{"id":349,"date":"2015-10-13T23:01:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T23:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?p=349"},"modified":"2015-10-14T12:53:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T12:53:12","slug":"a-dragon-project-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"A Dragon Project Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VyathRekaer\" target=\"_blank\">@Vyeth<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>So you&#8217;ve likely seen my <a href=\"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?cat=38\">Dragon Project link<\/a> and read a little about what I&#8217;ve been planning: a shoulder-mounted animatronic dragon to wear with my wizard outfit.<\/p>\n<p>This week I&#8217;ve stumbled upon another option: a full-size dragon suit with its own animatronic features.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I ran across this Tweet response to Smooth-On&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SmoothOn\/status\/628286716051365888\" target=\"_blank\">#SoMakeItMonday post<\/a> back in early August:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SmoothOn\">@SmoothOn<\/a> work in progress dragon mask for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/somakeitmonday?src=hash\">#somakeitmonday<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/TL3SBx2UdZ\">pic.twitter.com\/TL3SBx2UdZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Dart Miller (@jmillart) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jmillart\/status\/628290638258159616\">August 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John and I discussed where I was heading with my project, and along the way I made the comment, &#8220;&#8230; instead of animatronic, maybe I should go with a dragon costume!&#8221;\u00a0 John&#8217;s reply &#8211; &#8220;or applied animatronics in a costume even&#8221; &#8211; got me to thinking &#8220;inside the dragon&#8221; (as opposed to &#8220;outside the box&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>John loaned the master mold to a friend, James, who has expressed a willingness to make a cast for me at what I think is a very reasonable price.\u00a0 Working with a little larger character actually makes the animatronics a good bit easier.<\/p>\n<p>More soon!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got lots to think on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo credit: @Vyeth So you&#8217;ve likely seen my Dragon Project link and read a little about what I&#8217;ve been planning: a shoulder-mounted animatronic dragon to wear with my wizard outfit. This week I&#8217;ve stumbled upon another option: a full-size dragon suit with its own animatronic features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[38,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1_Basic_blank-e1444826857455.jpg?fit=571%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p76pQa-5D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":227,"url":"https:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?p=227","url_meta":{"origin":349,"position":0},"title":"Animatronic Dragon","date":"April 7, 2015","format":"gallery","excerpt":"So my family has the Renaissance Fair bug. Big time. \u00a0Me, too. Of course, I can't just be satisfied with a wizard outfit. 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