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Contemporary Automata
Wooden automata and animatronics by Philip Lowndes
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Automata
Automata
Trip to the Doctor
My Beautiful Hair
Tick Bird visits the museum
Carpenter
Romance
Jewel Thief
Sid embraces anarchism
Inca Llama
Quiet Contemplation of a Sandwich
Shy
In My Humble Opinion
What goes in must come out
A Fish Out of Water
A Friendly Gesture
Animatronics
Animatronics
Salamander
An unnaturally friendly crow
Cockatoo surprise
Thumbs-up
A Private Conversation
Come, look what I have here
Automata for sale
Wooden diversions
Wooden Diversions
NOAH'S ARK Heirloom
Fishing Boat Puzzle
Koi
Hen house puzzle
Custom made ring box
Workshop
Workshop notes
Making My Beautiful Hair
Making SHY gallery
Making Quiet Contemplation of a Sandwich gallery
Making Jewel Thief gallery
Making Salamander gallery
Finishing eyes
Making "A friendly gesture" gallery
Making Sid gallery
Attaching the control rods
Modelling the head
Modelling the figure 2
Modelling the figure
The basic mechanism
Building an automaton from scratch
Transferring pictures onto wood
Brass work
Anatomy of an automaton
Making an animatronic automaton 1
Making a flapping goldfish
Making an animatronic automaton 2
Making an animatronic automaton 3
Making an animatronic automaton 4
Making an animatronic automaton 5
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Automata workshop notes
A gallery of pictures of making "My Beautiful Hair"
"My Beautiful Hair'
A gallery of making SHY
SHY
A gallery of making A Quiet Contemplation of a Sandwich
Quiet Contemplation of a Sandwich Gallery
A picture gallery of the making of Jewel Thief
Making Jewel Thief Gallery
A picture gallery of the making of a Salamander animatronic
Salamander gallery
A picture gallery of the making of “A friendly gesture”
A friendly gesture gallery
Using resin to finish eyes.
Finishing Glassy eyes
Notes on making Sid embraces anarchism
Making Sid
Attaching control wires
Automaton project
Modelling the head
Automaton project
Building a new automaton - Modelling the figure in clay
Automaton project
Building a new automaton - Modelling the figure in clay
Automaton project
Building a new automaton - The basic mechanism
Automaton project
Building a new automaton - Making a thinner iPhone
Automaton project
Brass work
Brass work
An extract from my original website
Anatomy of an automaton
Technique for transferring prints onto wood
Wood transfers
New goldfish design
Goldfish mechanism
Building an "A Private Conversation" animatronic automaton.
Making the axles
Building an "A Private Conversation" animatronic automaton.
Cam follower rollers and cutting circles.
Building an "A Private Conversation" animatronic automaton.
Starting on the mechanism
Building an "A Private Conversation" animatronic automaton.
Continuing with the heads
Building an "
A Private Conversation
" animatronic automaton.
Making the frame and the head blanks.