We made a real DOGDAY Animatronic!

in this video we're going to build a

real dog day animatronic that's hanging

from a wall with no legs we're Jamie and

Jay and we bring your favorite monsters

to life after we built catnap it was

pretty obvious who y all wanted us to

build next so let's do it dog day is one

of the characters from poppy playtime

chapter 3 and in the game catnap and

prisons him in like this jail cell kind

of thing and that's the scene we're

going to recreate today the challenge is

to build dog day completely from scratch

but also we're going to use pneumatics

instead of motors for his movement which

we've never done before yay first though

the plan step one we're actually going

to work with an engineer to build a huge

steel endoskeleton because this thing is

going to be very big next we're going to

build a giant wall to hang him from and

make it look just like the jail

cell from there we're going to build him

a body in his giant creepy head and then

finally we're going to learn how to use

a prop controller to create his

animation we were just at a huge

Halloween trade show called transor

where they had some of the craziest

animatronics and they had some hanging

props that definitely gave us a dog day

Vibe so our buddy Mike has a company

called hallucinations creations and they

make animatronic mechs that are designed

to put your own monster on top of it

they've got a ton of different mechs

like kicking feet and ground Breakers

and fence Thrashers just awesome stuff

so we called him up figured out a design

for dog day and he got started right

away while we wait on that let's start

building the

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set that is a big wall this is just one

of them there's going to be three

what what I'm building here is called

called a flat which is essentially a

fake wall it's the same way You' build

walls for like a film set or a theater

show or even a haunted

house why do we keep doing this to

ourselves we keep building this giant

thing we're going to need a bigger

garage soon so the next step is we have

to stand them up and we're going to bolt

them together to create like the mega

wall but we're going to do it backwards

so that you guys can actually see it

these don't fit in our garage by the way

they hit the lights who measured this oh

man

taada you're going to paint this whole

thing right yes we're going to paint it

to look like dog day's jail cell but

first I think we should wait till the

mech gets here so we can test it out and

make sure like nothing needs to change

it's big enough right I hope so it can't

get any bigger than this look what we

got we got a thing is that what I think

it

is wow that's the top okay so his arms

wait there we go this is awesome now you

see why we had to make the wall so big

cuz look here hold it

up well okay it didn't need to be quite

that big but mostly that big well we'll

have plenty of space I'm taking apart

this old Ikea furniture because

basically these are going to go up on

the top of the wall and then they have

these holes in them already and he'll

hang from there I saved this piece of

wood for so long you guys cuz I knew I

knew

someday we'd use these look look at

this we we are the worst

hoarders are you really going to hang

from that yeah I'm well I'm going to try

you ready

okay okay I weigh way more than Dog Days

in way so I think we're we're clear plus

he's going to have other straps too so

that's good right yes all right we got

some climbing carabiners to hook this on

for our test anyway here we go okay

awesome so these go up like this

somewhere uhuh and like somewhere like

here I think there's a problem this hook

needs to be over here if this is hanging

and these are going he's just going to

be

waving so when the Piston's go he's

going to be like hey guys hi you got to

leave play care but if it's on this side

then it'll

pull I did tell him to put it on that

side almost

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there okay I think this is going to work

so this goes down which pulls him over

and then when this one pulls over he'll

pull to the other side and he'll just

keep

pulling okay now we're going to hook

everything up and test it for real

everything's hooked up but before we

turn it on I want to show you guys how

this stuff even works so these things

right here are called cylinders and when

air comes through these tubes it either

opens or closes the cylinder and that's

how this whole thing moves so it all

starts down here with a air compressor

which compresses the air and sends it

through this hose which goes all the way

up to here the air comes into a

regulator which controls the pressure

and then from there we split it into

these three solenoids these are what

determine if the air cylinder is out or

in they're basically like switches

switch it one way the cylinder pushes

open switch it the other way the

cylinder pushes back closed that's why

there's two air hoses coming out of each

one the solenoids also go into a prop

controller which lets us animate and

record everything we'll get more into

this later but let's test it first are

we ready I think so you ready oh my

goodness

yes that'll be his

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head yay that is so cool I was not lie I

