{"id":227,"date":"2015-04-07T22:01:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T22:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2015-07-16T13:36:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T13:36:44","slug":"animatronic-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Animatronic Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my family has the Renaissance Fair bug. Big time. \u00a0Me, too.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I can&#8217;t just be satisfied with a wizard outfit. Now I&#8217;ve got it in my head that I want to develop an animatronic dragon to sit on my shoulder and &#8220;wow&#8221; the crowd.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve bought some DVDs from the Stan Winston School of Character Arts \u2013 yeah, that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/StanWinstonSchool.com\">a thing<\/a>. And these show you a lot of the how-to.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m planning eye movement, head movement, a 4-way\/2-stage neck movement, a &#8220;wing flutter&#8221;, and a mist-spray (like steam) from the mouth on demand.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sourcing parts, and making mock-ups, etc. And I&#8217;ll post more as I go.<\/p>\n<p>I do have a couple of pictures below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I made a drawing of a person (a &#8220;me&#8221; stand-in!) with the wizard outfit, plus dragon on the shoulder.<\/li>\n<li>I made am approximate\u00a0life-size drawing of the dragon.<\/li>\n<li>I made a 1\/4 size <a title=\"Maquette in Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maquette\" target=\"_blank\">maquette<\/a> of the dragon.\u00a0 Note the longer neck, and the presence of wing bones structure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wish me luck!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_231\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1963.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-231\" data-attachment-id=\"231\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?attachment_id=231#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1963.jpg?fit=1936%2C2592\" data-orig-size=\"1936,2592\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPad Air&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1428135280&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;32&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1963\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Wizard with outfit and dragon&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1963.jpg?fit=670%2C897\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-231\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1963.jpg?resize=224%2C300\" alt=\"Wizard with outfit and dragon\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1963.jpg?resize=224%2C300 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1963.jpg?resize=765%2C1024 765w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1963.jpg?w=1936 1936w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1963.jpg?w=1340 1340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wizard with outfit and dragon<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_230\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1962.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230\" data-attachment-id=\"230\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?attachment_id=230#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1962.jpg?fit=2592%2C1936\" data-orig-size=\"2592,1936\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPad Air&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1428135252&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;32&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;6&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1962\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;First drawing of dragon, at scale&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1962.jpg?fit=670%2C501\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-230\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1962.jpg?resize=300%2C224\" alt=\"First drawing of dragon, at scale\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1962.jpg?resize=300%2C224 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1962.jpg?resize=1024%2C765 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1962.jpg?w=1340 1340w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1962.jpg?w=2010 2010w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First drawing of dragon, at scale<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_226\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1969.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226\" data-attachment-id=\"226\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?attachment_id=226\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1969.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1536\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 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1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1969.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1969.jpg?w=1340 1340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1\/4 size maquette of dragon<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my family has the Renaissance Fair bug. Big time. \u00a0Me, too. Of course, I can&#8217;t just be satisfied with a wizard outfit. Now I&#8217;ve got it in my head that I want to develop an animatronic dragon to sit on my shoulder and &#8220;wow&#8221; the crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dragon","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1969.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p76pQa-3F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}