Marc Sokpolie

When I found out -on an actual film set- that the Chimp Skull didn’t have enough space to accomodate all the servos, rods and cables, and still allow for fast maintenance, I decided to ‘v2.0’ the whole thing. Learned a lot from the Chimp, and reworked almost all the features. Here ‘s an action shot from when it first came alive:

It all started with my fascination for ‘Bigfoot’. I am not sure what exactly turned me on.

It might have been that episode of ‘the 6 million dollar man’ in which Andre the Giant plays an actual Bigfoot in the forest. It could have been my Tintin comic book where he goes to Tibet. It might have been the actual Bigfoot seen in the Patterson-Gimlin film  from 1967 that scientists haven’t debunked yet. Anyway, I once made a statue of a bigfoot with a beard, wearing Nikes.

I would need a production budget and full crew to make that Bigfoot at full size, like 10 feet high, but I figured ‘let’s start with the head regardless’.

I printed the whole head on My daVinci Junior printer, which has a 15x15x15 cm maximum.this meant that I had to slice the whole thing into small parts. The jaw is made up of 4 parts.

The head had servos already installed for the eye movement and lashes, upper and lower lip, mouth corner tensioners.

And that was only the beginning. Read on about Bigfoot’s progress in ‘Bigfoot pt.2’.