was worried it was going to look kind of

dumb but I'm real excited that was so

cool and everything held up too like it

it's just yes all right next uh build

him I guess we can move forward yeah

time to build dog day to make dog day's

body we're essentially creating like a

3D wire frame in real life so we've made

these and these are going to go like

around his torso these things are going

to help hold them up and then once we

put all these on we'll put some

crosswires on and duct tape

all right dog day has a nice round shape

I think I'm really happy with this I was

going to put wire on his arms too to

make that shape but I've got some

leftover foam and I think I'm going to

use this on the arms instead can just

wrap it around

there so you may have noticed I cut this

piece off which used to be right here

and we put new ones on and I actually

just made them smaller they used to be

sticking way down but I think this is

pretty good so we can just carry this

all the way down

that was like the worst duct tape job

we're all intensely judging your duct

taping skills please

don't and now he has

arms what you doing do you remember on

catnap when you said this I'm never

carving something like this this big

again yes and I meant it well I think I

found a solution for you I've been

working with our modeler friend to

create a super good model of dog day's

head that we can 3D print Because the

skeleton is made of metal on this one we

don't have to worry about the weight as

much so if we 3D print a huge thing

it'll hopefully be okay problem though

is that it's so big we have to split it

into like 10 or 12 different parts to

fit on our printer and it's going to

take forever to actually print it hey

but at least we won't be covered in pink

foam dust for a week yeah there is that

that's really

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good

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this is cool yeah it is everything still

moves freely mhm these have plenty of

space What do we do next there's like so

much there's the head there's the hands

there's the fur we got to paint this

huge wall ooh let's do that next

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yeah

this color of green is called bold

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avocado I that looks really cool takes a

while though huh it does cuz you know

you only have to

do a lot of

them I wasn't too sure about this wall

at first but it's definitely growing on

me the dirtier we get it the more I love

it next is one of the most fun Parts I

think we're going to take some black

paint water it down and just splatter it

on there because behind dog day is like

just big black splatter splotch

something bad has happened there

splatter splotch

yeah

there's paint on the ceiling M and all

over the walls uh this is and my hair

and your but it's I think we're finally

finally done with this giant wall it's

been what four days I think yes

something like that I love it now which

is good also because all the 3D printing

of the head is done so we can finally

put that together

yay as expected 3D printing dog day's

head took a long time our bamboo Labs

printer is really fast but even so it's

been going non-stop for the past 5 days

the f ment we're using is this really

nice Autumn orange pla plus that we got

from 3D fuel it's incredibly rigid and

really easy to print also they make it

about 10 minutes from our house which we

love authentic Farm to Table Texas grown

filament even though dog day is from a

game and already has a 3D model you

can't just rip it out of the game and

print it so we called our friend

beardless props and commissioned him to

make us a custom model of dog day's head

specifically for printing as an

animatronic after sculpting the shape he

hollowed it all out split it into 10

different parts that would fit our

printer he added custom mounting holes

to fit our mechanism and even an access

panel in the

back this should kind of be like putting

Legos together I hope we got a couple

extra parts we've got these things which

are braces that go on the inside we've

also got these tiny little plastic pegs

they go in these little

holes to help align everything so we got

all this stuff we got some super glue

let's do

this

I love how it all just lines

up these are basically like little mini

trusses and they're going to brace the

inside which is going to connect the

mounting plate to the side of the head

because it's so big that once it starts

moving around we don't want it to just

like Snap in

half yes that a lot of

pieces

yeah okay there's one final piece see on

the back here this is going to be our

access panel and we got this little

piece and we glued in some magnets so it

should fit ah so like I can reach in

there this is how we're going to

actually screw it down to the base and

then once that's done pop like that I do

think we should test it next though just

like we did with catnap like before we

do all the fur and the paint like let's

make sure it works so to put the head on

there's this mounting hole right here

which fits perfectly on here and then we

just got to bolt everything

together okay we might need to actually

take him down and bolt this on on the

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table here we got the head bolted on oh

