A whole lot of reference links..

So, I've been doing some serious digging around on the interwebs on resources for animatronics and whatnot. I'll toss down some of the better links to places. =3

The Character Shop. These folks are pretty well known in the theatric animatronic field. Worth a look. I sure do wish I could take that man's $2500 class on animatronics. =[

Amazon book list

A pretty good walkthrough on the building of an animatronic head

This place is pretty priceless, even though the majority of the links are dead. But a trip to the wayback machine fixes that easily.

Another book list.

A HUGE list of links to artists and resources!

The Robot Cafe. 'Nuff said.

Pretty good tutorials. Mostly to do with puppetry, but same difference, right? =D

Another site with links. Apparently, halloween enthusiasts *love* animatronics. Who woulda thought? LoL!

The Puppetry Homepage Just an all around good list of links to puppetry-related things.

Kinetica Museum. This site is good for ideas on different types of animatronics (specifically the art form known as automata), and just all around artistic inspiration.

Make Magazine. They actually have a really helpful bit of information concerning electronics and robots. It's worth a search through the archives!

The Cabaret. More links to automata-specific websites and artists.

PAPER ROBOTS!!! Oh MAN this site is cool! I need to get to kinko's so that I can print out a robot on some more durable paper.

Other topic links:

Ikea Hacker! They have some in-freaking-credible hacks on Ikea furniture. We'll be trying some of these soon.

Costuming tutorials. There's some pretty good tutorials/links to tutorials on the more intricate details of costuming. Pretty helpful for sculpting ideas as well.

UFO Catcher forums. This is an INCREDIBLE bunch of tutorials on plushie building.

Vinyl Pulse. Want some ideas on customizing vinyl toys? Head on over.

Elven Warriors. This girl (while seemingly obsessive) has an A+ list of tutorials on costuming, specifically for making her reproduction of the elven warrior costumes from Lord of the Rings. I mean, wow! Holy Wow!

Design Sponge! Oh sweet gravy jeebus!! *droooool*

Delics Tutorials. An aaaamazing bunch of tutorials on shaping fake hair into dreads. Very cool!