Ya know, you could BE the next "Jim Henson's Creature Shop", seeing as Henson ain't around anymore to make sure his is the best. :B Keep it up! :D

PS: You should post a few shots of your workspace / control system, coz that kinda' tech is niftay to see. :D (Even if it's just like, a gamepad wired up. ;p )

Makes me wish I had taken industrial design/tech in school, they had classes on making remote-controlled puppets, and giant props, and visual makeup effects, and such. :p

Aww thanks for the flattery, but im content to just BE the next furry idiot messing around with articulated eyebrows. =O)

My set up is a HP laptop with a busted DVD drive. I occasionally find desk space between the bits of fur and rolls of duct tape.

I actually took Industrial design at university on the advice of a tutor at art school. I was surrounded by guys talking about cars and motorcycles and was once made to sit through an hour long slideshow that consisted entirely of kitchen kettles. After a year I moved onto a film and video course. =OP

IDT at the school I went to involved teachers talking about custom wheelchairs and car body designs, and all the students still building cool stuff. One guy actually built a full-size version of one of the weapons from Chrono Cross. Another had a fully-articulated latex creature head, powered by an RC airplane controller. Making it watch people at portfolio show, etc. :B

Sounds like that'd be pretty cool if you got it to work. Maybe next year for AnthroCon 2008 you can have it up and running.

At the risk of offending delicate sensibilities, I hereby evoke the words of The Master.

I do so being aware that the thrust of the quote (taken from one of his later novels) may seem archaic and a bit quaint to some, but I think it is important to stress:

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

Hey, about the whole full-head animatronics thing, i've been thinking... Wouldn't it be more elegant to use some sort of intricate prostetics instead? (unless its a cartoon character ofcource)

Theres only so much you can do with prosthetics, and besides, im thinking more along the lines of a fursuit. =O)