sh this is so heavy all right you got

that yeah

okay okay okay that's on there okay what

happens if you let go oh boy well uh

he's flying now we shoot well let's get

the arms on

okay oh even

worse okay that's not right how do we um

maybe on the bright side I mean look at

this it it's on can we just hang a

weight from we can sure try all right we

spent most of yesterday trying to figure

out how to solve this and I think we got

it working pretty good so the first

thing we did is we moved the whole thing

further away from the wall and now with

the weight we put on it there's this big

space back here there was so much

friction with it smooshed against the

wall that it was making it really hard

to move another thing we tried is if you

look back here there's this eyebolt and

we put it behind him and I tried to

basically attach the neck right here to

the eyebolt to kind of hold him upright

which worked except now he was tied to

the wall so he still wouldn't move so

that didn't really fix a problem finally

what really did it was we put the third

set of straps up here for the wrists and

now when the arm tries to move it kind

of gets stuck and it pulls the body back

and forth so between moving them out and

adding the straps everything's working

pretty nicely

now it's crazy to me that that thing

doesn't just fly off and break I mean

this is so

fun with a project like dog day we are

doing a lot of things for for the first

time like pneumatics and building a

giant wall there are a lot of steps to

keep track of and it can easily get

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the fur we got for dog day the brown is

for his ears and the yellows for his

belly and the orange where is the where

is the orange hey there's dog day it is

oh

Luna what you don't want my fur before

we actually put this on though I'm going

to put a thin layer of batting on the

body batting is like a squishy foamy

stuff and it'll just kind of help soften

the

curves so this is batting and it's

basically what you put inside of a quilt

or a blanket to make it

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fluffy you know I think I'm going to

make a pattern for this I don't have a

lot of orange fur and I was going to pin

it and drape it and cut it but the

pattern is going to be way more

efficient and exact and I want it to be

form fitting so pattern

time

I like to cut out my fur from the back

side with a razor instead of scissors

that way you don't cut all of these

Little Fibers and make short tiny

fibers

okay I have a minor creative issue the

zipper on his belly is a pretty

prominent part of his costume but the

traditional way you put a zipper in is

you put the fabric like over the zipper

edges but if I do that we're going to

lose the zipper oh it's like hidden

behind all it's going to be hidden

behind all the long fur and you're never

going to see the zipper H

so what if we just put the zipper like

on top of the fur like that maybe I can

trim this so it's not quite as wide but

like it's on top that seems fine to me

yeah that's what we're

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doing

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while Jamie's finishing up the arms I'm

going to get the head ready now most of

this is going to be covered in fur

except for the inside of the mouth and

the eyes and because we got these weird

seams here I'm going to use some Bondo

putty to fill those

in

okay we sanded off the Bondo and

everything is smooth ready to paint now

if you watch a catnap video we found the

blackest paint in the world and that's

what we use to paint the eyes and the

inside of the mouth and that works so

good we're just going to do the same

exact thing the paint is called muso

black it's freaking awesome we'll put a

link to it in the description but

basically it just hides everything it's

so dark that little scratches and marks

and stuff they'll never show up I just

realized I forgot to Prime this first

there's no primer but it's like I I

don't know it still looks pretty good

I'm going to let this dry for a second

then do the eye

all right it's time to for this puppy

now when I did catnap this puppy this

this puppy I see what you did there when

I did catnap I just laid the fur on top

of it and glued and like pinched it and

like kind of more winged it but since

dog day has like the three different

colors he's got the different mouth and

eyes I want to make a pattern and be a

little more exact with this one

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I think I'm going to just use hot glue

to glue this stuff on the downside of

hot glue is if you live somewhere really

hot like us it will maybe one day melt

if you store it outside but we're just

not going to do that so

he'll be

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fine ah that looks amazing it's so

