Toy Design Concepts
Internal Mech. Redesign Concept
Internal Mech. Redesign Concept
New Action Figure Concept
New Action Figure Concept
Animatronic Illustrations
Drawing existing animatronic mechanisms allow me to see how they are designed and assembled, which then aid in my ability to come up with my own concepts.
A1 Audio Animatronic Figure
2nd Gen Dook Animatronic Figure
Chuck E Cheese's Cyberamic
Barbara Animatronic Figure
Design Process Drawings
These are drawings that illustrate my thought process when designing how I want mechanisms to function. I consider these drawings to be early in the design stage, as they are some of the first illustrations I made of the finished concept.
Everything I design and build starts in a sketchbook, because I find drawing to be the fastest way to conceptualize my ideas and visualize how things will move.
Once an initial concept is realized, I will proceed to model it in a CAD software. From there, I will typically 3D print prototypes and experiment with altering dimensions and appearances until the parts/assemblies work as intended.
Every new part I create will have multi-view drawings of it that show every dimension necessary for the recreation and repeatability of making the part.
Dimensions are censored for privacy of my work
Optimize an assembly project
Optimize an assembly project
Final Body-lean Concept
Final Body-lean Component Concept
Early Head-mech Study
Early Eye-turn Study
Early Head-mech Study/Concept
Early Full-body Mech Concept
Head-turn mech Concept
Component Concept
Component Concept
Mechanism Brainstorming
These drawings are less about dimensions, and more about the movement and assembly itself. I often times create the full mechanism concept before drawing individual parts and assemblies.
Here are just some examples of mechanical designs I have come up with it throughout my animatronic design projects.
Intricate mech concept
Leg mech concepts
Head-turn complete concept
Head-turn concept
Assembly concepts
Assembly concepts
Character mech early concept
Early arm mech concepts
Early mech concepts
Early mech concept
"Drip" early mech concept
"Piat" early mech concept
"Roxy" early mech concept
Fictional-use Mech Concept Commission
Reverse-engineering Mechanism Studies
Drawings specifically for reverse-engineering of existing mechanisms
I learn a lot about how things move just by drawing the mechanism in question. When I illustrate each component of an assembly, I am able to visualize which parts are moving what, and how it is all working together.
Reverse-engineering is essential in learning how to design my own mechanisms, I must first learn what has been done before, if it worked well or not, and if I wish to take elements from that design or abandon it completely.
Torso mech study
Head-turn mech study
Arm-raise mech study
Bevel-gear Arm-turn study
Hardware Studies
