Inside Wētā Workshop's Animatronics Lab!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Adam Savage visits Wētā Workshop's electronics lab where Richard Taylor walks him through the design and prototyping of the larger-than-life animatronic character visitors meet in the Wētā Workshop Unleashed experience. Adam goes hands-on in controlling the lively facial expressions of this robot and learns how this animatronic is a different engineering challenge than the ones created for film.
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@13:14 Animax is mentioned - I can see online that Tested has visited them but can't find any video on TH-cam - is this released? Looks like a cool place, I'm very curious! Thanks
Is this like fnaf???
I wish that show would tour. This just sounds like an incredible experience.
Genius.. WW do some amazing stuff..
Missed my Weta Workshop job opportunity by two days. I used to make chain armour and had some hoods for sale in a history store.. Richard was hunting for weapon and armour smiths in Oz when LotR was about to start production.. saw my work.. and tried to sign me up.. Owners of the store desperately tried to get hold of me, but I was camping out of phone range..
By the time I had returned, they were back in NZ and the Number I had been left with was no longer working..
Have never been camping since. :D
Oh man. I assume you are doing well, but even so… I am guessing that is a major "could have been" that you will for ever sometimes wonder about?
Hearing that this exhibit will be lasting for years gives me great hope that I might actually be able to hop down to NZ and experience it first hand.
This stuff is just so amazing.
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Have been to it and loved it. A few things were intentionally a bit cheesy, but that was cool too. Would recommend it. You get to interact with some things even in the basic tour.
Hey Adam & Crew!
I've been a major fan of all the content you've been pushing out, and have a question for you:
When looking for high quality mics for recording in the shop, are there any that stick out to you? It's very difficult for me to justify getting a nice clip on mic if I plan to use it in the dusty shop.
If you could let me know or point me in the right direction I'd GREATLY appreciate it, and I'm sure others will too!
Keep posting great content, thank you!
HA..! I have that book sitting on my shelf...!!!!!
great vid, rly respect richard for coming across very honest
I’m imagining like a theme park centered around d and d. With npc animatronics who have questlines
With that accent and knowing what servo is in Australian I kept thinking of that all the time. (Yes I know they are from New Zealand, it just reminds me of Australian)
They putting gas stations in these animatronics wtf!?
If this exhibit needs maintenance, will there be a complete second character to swap out - in other words will they build more than one these robots?
So animal tour next?
Thanks.
will work for food :)
Disappointed at the low level of fnaf jokes
Rod just wants to get back to work.
I'm currently interning at Animax Designs as a mechanical design intern. It's great seeing companies like Weta doing impressive animatronics as well!
Incredibly proud of Rod and our Animatronics team!♥Unleashed is now an utter delight! Do visit if and when you can
I love how the ceo brought in the engineer/puppeteer just to demo it but Adam being Adam directed most of his questions and admiration to him
For real tho, lab coat taking all the credit when baseball cap actually built the damn thing lol
Sometimes I wish I was 18 instead of 73. Technology is a wonderful thing and amazing as far as the things to come. I can only wonder where we will be in 50 years! Thanks …… a very cool video!
I build animatronic puppets in my basement, and seeing how many different kinds of implementations they’ve found are insanely inspiring
It is a shame that carbon fiber is so expensive. In this situation to be able to mold a custom head to mount all the parts.
I live in Auckland and there has been no advertising for this🤯, now that ive seen this I plan on going for a look, thank you for posting I would not have known otherwise
Is the book by Garner Holt still in print? I would like to buy a copy.
Thanks so much for taking us into these workshops that we could only dream of experiencing for ourselves. 😂 Very cool video.
That whole rig looks terrifying... Those bloodshot eyes with the cold steel!
I can watch videos with Adam, Richard and the entire Wētā team for hours and hours... I want it all! Love it!
