Sci Fi Special: Making a Robot suit. Plastazote.

Yes it’s been some time since we last did any preperation on our robot suit. To be hones we really hadn’t got past designing it. Well today I’m going to put all that behind me and get down to ordering some materials. I’ve thought long and hard about this and have decided the best materials to use will be cardboard (Because of it’s cheapness, availibility and also it’s easy to craft) and cover it with a material called Plastazote. The spec for Plastazote is as follows: This soft versatile expanded polythylene is tough but easy to cut and form, can be heat moulded, vac formed and laminated.

I’ve included a picture of the type of thing you can do with Plastazote (below)

I’m ordering that today so as soon as it arrives I’ll start modeling asap.

Look at our progress so far by clicking here.

Blunt Productions at Renderyard!

Blunt Productions have exclusive content at Renderyard. Not only can you see new to the web Jim and Heinz content such as ‘Zantrox and Stockbroker’ (below) but the Mick Roads short ‘Training Daljinder’ has been chosen as this weeks Video Star.

Check it out here

more about “Zantrox and Stockbroker“, posted with vodpod

Zantrox and Stockbroker

For a limited time, we are proud to offer a sneak preview of ‘Zantrox and Stockbroker’ – the first spin-off from the Jim and Heinz series. This film was made with Marcus Wilding who played Heinz’s Stockbroker in the film ‘Microfinance’ and Zantrox, a robot that was built by Heinz and subsequently had some mental problems due to Jim supplying the wrong size of memory card. Jim still disputes this claim.

Video is now embedded here.

Sci Fi Special. Build a Robot Suit: Making a Robot Mask

As I explained in the previous post on Robots our first robots were made by simply wrapping silver foil around our actors heads. For further episodes of Captain V we decided it would be better to make a reusable mask (pictured below).

We achieved this by applying latex and kitchen roll onto the silver foil wrapped head of our actor (see Figure 1)

Sci fi Special: Build A Robot Suit (Design)

Here at Blunt Productions we like to give ourselves a challenge and so we’ve decided to set the task of building a full robot suit. This will be an ongoing process so be sure to return to see our progress. Our original Robots for some of our first Blunt films consisted of wrapping tinfoil around an actor’s face. This can be witnessed in our Film Making Tip on computers.

Ignore the advice on computers as it’s woefully out of date. You probably couldn’t even buy a computer with so little memory these days but the good news is people are throwing these things away now so it does give those without any money the chance to get onboard the computer boat (sorry about the analogy).

In trying to move away from the silver foil I’ve been looking around and I came across this website http://www.coolest-homemade-costumes.com/robot-costume.html.

It showcases peoples home made robots. A lot of them are very fifties retro design which I like but I’d also like our robot to have a dash of Japanese Toy Robot. Here are some quick doodles of my first ideas.

Unfortunatly I don’t think having cylindryical heads will be a good thing as  it might be difficult to find something that shape.

Check out the robot costume home page

See how we progressed from silver foil to a proper mask in the next entry of build a robot suit here.