World’s most Realistic Robots Dream of electric sheep. Babe animatronics BTS
Author: James Cliff
www.mckeewildthings.com Behind the scenes footage I (Greg McKee) took in 1993 & 94 of the making of our electric sheep for the movie “Babe”. 11 electric sheep were made jointly by 2 separate companies. Robotechnology and John Cox’s creature workshop. With my partners Chris Chitty and Matt Ward, my company Robotechnology designed and created all the internal animatronics. Our colleague John Cox and his crew created the cosmetic exteriors. The sheep were sculpted by Belinda Villani who also sculpted cows and horses etc for digital scanning for Rythmn and Hues’ digital animation efforts. John Cox and John Searle, Jason Baird and Paul Katte worked on the sheep rubber skins and fibreglass cores and my wife Christine Nagy made the Fleeces with Wayne Nelson. The faces were flocked with nylon. I had made the tiny sheep prototype standing on the storyboard to counter concerns expressed by other companies that a self-contained free standing animatronic was impossible. Other companies originally vying for the job had insisted a puppeteer would be required to be hidden underneath each sheep with an arm inside them! We knew better. I made the first full size body prototype then Matt Ward, Chris Chitty, Tim Gregg & Andy Shaw developed it further whilst Chris Chitty developed servo systems and other electronics. Matt designed to multi axis necks. I designed and prototyped all the talking heads and Esteban Mendoza, Jason Baird & Arthur Spink helped make multiples of the tiny components …
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kill it!! MONSTER SHEEP!!! KIILL KILL
Aww a kangaroo
wait
terminator kangaroo
plot twist
this is why you dont get a degree in technology JUST before smoking pot and deciding “HEY! LETS MAKE A FREAKIN SHEEP!!!”
NOPE! Chuck Testa
They look SO realistic (The sheep and the kangaroo)
I always tought those animals were computer-made, not that they were animatronics.
Realley realley cool! ^^
I’m going to go back in time and replace blade runner with this.
@willem01 ROFLCOPTER Nice one.
i wonder what that cost? ..im sure it wasnt sheap!
*badum-tissh!*
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I remember back when this was how movies were made instead of just with CGI.
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Have you guys ever considered going into taxidermy? =]
Someone was capping in the begging.
who was the tard clapping that the beginning?
I’d use the talking ones for tours in like Australia or on Farms!
I’m so sad many studios are abandoning animatronics and models to 3D images and effects, I take jurassic park as the perfect example, you have both CGI and animatronics and even so many years later the animatronics give you an impression of life and so much feelings. It’s the same for the models in the first star wars that still seems more realistic than the new ones and nowadays keep me dreaming about flying an X-Wing.
lol
1:06 TERMINATOROO
2:26 I WANT THIS OVER MY FIREPLACE!
shiting robots,you can’t explain that!
Movies are not the same anymore. Nowadays everything is a CGI acid trip
Incrível, incrível, incrível. Muito bom mesmo. Agora já acredito: Robôs podem sonhar com ovelhas elétricas!
sigh people just dont use puppeteering anymore… everything is done with CG now
Not creepy at all. I don’t see this as creepy. It’s just cool usage of robotics.
childhood ruined
man thats creepy