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Storytelling
Course: Storytelling > Unit 1
Lesson 4: Lesson 3: Bringing characters to life- Introduction to character design
- Character types
- Exercise 1: Who is your character?
- Costumes
- Exercise 2: Costumes
- Character sheets
- Exercise 3: Character Sheet
- Armatures
- Exercise 4: Prototype armature
- Actuators
- Exercise 5: Digital armatures
- Controlling an animatronic character
- Exercise 6: Control
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Exercise 6: Control
Practice controlling a simple animatronic figure.
Exercise 6: Control
Activity: Get some practice with controlling animatronic figures using the digital tool below. Here is a short video that introduces you to the program:
Have fun and see what kind of expressions you can create:
Congratulations! You now have an idea of how we plan, design & prototype animatronic characters. We hope you will use these principles in the creation of your own animatronic characters.
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can you make a course for coding ANIMATRONICS??(3 votes)
this is literally the best course on khan! (in my opinion)(3 votes)
i can make the eyebrows go between the eyes crazy right?(2 votes)
I can’t click into the blocks to modify the settings.(2 votes)
Oops... made his head turn circles(2 votes)
I can make the head go in a circle it is very funny.(2 votes)
i cant move the blocks(2 votes)
This was fun. I had a great time doing this whole program, really letting my artistic and storytelling side out.
And once I removed the showing of the skin, I could program this easily.(1 vote)
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