We made a real INK DEMON Animatronic!
Summary
TLDRIn this thrilling video, Jamie and J, creators of scary animatronics, embark on a challenging project to build a life-size, pneumatically-powered Ink Demon from the game 'Bendy and the Ink Machine.' The duo, inspired by their love for animation and horror, construct a steel frame for the animatronic, learning to weld in the process. They experiment with materials like spray foam and silicone to achieve the desired 'ink' appearance. Despite facing hurdles such as weight issues and mechanical failures, they persist, refining their design with each setback. The video is a testament to their creativity, perseverance, and the joy of learning new skills, as they bring a beloved character to life in a unique and interactive way.
Takeaways
- 🎥 Jamie and J are creating a life-size, scary animatronic Ink Demon from the game 'Bendy and the Ink Machine'.
- 🔨 They are using pneumatics, a technology they enjoyed from a previous project, and are building the steel frame themselves despite not knowing how to weld initially.
- 👨🏫 Jamie's father, a welder, provided a crash course in welding, enabling them to proceed with the build.
- ⚙️ The animatronic is designed to be heavy and strong, requiring a complex system of steel, hinges, and pneumatic air cylinders to achieve movement.
- 🧪 They experimented with sculpting using spray foam to achieve the Ink Demon's unique, deformed, and 'ink blob' appearance.
- 🎨 Jamie and J faced challenges with materials, such as the fabric not stretching as expected and the need to use silicone for a realistic ink effect.
- 🔩 They encountered technical issues with the pneumatic cylinders not being strong enough to lift the animatronic's weight, requiring an upgrade to larger cylinders.
- 💡 The head of the Ink Demon was 3D printed to support its weight and allow for intricate details like teeth and horns.
- 🧵 The process involved a lot of trial and error, learning new skills, and adapting on the go to solve problems as they arose.
- 📦 The final Ink Demon animatronic was a success, with a realistic, 'gooey' silicone finish that made it appear straight out of the game.
- 🎉 The project was a significant achievement for the creators, marking their growth and learning through tackling a complex and challenging build.
Q & A
What is the main project Jamie and J are working on in the video?
-Jamie and J are building a life-size, real ink demon animatronic from the game 'Bendy and the Ink Machine' that is capable of attacking.
What is the inspiration behind creating a larger and scarier version of the ink demon?
-The inspiration comes from the second game 'Bendy in the Dark, Revival', which features a more terrifying version of the character.
What new technique did Jamie and J use for this project that they had not used before?
-They used pneumatics, which they had recently become interested in, to create movement for the animatronic.
What skill did Jamie learn to help with the construction of the animatronic?
-Jamie learned to weld with the help of his father, which was essential for joining the metal pipes together.
What material did they use to create the body of the ink demon?
-They used steel for the body and frame of the ink demon, as it was strong enough to support the weight of the animatronic.
What was the biggest challenge they faced while building the animatronic?
-The biggest challenge was creating the complex and sculptural shape of the ink demon, which required a combination of welding, sculpting with spray foam, and applying silicone.
How did they address the issue of the animatronic's weight affecting its movement?
-They upgraded to larger air cylinders to provide enough force to move the heavy upper body of the animatronic.
What unique gift did Jamie get for his dad for Father's Day?
-Jamie got his dad a hover pen made by Novian, which floats at the center of its base without any electricity and can have a meteorite shard embedded inside.
What was the final touch added to the ink demon's head to enhance its appearance?
-The final touch was sculpting the drips on the face with epoxy and then applying silicone to give it a realistic, gooey appearance.
What issue did they encounter with the head of the animatronic and how did they fix it?
-The head cracked due to the force of it slamming down. They fixed it by regluing it, reinforcing it with fiberglass on the outside and inside, and adding braces for extra strength.
What was the total cost of the silicone used for the project and how did it affect the project?
