We made a real CATNAP Animatronic!

in this video we're going to build a

real catnap animatronic that actually

breathes fog or Jamie and Jame we bring

your favorite monsters to life like this

8ft tall hookie Wy and this real life

springtrap from FNAF today the challenge

is to build this animatronic completely

from scratch which is not easy catnap is

the main boss in poppy playtime chapter

3 and it's to well just look just look

at it also you know a couple of you

asked us to make this project so here we

go first though we need a plan we're

going to start by using some PVC pipes

to build a skeleton and then giving a

really cool pose next we'll figure out

all the animatronics like the motors the

fog and the glowing eyes and we'll cover

the whole thing in purple fur finally

will his insanely creepy head and also

this thing is like huge it's it's very

big it's going to be great we're using

1in PVC because it's rigid enough to

hold them all together but also a little

bit flexible which we're going to try to

use to our advantage to connect all

these pieces we're going to use regular

PVC connectors but we're also going to

use these custom PVC joints that we

developed these give us a lot more

angles for like elbow positions and

stuff like that they're 3D printable

they're super easy to make and if you

want to make your own you can find the

files on our patreon all right do we

have all of our pieces I hope so there's

a lot there's four legs there's a spine

a head and stuff so there's like a

million pieces let's just start

building and at the bottom one of these

that is a flange that gets attached to

the ground go like this all right our

spine is going to be like two parallel

lines cuz that's going to keep it from

twisting give a little more strength and

it's going to bend in the center cuz

spines do that on

cats all good no no something's

not Bing okay look at that our very own

cat spine B spine so this is the

shoulders and down there is going to be

the hips so the legs are going to attach

right here but to attach them we're

going to use these rotating PVC joints

that we made and if you want to see

exactly how to make these check out our

pirate skeleton animatronic basically

they're going to go in here like this

except they're too small so we made

these adapters they go on there like

that one on each side and now I can put

this right in there and if we pretend

that this is the shoulder at the top of

the leg we can put that in there and now

the leg can rotate I think we got to

move the table it's good yeah this

thing's going to be big and it's it's

not going to fit up here that's I hope

that's enough space it's like our whole

garage all right these are his feets so

we got

to

okay we're missing a piece oh this is a

beautiful pose all right you got it yes

all right just sit tight for a second

okay go ah okay wait hold

on there's no easy way to do it okay I

went around and I tightened up all of

the different joints and I bolted his

feet to the ground and I added some

little screws on the rotating things

here to make sure that they don't come

out and now now everything is nice and

tight and watch this we've got this

really nice rotation in the back here so

the next step is we're going to put a

motor here and we're going to actually

make it look like this whole thing is

moving so this is a wiper motor it's the

same type of thing we used on Huggy

except this time I designed a mount for

it so we can actually Mount the motor

directly to the PVC you mean instead of

our lovely hack job of uh hose clamps

and plywood we've learned a lot since

then I think we've gotten

better

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so on our shaft here at the end I've got

