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the lookout for interesting or challenging projects and
have saved companies thousands of dollars on their
themed projects . |
A Few Recent Project
Images
(..excuse the limited images while this website is slowly being
rebuilt) ...
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The
ReConstruction of Philadelphia's "Enchanted Colonial
Village"!
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One of the Last Surviving Animated
Christmas Villages left in the U.S.
Frozen, Baked, Battered, Melted, Broken, Patched and Repatched..
The Childrens Museum of Philadelphia needed someone to
Rebuild the entire village from the ground up so it could survive
the next few decades.
One of the most interesting creative projects you could get in
Philadelphia ..
Requiring New Mechanical Design and
Fabrication, Re-Fabrication of every building, Re-Sculpting
of almost all of the 50 animated figures as well as the various
included props / architectural pieces , new figures created and
more made for a very busy project.
(Done at about 1/5th the cost that any other shop would have had
the ability to accomplish)
This project took about twice the amount of work that it would've
taken to create an entirely new village from scratch ..but
that would've been cheating.
(See it on display every
Christmas season at the Childrens Please Touch Museum ,
Philadelphia USA)
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Mechanical
Walking Elephants - ( Mummers Production )
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3 Full Sized
Mechanical Elephants constructed from inexpensive materials for 4
minute televised production.
Elephants walked with correct leg sequence when pushed and were
supported by minimalistic frameworks hidden from the audience.
Articulation included moving heads (side/side)..movable ears and
trunks.
Two of the 3 also pivoted back onto their hind-legs
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20ft x 32ft Animatronic Dragon - ( Mummers Production )
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Full Sized
Animatronic Dragon mounted to a skylift to rise from behind
dancers and spread it's wings.
Head was maneuvered by crane while wings, jaw, eyes & eyelids
were articulated by hand.
(as of Feb 2012 is also for sale)
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CoCo the
Animatronic Parrot - ( Wildwood NJ )
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Built primarily with
a Vacuformed plastic understructure and Aluminum..this was
created to match the logo for a Wildwood restaurant.
Animatronic Movements include wings, head side/side, fwd/back,
body fwd/back,
wings articulated seperately. All movements controlled from Radio
Control.
Beak is mecahanized and connected to an audio trigger so the DJ
can speak through a microphone to make CoCo talk automatically.
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The Woodland
String Band ( Mummers Parade - Philadelphia
2009 )
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(..image
before finish painting)
Foam-Sculpting and Scenic Painting
Project included sculpting of a 10ft sphynx, Anubis busts, 3ft
snakes, and sculpted components of their 10ft X 20ft backdrop
piece.
(All done at a ridiculously low cost)
("Much" construction and help painting by the Woodland
String Band themselves)
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| One of four sculpted animated animals (designed and fabricated for Pets Plus , Trenton - New Jersey) |
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30ft
Mural at the entrance of Donatuccis Kitchen and Bath
depicting the buisness' past and present.. (Philadelphia)
One of the types of things I've been doing between larger
projects.
A Few Projects in
ye olde Tower Workspace
Various projects of the 1000's I created while working at
theTower Records Art Dept.
various projects included continuously running handmade
Mechanical Displays or
displays triggered by motion detectors or radio-control, of many
varying themes,
Airbrush Art, Sculpture, Backdrops, POP Signage and more.
| Spacesuit
Costume for MMJ Productions (Nudist Camp Zombie Massacre / 2008) MMJ Video Productions Official Web Site |
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| Diving Horse
Display Replica of the Diving Horse Platform at Steel Pier in Atlantic City (Window Display created for a shop in Atlantic City - New Jersey) |
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| Full Sized
32ft Dragon Mummers Production (Head mounted on Skyreach Crane) |
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Until I rebuild the entire website here's a few links to my work
Other places on the net!
F A C E B O O K
Y O U T U B E
P H O T O B U C K E T
DARKRIDE DESIGN FABRICATION IMAGES On
Photobucket -tombriderdesign
M Y S P A C E
H A U N T S P A C E
I M A G E S . O N . W E B S H O T S
YOUTUBE VIDEO - NY Student Film with a quick
robot I made in "The Calderons"
Another Part of the Robot-Film with Kristen
Schall from The ConChords
not sure if these are still here
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1551641606134097764
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6529944131988915689
..and for those interested in
building Animatronics
The Massive Animatronics Links-Page
(Years of work compiling over 4000 Links!)
The Animatronics FAQ page
and much more coming back soon! ..
Christopher Hillman Creative Services
Animated Exhibits, Trade Show Displays,
Large Scale Custom Built Animatronic Projects including
DarkRides, Haunted Attractions,
Christmas Displays and Themed Attractions
Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York
(215) 900 - 3527