-They used four bottles of silicone, which was expensive, but it was deemed worth it for the realistic and impressive appearance it gave to the ink demon.
Outlines
😀 Building a Real Ink Demon Animatronic
In this video, Jamie and J are building a life-size, real ink demon animatronic inspired by 'Bendy and the Ink Machine' and its sequel, 'Bendy in the Dark Revival.' They are excited about using pneumatics again for this project. They discuss their love for making scary animatronics and Jamie’s background as an animator, making this project a blend of their favorite things. The process involves heavy steel construction, for which Jamie learns welding from his dad. They prepare measurements and miniatures to plan the structure and discuss the challenges and learning curve of welding.
🔧 Crafting the Demon’s Structure
The initial steps involve crafting the steel frame for the animatronic, starting with simple shapes and moving to more complex compound angles. Jamie successfully welds a rectangle, marking the first step in building the legs and ensuring they can support weight. They highlight the difficulty of cutting angles in two directions and the importance of precision. The video also touches on Jamie’s confidence boost from practicing welding and moving forward with creating the legs for the ink demon.
💡 Sculpting the Ink Demon
Jay works on welding the structure while Jamie starts shaping the ink demon’s body. They experiment with spray foam for sculpting the ink demon’s muscles and ink blobs, inspired by a friend’s technique. Jamie creates a torso framework with hinges and pneumatic cylinders to enable movement. They test the sculpted parts, aiming for a realistic and functional design. The first attempt shows promising results, leading to further refinement and detailing of the body.
🚀 Overcoming Mechanical Challenges
The team encounters issues with the initial air cylinder being too weak to lift the animatronic’s upper body. They consult with an expert and switch to a stronger cylinder. Jamie also highlights a special Father's Day gift for his dad, a hover pen. The new cylinder requires custom mounts, which they create and install, successfully testing the mechanism. The project involves continuous problem-solving and adjustments, reflecting their commitment to making the animatronic functional and durable.
🎨 Finishing Touches and Head Construction
Jamie and Jay focus on the final assembly and detailing of the ink demon. They 3D print the head components, ensuring all parts fit and function correctly. Jamie constructs the torso’s wireframe, providing space for movement and saving on materials. They use various techniques, including duct tape shells and spray foam, to achieve the desired texture and appearance. The final steps involve painting and applying silicone for a realistic, ink-like finish, with a successful test of all moving parts.
🎉 Completing the Ink Demon
The ink demon animatronic is completed, featuring a shiny, ink-like silicone finish. Jamie adds final details, such as sculpted drips on the head, ensuring it matches the character’s look from the game. The team tests the animatronic’s movements, making adjustments for stability and functionality. They express pride in overcoming the project’s challenges and learning new skills. The video ends with acknowledgments to viewers and sponsors, celebrating their milestone of 1 million subscribers.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Animatronic
💡Pneumatics
💡Welding
💡Bendy and the Ink Machine
💡Steel
💡Sculpting
💡Silicone
💡3D Printing
💡Prototyping
💡Pneumatic Air Cylinder
Highlights
Jamie and J are building a real ink demon animatronic from Bendy and the Ink Machine, a character that is a corrupted cartoon come to life.
They are using pneumatics, a method they are passionate about after their first experience with it.
The animatronic will be life-size, requiring a strong steel frame and the learning of new welding skills.
Jamie's father, a welder, offers a crash course in welding, which they quickly pick up.
They create miniatures to help determine the pose and design of the ink demon.
The legs of the animatronic have compound angles, requiring precise cutting in two directions.
Sculpting the shape of the ink demon involves testing different methods, including spray foam, to recreate its deformities and ink blobs.
A pneumatic air cylinder is used to create movement in the animatronic, with the aim of making it appear as if it's attacking.
The fabric chosen to wrap the animatronic doesn't stretch as expected, leading to creative problem-solving.
Silicone is used to create a drippy, ink-like texture on the animatronic, which turns out better than expected.
