Project Raptor: My mechanical dinosaur costume
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Hi :)
I’m a student in Network & Systems Engineering (Robots, networks and programming and stuff) and I built a dinosaur in my spare time. I got the idea in my head, thought it would be cool to make. So yeah, why not? I hope you like the result!
As for how long it took me, I did not count my hours. I’ve been building since my summer break 2018, although some sketches came before that. But I got school and work as well so it was not a full time project.
I’m still planning on making some adjustments, but for now I got some other things to focus on.
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First thing to figure out was what material to use. I chose to go with PVC pipes, because they're kinda cheap and light. Plus they're easy to work with.
Next step: Sketching… Lots of thinking and sketching. And that actually kept going throughout the rest of the process.
The most challenging part was figuring out how to move the head in all the different directions. I designed the head to be able to move up and down, left and right and to rotate. In order to make the movements more natural I also needed some control over the neck.
The way the costume leans on my hips/shoulders kindoff functions as a seesaw in which I am the fulcrum. This way I don’t have to move my body a lot in order for the dinosaur to lean forward or backward. I can adjust it’s pose by pushing or pulling the handle I use to control the head. This spares my own back and also makes the movements appear a little smoother.
The tail has two inflection points, I used a little bit of garden hose between the pvc parts. It also contains a fiberglass stick that I found in the garage so the tail returns to a straight position. I can swing it by moving my body.
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Thanks, to my brother and Eunoia for their soundtrack “Worlds”!
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This is absolutely AMAZING!!! Congrats!!!!! We're SO impressed; well done!
Thanks for sharing Adam and for bringing to my attention on twitter. Esmée Kramer, Excellent work, really awesome articulation!!
Thank you so much! That really means a lot coming from you. I love your channel and I'll be waiting to see the final build of your raptor as well!
Amazing job Ezmee!
I love your work to. You life in the Netherlands right?
Now just build me a power rangers megazord lol 😆 jk really great job 👍
The movements look so natural. Nicely engineered.. Well Done..
you're already like one of the coolest people ever
i’m not a mechanic i’m a cosplayer
Young lady if I could buy stock in your future, I would be all in!! You are EXTREMELY talented!!
This is so awesome! Your engineering and costuming is super impressive! Any chance you’d be willing to post some blueprints? I’d love to make one too with Halloween just around the corner.
Thank you! Well I think I will make a longer video with some explanations and a few upgrades (I've got a speaker now hehe). Though it'll probably still be a couple of weeks before I start working on that. I don't have any clear blueprints, the sketches you saw in the video are probably the 'clearest', and most understandable, but it was partly just error and try.
@@esmeekramer1436 I've been trying to reverse engineer designs similiar to this to create a life-sized Chocobo cosplay. The head and controls still give me trouble design wise. I would LOVE to see a video with a semi breakdown on how to make it work.
Yes! The world would be happy if this would become open-source :)
@@YukinoToki hey I don’t know if you saw the new video on this channel, it might have what your looking for. Anyway, I’m commenting to give you a notification so maybe you’ll see it
Saw this on reddit and had to find the original video.
The head movements and tilts look so smooth and natural, that's awesome! looks dope :D
Awesome!
clever girl
ok no more jurassic park memes
Nice one. :)
here from reddit this is dope!
Wow! This is so great! Reminded me of how important their tail was for balance.
Beautiful work.
Wonderful. Beautiful. A work of art !!!
You deserve an award. The music was appropriate. Well done ! Respect. Trinidad & Tobago.
The Puppeteering is phenomenal! (and Pepsi's Supervision is superb)...
As a mechanical engineering student
TIL that I've been focusing my energies in the wrong direction by not making this 😍
Would be so cool.to have ostriches in dino-prey costumes and have this raptor run after them in your own mini-jurasic park.
Here from Hackaday, this is awesome! Add yourself some tracking dots and you already have yourself an extremely useful animating tool.
THAT WAS THE VERY FIRST THING I THOUGHT TOO!
AWESOME , love it . Very well done . Bet it's fun lol . Thanks for sharing .
You're brilliant! I showed this video to a little girl I know, to inspire her to follow in your footsteps!
I would love to see someone build the Alien Queen like this. James Cameron himself though is proud of it, he also disses the design as looking like an anorexic T-Rex lol. Not because of Stan Winston who built it, but because Cameron himself designed it and it turned out to look like a Dinosaur in a way.
Since the Alien Queen is iconic it would be cool to see it made using this technique and I know it would be awesome.
Now THAT is cool!!! You have a bright future....talent like that will open up a whole new world for you....like a Jurassic World...
Gave you a like. I rarely give out likes. This is very cool and wish you all the best for you in your life to come!
Thank you so much!
@@marxgalacticambition7023 :)
Coolest thing I've seen today's age
Power to your passion! Great work
Your future in engineering is boundless, keep up with the good work.
Simply amazing, I loved it. The movements are so smooth, keep being awesome :)
great combination of mechanical design and artistic vision.
so, what's next?
Nice Job!
Thank you! Don't know yet. Can't promise to post anything anytime soon, but I'm pretty sure there'll be a next project.
Nicely done young lady!!
"Freeeeeeed! The dinosaur girl neighbour is at it again!"
"For God's sake, Emma! I already told you that those went extinct millions of years ago! YOU CAN ASK YOUR MOTHER, SHE WAS THERE WHEN THE WHOLE THING HAPPENED!"
When you a freed at last.
Wow, great work on your project.
Wow! I love your creation!!
I love how well articulated the head and neck are. They make it very alive and expressive.
