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BTW: people at a maker fair though it's made out of metal. Maybe the chipping is not as bad as I though. LOL.


One of the goals of the project was to make the robot move in the nice, fluid way. A lot of work went into things that can not be shown by photos - coding and preparing the moves. To make it even more fun I had to redo some electronics - the robot stopped working after just sitting idle for half a year smile Anyway during the preparations I prepared a storyboards - my final animation was supposed to resemble the original movie:

http://nesnausk.org/onehalf/GITS/Filming/GITS00-StoryBoards.jpg http://nesnausk.org/onehalf/GITS/Filming/GITS01-StoryBoards.jpg

I turned my flat into mini photo studio for a couple days smile

http://nesnausk.org/onehalf/GITS/Filming/GITS02-Studio.jpg

I'm not a photographer or filmaker - using a tripod is as far as that goes smile but I decided to try using a couple of spotlights and a smokemachine smile The smokemachine turned out to be harder than I thought. You basically have to know how to use it. Having a good camera dosn't gurantee making good photos - the same for a smoke machine. Anyway, I needed it for making photos of the lasers, so it wasn't completelly waster smile Oh, and I haven't reallized that smoke from smokemachine raises straight up. You need cold smoke in order for it to sit on the ground, so I had to improvise that. 5 liter bottle filled with ice cubes served as cooler for smoke:

http://nesnausk.org/onehalf/GITS/Filming/GITS03-SmokeMachine.jpg http://nesnausk.org/onehalf/GITS/Filming/GITS04-SmokeMachine.jpg

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Results:

More videos, photos and info:
http://gits-tank.com

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that is just too cool! very well done!

and thank you for sharing it with us here. smile

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SD4 #3 - in the works ~ Folgertech FT-5, rev 1
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To celebrate the new Ghost In The Shell movie, I made a video about how awesome the tank in the old one was! smile I loved how it looks so much that I built a robot from scratch and I tried to match the motions as close as I could.

https://vimeo.com/212772719

BTW, the robot in the new movie is not as cool, calm and menacing. Although the rest of the movie visually is amazing.