Raptor House FX: www.raptorhousefx.com/ Ben Eadie (Dread Maker Roberts) TH-cam: th-cam.com/users/beneadie Wednesday Releases Thing In New York: th-cam.com/video/B479Wc72Bsc/w-d-xo.html
@@DreadMakerRoberts Any chance drawings or some pictures on the way the finger linkages are setup? I reverse engineered the entire finger linkage setup through the video, but it would be nice to have some actual drawings.
@@barneylaurance1865 You also get callouses from plain friction wear. Not the hard cracked heels kind, but really thick leathery skin. Doesn't even take much force if it's often enough. I've gotten callouses on strange spots on my hands from just regularly having it touch a sharp edge of my MacBook (it didn't stop forming until I took a diamond nail file and blunted the offending sharp edges off) and I've also occasionally developed callouses from constantly scratching a finger with my nail as a tic. So a if a disembodied hand could survive walking around like that it would certainly develop severe callouses.
@@barneylaurance1865 it can happen due to friction, guitar players get very tough callouses on their fingertips from the steel strings, imagine Thing 'walking' on concrete, or tough hardwood for years, it would have the same effect
@@TheReelStuffyes. Because they have muscles. That they use to push down on strings. Wish is WAY less weight than the weight of a hand. Let alone spread out across 5 fingers. Think about how much weight would be on just a finger tip, from just the weight of your hand, divided by how ever many fingers are in contact with the ground at once.
@@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug So I was kinda curious. And there would be a weight of about 2-4 ounces on each finger at any one time. Think about just how little weight that actually is.
I love the fact that they are so lazy they didn't find a good walking algorithm when they could have used a learning model to do so if they couldnt make one AND that they are so lazy they didn't use wireless charging or a charging probe. They are getting paid a lot of money to half ass things.
@@thomgizziz Dude, they explicitly said why they didn't use chargeable batteries. Because different locations have different rules and if the batteries get confiscated, they can just replace them. Don't criticize them for being lazy when it seems you couldn't even be bothered to pay attention the video.
It's one of the reasons I would religiously watch Mythbusters. The experiments were fun, but seeing Adam get excited was even more fun ❤ "I REJECT YOUR REALITY AND SUBSTITUTE MY OWN!" Is one of my favorite quotes 😂
This is honestly one of the most impressive projects I've seen this year. I am so happy to see that the art of animatronics is still alive, despite CGI getting progressively cheaper. I thought at first they did it like those hexapods with servos in each joint, but the way they solved the motion of this animatronic is just so much better and stunningly beautiful in its practicality.
@@kingcosworth2643 "The Dread Maker Roberts is a title passed down from one maker to another. The current maker trains his successor and gradually hands over the responsibilities while still going by the name. Eventually, the previous Maker retires or relocates, leaving the new Dread Maker Roberts in command, with the audience none the wiser. This allows the legendary name to persist, keeping the audience and fane in awe without the risk of mutiny or challenge. ;)
I love the way Adam flip-flops back and forth between his professional admiration for the technical skill that went into the project and his awestruck enthusiasm for the end result.
@@thomgizziz Just gotta ask, where the hell is your Thing and why have you not shown its objective superiority to the world? I'd bet one look at yours would make Netflix cry out into the void, cursing their uselessness, and force them to shut down in shame!
@@thomgizziz It's obvious you don't run a business, it wasn't an engineering project, it was commissioned by a client that has a budget and a deadline. You give them what they ask for, if you keep throwing in freebies and blow out deadlines, you won't be in business for long.
I am not a maker - but this video shows why I watch this chanel. Adam's sincere and childlike wonder and enjoyment of a peer's work is a joy to watch :)
So their prop of a sentient hand that was stitched together is also a prop that is a mish-mash of two different mechanisms. A headcrab version would be great. Such a nice prop.
