Robot Chicken Season Five Props - part 1

a few of my favorite props from the first half of production for the season. we took a break in the middle of production to do the starwars special and then started back with the second half of season five. props from the second half are under this post.


"rubber" chicken. this guy gets a good close up in the christmas special. made out of magic sculpt.



bowls of popcorn i had to make as identical as possible. popcorn in bowl is carved yellow foam, loose popcorn is magic sculpt.


shoebox that buzz lightyear is buried in. i designed the graphic for the box and then had to do a lot of hard negotiating with the printer to get it to print out long pieces of brown butcher paper.


stratego! this was an awesome prop to make. graphic mounted on a piece of styrene, pieces are made out of styrene as well.


dvd and vhs player. made out of wood blocks and styrene.


lots of candy for the willy wonka skit! this picture sucks but it's the best i got. gumdrops are baked sculpey, then i painted them and rolled them in salt and then applied clear coat to finish them off. lollypops are carved styrene. lots of presents for the christmas special here too. some of them were old props i was cleaning, some i made new.



battle plan map for home alone skit! tried to piece together what i could from references of the movie on youtube.



ok, these are pretty rad. i didn't make the cabinets for these, just the graphics. i really wanna play foam finger pinball. they were made as generic set dressing but probably most memorably used for a humping robot sketch.

Robot Chicken Season Five props - part 2

i made a bunch of props for season five. these are a few of my favorites from the second half of the season.



chicken and cluckerella velvet painting. srtaight up acrylic on velvet yo. for epic 100th episode skit! this prop is featured on the back of the robot chicken season 5 dvd, which i thought was pretty rad.



twilight books. i made the graphics for these as well. they are animateable. (pages and cover spray mounted on black wrap). guess which skit this was for.




probably the largest prop/set element i made for the season. the arms are on pegs so they can animate and allow the manure to fall. for back to the future skit.




mister mouth animateable prop. the head spins around and the mouth can open and close. i made a press mold for all the butterfly game pieces. i included a pic of it before the paint went on to show some of the construction.




dog house! for a skit with a talking dog.




magical lion unicorn deer thing for a lady gaga skit! little pig shows off how i made it. we have zero time to make stuff so we have to cut lots of corners when we can. it's sometimes cheaper to cannibalize figures and old props than have someone make the entire thing from scratch. i finished this thing in less than a day. if i had to sculpt the whole thing it would have taken days.

i wanted to put bondage on him but i ran out of time...



didgeridoo hero!



back to the future thing...?



megan fox's boxes! i totally made like a crap ton of tiny boxes for this skit. made wrapping paper patterns, printed them out, glued it to some thin cardboard and cut out intricate box patterns and then assembled them. also some of my favorite graphics were from this skit.






yellow pages! blam! this book is semi-animateable.


night rider blanket! made graphics, patterned it, printed on iron on transfer, ironed that shit on fabric and then put it on some black wrap. for the night rider skit! yeah!



tiny ski poles! for the dora the explorer skit. SWIPER NO SWIPEY!



OATS! OATS OATS OATS OATS! those tiny riding crops totally smacked tiny rihanna puppet's ass. best. skit. ever.



cake sign!



generic booze signs!


aaaaaaaand a crap ton of stuff for a coffee shop. all of this was tedious and fun as hell to make.

Robot Chicken Star Wars Episode III - ewok village

posting stuff i made for the robot chicken star wars episode III special in one big chunk here. i wish i had a camera with a fish eye lens because a lot of these sets were BIG and it would have been nice to get the whole thing in frame. working on this project was a fantastic experience :]

ok, so this set. was my baby. when i found out i was going to make the ewok village i got kindof really excited. i think i filled my life quota for nerdyness during the build for this set. i love ewoks. i want to live in the ewok village and drink ewok juice and yell YUB YUB from my ewok hut and raise my tiny spear. i don't know what ewok juice is but i'll leave it alone. anyway...

BEHOLD! the construction of ewok village.


utilizing some forced perspective on the bridges.


little platform i made to fit around a little tree


the little ewok hut on the platform in the tree was a recycled element from an older r.c.s.w special, but i think that was the only re-used element. that and one of the platforms.


you can see a bit of how i constructed things in this behind shot.


this is where that fish eye lens would have come in handy. you can't even see the other bridge on the right.


i tried to get some good shots on stage but there was never really a good time with this one. i did manage to come away with a few decent pics though.



i made a bunch of those trees in the background, too. me and two other coworkers. we made over 40 trees in total. half of the trees were used here for the ewok village and the other half were swampy trees used for the dagobah swamp. sadly, no pics of those.


i think this is my favorite shot

naboo

this was the largest set element i made. i carved the cliffs of naboo out of two 8x4 foot sheets of styrofoam. i killed two hot wires trying to carve these cliffs (but in all fairness they were already dying).



the scenic artist painted these up and then i wend back in and added some greenage.


each cliff had a crevice for a waterfall carved out. the water was added in digitally later.


after all the buildings were set up i wend back in and added more greenage. a lot of it. (i did not make the buildings. but don't they look fantastic!)


this set was too much fun to photograph. i decided that that i am going to retire to naboo in my older years and this will be my summer abode. it is the most charming, i do think.

odds and ends

tiki torches


graphic that i did some magic voodoo to for the wampa gas station skit


i would like to know where this prop ended up... there was quite a bit of activity going on around me when i was painting it in my computer. i tell ya man, i work with the BIGGEST nerds <3


guitar hero guitars for the seth green and george lucas puppets. made out of that material that is like styrene but is thicker and softer. ack! i can't remember the name. anwyay, both were meticulously carved and sanded to look as identical as possible. YES the whammy bar animates!


got pictures of the paint job only after the shot was animated. only one pictured because the other wandered off to seth's office and didn't make it back, so i was told.

inside the sarlacc pit

this one was a buddy effort between me and teresa. we got skillz and we know how to represent, yo.



the back wall of the pit had soft spots made from stretchy fabric. the set designer made an animateable mechanism that pushed into these spots to give the effect of something moving or being digested behind it. as you can see it was super effective. it actually digested teresa.


you can sort of see the mechanism below. the top is all me and teresa, well what was left of her anyway. lots of chicken wire, fabric, glue and latex made this monstrosity come to life.


i got the BEST photographs of this set.