The animatronic's movement is tested and found to be potentially dangerous due to the strength of its pneumatic motion.
The need for larger air cylinders to support the animatronic's weight leads to a learning experience in part sizing and compatibility.
The head of the animatronic is 3D printed for accuracy and detail, taking several days to complete.
The jaw mechanism is engineered to open and close with an air cylinder, adding to the animatronic's life-like movements.
A structural failure during testing leads to a redesign and reinforcement of the neck area using fiberglass and metal braces.
Silicone is applied to the entire animatronic, adding significant weight and a realistic, gooey appearance.
Epoxy sculpting is used to add fine details like the drips on the ink demon's face, enhancing its horror aesthetic.
The final ink demon animatronic is a success, combining welding, pneumatics, and silicone work to create a terrifyingly realistic result.
The project represents a significant learning experience and a step up in complexity from previous builds.
Transcripts
in this video we're going to build a
real ink demon animatronic that actually
attacks you we're Jamie and J and we
love making scary animatronics on our
dog day video we got our first taste of
using pneumatics and we are totally
hooked we're going to do that again but
this time on one of our most requested
characters ever the ink
demon the ink demon is a character from
bendy and the ink machine but we're
doing a bigger kind of scarier version
from the second game bendy in the dark
Revival it's an awesome horror series
that takes place in a vintage cartoon
studio and the character is basically
like this corrupted cartoon that's come
to life also before YouTube I used to be
an animator so a horror game about
animation it's like a bunch of my
favorite things all squished together so
let's do this we're making this thing
life-size so it's going to be really
heavy which means it needs to be really
strong on dog day we had our friend help
us build this huge steel Mech which
worked perfectly so we're going to do
the same thing again only this time
we're going to make it ourselves we're
going to try to anyway so we got a bunch
of Steel we got some measurements we
even made these cute little Miniatures
to help us figure out the pose there is
one huge problem though we don't know
how to weld and unfortunately you can't
just duct tape and hot glue metal pipes
together luckily my dad's a welder and
he offered to give us a crash course
I've always been kind of intimidated to
try welding there's like hot metal and
gas and Sparks and it's just kind of
intense but once we tried it I was
surprised how quickly we were able to
get the hang of it and do some basic
welds look I made this weird thing wa I
love it okay I spent the last week or so
practicing and I'm pretty confident that
we can get started so let's do
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this you guys look I made a rectangle
woo it sure is a rectangle hey this is a
big deal okay this represents you know
learning a new thing and it's going to
hold up all of our hopes and dreams and
the ink demon I hope on the next step we
have to cut some angles and part of the
reason we made these cool Miniatures is
so that we could figure out the pose and
exactly what we wanted it to look like
and then we can come in here with a
protractor and we can use this to figure
out exactly what those angles are so we
can cut them
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links we made legs they're so cool and
wait watch this ready it's going to
support you I hope so woo nice it's
really strong couldn't do that on PVC
nope so definitely the most challenging
thing so far with with the legs is these
actually are compound angles so the
bottoms they Bend inwards and backwards
which means you got to cut angles in two
directions and that took us a while to
figure out but you know we kind of just
took our time and did the protractor
thing and and it worked it did we cut
this first piece like four times but it
worked I think we're good to go to move
on to the next step yeah let's let's
keep going on him while Jay's welding I
need to figure out how we're going to
actually make the shape of the ink demon
so I had him weld me up a little leg to
do a test on the ink demon is very
sculptural he's got muscles that are
weirdly deformed and these ink blobs and
it's like it's a work of art and I have
to try and recreate that on top of Steel
so I have a couple ideas and I'm just
going to test it out and see if it
works so that was pretty easy to rough
out the basic shape we've got his Huff
we've got his weird reverse leg demon
horse thing we think it's called a hawk
got some start of a muscle here now
we're going to try something that we've
seen our friend Alan hops from stilt
Beast do a bunch of times and that is
sculpting with spray foam I think this
is going to work really well so I'm
excited to try
