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Not working. Did you really break it? Good heavens! Hello, welcome to the YouTube channel. We are Jaimie and Jay from Wicked Makers, and we bring your favorite monsters to life. For Halloween, YouTube challenged us to turn its logo into an animatronic monster. We usually create highly detailed horror characters or convert animatronics from the Halloween store into cool new characters. But the YouTube logo is a rectangle. So we need to figure out how to make that scary. Animatronics often have creepy movements or give sudden scares. There definitely has to be a sudden scare. What if it's a normal YouTube logo, but when someone walks past it, it turns into a terrifying monster? I love it. Like a mimic.
Yes. Okay, let's break this down into a few parts. First, we'll create the inside of the mouth, with lots of teeth and gums, and a huge eyeball. We will 3D print the wings and create a mechanism for them to open. Then we'll paint everything, put it all together, and test the sudden fright. I have something. What did you buy? This is a pumpkin animatronic from the Halloween store. Let's turn this into our YouTube monster.
How are we going to do that? To help them visualize it, I made a temporary YouTube logo out of cardboard. And then he's going to go "Wah!", like this. Wait, let me show you. It's a work of art. Ready. Here we go. This is going to work. Look. Motion sensor. Oh! Do you see it? Okay! That works perfectly! Like the fangs, the teeth, and the eyeball… Will they all be here? Yes, and we'll get rid of all this pumpkin stuff. In fact, let's do it now to see how it works. The good thing is that all this fabric and the pieces of this pumpkin won't be thrown away. We can use them for another
Halloween Pop purpose. There's a motor here that pushes this down, and inside this shaft, there's a huge spring, and when it's triggered, it releases this. Wow! It is much more potent without the pumpkin. What is the verdict? Will this work? This is definitely going to work, and I love it. Now we just have to create a monster around it. The YouTube logo will basically be a hollow box that I'm going to carve out of foam, and I'll start by making the face. This material is called XPS foam and I love it. It can be found in any hardware store and is ideal for making accessories because it is lightweight, rigid, and easy to cut and shape. For the teeth I
asked Beardless Props to sculpt them according to the graphic material and I 3D printed them in resin. They just finished, so let's see how they turned out. Brilliant! They are given a quick bath to remove excess resin and, when dry, are cured with UV light. And so, we have a lot of teeth. Whenever we convert a store-bought animatronic into something, we must make sure that it is not too heavy. That's why I made them hollow, so they only weigh a few grams each, and Jaimie uses foam because it's lightweight. With the top and bottom of the YouTube logo done, it's time to start working on the teeth. I printed the artwork in full size
and we'll use this as a template. The teeth should be slightly behind the rim so that the mouth can close. I made a base for the gums and glued it on with a spacer in the middle. I use foam clay for my gums, which is also a great material because it's very lightweight and air dries in a day. The downside is that many of these beautiful details flatten when they dry, but I'll repaint the texture at the end. Look at this. Yes. It's incredible. I like how my upper gums turned out. I did the same with the lower teeth but I haven't sculpted them yet because there's a problem. That? When you put the top part on top of the bottom part, they're supposed to
fit together, but they don't because the teeth get in the way. It won't close anymore because… No. I think I'll take this and move it further back so the teeth can slide in the front. They're just not aligned. Yes. That should work. I think so. Jaime corrects them. And I work on the wings. We took the graphic material, created a model and printed it, but we did it in two halves because now I can take these and put some fabric between them for the wing membrane, but before I do that, I need to figure out how the wing mechanism will work. My plan is to hide the wings behind everything, and then, when this appears, they will unfold to the sides. I don't know exactly how we'll do it, but I'm
working on it. We were able to reuse many of the original animatronic parts and connect the foam box to the mechanism. But I had to modify the frame with some metalwork to lower everything further on the pedestal so that when it's raised, the height is correct. The parts are ready and the robot is fixed; I think we should try it. It's always good to do a test. On the one hand, it's the first time you've seen it working, but before doing all the detailed work, we want to know if it works because, if it's going to break, it's better that it does so now. Inside are the front and back teeth, and the eyeball, which fit together
very well. Let's try again without getting nervous. Not working. Did you really break it? Works. He does it great. Congratulations, but there's a problem: the eye should be here, but there isn't enough space for it to be here and hidden, so this should lift the eye when it goes up. I think I understand now. I installed these posts here. I put these rails on the back and tied a rope to the top. When I plug it in… it works! It's incredible that it works. I know. Now that we know it works, I can start sculpting the inside of the mouth. I asked Jay to 3D print an eyeball that I painted, and look how cool it is! I wanted it to look like the eyes of a fiery red monster, so I added texture to the inside and layers of color.
And then, on the outside, I made all these veins so that there would be blood. And I think this is my favorite part of everything so far. To make it shine, we 3D printed this resin eye lens. Look how great it looks. Now we need to attach it to the mouth and sculpt all around it. How are the wings doing? Very good. Remember that the original idea was to have a wing with this type of axle that came out and folded down, but I realized that it was going to crash into this pedestal, so it's not going to work.
Instead, I'll make the wings come out this way. Therefore, they will look like this. And one small detail. The wings will be placed here. When this thing appears, this happens. I like it. Now that my prototype works, I need to finalize all these parts. We're going to add the fabric to the inside of the wings. I have both parts of the wings. I have this beautiful fairy fabric. How nice. I'm going to place it between the two layers of the wings. I ended up using two layers of fabric to make the membranes more opaque.
Then I trimmed the edges, glued the other side of the wing, cut the bottom edge, and look how good they turned out. Look. It's a box! I gave them sides and sanded them so they were nice and smooth. Now, it's time to paint this YouTube logo red. I don't think I've ever used a roller on a project before. This is quick. I want this monster to look horrifying. It should look fleshy and bumpy to contrast with the YouTube logo. Finally, I used a glossy varnish to make the mouth look wet and slimy.
Ready to pull out the tape? Do you want to see it now? Yes ok. This is great! It's terrifying. When I painted the inside of the mouth and the teeth, it suddenly went from being a pink box to looking like an amazing Halloween monster. It's amazing that all this was just an idea a few days ago and now it's a working animatronic. You never know how something will turn out until you try it, but sometimes even the strangest combinations can be a lot of fun.
All the pieces are painted, can we put it together? Yes, let's do it. That goes here. Did we do it? Did we turn the logo into a monster? I think so, but before seeing it in action, I want to mention some creators who inspire us. NerdForge, SKS Props, Little Jem and Kiara's Workshop. Thanks for watching. Thanks again to YouTube for the challenge. Now, let's see if this works…
