How are Animatronics created?
The first step to creating Animatronics is to sketch the initial idea and create a paper design. Depending on the specifics of the project, different experts are brought in. During the creation of Jurrasic Parks Spinosaurus, paleontologists advised on the accuracy of the initial design. In the creation of Its a Small World, color stylist and designer Mary Blair was assigned the job of drawing the children. These paper representations of the final animatronic figure tell engineers and artists in each following step what the goal is for the end creation. After the paper design has been finalized, the next step is to create a maquette, or miniature model of the final design. This model is often made out of clay. It is especially important to create a maquette when building very big animatronics because it tests the feasibility of the paper design without wasting the time and resources that would be needed to build a full-scale model. The maquette also allows designers to add the 3-dimensi