it okay I added another little part of
the waist right here and I also welded
up essentially a torso so there's like
you know the back and this is going to
be the shoulders and this is all going
to go right here but to attach it we're
actually going to use a hinge which is
going to get welded on and then this
whole thing is going to kind of go like
this and once it's attached we're going
to use this pneumatic air cylinder and
it's going to get attached right here
and as this pushes open and closed it
should make the whole thing move at
least that's the plan I've got half the
cylinder welded on the bottom and now if
we take this off you can see as the
hinge rotates the cylinder pushes it
open and close that's how we get our
movement all right it is dry and it's a
little bit more lumpy bumpy than I was
hoping I wanted more drippy bumpy lumpy
bumpy uhhuh it's lumpy bumpy so I got
this really cool fabric it's like this
you know it almost looks like wet ink
and My Hope was that I was going to wrap
this around here with some spray glue
and it would really fit the form the
problem is it's not nearly as stretchy
as I thought it was going to be so
instead of wrapping nicely it creases I
don't know maybe we can do something
else with this fabric I have a couple
more things I want to try I don't love
all of the line texture in here so what
I'm going to do is mix up some silicone
tinted black and see if that's going to
give me the drippiness that I'm looking
for the other thing is much simpler
we're just going to spray paint the top
part of this black and put a gloss coat
over it and see if we're happy with
that I mean that looks just like ink it
does it's really thick
too the silicone looks so freaking cool
especially compared to the top where
it's just the spray paint like this
looks like it's it's made of ink this is
is perfect I really hope it stays like
this it's been a few days and I finally
got this whole thing put together so
let's check it out at the top of the
shoulders we added a neck so the head
will attach right here and then there's
a cylinder which is going to allow the
head to move up and down on this arm we
added cylinders for the shoulder and the
elbow so this is going to be like the
attack arm so he's going to come up and
kind of be like like you know something
like that but I think we're finally
ready to test this thing and see if it
works oh I forgot what the cylinders
it's like there's no in between it's
open or closed so as soon as I plug it
in it's
like the whole thing he's like
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walking woo this is legitimately
dangerous like that would take your head
off we've made a death
trap all right that works
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what are you doing I was afraid of this
I'm
try okay this is not strong enough to
lift this enormous upper body I kind of
thought that might like as we built more
and more of this it's real heavy and I'm
I was thinking like this tiny little 3/4
in bore cylinder it's it literally can't
can't lift it so
are there bigger ones yeah for sure
there are definitely bigger ones there's
just no not even
close Okay I texted Mike from
hallucinations he's the one who built
our dog day Mech and the one we got
these cylinders from and I basically
asked him what to do he said to send him
a picture of this and he just says oh
crap yeah you definitely need like a 1
and A2 inch bore so twice the size of
this at least to lift this thing
up so we got to get some bigger
cylinders while Jay's out getting parts
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today okay this is the air cylinder that
was not strong enough to lift up the
waist and this is the new one this
should be about four times stronger than
this little one so we're going to swap
this in but we do have a problem these
things right here are called cevis
mounts and Mike sent me these for the
small cylinders but unfortunately they
don't fit the big one and we don't have
any so we're going to make some
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okay there it is look how big that thing
is I mean I'm probably going to learn at
some point what I've done wrong here but
as far as I can tell it's the same thing
it's just bigger so let's test it out
test number
one oh yeah yes I didn't think that was
going to work did you see that that was
awesome okay ready
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oh man this is great I'm going to have
to tune this a little bit of course so
pumped that was awesome it works hold on
I'm going to hook up the rest of it
waist
elbow comes
up okay this is going to take some
practice but uh all the parts work and
nothing's broken yet fingers crossed the
silicone has fully cured and the Sheen
has not changed a bit it's super shiny
and it still looks wet so that is
awesome if you put like your finger on
it it's going to get some fingerprints
and it's probably going to collect dust
over time but I think we should be able
