Let’s Make a Freddle Animatronic from Five Nights at Freddy’s (Out of an LOL Elmo)

hello everyone my name is Toby horror boy and today we're going to be making a freddle animatronic from FNAF 4 we're using an LOL Elmo as the base and of course the first thing we have to do is skin him I have a whole other video of that if you'd like to see it but for now let's get into it so the freddles are the little guys that sit on the bed ideally I'd make all three of them but I only have one of this particular Elmo and I don't like my chances of finding another one just the shipping to Australia is upwards of $50 and I'm not doing that I found this one for $4 in an OP shop and that is a fine price for an Elmo anyway now that he's skinned we're going to start building up our endoskeleton he has this fun textured metal as his core there would be so many different ways to do this but I thought that it looked suspiciously like a pop tube so a pop tube we shall use I got these from Kmart and only used about 3/4 of one of them so the rest are just floating around the house unfortunately the diameter was a little bit too small to cover his current limbs so I had to cut the supports off to get them to fit we took this opportunity to sand the plastic hard plastic like this doesn't like being painted or glued it just won't stick very well so we take our rotary tool and sand down everywhere that's going to be painted or glued which is most of him then we can go and Plasti Dip our pop tube Plasti Dip is an aerosol primer that basically sprays liquid plastic instead of spray paint and in this house we Prime things before we paint them once it's fully dry we cut it into small sections to wrap around his arms and legs you can see that some parts really don't meet at the back but that's okay we glue them all down and any gaps get filled with glue when it's painted it'll look like welding you're just going to have to trust me on this one the next part of his end skeleton that we're going to focus on is his head starting specifically with his mouth now we need to square out his jaw we patent it and cut out two pieces from EVA foam one of them has a bit of extra foam in the middle to help fill out under the jaw we glue them together with contact cement and tidy up the edges with our rotary tool then we glue that piece onto Elmo the inside of his mouth is going to be exposed and we can't leave it looking like that to make it presentable we Trace out the shape onto some one mm craft foam cut it out and glue it in we need to repeat this process for his upper jaw this is a bit more complicated ated because honestly freddles have a really weird head shape like there are a few FNAF animatronics with weirdly shaped heads but I think the freddles win what is even going on there we cut out three pieces of EVA foam this time and glue them all together this freddle is missing a chunk of his face so we carve out the basic shape of that with a snap off knife then we round everything out with the rotary tool because he's so banged up a fair bit of foam will be showing and it needs to be as smooth as possible to help it look like metal for the missing chunk of his upper mouth I wanted the metal to look really messed up I thought that just cutting that piece out might leave the area looking a bit plain and I love to add texture wherever I can we marked where we wanted the damage to come to and then took the hot knife and carved out that area and that's burning the foam so it'll look different to any other exposed foam or plastic bits then we can glue that piece on and take a look at the rest of the head we're going to make the top part of his head out of so many Circles of EVA foam technically they're ovals but only just we cut them out and glue them together in a stack then we can start sanding it down with the rotary tool see how the sanding pad is sliding around on there yeah it is not supposed to do that but I hadn't made it to the shops yet to buy a new mandrel please use power tools safely once we're happy with the head shape we can Mark out his eye socket placement we carve the basic shape for these out and then sand them down with the rotary tool and by hand with a sanding stick now we get to use foam clay which I love working with we put it in the eye sockets to help even them out the foam between his eyes and on the left side of his head is going to be exposed metal and the seam lines from the EVA foam are pretty noticeable we can apply a very thin layer of foam clay to cover those once it's dry we can sand it back and then add more foam clay and sand it until it's up to scratch the next part we're going to work on are his eyes to go in those lovely eye sockets I had some plastic pingpong balls left over from who knows what and those are great for eyes we take one and cut it in half and then carefully cut them down to size and sand the edges we also need to cut off the back of Elmo's head so that our headpiece fits on better and remove the plastic that's supposed to be missing on the freddle and then I decided that I wanted to add lights to the eyes and that caused some problems but we'll get to that bit later I never added lights to an animatronic before because there's never been enough space behind the eyes to add any kind of light because we made the whole headpiece here we can make as much space as we need I got a light up letter from Kmart and we rip it apart to get the light and battery box out of it we measure how much space we're