Motor Motions

This should almost be saved as a sticky. There are a lot of great mechanisms there.

I was hoping someone would find it as good as I did. I so want to try them all just for the fun of it-lol.

That is VERY cool! A nice smorgasbord so you can see all the motions these things are capable of, all at once!

If you haven't seen it, you should also check out http://johnnysghost.blogspot.ca ran by heresjohnny, who is a member here. He gets an incredible amount of motion out of one motor. I think he does a good job in camouflaging the cycling of the motor, so it doesn't seem as mechanical - the rhythm of a motor works really well for some stuff but sometimes you don't want it as obvious.

Here's a couple really short videos of things I did after checking Johnny's site. (The reaper catches a bit but I think I've got it fixed now.) Both run on reindeer motors with some counterweights.

I really like this motion from Shadow Panther's first link. Never would have thought of this.

That is some fantastic stuff from both sites I will be filing those links away for later use for sure.

I've posted this following link before, but it's been a few years.
This guy makes paper animations and I've used some of his designs to make moving props over the years.
(Click into each design, then in a menu on the left---click on "animation".)

http://www.walterruffler.de/Designs.html

Thanks Dave! (Your projects are also huge inspirations!)

TY Gobby and Dave for the links. I have seen many posts from Johnny as I am going through the forum. His work is awesome. I will be checking these sites out. Dave I have also seen your work and wanna be a haunter like you some day. I am just starting out (okay been 2 years) and your work is so fantastic!!!

I think it was madmax who had a prop a few years ago with three separate characters that were moving with one motor.

Shadow Panther said:

TY Gobby and Dave for the links. I have seen many posts from Johnny as I am going through the forum. His work is awesome. I will be checking these sites out. Dave I have also seen your work and wanna be a haunter like you some day. I am just starting out (okay been 2 years) and your work is so fantastic!!!

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Thanks a lot, Shadow Panther! I appreciate the compliment!
I'm glad to have been able to inspire, just as I have always been inspired by the awesome talent on this forum.

Thanks! This site has provided much inspiration to me, glad I can provide some.