This is, hands down, the best 'thing' ever. As a mechanical engineer I have developed some cam mechanisms and recently made some 4-bar linkage hinges and I can't stop looking at the finger movements to figure out how to design something like this. I have to study this and replicate this in MotionGen and/or Lego Technic and maybe even make one of these fidget toys myself
This is the MOST IMPRESSIVE build I have seen for years. It ticks all the boxes: Complexity Form factor Detail (that skin is incredible!) Ease of Use Durability Mechanical Simplicity
Watching Adam nerd out like a little kid will never get old. He wears his passion for making on his sleeve. Thank you for sharing videos like these with the world.
This is the best! I've been fascinated by Thing all of my life, all the way back to the old tv days. As soon as I saw this video pop up I immediately wondered how they tackled weight distribution so I knew it was a must watch! Worth every minute!
"The Tim Burton 90's film" had me confuzzled for a minute so I looked it up, sure enough he wasn't involved in either of the 90s films but apparently he was approached to direct the 1st one and turned it town.
Wow just wow the love put into this thing is just palpable, you can see they loved showing this to Adam too. The fun I'd have with this out in the wild on the public, would have been so much fun pranking people with thing. 😂
Adam I found you after all these years thanks to cutting edge engineering. I used to watch you all the time One mythbusters it is so cool to have you back
17:28 As someone who is attempting to design a 3d printed open source prosthetic hand. It's LITERALLY impossible to get a servo or solenoid that small! The smallest ones that a few "open" "bionics" companies use are really expensive and fragile. Short of a custom one, your really held back by size or price.
it makes me so happy they did this as I love practical effects. when I found out wensday used this it just made my day compleatly turning my frown into a genuin smile of joy.
That is absolutely amazing. And segues nicely to mechanical prosthetic hand I think is also impressive, made by Ian Davis here on YT, would deserve more views and he needs volunteers for testing of his design
Adam!!! As epic as this build is, on every level, I have to comment on your work table. The layers and scratches and colors come across to me as pure art! Kudos to the sculptor for having thoroughly incorporated art and technology. Well done!
Fun fact - Victor Dorobanțu (Pronounced Dorobantzu) is actually a magician, while Geroge Burcea who plays Lurch is a well established actor in Romania. The whole first season of Wednesday was produced in Romania but the team behind the series was hit with different setbacks and costs here unfortunately. I hope they'll come back here for more productions in the future.
Okay, seems to me you were given a challenge and a video for the future. Have someone “de-time” the hand and then you “retime” the hand. This was fascinating. It is a good time to be alive!
Obsessed with all things Thing. This was AMAZING. I can’t stop watching them w/their incredible puppet-it’s absolutely disgusting in the BEST flippin’ way!
I kinda wish that they would turn this into an a build-at-home prefab kit for the holiday season. It’s just so beautiful and it’s bringing me so much joy just watching the video
@@DreadMakerRoberts I did very little myself, my colleagues did what you see on screen. My job early on was to help figure out HOW we were going to do it. Ways of patching the wrist, etc. There was a little behind the scenes video with my boss when the show came out.
@@tested Adam would love the studio I worked at (I am not there anymore). We also did most of the CG Expanse spaceships and it's full of cool props that have just accumulated over the years. I meant to make a 6 foot tall Roci to hang from the rafters but never got around to it.
DUUUUDE THIS IS AWESOME!!!! I am genuinely not used to robots not looking like robots??? This is so cool Edit: They did too good a job with livingness of the hand for me to feel comfortable about the thumbtacks in the fingers lol
The robotic hand movement is 100% accurate. I put my hand on my desk at work and made it walk. The front three fingers moved in the crawl motion while the thumb and little finger had no forward movement and simply acted as support legs. This is the way a disembodied hand would move in real life.
Raptor House FX: www.raptorhousefx.com/
Ben Eadie (Dread Maker Roberts) TH-cam: th-cam.com/users/beneadie
Wednesday Releases Thing In New York: th-cam.com/video/B479Wc72Bsc/w-d-xo.html
So instead of figuring out a walking cycle or getting a learning model up so it could be brute forced they just half assed it...
@@thomgizziz Any way you look at it, it worked. Call it anything you want but we achieved what we needed to get done.