these rod end bearings which are like

these little things that rotate and we

discovered these when we did our Mickey

animatronic so we're kind of combining a

bunch of stuff we've learned recently

into one so I want the focus of the

movement to be the head and the

breathing of the fog but I also I don't

want the whole body to look like it's

just a statue right I want to create

essentially like an idle animation so

with this in place hopefully this should

kind of Rise and Fall a little bit and

the flexibility of the PVC should work

let's try

this it's doing it it's working woo I

was expecting it to like break into

pieces and fall apart kind of

flabbergasted that's so cool yeah I love

this this is so cool I think when you're

animating things subtlety like this is

key right like if you ever played a

video game when all the characters are

just kind of standing still they're not

statues right they're kind of just like

Milling around a little bit so it's like

recreating that on a big thing I'm

working on making like the interior

frame of the body now we learned the

hard way that you have to keep fur

really far away from any mechanical

stuff cuz if you don't bad things happen

so what I'm going to do is try and build

like a rib cage type thing and then

we're going to cover that in foam and

the our fur

okay the rings are on for now I want to

do a motion test and make sure nothing

like collides into itself yeah that

seems like a goodidea it's a little

close down

here it literally is like that close to

it is that good or bad I mean it clears

it I mean technically it's fine right

it's technically fine as long as it

doesn't move katnap breeds out this red

fog called poppy gas and it's a sleeping

gas we're going to try to recreate that

with a fog machine

but I'm trying to decide if we're going

to use a big normal siiz fog machine or

something smaller like this and uh oh

and by the way you can't make red fog

that's not really a thing so instead

we're going to use a red LED in the

mouth and kind of do something like that

well if we have the big one like where

you going to put it it's just going to

be like next to him yeah that's why I

don't like using these cuz you'd have to

have it like away and then run a hose

maybe up its leg or something or we

could put this like you know kind of

underneath the zipper and then run a

hose out to the mouth look at this there

there's more there's more more stuff I

gave him a butt a but do cats have butts

yes cats have butt well I mean yes okay

yeah that's a nice cat butt I also gave

him like this cage around the Rings and

I think that's going to give him some

more stability there holds everything

together okay I was going to cover this

in foam but I think that might add a too

much bulk so instead I think I'm going

to cover it in tape and then add stuff

on on top of that before you do that

though I think I decided that I want to

use this microfogger thing so I made

this Mount so this is going to go on

here like that and then it's going to

live like down here and then there'll be

a a hose that comes up into the

mouth what you got going here some fuzzy

stuff unlike Huggy wuggy catnap actually

has pretty short fur this one is not the

right color this one is like way too

long but the color is at least closer

you could shave it maybe like you know

when you shave a cat except our cat

doesn't have any fur so we don't shave

him but you know what I mean like you

cut it you know what I could do I could

make him a purple fuzzy jacket make him

a jacket yeah I mean he seems to like

the fur so I'll be right

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back we realized there was too big of a

gap here and we didn't need it to be

that big so we added some extra wires

got it taped up and now it's looking

nice and shapely and round and catnap

like we still need access to all the

stuff up here so on the chest we left it

open but on the back it's really close

to that motor so we made this protective

Flappy thing that we can tape and untape

when we need to access it one of catnaps

creepiest features is how skinny and

kind of almost like starved looking he

looks so we're going to try to create

some ribs and like a you know some bones

that'll stick out from under the fur

we're going to try and use pool noodles

for this they're light and they're

flexible and they're pretty easy to

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shape he's got he's got vertebrae now

it's like a dinosaur or

something hey he's got a rib cage

now you putting some foam on there good

job

perfect these legs took a whole day

longer than we thought they were going

to they look so good though like it's

simple you wrap a leg and then you put

some bumps on it but no no the duct tape

came off because fun fact duct tape

doesn't stick to foam so we wrapped and

salvaged what we could and then we glued

the rest and then we just duct tape

bubble wrap to make his like leg bumps

this part is finally done and we can

move on to the next step I think it was

great hi five

thanks look at this thing it's too big

it's so big oh okay to be fair we're

going to carve at least half of this way

My worry is that how am I going to

sculpt this yeah but you say that every

time and what happens what happens every

time it's funny that we're worried about

two completely different things so we

have a front view and a top view and a

side view and we're going to tape these

on here Trace some and then carve away

everything that is outside of those

lines this doesn't include the ears does

it it's even bigger than this yeah I

mean yeah to cut the foam I'm going to

use these tools from hot wire Foam

Factory they cut through really nicely

so if you're interested in these there's

a link in the

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description

we're done look it's cat

yay this is hard this is a huge block of

foam and trying to make it look like

anything is it's slow goinging and

hard this ended up being really

challenging I kept telling her it looked

great but at this point it had been

almost 3 days of sculpting and Jamie was

ready to throw this thing out the

window I brought you a dut thank you I

am so stressed about this head right now

and I know it's probably going to be

fine but that doesn't stop anxiety one

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to this giant head wait eat your dut

