Building a Dark Crystal Skeksis Puppet!

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At this year's R2LA meetup, we met prop builder Chris Ellerby, who brought along his work-in-progress project, a full Skeksis puppet from The Dark Crystal! Chris is designing and building every part of this puppet, and shares with us some interesting functional elements of his build. It's as impressive as it is ambitious!
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@djokawari1 8 лет назад

Just clicked this because I was bored. Ended up being a clearly intelligent guy who has built something very cool. Thanks Tested.

@Porco1984 8 лет назад

What a cool guy! :D Can't wait to see the finished project, I hope tested will do a bit on it when the time comes :)

@UthoRiley 8 лет назад

"A gathering of R2D2 Droid builders"... If you ever doubt about the world being awesome, this would be a solid counter argument. ;)

@justliam2768 8 лет назад

Make R2D2's, not war!

@TJRohyans 8 лет назад

Of all the older movies being re-made these days, "The Dark Crystal" is one I really wish they'd remake, and remake it "old school" not with CGI!

@kosmoboo 5 лет назад

You sorta got your wish now...

@redjack2629 8 лет назад

This is pretty wonderful... I, one day, want to be a monster maker, so this is... Wonderful. Especially since I loved the Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Never-Ending Story, etc.

@soterioncoil2163 8 лет назад

I hope I'm still alive if there's a Dark Crystal sequel/prequel. I saw it in the theater with my mom and dad a long time ago!

@kosmoboo 5 лет назад

You still alive?

@86LukeM 8 лет назад

Damn now I want to watch Dark Crystal. Would be awesome to do for Halloween.

@Razarelie 8 лет назад

Tested team please follow this for us

@AEmiliusLives 8 лет назад

So cool. I

@SuperOm1234 8 лет назад

+AEmilius Lives Skeksis' scarred the crap out of me when i was a kid.

@oberkorn13 8 лет назад

+Croter8ment ESSENCE!!!! DRAIN HER ESSENCE!!!!!

@nagualdesign 8 лет назад

+Drop Bear +Croter8ment *Scared.

@AEmiliusLives 8 лет назад

+Drop Bear +Croter8ment +DeadlySilence Games Weird that I was never scared. It was a movie that I wasn't able to share with anyone of my generation, not even my older cousins, precisely because they thought it was a "scary monster movie". But I was never scared by it. And I was almost FOUR years old! :P And I remember like it was yesterday! I was in awe!

@gilkizzel 8 лет назад

Great work. Keep it up Chris.

@0Bariq0 8 лет назад

thats just simply amazing. he seems so cool, i would love to see the finished project one day.

@Gustbear 8 лет назад

You have to do a follow up on this project! Very cool!

@eyeofender8950 6 лет назад

Yeah! Stan Winston School!

@craigjones21 8 лет назад

Super cool. I've always imagined building something like this, a very lifelike animatronic costume controlled by software and the person wearing it (me). THanks for sharing this! I look forward to seeing the final work!

@user-im7km8tq7j Год назад

Damn, I really want to see details on original skeksis as well, that man seem to know a lot

@chefhawk 8 лет назад

Very cool project .

@redfreckle2044 8 лет назад

he seems like a good guy

@danielleon3456 8 лет назад

fantastic words.. Learning is one of the things with should never stop doing

@danielleon3456 8 лет назад

we should* stupid cellphone

@jetplanevanman33 8 лет назад

+Daniel Leon at least you learned

@LaynieFingers 8 лет назад

Yes! Yes yes yes!!

@cinnamongrader6608 3 года назад

So cool!

@petecity100 8 лет назад

Great video. I need that box honestly.

@schackg.lystrup2100 8 лет назад

The creator seems like the kindest person ever

@josephdavis2695 8 лет назад

Talented builder!

@healthyhobo5270 8 лет назад

This is awesome

@TodayI1 8 лет назад

I like this dude!

@bonbadilmoi9325 8 лет назад

really nice.

@TheFurriestOne 8 лет назад

Inspirational attitude!

@jaxnean2663 8 лет назад

This guy is amazing!

@zarran1 8 лет назад

8 servos just for the eyes, great info :) ty Tested/Chris Ellerby

@thanatostariq9600 4 года назад

I honestly thought the original skeksis were a lot bigger and that the puppeteers heads were in that hump on their back

@penutbuttercrutch 8 лет назад

One of my favourite movies

@TheRevolucas 8 лет назад

Norm is a good interviewer.

@TheRevolucas 8 лет назад

No. That's total bullshit. Norm clearly researches the subject or just already knows which is good. He knows what questions to asks and he helps the interviewee move along so they aren't stuck just saying 'Uh-uh' or rambling on about a single talking point, just like a radio talk host would do. Watch any other amateur interviewer and the conversations always come out awkward with pauses or strange irrelevant questions being asked. Norm does his job amazingly well considering how robotic he is at times.