going to need in the back of his head and carve that area out with a knife the backs of the eye sockets had to be removed and then some parts had to be readded with foam clay so there weren't any weird Jagged Shadows it's kind of a tight fit but it works at least for now don't worry we'll be revisiting the the eyelights anyway it's time to paint the eyes the handle of my screwdriver was the perfect size for his pupils so we traced that out onto each eye I have pretty shaky hands so I used a PCA paint pen to draw the outline because it's a bit steadier then we fill the rest of the eye in with black paint the back of his head can't just be left open like that so we need to make a cover for it we cut out two rectangles of craft foam and glue them together then we glue in a small rectangle of stretch fabric to act as a hinge the foam piece is long enough to tuck into the other side craft foam is very FL flexible so the light pack can be easily accessed it's finally time to attach that headpiece we sand two dents for his original eyce stalks and glue it on with contact Zan now we remove some of the excess plastic around the damaged part of his mouth with the rotary tool there's a gap between the upper mouthpiece and the upper head piece that we patch with foam clay so you can't see through his head we also cover any visible plastic in that area with foam clay so that the textures match the final thing we do on the head for now is extend parts of his mouth with foam clay to make them somewhat symmetrical looking at the rest of him we need to Pat out his limbs because they're Way Too Thin FNAF animatronics have these very distinctly shaped segments for their arms and legs and we're going to replicate that here now this is a big day for me because I finally get to use some of my tiny pieces of packing foam I never get to use any of my weird little off Cuts I used the same technique to make plush trap and he was way too big for these little bits of foam how exciting we cut each piece to size and glue it on with contact cement we're trying to match the reference image as closely as possible then we can use the rotary tool to round out each segment I glued and sanded the upper section of the limbs before starting the lower section so that I'd have a better range of motion with the rotary tool once we're happy with the shape we clean up some of the foam with scissors this foam was protective packaging from a delivery we got at some point and I scavenged it to use as craft materials for exactly this FNAF liims so it's probably not really meant to be sanded but it works too well not to his arms and legs are done for now so we need to go back and fix something I completely forgot about I made his inner lower mouth but just didn't do the upper one now's a good time though so we cut it out of craft foam and glue it in with contact cement I made it way too big for some reason so we cut that down to size and blend it in using the rotary tool while we're here we're also going to use the hot knife on the foam clay we added to texture it the next thing we're going to make his paws there are a few different models for the freddles and some of them have fabric paes but I really liked the metal look so that's what we're going with we patent them and cut them out of EVA foam and craft foam EVA foam has this texture on one side that definitely has a purpose but is is nothing but a nuisance to me personally we don't want that on our freddle so we sand it off the next part was kind of finicky this Elmo kicks his legs up and down which is fine when his feet are made of fabric but when they're made of something stiff like foam you need to make sure that they're not going to hit each other too much Elmo has a button on each foot so we couldn't just cut the original feet back to make room for the new ones instead we had to make them as small as possible while still being the right scale and attach them so they're pointing slightly outwards I did rigorous testing with paper and duct tape to figure out the exact placement the original feet are going to sit in a Groove in the foam so the buttons can still be pressed it is so important that they're in exactly the right spot because otherwise his leg movement is going to be all messed up we carve out the grooves with the rotary tool the craft foam is going to act as the top part of the foot that covers the original feet we cut a hole for the ankles in the craft foam and start gluing them onto the EVA foam base now we can tidy up the edges with the rotary tool we use contact cement to glue his feet in being really careful not to glue the buttons down because we need those to work then we glue on the rest of the top leg ler testing that it looks like he's working just fine I mean he's so topheavy because of his head that he can't sit back up but we'll fix that not yet but soon for now we're going to start the painting process the first step is to Prime him we used Mod Podge mixed with water as a primer because foam is super porous and doesn't take paint well when we Prime our surfaces the paint will look better and stick better we do about four coats on every bit of foam that's going to be exposed also his left thigh only has one original piece of plastic in there instead of two I was a bit rough with it while s the padding down and disconnected the pop tube from his leg so we're just pouring some glue in there and using contact cement and then more of the tazan group for good measure yeah