first one eternity

later are you kidding me come on I told

you didn't I tell this is incredible you

turned a giant six lb block of foam into

this so good I'm so proud of you thank

you next up we're going to do his little

nose so I glued some EVA foam together

and I'm going to carve it and it'll go

right there and then we're also going to

do some

ears what are you up to oh I spent the

last few days trying to figure out how

to make his head move and where to put

all of this stuff so far on all the

animatronics we've made from scratch

something always breaks or falls apart

and I'm trying to fix that we got this

big Servo and this is going to be his

neck and it's going to allow the head to

move back and forth and the next problem

I have to solve is how to actually

attach the giant giant head to this cuz

if you just stick a pipe into the back

of his head it's just going to fall off

so we'll see I don't know this cat has

huge feet so the first thing I did was I

made a tin foil foot and it's got a hole

because it's going to slide over the

ankle he's going to have giant claws

coming out the end of his toes but first

i'm going to cover this all in foam

playay

did you run out of white clay maybe yeah

the foam Clay is cool but it takes

forever to dry so we've just got to let

these sit for a few days so the Feats

are dry and it's time to make the claws

but I'm now realizing I probably should

have made the claws first and sculpted

them actually into the toes we're going

to make the claws now and then somehow

figure out a way to join them together

so this is sculpy and I'm going to use

it for the claws because we can bake it

and it'll be dry in like 15 minutes or

cured not dried that's what we learned

Pro tip don't use like a skin colored

clay for non-skin things it's just weird

I did a quick test with epoxy clay to

bridge the gap there and I think

something like this is going to

work okay these giant mutant cat feet

are mostly done they have to dry

overnight and then tomorrow we'll paint

them made a box you sure did so it's got

some holes in it so the wires can come

through the neck and go into the head

and then it's got like this thing inside

that this attaches to the servo and then

look Servo rotates and bingo problem

solved so are you just going to like

glue that box to the back of his head

no Jamie was not excited about me

cutting a huge hole into the back of

this but it all worked out

that wasn't too

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bad Bingo nice should we try it on see

if it holds up I'm still worried that

it's too heavy yes to our box there we

go a good day oh oh oh that doesn't Well

the box worked but the whole thing

started to

collapse fixing again we had to spread

the legs out more and they need to be in

a very particular angle because the pose

is so Dynamic doesn't balance otherwise

but it works and look we can even push

on

it you know what though I hate to say it

but it's real big I know I think it's

too

big I took off a whole lot of material

and I don't even know if you can tell

but there's a lot gone from this and

here's the truth I could work on this

for like three more days and probably

still not be happy with it but at some

point you have to call it and it has to

be done because we have to move on to

add to the stress even more we had to

figure out how to drill holes from the

eyes and mouth all the way back to where

the box is for the wires in the fog hose

to glue in the Box we used expanding

spray foam so that we could position it

exactly where we wanted and then the

foam will fill in all the

gaps so you can see that this expanding

foam expanded and filled up all these

gaps and now we have to actually cut

away all this extra

stuff let's see if this works now

all

right I'm really nervous me too I feel

like Dr Frankenstein I'm going to plug

this in and a monster will

awaken and nothing

on oh I forgot to plug the motor in oh

hold on here we

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go so far so good yeah seems okay yes

