We made a real life HUGGY WUGGY Animatronic!

in this video we're going to build a real Huggy wuggy animatronic we're Jamie j and we love bringing your favorite monsters to life like this dancing Freddy and this animatronic Clicker from The Last of Us today the challenge is to build a full-size animatronic completely from scratch which we've never done before we're making Huggy buggy from poppy playtime because he's freaking terrifying but he's not super complicated so it should work well first though we need a game plan we're going to start by giving it a PVC skeleton and putting that into a good pose next we'll add a motor and some other stuff to make him move then we're going to cover the whole thing in blue fur and finally we're gonna make his super creepy head easy right so this is just regular one inch PVC there's a bunch of different kinds of this it's just like the regular kind and it's super easy to cut with a PVC cutter in our candy slide video we cut this stuff with a hacksaw and it was so annoying but then we discovered this and it's made our lives so much easier it took like two seconds so easy the other cool thing about using regular PVC is that you can use regular PVC connectors but the flip side of using these connectors is that you're kind of limited so you've got like an elbow at 90 degrees you've got a 45 degree you know if you're making a character what if you want more movement than that what if they're dancing and you know you need you need lots of angles so we did some digging and we discovered there's a thing called an adjustable PVC joint but they're really expensive so we decided to make our own so I designed these in a program called fusion and then we 3D printed them there's two halves and each side has a little hole where we can put our PVC and then a bolt goes through like this and then on the inside there's these little teeth that come together and there you go you could use this for an elbow or a knee or something like that you've got all kinds of options for posing your character however you want another thing we designed and printed was this little flange and you can get these online but for some reason they only come in metal and they're super expensive so we just made our own now we can screw this into a board or you could stake it down into the ground it's going to help our whole animatronic stand up if you want to print your own adjustable joint or flange all the files will be on our patreon we're going to put a Link in the description below I am super excited about using these we just need to print five more so we'll be back I ran out of black filament so we had to switch to Orange but we got most of these printed they look like Halloween colors though so I love it yeah yeah I think as we go we're gonna have to adjust angles and things to get the right balance and pose but I think we should just start putting them together so this goes in here let me take one of these like that and that's like your ankle but then I guess we start with a leg these are a tight fit it's good this thing's gonna be really tall yeah it is but he's got like massively long legs like this is where his waist is is he gonna fit in our garage I don't know man if this is where the crotch is like I think we should probably start building like the waist and the upper body but check this out it's a giant Huggy wuggy leg the plan for our animatronic is that at his waist he's going to kind of sway back and forth like this and he's got these long dangly arms and hopefully they'll kind of go like this so we made his hips out of a piece of plywood and then we've got this other piece of plywood which we're gonna put like that and then our motor which is a wiper motor for cars this thing moves really slow but it's really really strong so no matter how heavy this guy is he'll move just fine but this is going to get mounted on like this it's going to move some stuff not 100 sure it's gonna work but if it doesn't we'll figure it out anyway so we're using what's called pocket screws to attach these two pieces of plywood together they make it really easy to just simply connect two pieces of wood it's super strong and super fast these wiper motors are meant to go in a car so there's no obvious way to mount them to a piece of wood so our idea is to use some hose clamps this is so DIY it's awesome hopefully this should slide right in now I could tighten these down and there we go it feels really good that worked a little better than I thought the next thing we need is linkage this is the stuff that connects the motor to whatever it is you're trying to move since this is all custom we're making our own linkage from some Thin aluminum it's nice and light but soft enough to cut with basic tools like a hacksaw and a drill it's also cheap which is really nice after you mess up and have to remake the same part like five times oh look at that if you're anything like me it's super hard to visualize how this mechanical stuff is going to work but basically this is going to mount here and it's going to go like this look at this extravagant fur thestically like a big blue giant stuffed but he's not a bear we know that we know he's not a bear that was a joke because of this Oogie wuggy is a blue bear like a teddy bear with razor sharp teeth but this stuff is amazing it's a little expensive so we got enough for just what we need and no mistakes no mistakes allowed mistake leg is 52 inches but it's going to be bent and you know how like when you're wearing pants and you bend your legs like the ankle comes up we need to account for that so I'm going to add 10 inches to it hopefully that should be enough foreign [Music] I made this the right length right before I start cutting I'm just holding the camera I don't know did I add my extra I did you're making me nervous [Music] skinny legs man yeah his proportions are super weird yeah so we're gonna sew it with the first side in that way when we turn it inside out our seam is going to be on the inside and our fur will be on the outside one monster leg all right let's find Huggy wuggy here so we can kind of see how he walks oh look at that guy maybe he's not a monster at all maybe he's just really hungry you know what I'm really hungry I need to find some food must find food where