to just wash it off yeah so it's fine
now that the body's ready to go I'm
going to start with the legs and
basically recreate what I did with the
test piece so first will be our foam
noodle pipe instulation thing and then
tint foil then our spray foam and then
paint and then silicone it's a lot of
steps
we had to pre-run all of the hoses down
the back of the legs and the foam didn't
exactly fit over all of that so I just
spand the Gap with some duct
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tape what you got going on over here we
are making the head do you remember on
catnap when we carved the huge head out
of foam and that was a total
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mess so on the next one we 3D printed it
for dog day and that worked really good
right that was amazing and since this is
also a steel frame we can 3D print the
whole head again and it'll support the
weight hopefully also we can get like
the teeth and the horns and stuff all
little details would be great I started
on the first piece this is going to be
the back of the neck and there's a steel
plate and this will get welded to the
neck and then it goes in here and kind
of bolts on and the rest of the head
will go like this as usual though
there's a ton of pieces and it's going
to take a really long time to print so
we're going to get that
started what's that what goes
there
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butt all right I made a wire frame for
his torso and this is like the start of
the shape of him uh we do this for a
couple of reasons one is he bends at the
waist so all of this needs room to move
inside of here so this like creates the
space for all the movement to happen and
then the other reason is this saves us
on materials so instead of having to
build up like this entire Mass with uh
foam and tin foil now we just have to
put a little bit of foam and tin foil on
there before we put on that tin foil
though we're going to make him a shell
out of duct tape like
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this all the 3D printing of the head
stuff is done it took about 4 days to
print all these parts on our bamboo Labs
printer and as usual we use 3D fuels Pro
pla filament to print all this stuff
it's an ultra rigid pla so it's like
really easy to print but super stiff
which is great for these giant heads so
we've got parts of his head we've got
his horns his teeth his jaw got
everything we need let's put them
together
so happy that that fit you guys it's
like you expect it to fit but I don't
know glue ups are always stressful cuz
you got wet glue and it doesn't you know
you don't have a lot of time and if it
doesn't work we'd have to start over
so look at that the jaw is going to
attach kind of like this on some hinges
and then it's going to rotate up and
down like that but there's a couple
things we got to do first before we put
this on this is the metal plate that we
said is going to go in this little hole
right here and then basically get welded
to this thing but we learned on dog day
that if we don't leave enough space to
actually get a wrench in there to you
know Bolt the bolts on it's like
impossible to get it on and off so this
time to fix that we're going to weld on
some captive nuts onto this plate so
that we can screw it right into the
plate
itself we could just go ahead and Bolt
the head on as it is but I really want
the jaw to like open and close so I've
gone ahead and built a few extra parts
like let's check them out so the first
thing I did is I bolted an air cylinder
inside the head that kind of attaches up
in the top there and then on the jaw
itself we built this extra arm thing and
this is going to attach to the cylinder
but also kind of pivot and when we put
it all together it should work and now
when the cylinder goes on and out the
jaw goes up and down it's pretty cool
now that it works we can glue in all the
teeth and finally hook it up to the head
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he is so cool this thing is amazing we
tried to make it like the same size as
he is in the game cuz he's always kind
of looking down at you a little bit you
know so so he's like I don't know I I
think we nailed it while you were
working on the jaw I decided that I
don't want to do spray foam on him
because I think he looks pretty pretty
cool as is so I think if we just put
silicone on top of the tin foil it
should look good and it looks like you
added like a bunch of little bones and
stuff and detail yeah I added like his
ribs some chest like a collar bone just
a little bit more anatomy in there okay
before we move on can we test him I
think testing it is a really good idea
okay official test number one he's in
his default pose everything's plugged in
but uh here we go and please don't break
all right I'm going to start with the
head and the jaw here
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here okay so far so good there then we
got the