I've always been fascinated with animatronics since I first saw Chuck E Cheese as a child. I wasn't necessarily scared, just confused and nervously awestruck. Then FNAF came out when I was in middle school and it's like a whole new world was opened for me. I long to have the resources and time to dedicate to learning this craft. It's truly mesmerizing

Oh man, I just graduated from mechanical engineering and after a loooong while thinking about it I really want to get into animatronics and SFX. Great video.

Imagine if this was William afton

so what stage of the project is ideal for sacrificing children for animatronics to act more human like? The programing stage or the assembling the animatronic stage?

Hello will, for a long time I have been passionate about animatronics today I am over 50 years old and my spirit is still animated but unfortunately I live in a country where opportunities are few, but even so this video inspires me to continue I have worked many projects with moving parts in wood and over time I have started to use computers and printers etc thank you very much for inspiring many people I wish I had found this much sooner but it is never too late thank you

Just wanted to express my gratitude to you. I've been wanting to start into animatronics for quite a bit and have kept putting it off because it was overwhelming to find a starting point. Thank you for putting this together and for making all of your projects so accessible!

"Not the hero we deserved, but the Hero we needed" Srly tho, I am EXTREMELY interested in animatronics and actually want to either work at an animatronics company or become one of those people who restore old and broken animatronics! Subbed to you, you deserve more subs.

really good advises . I think not being scared of failure is quite important, I don't know for you but I have tried making stuff and failed many times (still do ) . 3d printers, milling machines and lathe are great but you can still learn a lot by making stuff from wood and cardboard by hand .

Hey man, just want to say I'm incredibly appreciative of this video and your channel in general. I'll probably try joining your discord to say more but I can't begin to express how much this entire channels means to me.

Damn you're so relatable, thank you. This is pretty motivating and down to earth. Awesome videos, keep doing you!

So glad I found your channel. I really admire your designs and how well you document them. Although I haven't started yet, you're inspiring me to document my own projects. Thanks mate

This is the kick I needed to try out some Animatronics, thank you :) Keep up the great work!

hey, what is ur job called? i want to be like u when i grow older 🥺 and i am too much into animatronics omg

Thank you so much for this wonderful video. You answered so many of my high-level questions. Also, I want to commend you for your artistic skills in writing, performing, and editing this video. It was well-paced, informative, interesting, and chock full of clear visual examples (images, videos) to illustrate your points.

Thank you a lot for your great content and motivation. I have no idea what's your end goal but it's fantastic to see the pieces.

You certainly do inspire. It's good to know what tools you use, like Fusion 360.

I really needed to see this video today. You hit the nail on the head. Thanks.

my god will, you're basically robo-jesus. I might actually start with animatronics just because of you, so thanks! The video was really inspiring :D

You are amazing for sharing your raw thoughts, journey and willingness to make this an inclusive and uplifting space!

Hey will! Thanks for this Video. After you inspired me with your animatronic eyes i bought an elegoo starter kid and it worked out well so far. Thanks for your content mate. It really inspired me to get started

Will, thank you for the encouragement and sharing of ideas so unselfishly. You are of great help.

I relate to your outlook on researching new things. This definitely gave me a boost of confidence

You’re so down to earth and realistic in your approach in this video. Thank you! Excited to watch through your stuff and make my own !

Thank you for your hard work! You surely have inspired me for exploring my own ideas, still I'll always love your creative mind and videos. Really thank you Will

Thank you for your content, you are so inspiring for people introducing in animatronics like I am. There it is a lot of work and talent in your channel, keep it up!

Thank you man. That was very informative. I am really struggling for some time now to get started with 3D Printing, CAD and all the moving parts to it. Hearing your approach to this matter really boosts the motivation. Thank you, kind Sir.

thank you pal ! followed this tutorial with my buddy will, we even managed to make a pizzeria, wierdly enough 6 kids were gone missing right after a birthday party …

This was explained extremely well, thank you!

Printed out the simple eye mech last weekend and this weekend I'm printing the compact eye mech. These are going to help a ton with a project I've been working on for the last 6 years.