do we leave all the food look at this mess what are you doing I'm so hungry ah you're in luck we just got our weekly delivery of factor meals who just so happened to be the sponsor of today's video factor is a meal delivery service that delivers fresh Chef prepared meals right to your door they're never Frozen and each week you can choose from over 34 a dietitian approved meals including keto calorie smart Chef's Choice and vegan and veggie options they're amazing and the best part is they're ready to eat in two minutes factor is actually owned by hellofresh which we also like to use but when we're super busy in the middle of a project it's really nice to not have to stop and like chop vegetables and 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something like that now we'll worry about getting this super secure later but for now I'm just going to put a zip tie on there so it doesn't fall off now we have to connect a metal arm from the motor right here to the spine everything's pretty wobbly at the moment but we'll fix all that later for now let's plug it in and see what happens [Applause] so for now I'm pretty happy with how this is moving if we do want to adjust it like for example how far over is it leaning we would change like the length of this arm and the positioning of everything but for now I think this is pretty good I think we can keep going with the rest of the upper body I think this is long enough for this and then his torso is actually kind of short right it is really short like his legs are massively long and he's got this tiny little little torso look at that perfect it's perfect arms are coming out here but I want them to round a little bit yep yeah okay there we go good looks good okay so we have to connect these to the bottom of this because we're going to see if it can stand which maybe this thing weighs like a million pounds questionable I guess start here um okay it's actually not I thought it would be hot is bad look I'm standing on it and it's standing which is amazing I kind of thought this would just crumble up so now that we know it actually stands up I think we need to focus a little bit on his pose like how does he stand right is he standing like this is he standing like this what we're searching for is a way to position the legs that's kind of dynamic that will add to the movement and overall give us a character that's super cool looking oh shoot wait this is supposed to be the back the switch I even wrote front on this I wouldn't forget I kind of want to plug it in just to see if it like completely falls apart okay oh my God it's great you guys we made an animatronics I thought it was gonna fall apart [Music] now that we know our prototype Works we're going to finalize this whole mechanism the main thing here is to stop all the wobbling everything is just too loose to attach the PVC to the hinge we're using epoxy putty it starts off soft but as you mix it together it hardens we can stuff it inside the pipe here and it'll Harden around the hinge holding it firmly in place [Music] the epoxy putty worked great this thing is super secure we also made a power cord and we got this little speed controller which is going to serve as both an on and off switch and controls how fast the motor is going also over here I swapped it to some brand new pieces of wood that are thinner and we saved about 300 grams of weight just by switching to the thinner wood so that helps a lot now we're going to put it all together and wire it up okay hopefully I did that right let's test it yay look it could go really fast or soon by the way all these parts and stuff that we're using we'll put links to them in the video description so that if you want to try this you can get all this stuff [Music] [Applause] what look how big his head's gonna be that no it is not this big look at that it's huge and amazing it's as big as his whole body I can't wait to get started on his head but before we do that I need to work on his torso we need to give him some Mass something for like the fur to lay on top of so to do that we're gonna give him a rib cage [Music] Jay why does it look different again well I finished wiring up the rib cage and I actually made this top part a little bit shorter but another thing was I just wasn't super happy with the movement it was a little clunky so I realized that these metal arms back here were just a little bit too loose so after a bunch of trial and error and remaking these metal arms like 10 times I finally got something that's looking really good I even put some tiny little bearings in here so that everything can rotate freely as he goes back and forth I want his shoulders to rotate and the arms to sway a little bit like this we're not going to add a whole nother motor for that we're just going to use gravity so this is a bearing and it's the same type of thing you see in just a skateboard wheel or something like that it's a little bigger and we designed some parts that we could fit this in so that it fits right in the top of one of these PVC connectors and then the top piece which will be the shoulders this side goes in there and then this fits right in here and now you got a rotating PVC joint if we replace this with his actual shoulders then the momentum of him swaying back and forth should allow the shoulders to freely rotate like this look at that gravity who needs Motors I think the next challenge is going to be maintaining all that movement once you put a kind of tight fur suit around it which is what we're going to do next I took some scrap Fabric and draped it over the Torso to make a pattern now I can trace it onto the fur and cut it out [Music] we could pivot and just be like a dressmaking channel yes or like a swimsuit that's a furry swimsuit so I sewed the top I'm gonna put it on him I just want to make sure it fits have like a quick sanity check before I commit to doing the rest of it that seems pretty good once we were happy with the fit the sides got sewn together so it's going to be like the two separate legs and then the the Torso or the arms attaching to this I don't know yet did we ever know anything ahead of time Huggy wuggy has these big flat bright yellow hands and feet and we have the brightest yellow that we could find in the fabric store just