics and actually want to either work at an animatronics company or become one of those people who restore old and broken animatronics! Subbed to you, you deserve more subs.
Just wanted to express my gratitude to you. I've been wanting to start into animatronics for quite a bit and have kept putting it off because it was overwhelming to find a starting point. Thank you for putting this together and for making all of your projects so accessible!
so what stage of the project is ideal for sacrificing children for animatronics to act more human like? The programing stage or the assembling the animatronic stage?
well, the first step if you need to make a suit that looks like a yellow rabbit, that way you can actually GET the kids for the sacrafice. next, just get the animatronics. and put the kids in there, thats all you need to know.
Thank you man. That was very informative. I am really struggling for some time now to get started with 3D Printing, CAD and all the moving parts to it. Hearing your approach to this matter really boosts the motivation. Thank you, kind Sir.
i just got the great idea to make a wearable animatronic suit and i have the design and i know how it'll work but i don't know the actual mechanics for the eyes and mouth and stuff, so this really helped, thx!
Hey man, just want to say I'm incredibly appreciative of this video and your channel in general. I'll probably try joining your discord to say more but I can't begin to express how much this entire channels means to me.
really good advises . I think not being scared of failure is quite important, I don't know for you but I have tried making stuff and failed many times (still do ) . 3d printers, milling machines and lathe are great but you can still learn a lot by making stuff from wood and cardboard by hand .
thank you pal ! followed this tutorial with my buddy will, we even managed to make a pizzeria, wierdly enough 6 kids were gone missing right after a birthday party …
..ME AND MY FRIEND ARE DOING THE SAME (Scary thing is we found things that are like spring locks and my friend is Highly fixated on adding these one what we need to create them) WE ARE GONNA MAKE A PIZZERIA AND ITS GONNA BE AMAZING
Hey will! Thanks for this Video. After you inspired me with your animatronic eyes i bought an elegoo starter kid and it worked out well so far. Thanks for your content mate. It really inspired me to get started
Printed out the simple eye mech last weekend and this weekend I'm printing the compact eye mech. These are going to help a ton with a project I've been working on for the last 6 years.
I love your optimism and stimulating new comers. Nobody learns all this stuff in college unless you go to a SFX school like Tom Savini’s or Stan Winston’s online classes. And even there I believe that animatronics is an elective course, just like sculpting. I believe mould making is a required course but I could be wrong. But even those guys in the 70s and 80s figured this out, step by step. Just progress little steps, that’s what engineering is about. Find the smallest thing you can solve and solve that. Then work in the next smallest thing and pieces for into place as you continue to harness new skills and Knowles as you progress. Often people see the end product and quickly want to be able to do that themselves. That’s not how this works, it’s a labour intensive grind. And often you have to learn things you don’t even want to learn. Like in my case sculpting and mechanical stuff. I’m first and foremost and EE and CS graduate. But hell you need to chip away at that, or find someone who’s good at it you can commissions to do it for you.
This is really neat. I'm a programmer by trade and did robotics club in highschool but I haven't made anything mechanical in a long time. I've been interested in animatronics again recently and this is great
So glad I found your channel. I really admire your designs and how well you document them. Although I haven't started yet, you're inspiring me to document my own projects. Thanks mate
Thank you so much for this wonderful video. You answered so many of my high-level questions. Also, I want to commend you for your artistic skills in writing, performing, and editing this video. It was well-paced, informative, interesting, and chock full of clear visual examples (images, videos) to illustrate your points.
I was in robotics for only one year on 8th grade. But honestly it was fun, I could have continued doing it, because I always found the functioning and building-from-scratch animatronics interesting. And also, because, it’s better designing something yourself because you don’t have to wait and you would have the experience😅 It’s amazing
Community collages sometimes offer crash courses on how to do things. I took the Engineering Tech. program at MiraCosta TCI and we cover everything you said in the video. Artistic flair aside. This is entirely within my scope now. also, Paul Mcwhorter (not sure if im spelling that right) at top tech boy here on YT has a fantastic course on getting started with Arduino programing!