that's never coming off again we're going to be spray painting him and we don't want to get paint all over his torso so we wrap him up in a nice little glad wrap cacoon the center of his foam limbs get covered with electrical tape and we can take him outside and spray paint him silver once he's fully dry we unwrap him and it's time to do the fun painting this silver is much too shiny a lot of the FNAF animatronics have some level of grime on them and and we want to convey that here we start by painting on a black wash and then removing most of it with paper towel this generally darkens the silver and creates shadows in the crevices then we need to add some Rust the freddles aren't super Rusty or dirty but there's definitely rust there if you zoom all the way in we use two different rust colors and dry brush them on one at a time I use these specific paints for plush trap and I really love how they look they actually belong to my awesome housemate Joey who has once again let me borrow them thank you Joey we paint the rust over all of the metal Parts making sure we add more in areas that would probably be rustier if he wasn't plastic joints rust right you put oil on the joints and then it rusts over time I put extra rust around any moving parts or in any spots that might be harder to clean if he were really old and made completely of metal I admittedly painted on way more rust than I was intending to but it's also the best rust paint I've ever done probably even the best paint job I've ever done and I did it while watching My Little Pony Equestria Girls maybe that's the secret to good rust pain okay moving on I mentioned earlier that we were having waiting issues because of the extra weight on his head we need to counterweight that with something if the feet were covered in fabric I could put something heavy in them to disguise it I also tried opening up his torso casing but that wasn't happening the only solution I could think of is to make a little weight pack to go on his butt lower back but it has to be able to contain something heavy enough to counterweight it fit seamlessly along the body so it doesn't stop him from rolling around and it needs to not look strange we start by making the casing from EVA foam and we sand it into the right shape we carve out the inside to house the weights looking around my craft room the heaviest thing I could find that I was willing to part with was a finging arm in my defense the plastic is kind of heavy we cut it down a bit to make it fit better and tested it but it was not heavy enough so I went for a wander around the backyard and I found a concrete block I broke it into pieces and tested those but they were also too light and they took up too much space then I found some glass beads that I have and tried those and that was pretty close the waiting is much better but he still can't quite get back up on his own and this was so incredibly frustrating for me because I just didn't have anything that would work so I just put it all aside for the time being besides to make sure that any additional pieces aren't going to mess the waiting up further we need to actually make those pieces I'm talking about his ears hat and teeth the first thing we're going to do here is Mark where his ears are going to sit that'll help inform the size of everything then we can drill two holes into his head one for each ear his ears don't sit flush with his head so we're going to attach them to some aluminum wire and have that be partially visible we cut them to size and glue them in also just because I've had so many comments about it before or I'm not horribly mispronouncing that I'm just Australian everyone says aluminium here it's even spelled differently to how it is in America but it's the same stuff next we patent our ears and cut them out of craft foam each ear is going to be three pieces the front border the inside bit and the back we just need these for waiting purposes at the moment so that's all we're doing on them for now ears are usually one of the last things we do anyway but we can make his little Top Hat now so we Patten it and cut it out the body of the hat and the crown are 1 mm craft foam we glue the sides of the body together then we we cut the brim out of a 5 mm highdensity foam now we glue the crown of the hat on and smooth down the seams so that there's more surface area for the glue to stick to and to reinforce the structure of the Hat we glue in a piece of scrap foam we glue the brim on and we've got a tiny hat to get it ready for painting we prime it with a few coats of mod podge mixed with water then we paint the whole thing black I imagine that the top hat is also made of metal and therefore has some Rust and wear on it we dry brush on some silver and our two rust colors adding extra around the edges we'll leave that for now and have a look at his teeth I absolutely could have just used the leftover teeth from plush trap here but plush trap has green rust on his teeth and the freddles don't so I just committed to making more of them I have to say not really worth it so we start by spray painting some barbecue skewers white to weather them we dry brush on some silver and both of our rust colors then I marked where I wanted each tooth to sit and drilled the holes this was much easier on plush trap because the mouth pieces weren't attached to his head but because this freddle has that chunk taken out of his cheek we needed to do it this way kind of inconvenient but not