Eso es jodidamente épico
Awesome. The collar is a nice touch. :D
Really impressive! You could add LED rope lights for a night-time silhouette :) Maybe kinda expensive, but just a thought.
The Raptor could be useful against ol' Freddie Krueger, nice job Nancy. ;)
Seriously, this is incredible.
Love this Esmée! Beautifully done!
I'm going to say you're not just a student, but a leader. This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen!
This is so amazing! I've made costumes before but never anything this coo!! Is there any chance you'll be developing plans for it? I'd love to try something like this but I can see there are intricacies in the mechanical design of this that I'd definitely have trouble with.
That is awesome. You are really talented!
Was contacted by YT for my positive comment. How refreshing that you respond.
Might I suggest using silicone skimming materials to make your project more realistic.
I imagine Adam Savage could help guide to various sources. Still consider the Disney Imagines or Stan Winston Studios.
I see a bright future ahead as you build a resume of projects.
Congrats to you again young lady.
This creativity needs appreciation and like for video
I can already imagine you making the next Jurassic Park movie
One day.... Maybe....
Super cool, great job.
Que genial que me esté topando con este tipo de videos bastante seguido
Que genial que me esté topando con tanta gente con talento
This needs an outer skin and a camera in the eye so you can still see and control! Super cool!
This is amazing 👍
Very good
Wow, when I am wqtching things like this I feel I must make it too :D It is awesome
Yo, that's pretty rad.
You, my friend, are a badass
Awesome! We hebben je in actie gezien op elfia! Echt een gaaf ding! Keep it going!
I love how much control you have over the head motion. That's amazing!
- and highlights just how much knowledge and skill you have to have successfully completed it -
Amazing!!! I love this 💜😍
You are awesome!!!! Good job
Super cool!
very impressive work !
Well done! Maintaining upright posture and NOT supporting any weight of the costume on your HEAD. Critical mistake a lot of dino costumes make. Super-impressive!
freaken amazing.weldone
That is cool great job.
Amazing, really nice, outstanding…
That's badass
This deserves more views
Great job.
Pretty cool
That is so amazing.
I would probably run like a chicken if it was in a field coming my way.🤔😁
Nicely done!!! Will it get skin too?
The view counter must be broken
Incredible! Sharing on The Awesomer.
All of us creatures approve.
Excellent 👍👍👍
I watched 3 times. Very impressive.
Gotta LOVE a DINO! 🦖 POWER TO THE DINOS!🤩 🦖
Awesome work !!👍
Very nice!!!!!
Really nice work on the mechanism and movement. Getting the upper legs to move naturally with your feet plus the head and neck range is great. I know from experience how much design work you must have put into this.
, la 47
Really awesome very talented
Thats amazing!!! I want one!!!
Would you be able to run it?
I've always wanted to make something like this
Chido ,ahora t reto a hacer un Alien ,como en la película aliens vs depredador...😁😉👌
Great!
It would be nice if there is a full tutorial of how to make this amazing masterpiece for kids
Please post a video where its skin is attached! Nice work btw :)
Wow you control the dinosaur like a original dinosaur.
now all you gotta do is add a realistic skin, small cameras on the eyes, and a small monitor inside so you can see what you're doing
Wooo, I want one!
So lifelike，so cool！
Love IT ❤❤
Everyone Gangsta until it gets up without her in it.
Brilliant
Awesome skill
OK, you've pretty much aced the first part of mechanical engineering. Bravo, bravo, archibravo!
Melhor do que os efeito no filmes de ficção científica, que usam muito gráficos e fica parecendo desenho.
Wooow, geweldig dit. Ik probeer al ong 2 jaar om zoiets te maken, maar het mechanisme om het hoofd te laten bewegen ect lukt me steeds niet. Hoe heb je dit ongeveer aangepakt? Alvast bedankt :)
Hoi!
De kop zelf heeft eigenlijk twee draaipunten, één horizontaal en één verticaal. Mijn stuur heeft dezelfde twee draaipunten en aan de linker en rechterkant zitten touwtjes verbonden aan de kop voor de horizontale beweging. Daarnaast zit er nog een touwtje aan de bovenkant van de kop naar de onderkant van het stuurtje voor de verticale beweging.
De staaf van de nek zit door een rond gat heen waardoor deze de ruimte heeft te roteren en ook horizontaal en verticaal te bewegen. Het zit met een touw vast om hem op zijn plaats te houden (dat de nek niet in of uit schuift, maar de andere bewegingen nog wel mogelijk zijn)
Voor het openen van de bek heb ik een hendel op mijn stuurtje gemaakt met een fietskabel. Doordat een fietskabel een omhulsel heeft kun je dit omhulsel op uiteinden vastmaken, maar kun je in het midden extra ruimte houden om verschillende standen (horizontaal, verticaal en rotatie van de kop) op te vangen.
Hopelijk was dit allemaal een beetje te volgen. Succes met je project!
@@esmeekramer1436, super bedankt, ik ga het eens uitproberen!
Nothing short of amazing.
The only thing I might critique being a dinosaur lover is the anatomical look (wrists facing down...) but that's such nitpicky crap it don't matter, plus you'd have to reengineer that stuff which would be...a task. So imma shut my mouth in that regard and just give you virtual applause, friend.
Only if you skinned it, it would be more awesome (to look outside, the mouth will be a black thingy to look through
Amazing, I'd love to see it wrapped in a skin-like material. That would be some serious theme park attraction thing
Nerds are the best.
I hope you fixed the claws.. they could only face their claws inward or upward.. for eating.. they couldn’t dangle their claws Down low like that.. otherwise that is amazing
_Very_ cool! En je bent Nederlands! 👍😊
So this is the final boss of 2021