Subject: [Homestead] Home Business, more on Maskmaking, Animatronics
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 11:48:40 -0800
Don't know if anyone will spend the time and effort this entails----with
fairly consistent effort it would take a year to do the sculpting, make
molds, develop cable-controls or pneumatic-controls to move features
such as eyes, eyebrows, ears, install a voice system, and for a
dinosaur, eject smoke from nostrils.
However, this has enormous income potential, and if I were younger, I
would certainly incorporate articulated masks in a home business---more
commonly described as animatronics. You could accellerate the sculpting
by enlisting the help of most any College art class, and devising the
control mechanisms by students in various College courses such as
industrial engineering, mechanical engineering etc.