Awesome Video and Extremely Inspirational... Thank You for Sharing Your Knowledge and Passion..!!!

it was amazing how accurately and thoroughly you described the engineer's mindset.

Thanks for sharing your work and your thoughts.

This is fantastic thanks for posting, this is a big help.

How about a Discord server for the community?

Interesting and informative. Nice video.

Hey, thanks so much for releasing this video. saw a few different things that are related to animatronics recently. but I'm focusing on other things.

Thanks for all the great advice. Do you think you could do a video on how you go about choosing which servos to use for a project?

lately, ive been really interested into animatronics, so.. thank u

Thank you! I'm planning sometime to make human sized animatronics in the future so this video is helping me a LOT. Tysm👍

Another great video!

Im learning the logics of animatronics and springlock suits. Thanks for the tips!

installed, everything works, thanks!

Excellent video thank you for the information

Thank you so much for this video. Robotics is such a great thing and I love it so much, I'm working on learning to make them :D

WOW THIS IS AMAZING! IM GONNA MAKE THIS

This is really neat. I'm a programmer by trade and did robotics club in highschool but I haven't made anything mechanical in a long time. I've been interested in animatronics again recently and this is great

We have a face behind the voice! Good job as always Will. Forum when!? XD

thank you this is actually my first time doing tech and stuff

Cool video! I have some ideas for animatronics! There's two bears, a chicken, a fox, and a rabbit! I think i'm gonna start a pizzeria.

Hey great video. thank you!

Thanks! This helped a lot.

I never know if I could do this but then I remember that a couple years ago I was very clueless in geography and now I'm. Amazing at it

I love your optimism and stimulating new comers. Nobody learns all this stuff in college unless you go to a SFX school like Tom Savini’s or Stan Winston’s online classes. And even there I believe that animatronics is an elective course, just like sculpting. I believe mould making is a required course but I could be wrong. But even those guys in the 70s and 80s figured this out, step by step. Just progress little steps, that’s what engineering is about. Find the smallest thing you can solve and solve that. Then work in the next smallest thing and pieces for into place as you continue to harness new skills and Knowles as you progress. Often people see the end product and quickly want to be able to do that themselves. That’s not how this works, it’s a labour intensive grind. And often you have to learn things you don’t even want to learn. Like in my case sculpting and mechanical stuff. I’m first and foremost and EE and CS graduate. But hell you need to chip away at that, or find someone who’s good at it you can commissions to do it for you.

Nice info, thank you for sharing it, keep it up :)

Thanks for the video!

this really helps me alot becuse i have thinking about doing this in a long time

Thank you for this Informative video

Great video!

This was genuinely helpful! I just want to do mech heads,kinda like showbiz pizza place(EX: Aaron's animatronic programmers kit),I have always loved how advanced their mech's were for the late 70's, early late 80's,and early 90's aswell. I have my characters ter design planned out but not the mechs designed out,I want to make it as similar as possible without copying creative engineering/Aaron's original mech designs entirely.

Oh this is awesome thank you I love this type of stuff

Merci pour ta générosité, tu es inspirant

Thank you so much for this, the video was really inspiring honestly! I've always found animatronics so cool and fascinating and I'm starting to think about it seriously. I want to one day be able to make a Disney-grade animatronic! I'll be looking into coding and STEM courses soon i hope :] i wish I'd started sooner, I'm in high school and know nothing about computers or engineering and I really dislike math (unfortunate, lol)... But I'll keep doing my research and one day maybe I'll be great at robotics ^^

Yes i would love a subreddit. btw: very good vid

Thank you for sharing.