@@DreadMakerRoberts Plus, you succeeded in delighting Adam Savage and many others, including myself. Well done!
@@hisownsidekick Good! I love to hear this
@@DreadMakerRoberts Any chance drawings or some pictures on the way the finger linkages are setup? I reverse engineered the entire finger linkage setup through the video, but it would be nice to have some actual drawings.
The rubber on the fingertips gives off the vibe that he has callouses, which would make so much sense
I'm not sure. Callouses would make sense if it was holding up the weight of a person, but not sure they do if the hand is only holding its own weight.
@@barneylaurance1865 You also get callouses from plain friction wear. Not the hard cracked heels kind, but really thick leathery skin. Doesn't even take much force if it's often enough. I've gotten callouses on strange spots on my hands from just regularly having it touch a sharp edge of my MacBook (it didn't stop forming until I took a diamond nail file and blunted the offending sharp edges off) and I've also occasionally developed callouses from constantly scratching a finger with my nail as a tic.
So a if a disembodied hand could survive walking around like that it would certainly develop severe callouses.
@@barneylaurance1865 it can happen due to friction, guitar players get very tough callouses on their fingertips from the steel strings, imagine Thing 'walking' on concrete, or tough hardwood for years, it would have the same effect
@@TheReelStuffyes. Because they have muscles. That they use to push down on strings. Wish is WAY less weight than the weight of a hand. Let alone spread out across 5 fingers. Think about how much weight would be on just a finger tip, from just the weight of your hand, divided by how ever many fingers are in contact with the ground at once.
@@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug So I was kinda curious. And there would be a weight of about 2-4 ounces on each finger at any one time. Think about just how little weight that actually is.
Love that little fact that they have to pick the stitchings and re-sew it to change the batteries.
Not going to lie it was (is) a bit of a time sink but very satisfying
That is an amazing detail.
I love the fact that they are so lazy they didn't find a good walking algorithm when they could have used a learning model to do so if they couldnt make one AND that they are so lazy they didn't use wireless charging or a charging probe. They are getting paid a lot of money to half ass things.
@@johnm.withersiv4352 This isn't a detail this is something that happened because they are lazy
@@thomgizziz Dude, they explicitly said why they didn't use chargeable batteries. Because different locations have different rules and if the batteries get confiscated, they can just replace them.
Don't criticize them for being lazy when it seems you couldn't even be bothered to pay attention the video.
Best quote: "[Netflix] gave us an open, hands off approach..."
Also a very nice way to say, "You figure it out."
@@user-fk8zw5js2p engineers probably dont want any input from netflix. Its not a tech company anyway. Hand puns were fun still
It's so nice when companies leave experts to their craft!
"So we're just going to breeze past that S-tier pun, are we Adam? Ok..." 😅
"What a Thing!"
I LOVE how the top of the wrist twists to show “intentionality” - absolutely brilliant design!
And it works so well, too.
Yep. It's not an animated hand, it's a severed hand and wrist! It would have been half as cool without the wrist twist.
I love watching Adam be fascinated and impressed by things. His enthusiasm is just unmatched.
By a thing*
It's one of the reasons I would religiously watch Mythbusters. The experiments were fun, but seeing Adam get excited was even more fun ❤
"I REJECT YOUR REALITY AND SUBSTITUTE MY OWN!" Is one of my favorite quotes 😂
Me too! He still keeps his childlike awe and wonder. It's infectious.
This is honestly one of the most impressive projects I've seen this year. I am so happy to see that the art of animatronics is still alive, despite CGI getting progressively cheaper.
I thought at first they did it like those hexapods with servos in each joint, but the way they solved the motion of this animatronic is just so much better and stunningly beautiful in its practicality.
Thank you for the kind comment!
Thank you!