This was genuinely helpful! I just want to do mech heads,kinda like showbiz pizza place(EX: Aaron's animatronic programmers kit),I have always loved how advanced their mech's were for the late 70's, early late 80's,and early 90's aswell. I have my characters ter design planned out but not the mechs designed out,I want to make it as similar as possible without copying creative engineering/Aaron's original mech designs entirely.
thanks for this vid will, have been looking for a good place to get launched off from with this stuff and this has been pretty useful for some pointers, also the lightbulb moment bit made me rofl, all 3 times ahahaa
OMG YES! YES YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS lord i know its my weird brain that struck me with this sudden urge to go down this rabbit hole but ive loved this kind of engineering ever since i was a kid and always just considered it a pipe dream, this shows me its possible!!!!!! thanks you strange obsessive 5am thoughts, and thank you Will, you absolute fucking legend
hey ... merci beaucoup... j'avais vu tes yeux animatronics il y a un moment, et en regardant le projet de thomas sur hackio j'ai décidé de me lancer, malgré un leger doute sur mes compétences... finalement, j'arrive à m'en sortir malgré tout... alors merci pour tout votre partage de connaissance. 🤝
Thank you for your hard work! You surely have inspired me for exploring my own ideas, still I'll always love your creative mind and videos. Really thank you Will
Thank you so much for this, the video was really inspiring honestly! I've always found animatronics so cool and fascinating and I'm starting to think about it seriously. I want to one day be able to make a Disney-grade animatronic! I'll be looking into coding and STEM courses soon i hope :] i wish I'd started sooner, I'm in high school and know nothing about computers or engineering and I really dislike math (unfortunate, lol)... But I'll keep doing my research and one day maybe I'll be great at robotics ^^
Thank you for your content, you are so inspiring for people introducing in animatronics like I am. There it is a lot of work and talent in your channel, keep it up!
Do you have a tutorial on how to make the eyes? extra materials, etc. Just bought the beginner kit and I'm keen to use the eyes as a more extensive project to work up to
A bit of knowledge of anatomy is not necessary but being open to do the research helps a lot. Don't have to reinvent the wheel ;) nature has a lot of amazing principles already there to steal!
coming as someone who is mostly self taught on programming, its possible. there are a ton of free online bootcamps and guides. python is pretty easy to learn as well.
Some nice work there Will. Good to see some young folks maintaining an interest in animatronics. Regarding inspiration for newcomers the only thing I'd add is to study actual zoology and animal physiology for ideas. If a creature uses gristle, stretchy tendons and has imprecise floppy regions of fat that give it a distinctive wobble then incorporate an analogue of that into designs . No need to try to make a replica of a living creature move like an ultra-precise robot when living creatures are largely imprecise and have lots of compliance.
Very inspiring video! I am working on a robot pet project and use your first eyes model. Would love to speak to you so we can discuss different mechanical engineering approaches.
Anyone else here wanting to make a whole 6 ft autonomous animatronic then realizing that you have to think about engineering and there is a ton of stuff to know- 💀
I've always been fascinated with animatronics since I first saw Chuck E Cheese as a child. I wasn't necessarily scared, just confused and nervously awestruck. Then FNAF came out when I was in middle school and it's like a whole new world was opened for me. I long to have the resources and time to dedicate to learning this craft. It's truly mesmerizing
same dude, literally same
@@bradentheman1373same I’m making one now
@@Braycaywittles cool. What kind of animatronic?
Me too :D
I'm currently working on my first bigger animatronic, it's a baby talking tattletail :3
Oh man, I just graduated from mechanical engineering and after a loooong while thinking about it I really want to get into animatronics and SFX. Great video.
thats exactly what i wanna do! i havent graduated yet tho. how did that work out for you? did you ever get your start somewhere? internships or such?
@@Nolan357 I've been a professional for over 35 years, and can give you important advice. Do not get into this to make a living. Have something that brings in money beside this. The reason that I give this warning is that I and ALL of my colleagues have shut down their animatronics division including Rick Baker's which he shut down soon after CGI became as realistic as it is today. Everything is still going to VFX artists but in probably less than ten years, they will go the way of animatronics. A.I. already has surpassed what Digital VFX artists can do, and once full motion is perfected, they won't be hired at all. In ten years , there will be no more jobs for designers of any kind, unfortunately.
Was mechanical engineering fun?
Hello will, for a long time I have been passionate about animatronics today I am over 50 years old and my spirit is still animated but unfortunately I live in a country where opportunities are few, but even so this video inspires me to continue
I have worked many projects with moving parts in wood and over time I have started to use computers and printers etc thank you very much for inspiring many people I wish I had found this much sooner but it is never too late thank you
Your words are very inspiring!! Thank you for sharing, I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum, I'm 21 and want to get started in this world, but sometimes I think that I should have started years sooner
"Not the hero we deserved, but the Hero we needed" Srly tho, I am EXTREMELY interested in animatronics and actually want to either work at an animatronics company or become one of those people who restore old and broken animatronics! Subbed to you, you deserve more subs.
Same kinda, I either wanna settle with game development or start a little show for people in CT to love since we don't have very much
Pretty much same here@@dkman_lol
I am learning to be a coder and creating an animatronic will be the pinnacle of my coding career (especially while using C++).
