Movie which was a marvelous degree of completion when actually making CG character "WALL-E"

Pixar produced animation movie "WALL-E"Although Wally is a robot drawn with full CG, it is a character that performs as much as charming as human beings, but when it reproduced it like a real thing Of YouTubeGeek WeekIt is the following movie which was introduced in the channel.

Making a Real Life-Size Wall-E Robot (Geek Week!) - YouTube


I created the wally this time "WALL-E Builders Club"Michael McMaster, one of the members of I am enjoying robot production with my hobby while running Orange Farm. It looks like a fan of "Star Wars", and the T-shirt of "Orange + Death Star" design is wonderful.


This project started around 2007 when Michael and his friends heard the information that "Robot movie" WALL-E "will be released in 2008". Michael is a movie "Star Wars" series that appears in the series "R2 - D2"Actually producing club"R2 Builders ClubIt is also belonging to the club, "It is said that" Well-E "will also be made!" It is said that it got excited.

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It was made like Wally, appearing in the work after a period of five years, here. It is a considerable degree of reproduction.


Alongside Mr. Michael, this is about the size, there is a quite a presence.


At the beginning of the production, wood-based synthetic materials were usedMDFThe parts were heavy, but Michael succeeded in weight saving by changing to a lightweight Styrofoam and succeeded in incorporating a servo motor that reproduces the movement of the head.


It seems that the texture of each part is reproduced by pasting paper on the finish and painting on it.


With YouTube and the net etcWeathering methodI have succeeded in finding out a little rusty feeling.


I feel the weight of the iron.


I can not imagine it is no longer paper ... ....


To reproduce the solar charge system panel ......


Members in the club seemed to make special electronic boards.


Completed by wearing a handmade panel.


Especially the hardest part is the crawler (caterpillar) part. There seems to be various problems when trying to make the actual ones on the screen such as there seemed to be no problem, "CG creators who made animation do not have to worry about the real world ... (bitter smile) The words say the struggle.


The left is the plate of the crawler that I first made, but it seems there was a problem with this, there was a hard work to make a base part like the right separately, pasting parts for decoration from above and complete it That's right.


It was necessary to make 68 plates with the left and right crawler, I made mass production by making molds like hands.


It seems that Michael welded and built the parts of the bottom part. "I am not good at climbing but I do not have any problem if it is a flat place."


The production scenery of the crawler is here.
WALL-E Track Test Number Two - YouTube


For the operation, we use the propo used for the radio control, and it is designed to operate the head with front / back / left / right movement, left stick with right stick. Also, pressing a switch on the remote control that is attached to the left and right makes the Wally talking and playing music.


It is also possible to move the eyebrows with the propo switch. It seems that you really live when you press the button on the remote control in this state and talk to "Wali".


Looking side by side like this, it sounds like you are talking to Michael.


This Wally seems to be still developing, and in the future I will change the power source of my arms to actuators and improve my movements and improve my finger movement. Thanks to state-of-the-art technologyASIMOYaKiriboRobots like this are born, but it also feels nice to live with this robot like the Wally.

In addition, Mr. Michael got his own website "McMaster Robot ProjectsOn the above, we are disseminating information about our own Wally and R2-D2. For example, this together with R2 - D2Visit kindergartenI did it.


R2 - D2 is a civilian spacecraft of Virgin GalacticSpace Ship TwoFits in the droid socket ofI took a pictureSometimes


Also, fans exchange events such as comics, animation and games to be held in CaliforniaComikaze ExpoIt also appeared, attracted attention.
WALL-E at Comikaze 2012 - YouTube