@@DreadMakerRoberts Cool name by the way
@@kingcosworth2643 "The Dread Maker Roberts is a title passed down from one maker to another. The current maker trains his successor and gradually hands over the responsibilities while still going by the name. Eventually, the previous Maker retires or relocates, leaving the new Dread Maker Roberts in command, with the audience none the wiser. This allows the legendary name to persist, keeping the audience and fane in awe without the risk of mutiny or challenge. ;)
I love the way Adam flip-flops back and forth between his professional admiration for the technical skill that went into the project and his awestruck enthusiasm for the end result.
all that brilliant engineering, and my favorite part is that it actually has to be sewn into the skin.
yeah such "great" engineering that they couldn't even be bothered to sort out an efficient walking cycle and just fudged it. So impressive...
@@thomgizzizwhat you don't see is the timelines and crunch related to it. I'm sure you think you could do a much better job, but you can't.
@@thomgizziz Just gotta ask, where the hell is your Thing and why have you not shown its objective superiority to the world? I'd bet one look at yours would make Netflix cry out into the void, cursing their uselessness, and force them to shut down in shame!
@@thomgizzizWhy does a one-off, limited use art piece need an *efficient* walking cycle?
@@thomgizziz It's obvious you don't run a business, it wasn't an engineering project, it was commissioned by a client that has a budget and a deadline. You give them what they ask for, if you keep throwing in freebies and blow out deadlines, you won't be in business for long.
I'll never get tired of Adam's childlike glee
He's the child we all aspire to grow up to be.
yeah . since day 1.what a life this guy has lived
Knowing as little as possible so he can react genuinely on camera is smart, he knows that’s one of his strengths.
Hahaha 🤣🤣
Speaking as an arm amputee.....I would love one of these to freak people out ;)
Bwaaaahahahaah love this idea
That would be HILARIOUS
I laughed out loud
You should build one, it may take you twice as long though :(
go go gadget
what a lovely interaction between passionate people
I am not a maker - but this video shows why I watch this chanel. Adam's sincere and childlike wonder and enjoyment of a peer's work is a joy to watch :)
So their prop of a sentient hand that was stitched together is also a prop that is a mish-mash of two different mechanisms. A headcrab version would be great. Such a nice prop.
Love that detail actually!
God I'd love to see a headcrab animatronic
Do you mean from "The Thing" or a face hugger? Ooorrr BOTH!?
@@jackseney571 Head crab from Half-Life. But your suggestion would be great.
This is, hands down, the best 'thing' ever.
As a mechanical engineer I have developed some cam mechanisms and recently made some 4-bar linkage hinges and I can't stop looking at the finger movements to figure out how to design something like this.
I have to study this and replicate this in MotionGen and/or Lego Technic and maybe even make one of these fidget toys myself
The addition of the wrist movement is even more genius!
As always, Adams love of what he's looking at is infectious.
Gotta love a nerd that has worked in the field he's talking about
1:26 The 90s film was not directed by Tim Burton, and I don't believe he was involved in any way. They were directed by Barry Sonnenfeld.
Yeah Tim Burton just gets assumed credit for any gothy films in the 90s.
I feel like this mix up is the whole reason why he got the job doing Wednesday
Yeah, it was offered to Burton but he declined. It was right around making Edward Scissorhands and Batman Returns.
thought he and the guy who directed nightmare before christmas (also not directed by tim but was produced) were producers together on those.
@@bloodlinefilms Nah neither of them had anything to do with them. Barry Sonnenfeld directed both of the 90s Addams family movies tho
Couldn't help but smile during this whole video!
This was an instant watch. Ben’s videos on building this are also awesome
Thank you!
I truly love how some of the aesthetic pieces of the build actually serve a practical purpose for the maintenance of it.
That's so realistic and alive! Holy moly!
This is such a feet🙄of engineering. Building a prosthetic hand that can walk. Truly amazing
Oh really kicked this comment out of the park here :)
I have always loved Ben Eadie's work. Yet another great project shown to Adam.
This is the MOST IMPRESSIVE build I have seen for years. It ticks all the boxes:
Complexity
Form factor
Detail (that skin is incredible!)
Ease of Use
Durability
Mechanical Simplicity
You know you did it right when Adam says: "That's disgusting in the best way"
The rat bit was the most NY thing I've ever seen in my life.
