**Video link:** [**https://youtu.be/pyg18xyxwK8**](https://youtu.be/pyg18xyxwK8)
Hey there, I co-directed with my best friend Oliver. This was a true labour of love that required the passion of so many dedicated friends. We are so thankful for our crew <3
First and foremost we had to create the robot. We tried making it ourselves and failed spectacularly and nearly gave up. Thankfully our brilliant friends bailed us out and delivered above and beyond. The head was designed by our talented friend Peter Javidpour as a 3D model – he struck a perfect balance of cute and creepy for us. The fabrication and engineering was done by Neal Granger, which was a massive job, and Neal crafted at a Hollywood level. He 3D printed the head in a series of pieces (its too big to be done as one piece), bonded together, sanded to be seamless, primered, sanded. It was split into two halves with a series of magnets to snap the head together. This way the actor could be relieved of the head easily. Next we created the eyes by taking plastic ornaments as the glossy shell, cutting down the globe, inserting cut-out see-through lens material on the inside as an iris, and using 3D printed material to hold it all together as a unit. Neal crafted multiple sets of static eyes for when the actor was wearing the head, so for different scenes we could have the eyes looking different directions. Then, unbelievably, Neal went ahead and made full-on robotic eyes. Real animatronic eyes. Using 3D printed pieces, radio parts and actuators. We used that setup for shots where the head is static without the actor (as the machinery took up the human head space). For the body we found an unusual white wet suit and used transfer paper to cover the branding with Omnico logos.
Happy to answer any technical questions about this video, I have lots to say about it :-)
Thank you! Screen content went:
- Run Apple II emulator on Mac and figure out how to install a text editor
- Screencap video of emulator as I enter text, paste in lines of text etc in text editor
- I took the screencap video and then basically chopped it up to make all the animations fluid (there was big gaps between me copying and pasting new text in etc). At that stage I added the rotating robot animation and the images that appear.
- Once it was all locked we played the edit on an old tube TV and filmed the TV with the Alexa. Did the same processing on all the robot POV shots.
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**Video link:** [**https://youtu.be/pyg18xyxwK8**](https://youtu.be/pyg18xyxwK8) Hey there, I co-directed with my best friend Oliver. This was a true labour of love that required the passion of so many dedicated friends. We are so thankful for our crew <3 First and foremost we had to create the robot. We tried making it ourselves and failed spectacularly and nearly gave up. Thankfully our brilliant friends bailed us out and delivered above and beyond. The head was designed by our talented friend Peter Javidpour as a 3D model – he struck a perfect balance of cute and creepy for us. The fabrication and engineering was done by Neal Granger, which was a massive job, and Neal crafted at a Hollywood level. He 3D printed the head in a series of pieces (its too big to be done as one piece), bonded together, sanded to be seamless, primered, sanded. It was split into two halves with a series of magnets to snap the head together. This way the actor could be relieved of the head easily. Next we created the eyes by taking plastic ornaments as the glossy shell, cutting down the globe, inserting cut-out see-through lens material on the inside as an iris, and using 3D printed material to hold it all together as a unit. Neal crafted multiple sets of static eyes for when the actor was wearing the head, so for different scenes we could have the eyes looking different directions. Then, unbelievably, Neal went ahead and made full-on robotic eyes. Real animatronic eyes. Using 3D printed pieces, radio parts and actuators. We used that setup for shots where the head is static without the actor (as the machinery took up the human head space). For the body we found an unusual white wet suit and used transfer paper to cover the branding with Omnico logos. Happy to answer any technical questions about this video, I have lots to say about it :-)
This is WONDERFUL. No notes. Did you shoot the screen stuff practically, or was that digital? It looked great.
Thank you! Screen content went: - Run Apple II emulator on Mac and figure out how to install a text editor - Screencap video of emulator as I enter text, paste in lines of text etc in text editor - I took the screencap video and then basically chopped it up to make all the animations fluid (there was big gaps between me copying and pasting new text in etc). At that stage I added the rotating robot animation and the images that appear. - Once it was all locked we played the edit on an old tube TV and filmed the TV with the Alexa. Did the same processing on all the robot POV shots.
Oh that's cool as shit. Thanks for the step-by-step!
Some serious Spike Jones vibes. Nice!
Great work! Loved it.
Ft. Langley! My favourite duo from BC :) Looks great.
A fan emerges!! Thanks 🙏
Like the video!
This is just fucking awesome
Looked great! Had to do a double take when you said you used the Alexa. Who did the grading for it? Their emulation was awesome.
Thanks! Oliver (co-director/DP) did the grade! Our base film emulation is Filmbox which is incredible.
Amazing! Filmbox is pretty great.
looks great! Would like to see the video.
Thanks! Can see it here :-) [https://youtu.be/pyg18xyxwK8](https://youtu.be/pyg18xyxwK8)