Making a ball and socket jointed armature & using thermo-plastic

[Horis573]

How do you remove the bike chain links, its hard as hell?

[TheCyberController]

@Horis573 I used a chain link remover - a speical decive made for removing motor bike chain links.

[winfriedSS]

Those ball bearings that you use, are they the insanely tough impossible to drill kind? I've got some of those, which I bought thinking I could just drill/tap a hole in them and screw in some threaded wire. This looks to be a promising alternative. Do you think a simple butane torch gets hot enough?

[MovieMonster9]

@TheCyberController How can you make one as a teenager and your parents won't let you handle tools like these?

[Dinoslay]

Thanks for making this video. Fairly inexpensive and useful for the independent animator. Another alternate method is to make joints from eye hooks by joining them with washers and a bolt and then joining them with wooden dowels although they don't have as much mobility as a true ball joint does.

[TheCyberController]

Well I hope that new style of animation works out for you. Keep trying though, it did take me about 4 or 5 goes to get the process of making these puppets correctly. Also thanks for the nice comment.

[KingOfZilla]

my love for you and your videos just went up several notches. excelent video.

[TheCyberController]

Haha, thanks, I think

[JesseRex1]

very interesting. i have completed the armature and muscles for an allosaurus stop motion puppet yesterday. :) might make a video with it soon. thanks for all of the inspiration.

[TheCyberController]

I'm very excited about seeing this pupppet of yours. Hope it works out ok.

[wilsonrussell44]

@TheCyberController where do you get the ball bearings?

[mujawooja]

Cyber very good video, your are very good at metal work

and have all the right tools. Keep up your very talented work my friend.

Bernie

[TheCyberController]

Thanks Bernie. I didn't think I was that good at metal work, some of my joints are pretty shotty sometimes, but thank you.