impossible to work with and we made way too many teeth I always make a few more than I think I'll need just in case but I made 55 and we only ended up using 18 whoops at least we'll have enough teeth for next time they looked a bit off though and I realized that it's because I forgot to do a black wash normally i' do that before the rust paint but this is fine too now we can Mark out how long they need to be and cut them down with the rotary tool I know I do everything with the rotary tool but that's because it's very versatile and also my best friend then we glue in our teeth there are little bits of foam invisible where I drilled away too much so we can go in with my tiniest paintbrush to clean that up I wanted there to be some definition around the teeth so we dry brush on some more black and rust so that's all of the things that might make him even more topheavy done except for his hands but let's not think about that it's time to test that weight pack again my wonderful partner albo is a genius and suggested that I use fishing sinkers the whole point of those is that they're weights they're 275 a pack at Kmart and they solved all of my problems we put them in the casing and seal it up with contact cement and foam then we glue in an extra wedge of EVA foam to help it sit flush with the body and glue the weight pack on for some added stability we also glue on a rectangle of black stretch fabric with the light hat and ears accounted for that weight pack works perfectly now let's take a look at his awful little hands I was kind of nervous about making these because I've never made FNAF style metal hands so this was something new and different for me and I knew straight away that I didn't want to be sculpting all of those pieces from scratch it was going to be much easier to modify some beads so that's what we did I did a spotlight trip for some wooden beads to use as the base wood takes paint much better than most Plastics so I specifically wanted wooden beads the selection was a bit limited but we can work with that our Fred's hands are made from two types of bead the longer piece for the finger segments and the bull piece for the Joint part our long beads are much too long so the first thing we do is cut them down with the rotary tool and pliers then we sand them down with the rotary tool trying to make them all the same size and shape the round beads are perfect so all we have to do with them is sand them to get that finish off this was a long process and I went through quite a few gloves now we touch up the beads with a diamond engraver head to remove any harsh sanding lines then we can skew of them put them outside and spray paint them while that's drying let's make his palms we patent it and cut two from both EVA foam and craft foam it needs to be two pieces so we can sandwich his original hands in between them the pieces are small enough that I had to cut down his original hands we sand off the texture from the EVA foam and glue our pieces together making sure to put the sanded bit on the inside and to leave the middle of the Palm unglued now we can tidy up the edges with the rotary tool I did a few coats of mod podge to seal it and then spray painted them outside as you can see our palms and finger bits are that lovely shiny silver so we need to make them look gross we do a black wash and both of our rust colors at this point I remember that the freddles have two distinct torso pieces and I didn't do anything about that earlier so we rough up where the split and the Torso will be with some sandpaper Paint It Black and Mod Podge it okay back to the fingers I wanted to use beads so that the fingers would be posable each finger is going to have a core of aluminium wire we cut our wire into six short lengths and crimp the ends down so the beads can't come off then we thread the beads on WE Mark where the fingers are going to sit and drill out space for them I glued the top of the wire to the end bead so that they wouldn't slip around too much and that wire sticking out the end was strikingly clean compared to the rest of the finger so we paint it to match then we trim our wire to length and glue them in we glue around the base of the lowest beads as well to stop our fingers from flopping all over the shop every day I utter such normal sentences we put some glue into his hands and slide them onto his wrists now I took a closer look at the hands like a really close look and they have rivets on them which of course we're going to add because I love little details like that but I didn't have anything small enough for them so I went to Bunnings and got the tiniest wall panel Nails I could find and I have like 190 of these left over if anyone has any suggestions for what to do with them do not say freddle Army we have other things to make but for this we cut the heads off with a wire cutter I left a few millimeters there past the head but not much then we take one of the nails and poke a hole for where we want our faux rivets to go we dab on some glue and carefully put them in place this was a bit fiddly because they are so so tiny but I think it really adds to it and because they're Bronze in color we didn't have to worry about painting them we are so close to starting the fabric part of this but before that we need to fix up his head remember how we did the lights in his eyes earlier yeah I hated that the light I used was really temperamental and I was just over it thankfully it's a pretty easy fix to