Just wanted to express my gratitude to you. I've been wanting to start into animatronics for quite a bit and have kept putting it off because it was overwhelming to find a starting point. Thank you for putting this together and for making all of your projects so accessible!
so what stage of the project is ideal for sacrificing children for animatronics to act more human like? The programing stage or the assembling the animatronic stage?
I SECOND THIS QUESTION!
Fnaf brainwashed me-
assembly for sure
programming
You rig the animatronic to do the job for you (Sister location style)/j
well, the first step if you need to make a suit that looks like a yellow rabbit, that way you can actually GET the kids for the sacrafice. next, just get the animatronics. and put the kids in there, thats all you need to know.
Thank you man. That was very informative. I am really struggling for some time now to get started with 3D Printing, CAD and all the moving parts to it. Hearing your approach to this matter really boosts the motivation. Thank you, kind Sir.
i just got the great idea to make a wearable animatronic suit and i have the design and i know how it'll work but i don't know the actual mechanics for the eyes and mouth and stuff, so this really helped, thx!
Don’t bro trust me 💀
Oh god man be careful and REFRAIN FROM ADDING SPRINGLOCKS (new sub bc i like therians)
sounds like a great idea, just be careful to not use an strong springlocks, an weaker ones should be more safe.
my god will, you're basically robo-jesus. I might actually start with animatronics just because of you, so thanks! The video was really inspiring :D
Well, I will be the one who makes Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy. WHO BELIEVES IN ME AND AGREES WITH ME?
I’m making ballora or circus baby!
@@OfficialJs_Jvonn YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS PLZZZZZZZZZ
Well it won't hurt if I try but I can't make it now, maybe if I'm like 15-18 I'll make it ASAP, AND I'LL BE THE OWNER OF FREDDY FAZBEAR PIZZA
@@OfficialJs_Jvonn okie
Imagine if this was William afton
6 days ago
Stfu please
@@noxymex this person has the freedom to comment, you no longer do.
@@theguywithacatprofilepictu3337 stfu
@@noxymex sTfU ok year 7
You’re so down to earth and realistic in your approach in this video. Thank you! Excited to watch through your stuff and make my own !
Hey man, just want to say I'm incredibly appreciative of this video and your channel in general. I'll probably try joining your discord to say more but I can't begin to express how much this entire channels means to me.
really good advises .
I think not being scared of failure is quite important, I don't know for you but I have tried making stuff and failed many times (still do ) .
3d printers, milling machines and lathe are great but you can still learn a lot by making stuff from wood and cardboard by hand .
how about plaster? do u knoe any course that teaches animatronics with plaster?
thx in advance
Damn you're so relatable, thank you. This is pretty motivating and down to earth. Awesome videos, keep doing you!
it was amazing how accurately and thoroughly you described the engineer's mindset.
thank you pal ! followed this tutorial with my buddy will, we even managed to make a pizzeria, wierdly enough 6 kids were gone missing right after a birthday party …
Funny reference.
Naw I’m here Bc my dad wants to make a pizzeria and maybe wants some fun things 💀💀
..ME AND MY FRIEND ARE DOING THE SAME
(Scary thing is we found things that are like spring locks and my friend is Highly fixated on adding these one what we need to create them)
WE ARE GONNA MAKE A PIZZERIA AND ITS GONNA BE AMAZING
Hey will! Thanks for this Video. After you inspired me with your animatronic eyes i bought an elegoo starter kid and it worked out well so far.
Thanks for your content mate. It really inspired me to get started
how's it going now?
Printed out the simple eye mech last weekend and this weekend I'm printing the compact eye mech. These are going to help a ton with a project I've been working on for the last 6 years.
I really hope you succeed man! what ever you're working on sounds cool! :D
You certainly do inspire. It's good to know what tools you use, like Fusion 360.
This is the kick I needed to try out some Animatronics, thank you :) Keep up the great work!
"also putting an artistic slant on this"
That is a beating heart good sir
I love your optimism and stimulating new comers. Nobody learns all this stuff in college unless you go to a SFX school like Tom Savini’s or Stan Winston’s online classes. And even there I believe that animatronics is an elective course, just like sculpting. I believe mould making is a required course but I could be wrong.
But even those guys in the 70s and 80s figured this out, step by step. Just progress little steps, that’s what engineering is about. Find the smallest thing you can solve and solve that. Then work in the next smallest thing and pieces for into place as you continue to harness new skills and Knowles as you progress.