yeah it's not even like stressing that

much there's no creaking at some point

we're pushing PVC to like its limits but

I don't think we're there yet it's time

to put in the control box but I want to

show you guys what's in it before it

gets tucked away forever the whole thing

is powered by an Arduino which is

basically a mini computer next to it is

a relay which lets the Arduino control

the wiper motor and turn it on and off

over here's the power which is 12 Vols

and then this is the power for the wiper

motor that goes out to it and then this

right here is a wire harness which

controls everything else finally on the

outside we have a speed controller which

helps me to make quick Chang changes to

how fast it moves and there's a USB port

so if I want to add or update stuff I

can use that it was definitely hard to

figure out how to customize all this and

fit it into this nice compact box but

I'm really proud of this it's a far cry

from our usual you know mess of wires

and stuff

everywhere there we

go we made catnap he looks like he's

going to kill me he probably is he's

like get me out of this thing a you

don't like your fuzzy

jacket we finally get to start putting

fur on this cat so this is the fabric we

chose and there's a couple problems I'm

anticipating though one this stuff does

not stretch but the body does stretch

you know the back opens up and so does

the stomach so I'm going to have to

solve for that somehow and then the

other problem is because it's so short

it doesn't really hide things like seams

so we're going to have to be really

careful about you know where the fur

joins to

itself

all right catnaps eyes and mouth are

black but not just any black will do

when you look into his eyes I want it to

be like you're staring into an endless

void of Darkness the blackest black so

we got a couple things to try for the

first time this is the blackest paint in

the world it's called muso black and

from the same company we got the

blackest fabric ever it's like a black

hole looking into this just disappear

into it for the eyes we already base

coated them with a little bit of black

tinted Mod Podge so we're going to put

some of the blackest black paint on and

see how it goes look at this what I

really love is that it's matte you can't

see any of the edges in there it's just

flat and smooth I was going to use this

fabric for the mouth but the paint also

looks amazing and I think the fabric it

would be a little bit bit of a pain in

the butt to kind of get this to sit flat

and the paint was so easy to use look at

this it's so cool I love this stuff

we'll put the link in the description

below so you can check it out if you're

trying to make something like the

blackest of the black this is it it's so

cool are we ready to put fur on the rest

of them we are

ready how's it going it's good how's it

going over there you got the feet

painted I think we have a problem don't

be mad what you do I spray painted them

and this part is totally fine but the

claws I painted like 4 hours ago and

they're still sticky what which means

the paint isn't drying which means

something bad happened oh no okay

according to our Discord you should

never use spray paint on polymer play

because there is like a terrible

chemical reaction that happens it's

never going to dry it's going to be

sticky forever yes how do we clean it

off we can try acetone we have that

okay okay took a bunch off is it sticky

I think that's okay so you're going to

remove all of that

paint so I'm cutting off the places

where my fabric joins together but it

leaves a little bit of a gap to fix that

I'm using what's called a muppet Stitch

and that's a stitch that like hides the

thread and joins the furry fabric

together like seamlessly it's called The

Muppet Stitch it is they use it on like

Muppets and there we go mostly invisible

scene

that's crazy yeah I mean I thought there

was going to be like big wrinkles all

over it but there's like literally

none

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we 3D printed catnaps Moon and this is

what hangs off of his zipper pull we

could just paint it gold like it is in

the game but I have always wanted a

reason to Gold Leaf something and it

seems like super extravagant and

ridiculous but only the best for our boy

I don't even know what gold leafing is

well it's like super thin pieces of gold

or in this case it's not real gold but

sometimes it's real gold and you glue it

on and now it's

gold

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it took me several hours but I got all

of the the bad paint off of the nails

and now I got this cool metallic paint

we're going to paint

them in some ways building catnap has

gone really well we've learned so much

since we started making animatronics

that we were able to combine it all into

this insanely awesome build but at the

same time this project has been the

hardest thing we've ever done the

longest hours the most most setbacks

difficulty at every

step I guess that's what it's all about

though you just got to keep challenging

yourself and pushing Beyond because

that's how you get

better to animate catnaps head I'm using

a huge Servo because the head is really

heavy and we need a lot of torque a

servvo is different than a wiper motor

because I can tell it exactly how to

move to do that I'm using this free

software called Bango which is used to

animate animatronics instead of writing

code I can just animate in a timeline

it's super fun anytime I want I can just

make a new animation for C nap and then

when it's ready we export it to the

Arduino y'all we just did a test run I

can't wait for you to see him in action

but before we do we just want to say

thanks for watching thanks for

supporting the channel and helping us

grow you guys are the best until next

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