like the blue fabric we're gonna sew it inside out now we can fill it now I'm going to do the lines that differentiate the fingers and I have to hand sew that because when you sew through it you don't want it to like squeeze all the way together it only goes like halfway through we have a hand now I just need four more because his hands are kind of exactly the same as his feet how many more four more three more three I can count math hands are done feet are done next we're doing the head we got a bunch of foam pieces we'll put them all together and put our template on the front so now we have to cut out the template and we got a bunch of new tools from Hotwire Foam Factory which are basically hot wires that just cut through the foam and I'm really excited to see how they work normally we cut this with a knife and it works just fine but it's really messy you get dust and all kinds of stuff everywhere so I'm excited to use these people have been telling us about them for a while yes you can bend the wire on this tool to any shape you want which made it really easy to hollow out his mouth hole I think he's done I think he's ready for fur conclusion is these hot wire tools are freaking amazing they're so fast for like taking off big chunks and I'm sure once I get better at it it'll be really good for details too we also cut a big hole in his neck here to connect it to his body but we will get to that in a minute look at that big smile got a big old piece of fur out cut his mouth out and this should lay pretty nice over the front of his face we also got this glue from Hotwire Foam Factory it's an instant tech glue and works on practically every material so far it's awesome that glue is magical I think it is time for his lips we found this EVA foam dowel and we cut it in half and I'm going to heat bend that into the right shape [Music] is that my beard trimmer maybe what are you look I can't glue to the hair so we're gonna have to shave a little bit of the hair away but it's fine but it's all in the name of art since his mouth looks so much like a balloon I actually wanted to put a balloon over the foam but for the life of me we could not figure out how to put the balloon on the foam like it's impossible to do so instead we're just gonna glue it on and then we're gonna paint it real nice [Music] that looks awesome so we're gonna wait for it to dry and hopefully it all sticks to make his Giant Eyes we're using one of our favorite techniques we start with a glass cabochon and then print out the iris on a piece of paper we then used some clear glue and paint it on in a thin layer and glue one to the other when it dries it looks awesome all you have to do is cut out the circle and Bam you got some eyes after filling the gaps with a little spackle and sanding it smooth Jamie painted the inside of the mouth a dark color and then put a few coats of bright red paint on the mouth once that was dry she brushed on a thick layer of clear coat which gives it a really nice shine to attach the eyes we marked the position with some pins and then shaved off the fur in the middle some five minute epoxy was mixed up and then got glued right on [Music] finally the teeth to make these we're using Fake Plastic fingernails yeah weird huh since they're clear plastic if you paint the inside of them only then once it dries they'll still be shiny on the outside we used our reference image to lay out all the teeth cut them to size and then glued them in [Music] look at Huggy like you said I love okay we're almost done this is going to be his neck thing and what we did is we took one of our special joints and we put a couple of washers in between so instead of locking closed it actually freely rotates now this is going to slide inside here now this joint is going to allow his head to tilt back and forth as he moves in theory this should go on just like this [Music] foreign before we see a move just want to say thank you all for watching this week's Wicked shout out goes out to nine-year-old mark p who sent us the best email he says when he grows up he's going to open up a store that's better than Home Depot and even better than Spirit Halloween he told us not to use all our good ideas so that we can work together in the future Mark in 10 years give us a call this was our first animatronic from scratch and there were definitely some bumps in the road but super excited and happy with how we turned out and I think we're going to make more in the future we even got some pneumatic stuff let us know in the comments if you like seeing this custom animatronic stuff until next time stay Wicked foreign foreign there he is he's super tall and creepy and he mostly worked he did mostly work we did have some problems basically the head is so massive that the combination of the head tilt and the shoulder rotation it was like breaking everything like it went too much over so we actually had to lock off the shoulders just so that it didn't break which is uh sad yeah a little bit sad but I think it was a good proof of concept like it did work it's just that we didn't account for like the massive oversized head another thing that happened was that he's not really leaning forward enough for the arms to swing as much as I was hoping for so they do move a lot but they kind of like bounce off his legs so uh yeah but you know lesson learned I think going into the next one we're gonna do like so much better yes on the flip side happy with how he turned out visually so did he bite you he's got actual charts yeah super happy with how he looks yeah there's a lot we did right and I think we learned a lot and I'm I'm pretty I'm pretty proud of this so thanks for watching it [Music]

Channel: Wicked Makers

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Keywords: huggy wuggy, poppy playtime, animatronic, wicked makers, huggy wuggy animatronic, huggy wuggy in real life, giant huggy wuggy, poppy playtime animatronic, diy huggy wuggy, real life huggy wuggy, poppy playtime huggy wuggy, horror game, huggy wuggy jumpscare, horror, poppy playtime game, giant animatronic, custom animatronic, jaimie and jay, huggy wuggy poppy playtime, huggy wuggy diy, diy projects

Id: 961NsOdUO2w

Length: 20min 28sec (1228 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 24 2023