I was in robotics for only one year on 8th grade. But honestly it was fun, I could have continued doing it, because I always found the functioning and building-from-scratch animatronics interesting. And also, because, it’s better designing something yourself because you don’t have to wait and you would have the experience😅 It’s amazing

thanks for this vid will, have been looking for a good place to get launched off from with this stuff and this has been pretty useful for some pointers, also the lightbulb moment bit made me rofl, all 3 times ahahaa

for discussion and opinion in your projects or other you can discord, it is really good in this

thankyou for this video😄

Thank you Mr.

hey ... merci beaucoup... j'avais vu tes yeux animatronics il y a un moment, et en regardant le projet de thomas sur hackio j'ai décidé de me lancer, malgré un leger doute sur mes compétences... finalement, j'arrive à m'en sortir malgré tout... alors merci pour tout votre partage de connaissance. 🤝

I really thank you for that, talkin about giving me/ us this tutorial. Really idk how to say but i really thank you for it! :o

Community collages sometimes offer crash courses on how to do things. I took the Engineering Tech. program at MiraCosta TCI and we cover everything you said in the video. Artistic flair aside. This is entirely within my scope now. also, Paul Mcwhorter (not sure if im spelling that right) at top tech boy here on YT has a fantastic course on getting started with Arduino programing!

OMG YES! YES YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS lord i know its my weird brain that struck me with this sudden urge to go down this rabbit hole but ive loved this kind of engineering ever since i was a kid and always just considered it a pipe dream, this shows me its possible!!!!!! thanks you strange obsessive 5am thoughts, and thank you Will, you absolute fucking legend

"also putting an artistic slant on this" That is a beating heart good sir

POV: William Afton learned everything he knows about robotics from this video

Thanks for the video now I can make animatronics when ever I want

Thank you 🙏🏾

I've wanted to do this for so long

Very inspiring video! I am working on a robot pet project and use your first eyes model. Would love to speak to you so we can discuss different mechanical engineering approaches.

Omg it's finally happening!!!

i just got the great idea to make a wearable animatronic suit and i have the design and i know how it'll work but i don't know the actual mechanics for the eyes and mouth and stuff, so this really helped, thx!

makes alot of sense

Question: do you always come back?

Some nice work there Will. Good to see some young folks maintaining an interest in animatronics. Regarding inspiration for newcomers the only thing I'd add is to study actual zoology and animal physiology for ideas. If a creature uses gristle, stretchy tendons and has imprecise floppy regions of fat that give it a distinctive wobble then incorporate an analogue of that into designs . No need to try to make a replica of a living creature move like an ultra-precise robot when living creatures are largely imprecise and have lots of compliance.

OMG U NEED MORE SUBCRIBER!!! U SHOULD BE POPULAR THEN EVERYONE!!! OMG I WANT TO VISIT THE ANOMOTRONIC YOU WILL MAKE!!!!!!

Thanks for the inspiration. I’m trying to build a gundam robot that moves.

Do you consider Adruino a good module? or what do you personally use for your proyects? or what do you recommend to achieve a fluid servo movement?

Thanks you so much, i can now build an robot for our science project

A bit of knowledge of anatomy is not necessary but being open to do the research helps a lot. Don't have to reinvent the wheel ;) nature has a lot of amazing principles already there to steal!

Nice

Me and my friend (Who acts like William Afton) writing how to make animatronics rn This is seriously gonna help us mate thanks

"where there's a Will, there's a way..."

This video has really helped me but, what are you using to 3D print the parts, like what are they made of?

we getting out of fredbear's family diner with this one 🔥🔥🔥💪💪🗣🗣🔥🔥

Do you have a tutorial on how to make the eyes? extra materials, etc. Just bought the beginner kit and I'm keen to use the eyes as a more extensive project to work up to

hello great video, very entertaining and educational! not sure if you would answer this but i have a few animatronics, you know the cheap crappy ones from home depot, but they are all the same with motion detector or button to activate. my question is how or what do i need to have one of my crappy animatronics activate using a smart plug, be wonderful if i can turn it on withing my smart plug app...appreciate the feedback.

I came here because I always see people repairing Anima Tronics and building And I noticed Torio is probably best to do when I’m older but I really do you want to create simple cardboard creations and a lot of people go into things knowing nothing and then become a pro so I’m gonna learn as I go

Excellent, I want to try to build a Wheatley.

I think that you ARE an animatronic ! 😂 Great video, thanks !

Thank u for making this vid I really wanna make a fnaf Pizzeria when I grow up I subscribed to you btw