I just wish they could link those online resources they were talking about. I can't find anything on a lip mechanism like that, and its super frustrating. adam help me, your my only hope... well you and this comment section ; P
As much as I love the idea of living longer, one thing that I wonder about is whether we will socially stagnate by people living longer. Consider the old adage, "science advances one funeral at a time." As Max Planck so eloquently said of this problem in science, it's "another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth." Looking across our population as a whole, by and large it is younger generations pushing changes and introducing and adopting innovative ideas, and it's the older generations often pushing back against the adoption of those ideas. If people are living longer, we end up creating a larger percentage of the population as much older and a much smaller percentage of youth pushing changes, making critical mass for change much harder to achieve. As much as I would love to live a greatly extended lifespan (in good health of course), I do wonder about this problem, and it's one that is rarely discussed in these discussions on living longer.
I’m convinced Taika Waititi based Korg on this guy Rob lol
Why the controller? why not just map it to a live actors face and have them act the scenes in real time.
Testing,
Just so they can test the whole mechanism while building it. They will likely do that when they finish the whole build
What astounds me about this interview is how open and honest Richard is about the work they are doing. I have been in engineering for some years and it's often very hard for management to hold on to that when the public is around.
Great stuff indeed!
I can't wait to see this kind of thing develop further into the uncanny. Would love to see their show.
Amazing. Glad you showed us
Sex androids by 2040?
I got to experience this first hand it was amazing
I want to know what servos they use for their animatronics, as they seem so quiet.
I think that is why those servos are so expensive.
Got to have deep pockets to afford them.
They are using Robotis Dynamixel servo motors
@@fxsmdlp thank you very much.
It's so weird hearing my countries accent in amongst Adam's!
Slap some skin on it
I would love for fx workshops to perfect the animatronic movements, not such harsh stops with the limbs.
This kid, Lucas VRTech has a diy glove that inputs hand and finger position to VR. I wonder if there's an application for puppeteering these awesome bots with them.
How does Weta have "Budgetary Constraints"?
Still very happy with my little Alien from Alien, still freaking out guests if they browse my room lolzzz
What was the Garner Holt book you guys mentioned?
Wow, I was hoping this was going to be educational. I'm happily mind-blown.
Always watching your videos I wondered thanks sir.
It was nice to hear them refer to the Na'vi head... that was a heck of a project :) So many amazing people worked on that!
No, whatever you are thinking of doing with that animatronic, stop it, and i mean stop it RIGHT now
Rod doesn't seem thrilled
He’s afraid of interrupting his boss!
Mk 1 Kiwi bloke in the wild. Also, Rod works in animatronics puppetry. Almost as good as Doug working as a gardener.
Cgi is nice, but real props are just magic :-))
I love that he's wearing a labyrinth T-shirt :)
I've got my tickets booked for this in a few weeks.
Hope you enjoyed New Zealand mate.
As a tool maker the challenge to Make all them parts looks fun.
Links for some parts ?
I'm having dejavu watching this intro -- is this a reupload?
Yes. They’re showing some older content to get people excited for what’s coming with Weta doing the show.
Incredible
I swear, it’ll be Companies like this one who will solve the A.I. Equation faster than the robotic scientists instead!!
THIS PEEKS MY CREATIVE CURIOSITY TO THE MOON AND BACK!!!! 🤩
What computer program was the digital model made from?
Solitaire.
I really wish I was born with whatever the mechanical minded gene is. But I’m sure some of those people consider it a curse lol.
@Mr.dudebro Nah dude it's not a curse, but the problem is it doesn't necessarily help you solve problems. In my experience in all aspects of life it comes down to what you know, i.e. the more variety of stuff you can study the better, and 2nd, who you know, never know one chance meeting an individual could be your ticket to something.
Agreed. Not a curse, nessesarily. Just has its own burdens, like any personality
Taika waititi?
Cool
Lol, everything from servos, to metal spaces, and metal rods you can buy over counter lol. Nothing revolutionary from Weta.
Why spend time and money making something custom when parts already exist off the shelf?
I don't think Rod was into Metal - looked slightly bogan with his Motor racing cap.
I have to say the Boss man has the most boring monotone voice and could not do stand up comedy. Just saying….
Steven Wright has cornered the market.