Woman screams 'rat', weird guy picks it, puts it on his shoulder, and walks away. If you spent long enough in NY, you have seen this scene unfold.
I’m speechless. The movement and dexterity of that THING is perfection.
Watching Adam nerd out like a little kid will never get old. He wears his passion for making on his sleeve. Thank you for sharing videos like these with the world.
"Try jump-scaring New York, they've seen everything."
Best quote! lol
And somebody dropped a rat on Thing!
This is the best! I've been fascinated by Thing all of my life, all the way back to the old tv days. As soon as I saw this video pop up I immediately wondered how they tackled weight distribution so I knew it was a must watch! Worth every minute!
"The Tim Burton 90's film" had me confuzzled for a minute so I looked it up, sure enough he wasn't involved in either of the 90s films but apparently he was approached to direct the 1st one and turned it town.
Brilliant work. I saw the man on the street video, and it really tickled me how so many New Yorkers were simply impressed rather than startled.
Go Jesse! Great to see you succeeding in your craft.
Yes he is a absolute master at his craft
That's awesome. I love how bulk it looks and because of the stitching, this version of Thing looks like maybe it was Frankestien's monster's hand.
Wow just wow the love put into this thing is just palpable, you can see they loved showing this to Adam too. The fun I'd have with this out in the wild on the public, would have been so much fun pranking people with thing. 😂
Love seeing Ben Eadie on the show again!
We love Ben!
I love @@tested :)
You are too kind
That's an excellent result......all within a deadline🤯
Good to see Ben on the channel again, hope he's doing better!
I’m getting there. Thank you.
Adam I found you after all these years thanks to cutting edge engineering. I used to watch you all the time One mythbusters it is so cool to have you back
Brilliant.
As simple as it can be. Only as complex as it must be.
That "thing" is the ABSOLUTE coolest "thing" EVER!!!!!
This feels like a full circle moment from learning about Strandbeests on Tested 11 years ago...
:) this comment pleases me more than you can understand.
I was thinking the same thing!
17:28 As someone who is attempting to design a 3d printed open source prosthetic hand. It's LITERALLY impossible to get a servo or solenoid that small! The smallest ones that a few "open" "bionics" companies use are really expensive and fragile. Short of a custom one, your really held back by size or price.
I will never get tired of Adam's childish adoration and glee when he sees a new thing he loves.
The reason I love this channel so much, is Adam. Every time Adam gets exited I get a rush of dopamine.
it makes me so happy they did this as I love practical effects. when I found out wensday used this it just made my day compleatly turning my frown into a genuin smile of joy.
The twisting wrist is just such a touch of genius. Just that one servo and it just gives the hand so much more character.
15:21 That little bit of movement in the seam, as if it's insides could escape, is so freaky! I love it!
This is the best prop I've ever seen and I'm surprisingly happy watching this
That is absolutely amazing. And segues nicely to mechanical prosthetic hand I think is also impressive, made by Ian Davis here on YT, would deserve more views and he needs volunteers for testing of his design
Incredible! Adam's sincere appreciation makes it so enjoyable. This has to be a top 10 video on this channel no question.
Having seen this in person at Jesse's shop, all I can say is that it truly is a spectacular piece of art and engineering.
That was a great get together, Wednesday was a neat series.
The stitching as part of the design and functionality of operation is delightful
Adam!!! As epic as this build is, on every level, I have to comment on your work table. The layers and scratches and colors come across to me as pure art! Kudos to the sculptor for having thoroughly incorporated art and technology. Well done!
Real artistry mixed with brilliant engineering
I can feel the love and excitement for the craft in this video. Just lovely. Amazingly talented people.
Wow! Not gunna lie, one of the more impressive anamatronics you have had in a while
Thank you!
Fun fact - Victor Dorobanțu (Pronounced Dorobantzu) is actually a magician, while Geroge Burcea who plays Lurch is a well established actor in Romania. The whole first season of Wednesday was produced in Romania but the team behind the series was hit with different setbacks and costs here unfortunately. I hope they'll come back here for more productions in the future.