replace the light itself we bought some Led candles from Kmart they're a fair bit bigger than our original light but they're brighter and they're much more reliable to help them fit better we start by pulling off the flame then we cut out some more height in the head cavity it still didn't really fit though and I wanted a light behind each eye so they'd be nice and bright so I did exactly what the packaging and warning labels told me not to do and seriously you should never ever do this it is incredibly dangerous because of the Button cell battery I ripped the casing open so that I had only the necessary electronic parts and then cut any excess plastic away and that worked perfectly they both fit in the head and stay in place just fine I cannot begin to tell you how glad I am that I decided to redo the lights but his head cover no longer fits so we need to remake it we cut two pieces out of craft foam and used contact cement to glue them together then we cut out another piece of black stretch fabric to act as the hinge and glue it all together I did another waiting test with his ears and hat duct tape to his head just in case and it's all working well after all of that we can finally glue his eyes in and we're good his base is all done so onto the Fab we're going to start with his torso first we wrap him in Glad wrap and then duct tape just to note he's going to have that horizontal Gap in the middle but it can't continue all the way around him because otherwise the weighted bit on his back will be super visible and it'll look really bad we Mark where the middle is on his front and back and where our side seams are going to go I always label my pieces so I'm not horribly confused while cutting and sewing them then we cut the duct tape pattern off him I only ever use half of the pattern and just cut it on the fold so it's symmetrical because this Elmo animatronic has such a curved back some of these pieces are not going to sit flat on the fabric to fix this we cut a line into it and we'll be sewing a dart there soon I don't want to waste any fleece so we do a quick mockup with some old scrap fabric to make sure everything fits that's looking decent except for the horrible fabric choice so let's cut it out for real let's start with the bottom half of his torso the fabric we're going to be using is just a brown fleece we cut out our front and back pieces on the fold so there's no Center seam then we machine sew up the dots on the back piece now we pin both pieces onto the body and Handel up the same I always use a back stitch for project like this because I want my stitching to be really strong and because it's my favorite Stitch that's his bottom half on so let's focus on the top I was originally going to have some kind of closure on the back probably Velcro so we can access the battery pack but I didn't want to add any extra bulk that might make it hard for him to roll back that's pretty much all this Elmo can do so we can't take that away from him but fleece has a bit of give to it so we don't even need to add a closure we just need to make the top half longer at the back so we cut our pieces out of our fleece and machine sew up the dots we pin it onto him and lce up the side and shoulder seams you can see that we've angled the fabric so the back of the bottom piece tucks into the top and that's so we can get to the battery pack and it hides the weight pack we added it's not 100% accurate to what the fredle looks like but at least it's functional I also had to add more black paint to his tummy so you can't see the silver or white now the freddles all have a patch of lighter fur on their chest so we patent it cut it out of fleece and pin it onto him then we hand SE it on to hide the stitches we fluff up the fibers around them including on any seams I do this for all seams on every animat IC but I'm just going to show it now so you know it happens with his torso Al together we can glue it into place making sure that the edge is rolled under we start with the center front and work our way around it's important that we leave the back and the very back part of the sides unglued so we can pull the fabric aside to get to the battery pack like this we're going to do the head next and it's basically the same concept as the body but harder to do because the head is so curved we cover him in Glad wrap duct tape and clear tape for where I need to be able to see what I'm doing I Mark out the borders of where the fabric will sit this freddle has a lot of his head exposed but we also need to make sure that you can't see the head cap for the lights so we've got the entire top piece the muzzle and the lower jaw and it all needs to fit together or it'll look silly once we're happy with the fit and the mockup looks decent we can start cutting it out we machine sew up the dots on the back of his head and then cut out his muzzle we sew the two together and pin them to his head now we cut out the lower jaw and machine sew up the dots that looks like it's all fitting well he doesn't have any fabric on his neck and I didn't really paint that area before so we touch it up with a silver paint pen and of course we do a black wash and our rust colors so it matches the rest of him now it's time to glue his face on I started with the muzzle seam because I wanted it to really conform to the shape of the foam under it if it's not stuck down there it'll distort the head shape we also need to cut a hole for his ear wires and glue those