@DeathBringer769 8 лет назад

+Alundaio Couldn't agree more. It's like some people don't know how to mentally grasp Norm's personality so they just get this mental image that he's terrible. Couldn't be farther from the truth.

@QueenWaspGo 8 лет назад

Essence!

@bobwall8021 8 лет назад

does this mean we can do a dark crystal broadway musical now?

@Hugh.Manatee 8 лет назад

+bob wall I would pay to see that!

@HistoryUnwound 4 года назад

In the middle of my own build after watching Age of Resistance. The question is, do I play the Scientist, or Chamberlain?

@2006jakebob 4 года назад

Scientist would be cool! Im doing Chamberlain myself but I did ask myself the same question

@lizardboy2k 8 лет назад

My DREAM!!!!!!!!!!

@vinnycarothers4740 4 года назад

It looks great. But let me guess. He's being Chamberlain

@puppetville-bethobrien4139 7 лет назад

I'm a puppet builder too. self taught. I have the same philosophy. but so far I tracked the foam and sewing. ha ha, we should get together like PB & J.😉

@Wheel333 8 лет назад

Cool, love the aluminium drilled L SQ and flat bar. Where can you get that ?

@nathangray7160 8 лет назад

Here is one place: www.sparkfun.com/categories/155

@ChrisEllerby 8 лет назад

+Wheel333 It's a build system called Actobotics, made by Servo City. servocity.com

@Tsukroff 8 лет назад

That puppet looks like the chamberlain.

@nilupatel8851 8 лет назад

I love dark crystal

@vcancer 8 лет назад

The only thing is that there is no head rotation. Only looking left, right, up, down. Not natural. He has to add a rotation plate to give it a more natural realistic look in the movement of the Skeksis. I guest its back to the drawing board.

@nagualdesign 8 лет назад

+Victor Vazquez I don't know how a skeksis moves, but humans and other animals tend to keep their eyes fairly level while looking left, right, up and down, so having no head rotation won't look too unnatural.

@ChrisEllerby 8 лет назад

+Victor Vazquez The head rotation will be servo driven.

@vcancer 8 лет назад

Cool can't wait to see it finished

@sitgg 8 лет назад

lol SketchUp the MS paint of 3D cad design.

@HunterRodrigez 8 лет назад

+Reece Marsh well if its got everything you need then why not ?

@Hugh.Manatee 8 лет назад

+Hunter Rodrigez Exactly, I sometimes use MS paint to make a quick and ugly diagram to explain something. Google SketchUp and TinkerCAD serve a similar purpose.

@HunterRodrigez 8 лет назад

AdenineMonkey It took me forever to figure out how to resize pictures with Phoshop 6 (I was like 10 at the time) so most of the time I edited a picture in PS and then switched to paint just to resize it... Which almost always horribly pixilated the picture

@sitgg 8 лет назад

+Hunter Rodrigez You're exactly right at this small business scale SketchUp is the perfect platform. However as his business grows and he starts outsources parts manufacturing, his partners will want and industry standard file for CAD software such as Solidworks.

@Hugh.Manatee 8 лет назад

***** I'm currently teaching Blender to a small group of 10 to 14 year olds. We're moddeling a tiger that we're going to pose and then 3D print. Some of them have a little experience working with TinkerCAD or Inventor. The first thing I did was explain the differences between those programs and why you would use on or the other. Each one is useful in certain situations.

@evilbilla 4 года назад

Skeksis have alot of facial expressions..how have you created controls for that from lips being pulled back crinkling of nose..a scowl??? The realism as well without the jerky robotics of it..dont get me wrong i love this concept keeping it puppets and not cgi..its still run by a human while utilizing robotics and coding..(im a huge stem mom and i was raised in the 80s so best of both worlds)

@xReaperGrimWolfx 4 года назад

Puppeteers: makes puppet to be used by multiple people to operate Cosplayer: hold my beer* *Makes a skeksis cosplay with moving eyes an mouth

@RaisesCom 8 лет назад

MAKE AN IPAD PRO VIDEO!

@hasanhas00n1 8 лет назад

CGI is pretty advance nowadays we don't need mechanics in movies

@vonantero9458 8 лет назад

+unknown name 543 Get out.

@hasanhas00n1 8 лет назад

Von Antero make me.

@jaxnean2663 8 лет назад

Yes, but actors respond better to REAL creatures instead of a guy and a stick, and also, there is something real, true, honest and believable about sfx that cgi lacks.

@hasanhas00n1 8 лет назад

this "invention" would be good in mid 90's were cigi and sfx sucks however now it's pretty sophisticated and advanced nearly as good as real objects. look at pirates of the caribbean did they use some mechanical tool for the tentacle octopus like human? avatar, ted, the dark knight (two face). all these were successful blockbuster movies. what's the point of an actor who can't act ? lacks imagination, can't fake his/her reactions? "real, true, honest" it's a movie not a civil law court. Jax Nean