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1. Fixxon Realizacoes Criativas
is a Brazilian (Portugese language) site located in Sao Paulo,
Brazil. They build all kinds of animatronic projects plus
building robots and projects for theme parks.
Animatronic
Santa
Sculptor at work
2. Automates
Anciens.com is a French site about ancient automatons.
It has pages in several languages including English. They have
some good
historical information about really old automatons.
3. The Fright Catalog has a wide
variety of animatronic animals and characters available. Here we see a
scary head and a 3 legged purple people eater.
4. Gary
Willett from Ruston, Louisiana is building some fantastic
masks. He also makes his own teeth. WOW! If
you need some teeth for your monster - call him. (* New
12/06/2005 *)
5. Duane Wingett & Blaise Visconti (Dorset, United Kingdom) have an animatronics company called
V & W Animatronics.
They have build a 20 ft (6m) long, 10 ft (3m) tall water-spitting
Dilophosaurus. WOW! It is
really spectacular. (* updated links 11/5/2005 *)
6. Siobhan Hall, owner of Nimba
Creations, sent me an email about the LIFE-SIZED
tyrannosauraus-rex which they have built. They also have a whole page of heads
which they have done. Some are monsters and some look like normal people. Super!
16 feet tall (5 m) and 39 feet long (12 m) T-Rex.
7. Studio 301 in Sarasota, Florida has
a wide variety of animatronic animals, dinosaurs, and sci-fi characters. They have done
many monsters for Hollywood movies. Their site includes a gallery of characters and also many videos
of their characters in action.
 familiar monsters from Studio 301.
8. Jim Boulden is the creative director at Animal
Makers, the world's largest animal visual effects studio. They have
an absolutely stunning array of animatronic animals which they have
constructed. There are literally HUNDREDS of them and they are all fantastic! Here is
a list of about 100 TV
commercials they made JUST in 2001. Take a look at these animatronic animals
(just randomly picked out).
9. Jean Paul Jeannet has just opened a
spectacular site called FX Conception
(<= new link). Its REALLY worth checking out! He does all kinds of
animatronic stuff including prototypes, models, pneumatics and hydraulics. He has
many high profile customers such as Tokyo Disney World. He sent me some pictures of his shop and one of
his projects.
His shop
Jean Paul and one of his projects.
10. Life Formations has an
excellent website. They offer a wide variety of animatronic figures (such as the one shown
below). Check out their fabulous gallery.
They also will construct specialty robots per your needs.
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11. Garner Holt Productions Garner Holt
Productions builds life-like animatronic figures such as the indian chief shown below.
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12. Sally Corp. Sally
Corporation also builds life-like animatronic figures such as their Darwin figure shown
below (left). On the right is a new picture of "Nazeer"
their featured storyteller in their latest interactive
dark ride -- The Challenge of Tutankhamon -- which opened this past
summer in Brussels.
Nazeer
13. Here is a fun site called Animatronic
Bear. The animal impersonators from AnimatronicBear.Com
bring bears, tigers and other animals to life blending state-of-the-art
and traditional costuming and puppetry techniques.
(* NEW 12/6/2005 *)
14. GEMS (UK)
GEMS builds life-like animatronic figures too.
15. AVG Company
AVG also
builds life-like animatronic figures.
16. The Character Shop
TCS builds life-like animatronic animals for Hollywood movies. The elephant shown below
was used in Dumbo Drop.
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17. Dreamation Animatronics
Dreamation builds animatronic animals too. Shown below is Zazu the parrot.
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18. Walter Klassen Company Walter
Klassen has built some really good
animatronic animals. Shown below is his
alligator.
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19. Want to see how they built Yoda? The Yoda project will
show you.
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20. How about a monster? Works
of Imagination built this one which I think we saw in some horror movie or was it the
X-files?
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21. Don't miss Chris Hillman's
Animatronics Pages Chris has an amazing number of animatronics links.
22. Elcarimat FX
is a special effects studio located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
They do work for the Cinema & Entertainment Industry. Contact
artistic director Christian Gruaz. They have some great
projects - such as the following: (* NEW
10/28/2006 *)
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