For polishing the animations after creating the first iteration we had to conduct a lot of testing which also involved playtesting with different groups of kids to get feedback from them in whether they can understand Tom’s character and if Read more…
Visual representation of our two semesters working with Give Kids The World. We started working on the project in the Spring term of 2018 with Give Kids The World. Dustin was awarded the Creative Good Fund for the summer and Read more…
We developed show content by looking at the operation and daily needs for Give Kids The World. Our initial focus was on a show to support their Good night castle experience, a nightly offering used to shut down operation Read more…
Post Install proces / Documentation Guide By Team Since returning from installation we spent our time building out this website / documenting our project and finishing up some of the administrative and seasonal activities at the Entertainment Technology Center. Read more…
Tom’s show are played through our Show Control system provided by Weigl Control. We are using a Pro Commander 2, that is our main show controller with all the shows stored on it and that communicates with the show computer. Read more…
One of the major problems that we had with TomFoolery last semester was that if he was stopped for some reason while an animation was running, he would snap to his centre idle position when the next animation started. This Read more…
At the start of this semester, Rajat, our new programmer and experience designer was handed over the implementation of the user interface. As was mentioned earlier, Dustin was endowed the Creative Good Fund and was able to playtest the existing Read more…
Last semester we built the first iteration of Toms electrical system, which was built so as to be as safe and robust as possible. But also to be as easy to use as possible. Because there is no manual Read more…
We discovered during testing in the Spring 2018 term that there were some iterations to the mechanical design that would enhance the robustness of the design and the serviceability of the Tom Foolery animatronic. The following are rough sketches of Read more…