fluffy but he's like it looks like he

has a beard though he's way too long yes

I think we're going to have to trim it

mainly like around here and in his eyes

just a little bit of scissor cutting

like we wanted him Shaggy but just not

this Shaggy he looks so much better he

can see now there's a little bit more

tweaking I think we'll want to do but

for now I want to move on to the rest of

the

head all right dog day has huge ears and

they're floppy but they're also not at

the top of his ear they're very

structured and they they perk up so to

make those we're going to use some foam

and then I'm going to put some wire in

my foam that way I can adjust

it

he finally looks like a dog and not like

a like a weird frog or something yeah

and look that's that's a good amount of

flopp but it's stable up here floppy but

not that's

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right we made his eyes almost the exact

same way as catnap with these clear

ornaments that we sanded in

paint the only real difference is we

wired up some custom LEDs this time and

glued them in from the inside of the

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head the last piece of his face is his

nose and I want to make it shiny usually

when we do shiny stuff I'll just put

like a gloss over it or even like clear

nail polish sometimes but we've seen

north of the border and a bunch of other

YouTubers use UV resin a ton of times

and and it always looks awesome so we're

going to try it we have horrible luck

with resin anything resin we do we do

it's not a good it's not a good fit for

the shop here but wait that's not the

even the right thing to take off Good

Start oh my God this does not bode well

it's fine it's

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fine time to cure it ready yes

okay I mean honestly that looks like

perfect it's very shiny it's so shiny

that was so easy that's amazing look how

good that looks it honestly came out

like perfect and took what 5 minutes

yeah love

it now that the nose is on we can do

some final trimming up around here make

him even he finally finally looks like a

dog I love him so much he's so cool no

catnap

no the Prototype is his God and this is

what he does to

Heretics to make dog day's giant hands

first we cut out a template with

cardboard then we transferred that

pattern onto some material traced around

it and then sewed the seam together we

cut around the edges and then flipped it

inside out and now we have a

glove next we made a wire uh skeleton to

go inside and help us pose it and then

we're going to stuff all the rest of it

it with some

polyfill this is not the right color

it's supposed to match his ears so

luckily we happen to have some spray

paint that's a pretty good match so I'm

going to try spray painting them okay

there's a pretty big difference here I'm

happy with how this turned out so we

will go and spray paint this

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one now that we got the head and the

hands put on I want to show you guys

something so the reason we made the ears

floppy is watch

this as the head moves the ears just

flop around there's no motor or anything

inside them but because they're floppy

they just move in an animation we call

that secondary motion so this thing is

called a prop controller this one's made

by Purgatory props and we're going to be

using it to control dog day but it it

can also be used to control any of your

props like your lights or your effects

or your animatronics it basically lets

you push these buttons to control a

bunch of things and record animation

without needing a computer to do any

programming and stuff like that so in

record mode I can just press these

buttons to record as much animation as I

want I can also hook up like speakers

and have it play sounds and things like

that and when you've recorded what you

want you can actually trigger it so I

could use like a push button to trigger

it you can use a motion sensor or

anything like that they're honestly

super easy to use and a lot of fun

thanks to Purgatory props for sending us

this one we'll put a link in the

description if you want to check it out

so just like catnap has a big gold moon

on his zipper pull dog day has a sun

only when he's in the game game and he's

on the wall the sun is not there you

need to get out of this place but it

does appear as soon as he drops down and

starts chasing

you so we asked mob and they confirmed

what us that it should have been there

when he was hanging on the wall so we're

going to make him one so we 3D printed

the Sun and now we're going to paint it

and we're going to Gold Leaf it in the

center cuz that worked great

before

the wind the wind is what's getting it

it's there's too much wind in here cuz

we're indoors and wind there's no wind

in here the air

conditioner the fact that in like 30

seconds it became that is just crazy

it's so

cool dog day is almost all put together

but there's one more thing we have to do

the details once upon a time he was