Love that three grown men are geeking out over this hand! And the rest of us are geeking out as well! Bravo!!👍🏽
An absolute incredible piece of fx design, not over complex, but still has a wide range of movement
Okay, seems to me you were given a challenge and a video for the future. Have someone “de-time” the hand and then you “retime” the hand. This was fascinating. It is a good time to be alive!
This is HANDS down your best video Adam! 🖐️
I would definitely freak out if I saw this Thing crawling past me lol Those fingernails look great.
With these guys on the job, you don't worry about a thing.
Ah well done.
High Five!
Thank you guys to share with us this beauty!!!!! Cheers from France! 🖐🏼
What an incredible GIFT! Thats so cool! And Adams excitement and gratitude for such a thing... awesome.
This is how the terminator started.
Nice piece of aniimatronics, Thing lives!
Hands down, this Thing is awesome!!!
Life changing!! Super Amazing!! Thank you for showing us this.
Obsessed with all things Thing. This was AMAZING. I can’t stop watching them w/their incredible puppet-it’s absolutely disgusting in the BEST flippin’ way!
I kinda wish that they would turn this into an a build-at-home prefab kit for the holiday season. It’s just so beautiful and it’s bringing me so much joy just watching the video
I would love to find one of these in my stocking
Having worked a little bit on the VFX dev for Thing on the show, I find this super cool :)
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!!!! Very cool !!!! Jealous.
@@DreadMakerRoberts I did very little myself, my colleagues did what you see on screen. My job early on was to help figure out HOW we were going to do it. Ways of patching the wrist, etc. There was a little behind the scenes video with my boss when the show came out.
@@tested Adam would love the studio I worked at (I am not there anymore). We also did most of the CG Expanse spaceships and it's full of cool props that have just accumulated over the years. I meant to make a 6 foot tall Roci to hang from the rafters but never got around to it.
@@littleshopofrandom685 Still very cool. The unsung heros of any show are the behind the scenes people like you.
What a glorious creation 😍, love this Thing
Great video and what a fabulous outcome for their project - design, simplicity, problem solving and puppetry a masterclass - thanks guys!
Great work guys, also shout out to the hand human actor. ❤
The movie/show prop showcases have been so great
Gotta hand it to you....What FUN!!!!
High five :)
when adam savage praises your work, you know you won life.
Incredible how realistic it looks!
Im an rc enthusiast, this was just amazing 👏
Adam got a hair cut!
I was loving the Doc Brown look tho!
I see what you did there with the snapping music in the intro 😊
Grant would have loved this sooooo much! 🥲
"The beast with 5 fingers!" Now that was a scary film when I was a kid.
It is always great to see Ben! Thanks for sharing.
Awww thank you!
So much better then CGI. Keep this up! I’m so tired of everything CGI now.
AMAZING!!!I I gotta HAND it to them!!!! If they make this I want one so bad! This is so cool!
Now you did it Adam, I am going to have to build one.
YES! Keep us in the loop on your progress.
That is genuinely off putting. Amazing !
DUUUUDE THIS IS AWESOME!!!! I am genuinely not used to robots not looking like robots??? This is so cool
Edit: They did too good a job with livingness of the hand for me to feel comfortable about the thumbtacks in the fingers lol
The robotic hand movement is 100% accurate. I put my hand on my desk at work and made it walk. The front three fingers moved in the crawl motion while the thumb and little finger had no forward movement and simply acted as support legs. This is the way a disembodied hand would move in real life.
Good to hear from someone who has a real, disembodied hand.
"Hands down," coolest animatronic I've seen in a long time. Great work. I love it ❤
Love Adam's excitement when he sees this kind of cool stuff
Love this. Learned a lot of new info about how this Thing came about.
Thats one of the coolest things ever. Adam when you starting yours?😊
..wow...mind blown...want one...thank you Adam...
I love how they all knew the Lego reference! " Yeah, yeah" simultaneously!
LOL