I am going to be the creepy animatronic bunny named Bonnie, from the Horror Video Game: 5 Nights At Freddy’s (where you need to survive 5 days in Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza which is haunted by murderous animatronics)
In the movie, which was created after the game, the animatronics’ eyes light up. I am considering having the ears, bow, or his red electric guitar light up- instead.
Here are my sketches:
Alternative Ideas From 5 Nights At Freddy’s :
Now, for my arduino exercise:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OIp1-lVnzfFPm0OPB_j9WcRjxceFNVtG/view?usp=drive_link
Thank you to Wini who helped me get started with this excercise, and Mallika, and Gabriel for help troubleshooting!
Tuesday Oct 14 Updates:
- The costume will be a dark blue bodysuit I own + blue tights, a red velvet bow that I will buy, and the rigid, fragmented, bunny ears – which I will make from cardboard, wire, and felt. I will be adding lights to clear glasses, to depict the animatronic’s creepy glowing eyes – that turn from yellow to red to show that he is in his evil state. This will hopefully have a creepy effect.
- I will be using neojewels to represent glowing eyeballs. I may also add neopixel strips around the frames of the glasses ina constant yellow- to show the animatronic is “on” but not “evil”…. yet.
- Materials List:
- found cardboard (cut into the 4 ear fragments)
- dark blue felt
- grey felt
- stuffing
- sewing machine or needle and thread
- red velvet bow
- clear glasses
- blue clothing
- neo jewels (2)
- neopixel strips (4, 2 inch strips)
- metal headband
- thick wire
- solder
To Do List:
- order materials
- write code for glowing eyes
- test out code
- attach battery to glasses
- attach eyes to glasses
- cut cardboard & felt
- shape wire frame for ears
- solder wire to hairband
- glue cardboard to wire
- sew or glue grey felt to blue felt
- stuff the grey felt and close
- sew or glue blue felt around the cardboard
Hey Anusha, I think Bonnie’s eyes are pretty iconic, I think you should lean in instead of away– what if you made the whole head, and put the eyes over your human forehead area? Look into EVA cosplay foam as a lightweight sculptural material that might be good for this.
Hi Anusha! Love your idea – it’s super cute. This is a helpful video I found for the neopixel jewel circuit – https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GcYZ1l3sHtc. If you have the time, I thought the idea of including the guitar would be super fun too!
This is so fun Anusha, I think the neojewels are a great idea. Will you be using a push button to initiate the light sequences? If you could get some shots of you in a pizza shop at night that could be epic.