back in I had to take them out to fit his head fabric properly but we'll be needing them soon then we move to his eye and work our way around the top of his head now we glue his upper jaw skin down we also ladder stitch his head onto his body at the back I have this ongoing problem where I always add extra fabric because I'm worried I'll make something too small like I'll measure and patent it so it'll fit perfectly and then I'll cut out extra anyway and I really need to work on that but for now it just means that we need to cut the excess down as we go and we cut down his lips are they lips his gums we cut them so you can see some of the exposed metal from straight on and glue his skin down then we glue the underside of his jaw and that's a face I did a test run to make sure I could still get the lights into his head and I can the last thing we need to do here is make a closure for that loose head skin we do this by cutting down some some velcro into little ovals one side gets stuck to the head with contact cement and we hand sew the other side onto his skin we have two spots with velcro to keep the fabric in place we glue down the last little bit of fleece and that's his head done now let's finish up those ears from earlier they are not part of the head in my mind this is an entirely separate piece the foam is already cut out so we start by gluing the pieces together it's important to leave a little Channel between the front and back pieces so the wire has somewhere to go then we tidy up the edges with the rotary tool in the render I'm using for reference his inner ears are black rather than the light color of his tummy honestly I just prefer this render the in-game model has fabric hands and feet which is fine but I wanted to make those out of metal so black inner ear as it is we cut our pieces out of fleece making the front and back pieces a bit bigger than the foam I wanted the inner ear to look indented compared to the outer shell so we glue it in first and we really press it down into those edges then we glue the front piece on top of it finally we glue the back piece on WE trim off any excess fleece so there's just enough to cover the sides of the foam we put a little bit of glue along the edges and press the fleece together to seal it now we put some glue into the wire cavity and glue his ears on he looks so much better with ears every time it's like the ears go on and the animatronic starts to look like something and not just a strange little creature on my desk while we're here we can glue his hat on and hey that's almost a freddle he looks like a FNAF character now is what I'm saying we are almost done but we still need to do his limbs nose and weathering let's give his arms and legs some skin I started with the upper arms theoretically you could do them all at once but each piece needs a different pattern and I didn't want to get them mixed up so we make our pattern with glad wrap and clear tape so we can see the shape of the foam underneath then we cut the pieces out of our Brown fleece and pin them on we hando up any seams and carefully glue the fleece into place one thing to note is that we want to have some amount of the silver endoskeleton and foam showing on each segment we did not put all that work into shaping and painting it to totally cover it up then I moved to his forearms and repeated the process then we do the upper legs and finally his lower leg really convenient that his lower left leg is just straight metal that's so kind of it and with that all of his skin is on his face really does look a bit odd without his little nose so we'll fix that up for him we patented it and cut it out of black fleece and I really wanted to put a squeaker in there truly I did but I couldn't find one small enough when I made plush trrap and our freddle nose is even smaller again I don't think they even make them that small so we'll just have to work with what we've got we pin it into place and let a stitch it on we put a tiny bit of stuffing in there to give it some shape and he's looking so much better this is the final step we need to make him look kind of old and worn his fabric sections are too clean and they don't match the metal parts so we mix up an acrylic wash and start dabbing it on in particular we focus on the edges of the fabric around any exposed metal like something must have happened for the metal to be visible surely the fabric is damaged in some way our reference image shows a hole in his chest we couldn't put an actual hole because I'd probably managed to cut every wire in there so I opted to paint a dark stain in its place we are almost at the reveal withered bnny is our next animatronic project so I hope you guys are excited for him I haven't forgotten about the dread ducky and caly I'm just so excited about withed Bonnie that I can't think about making anything else also my apologies for my voice in the last third of this video I am sick so very sick but I'm beyond excited for our next project thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you soon okay here's our freddle I'm I'm [Music] time Elma watch the laugh some more please El again again I'm almost

Channel: Toby Horrorboy

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Keywords: Fnaf, Fnaf Freddle, Fnaf animatronic, Animatronic, How to make a fnaf animatronic, Fnaf 4

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Length: 26min 52sec (1612 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 19 2024