Often people see the end product and quickly want to be able to do that themselves. That’s not how this works, it’s a labour intensive grind. And often you have to learn things you don’t even want to learn. Like in my case sculpting and mechanical stuff. I’m first and foremost and EE and CS graduate. But hell you need to chip away at that, or find someone who’s good at it you can commissions to do it for you.
Will, thank you for the encouragement and sharing of ideas so unselfishly. You are of great help.
POV: William Afton learned everything he knows about robotics from this video
Interesting and informative. Nice video.
This is really neat. I'm a programmer by trade and did robotics club in highschool but I haven't made anything mechanical in a long time. I've been interested in animatronics again recently and this is great
we getting out of fredbear's family diner with this one 🔥🔥🔥💪💪🗣🗣🔥🔥
hey, what is ur job called? i want to be like u when i grow older 🥺 and i am too much into animatronics omg
Nadja Stekovic his job is a youtuber
I don't think it has a name
Animatronics Technologist I believe
Engineer
U can work In Chuck E Cheese In American There's A lot Animatronic
Im learning the logics of animatronics and springlock suits. Thanks for the tips!
Thank you a lot for your great content and motivation. I have no idea what's your end goal but it's fantastic to see the pieces.
You are amazing for sharing your raw thoughts, journey and willingness to make this an inclusive and uplifting space!
So glad I found your channel. I really admire your designs and how well you document them. Although I haven't started yet, you're inspiring me to document my own projects. Thanks mate
Thank you so much for this video. Robotics is such a great thing and I love it so much, I'm working on learning to make them :D
thank you this is actually my first time doing tech and stuff
I really needed to see this video today. You hit the nail on the head. Thanks.
Thank you so much for this wonderful video. You answered so many of my high-level questions. Also, I want to commend you for your artistic skills in writing, performing, and editing this video. It was well-paced, informative, interesting, and chock full of clear visual examples (images, videos) to illustrate your points.
Hey, thanks so much for releasing this video. saw a few different things that are related to animatronics recently. but I'm focusing on other things.
lately, ive been really interested into animatronics, so.. thank u
I never know if I could do this but then I remember that a couple years ago I was very clueless in geography and now I'm. Amazing at it
I was in robotics for only one year on 8th grade.
But honestly it was fun, I could have continued doing it, because I always found the functioning and building-from-scratch animatronics interesting.
And also, because, it’s better designing something yourself because you don’t have to wait and you would have the experience😅
It’s amazing
I relate to your outlook on researching new things. This definitely gave me a boost of confidence
Community collages sometimes offer crash courses on how to do things. I took the Engineering Tech. program at MiraCosta TCI and we cover everything you said in the video. Artistic flair aside. This is entirely within my scope now. also, Paul Mcwhorter (not sure if im spelling that right) at top tech boy here on YT has a fantastic course on getting started with Arduino programing!
DAMNNNN that heart at 0:16 is COVERED in bbq sauce/worcestershire sauce... yummmy...
thankyou for this video😄
Thank you for this Informative video
This was genuinely helpful! I just want to do mech heads,kinda like showbiz pizza place(EX: Aaron's animatronic programmers kit),I have always loved how advanced their mech's were for the late 70's, early late 80's,and early 90's aswell. I have my characters ter design planned out but not the mechs designed out,I want to make it as similar as possible without copying creative engineering/Aaron's original mech designs entirely.
Oh this is awesome thank you I love this type of stuff
Your pfp really explains it all
I Just got back into fnaf and thats my reason why I'm here
Thanks for all the great advice. Do you think you could do a video on how you go about choosing which servos to use for a project?
How about a Discord server for the community?
installed, everything works, thanks!
We have a face behind the voice! Good job as always Will. Forum when!? XD
thanks for this vid will, have been looking for a good place to get launched off from with this stuff and this has been pretty useful for some pointers, also the lightbulb moment bit made me rofl, all 3 times ahahaa
OMG YES! YES YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS lord i know its my weird brain that struck me with this sudden urge to go down this rabbit hole but ive loved this kind of engineering ever since i was a kid and always just considered it a pipe dream, this shows me its possible!!!!!! thanks you strange obsessive 5am thoughts, and thank you Will, you absolute fucking legend
hey ... merci beaucoup... j'avais vu tes yeux animatronics il y a un moment, et en regardant le projet de thomas sur hackio j'ai décidé de me lancer, malgré un leger doute sur mes compétences... finalement, j'arrive à m'en sortir malgré tout... alors merci pour tout votre partage de connaissance.
