Sean and Jeremy take apart a garage kit for a Spooky Space Kook sculpted bust to add lights, movement, and sound! Plus, we recruit the help of modelmaker Kayte Sabicer to help give this classic cartoon villain a beautiful paint finish. It comes alive!
The Stop-Motion Puppets of Aardman Animations!
Adam Savage visits Aardman Animations’ workshop to get up close with some of the beautiful stop-motion animation puppets used in the studio’s upcoming film Early Man. Aardman senior model maker Jimmy Young walks us through some of the modelmaking processes that go into these puppets’ sculpts, clothes, and armatures!
PREMIUM – Science in Progress: Making a Foldscope
Kishore recruits the help of our very own Sean Charlesworth to show us how to put together a Foldscope–a D-I-Y microscope kit made for home use. We put a few interesting things under the lens of this microscope to test how well it works!
Offworld, Episode 2: Space Camp (1986)
On this episode of Offworld, Ariel is joined by Tested’s own Simone Giertz and guest Trace Dominguez to discuss and dissect the 1986 film Space Camp! Trace relates the film to his own experience attending the real space camp, and we ponder NASA’s influence on the making of the movie.
PROJECTIONS, Episode 37: HTC Vive Pro Hands-On!
Our weekly show covering the fast-developing world of virtual and augmented reality technologies is back! To kick off 2018, we visit HTC’s San Francisco office to try the HTC Vive Pro headset, a surprise announcement at this year’s CES that improves video resolution, audio quality, and ergonomic design. Here’s how it compares with the original Vive.
Episode 433 – The Future of Shoplifting – 1/25/18
The Clay in Stop-Motion Animation at Aardman Studios
Just what kind of sculpting material is used in making the stop-motion animation characters at Aardman Animations? Adam Savage investigates as he visits the studio’s materials lab to get his hands on this iconic modelling clay.
PREMIUM – Simone’s Waveform Necklace–It Might Work!
Simone’s latest project is a surprise holiday present for her mom: a necklace designed to evoke an audio waveform. First come prototyping in plastic, but we head off-site to make the final piece out of milled metal!
Week at Weta Workshop! – Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project – 1/23/18
PREMIUM – Let’s Build: Pinball Playfield Light-Up Kit
Norm brings a new art piece to the office for today’s build: the playfield of a 1992 Data East Star Wars Pinball machine! Using a lighting kit that Jeremy helped design, we wire up the back of this playfield to bring this classic game back to life!