Chris Hillman's Animatronics Site !

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This Website was created primarily as an educational / informational resource site for those interested in
ANIMATRONICS
As well as varying related fields such as Robotics, Special Effects, Kinetic Art, Industrial Design etc. etc.
Through the last 20 years of a creative career I`ve gathered over 4000 related websites,
Compiled pages of Archives from the Animatronics Newsgroups over the past decade and created a few FAQ pages to help in the design / construction process.

..oR If you`re looking to have something custom created click [Here] to view some of my past projects
or feel free to send me an email [here]
I`m now for the first time looking for any new animatronic themed projects no matter how large or complex.

EVERYTHINGS constantly under construction . . .

I`ve completed my recent job refurbishing Philadelphia's historical Lit Bros "Animated Enchanted Colonial Village" (a Hoffman Village built in 1961) so I'm looking for new projects.,
So far I`ve been able to save people $100,000s of dollars by doing the work that would`ve otherwise taken a large-scale shop (.although yes it takes a bit longer)
..so if anyone is looking for their own custom Animatronic Santas Workshop with singing elves, Animated Christmas Village, Haunted Attraction, Custom Darkride, Dinosaur Park, Dragon Park etc.etc. it`s a good time to call.

for Everyone else I`ve been running out of space on this website so I`ve been uploading my work to quite a few other free sites..so if anybody`s interested i`m on myspace and have vids on youtube etc. etc... (doesn`t everybody)
http://www.youtube.com/ChristopherHillman
http://www.myspace.com/christopherhillman
http://s38.photobucket.com/albums/e110/robomaker/
http://christopherhillman.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://community.webshots.com/user/ChristopherHillmanDotCom (mostly vacation pics actually)

And other upcoming links for this site that are still being typed or retyped.
Chris Hillmans Animatronics Links  - Still the largest
The NEW Links-page in-progress - (This is where the next links-page is always put if you ever want to see what`s coming)
|ChrisHillman's-Animatronics FAQ-page (.StiLL in progress)
|Animatronics Email List Archives .html| - The Original Animatronics NewsGroup from years back (another decent list eaten by yahoo) ..OLD info but still really useful for basic questions)
Rules for Creative Career 101 (still in the goofy writing stage ..I write like that first..then edit).
Overview-of-Animatronics-and-RoboticsControl-Systems - Finally I wrote everything I could think of to cover the basic questions of "what should I use to animate this or that"..covering even the cheapest control methods, and methods of locomotion (solenoids, motors, pneumatics, hydraulics etc. etc.)
Radio-Control Systems for Animatronics and Robotics - 1/2 typed (lots of blanks and not mentioning the newer spektrum radio etc.etc.) useful info for someone installing radio-control in a robot.

A few pages detailing the lifecasting process (..the BEST way to learn that nowadays I`ve noticed might be YouTube)
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|lifecast2.html|
|linktips.html|
|the bio of Chris Hillman (the long-haired animatronic guy) (in progress)
|C40179's ORIGINAL Home Page (1st day the site existed - left just for nostalgia)|
(If you're young and your mom tells you to clean your room ... tell her to look at thiS apt.)
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Here's a flyer for people that I know to download and print in case they ned to show my work
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Happy Clicking!

E-mail me at
c40179@aol.com
with any questions or advice  : )

C h r i s  H i l l m a n
6 0 8  S o u t h  R a n d o l p h
P h i l a d e l p h i a . PA . 1 9 1 4 7
cell: (2 1 5)  9 0 0 - 3 5 2 7
Reg. Phone: (2 1 5)  7 3 3 - 0 4 6 6 
(..probably busy because the pc is almost always on the line)