🤝
Thank you for your hard work! You surely have inspired me for exploring my own ideas, still I'll always love your creative mind and videos. Really thank you Will
Thank you so much for this, the video was really inspiring honestly! I've always found animatronics so cool and fascinating and I'm starting to think about it seriously. I want to one day be able to make a Disney-grade animatronic! I'll be looking into coding and STEM courses soon i hope :]
i wish I'd started sooner, I'm in high school and know nothing about computers or engineering and I really dislike math (unfortunate, lol)... But I'll keep doing my research and one day maybe I'll be great at robotics ^^
man i wanted to learn more about this i wanted to have my own restaurant i even have the characters in my head
this guy if literally fnaf🥰😍😍😍😍🥰
Thank you! I'm planning sometime to make human sized animatronics in the future so this video is helping me a LOT. Tysm👍
Thank you for your content, you are so inspiring for people introducing in animatronics like I am. There it is a lot of work and talent in your channel, keep it up!
Omg it's finally happening!!!
I think that you ARE an animatronic ! 😂
Great video, thanks !
OMG U NEED MORE SUBCRIBER!!! U SHOULD BE POPULAR THEN EVERYONE!!! OMG I WANT TO VISIT THE ANOMOTRONIC YOU WILL MAKE!!!!!!
Thanks for the video now I can make animatronics when ever I want
That one person named William: "interesting"
This was explained extremely well, thank you!
Thank you 🙏🏾
we're waiting every night.
Thanks for sharing your work and your thoughts.
Do you have a tutorial on how to make the eyes? extra materials, etc. Just bought the beginner kit and I'm keen to use the eyes as a more extensive project to work up to
OMG WILLIAM AFTON IS IT YOU?
I am making my own animatronic Dog,i already designed endo skeleton and Enzo skeleton
:,)
Yes i would love a subreddit.
btw: very good vid
William afton????? Nah but fr I’ve been obsessed with building animatronics
A bit of knowledge of anatomy is not necessary but being open to do the research helps a lot. Don't have to reinvent the wheel ;) nature has a lot of amazing principles already there to steal!
coming as someone who is mostly self taught on programming, its possible. there are a ton of free online bootcamps and guides. python is pretty easy to learn as well.
time to make a pizzeria with this one 🐻🔥🔥🔥
You should also add a bunny animatronic playing an electric guitar, that would be cool imo
Oh and a chicken who likes pizza and has a pet cupcake
@@ZekeTheFur i had a great idea a bear that dances and sings
@@hi12345m WAIT THATS ACTUALLY COOL
If you ever do it, please remember that I believe in you! I know you can do it! New sub btw
@@ZekeTheFur Thanks im hoping nothing happens in 1983
When I was a child I dreamed to be a mad scientist.
I'm glad I'm not the only one
makes alot of sense
Me and my friend (Who acts like William Afton) writing how to make animatronics rn
This is seriously gonna help us mate thanks
Next, you are going to buy a Spring lock mechanism
Next vid is learning how to open a pizzeria with your animatronics
WOW THIS IS AMAZING! IM GONNA MAKE THIS
"where there's a Will, there's a way..."
Thank u for making this vid
I really wanna make a fnaf Pizzeria when I grow up
I subscribed to you btw
Some nice work there Will. Good to see some young folks maintaining an interest in animatronics. Regarding inspiration for newcomers the only thing I'd add is to study actual zoology and animal physiology for ideas. If a creature uses gristle, stretchy tendons and has imprecise floppy regions of fat that give it a distinctive wobble then incorporate an analogue of that into designs .
No need to try to make a replica of a living creature move like an ultra-precise robot when living creatures are largely imprecise and have lots of compliance.
William Afton: *Adds to Playlist*
this really helps me alot becuse i have thinking about doing this in a long time
Awesome Video and Extremely Inspirational... Thank You for Sharing Your Knowledge and Passion..!!!
I really thank you for that, talkin about giving me/ us this tutorial.
Really idk how to say but i really thank you for it! :o
*Communism intensifies*
Hey I watched this and I have a booming business
for discussion and opinion in your projects or other you can discord, it is really good in this
Very inspiring video! I am working on a robot pet project and use your first eyes model. Would love to speak to you so we can discuss different mechanical engineering approaches.
This is fantastic thanks for posting, this is a big help.
Nice info, thank you for sharing it, keep it up :)
Question: do you always come back?
Lol
Excellent, I want to try to build a Wheatley.
Ahh yes another portal fan nice to see more ppl who like the games
Thanks for the vid, I’ve been thinking about starting a pizzeria one day with this knowledge
Great! Now i can remade fnaf but in real life :D
Anyone else here wanting to make a whole 6 ft autonomous animatronic then realizing that you have to think about engineering and there is a ton of stuff to know- 💀
Hey great video. thank you!