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A curated, searchable archive of the dark craft — DIY props and animatronics, home-haunt walkthroughs, makeup, lighting, fog, and effects. Every film embedded from its creator, organized so you can actually find what you need.

6 videos

How to Make a Tony Tony Chopper Cosplay Hat - Free Top Hat Template / stl Antlers One Piece Cosplay
9:06
Costume TutorialsBeginner

How to Make a Tony Tony Chopper Cosplay Hat - Free Top Hat Template / stl Antlers One Piece Cosplay

This tutorial walks through building the iconic top hat worn by Tony Tony Chopper in the Netflix live-action One Piece series, using EVA foam as the primary structural material and fur fabric for surface coverage. The creator provides free downloadable PDF foam templates and free STL files for the 3D-printed antlers, making the project highly accessible. The construction method is general enough that viewers can adapt it to create any custom top hat design. At under ten minutes, the video is concise and beginner-friendly.

SKS Props· 5,291 views
I Built the Project Hail Mary Cockpit Control Panel
23:07
DIY PropsIntermediate$50–$150 (based on listed components)

I Built the Project Hail Mary Cockpit Control Panel

Creative Geekery recreates the cockpit control panel from the sci-fi novel and film adaptation Project Hail Mary, working from minimal reference material. The build combines 3D printed parts, laser-cut plywood, physical controls like dials and buttons, and integrated LCD screens with custom UI graphics. Trial and error played a central role, making this an honest look at the iterative prop-making process. The finished piece is a convincing, functional-looking spaceship console built on a maker budget.

Creative Geekery· 8,920 views
Star Wars Themed Room Lighting – Inspired by Disneyland’s Galaxy’s Edge
9:26
Lighting TutorialsAdvanced

Star Wars Themed Room Lighting – Inspired by Disneyland’s Galaxy’s Edge

VanOaksProps walks through the complete build of a screen-accurate Galaxy's Edge-style wall light fixture, drawing inspiration from the Droid Depot and cast-member doors at Disneyland's Star Wars land. The project covers every stage from 3D-printing ABS parts and sanding them smooth, through priming, painting, and oil-paint weathering, to wiring a 24-LED NeoPixel ring driven by an ESP32 microcontroller with a free animated Arduino sketch. The result is a fully functional, prop-quality sci-fi light suitable for a themed room or display. A complimentary 3D model file and Arduino sketch are provided for viewers to replicate the build.

VanOaksProps· 9,645 views
We made Shin Sonic real! (Animatronic)
22:02
DIY AnimatronicsAdvanced

We made Shin Sonic real! (Animatronic)

Wicked Makers duo Jaimie and Jay bring the analog horror character Shin Sonic — a nightmarish, distorted version of Sonic the Hedgehog from 'The Sonic Tapes' — to life as a full-scale DIY animatronic. They gut and modify a donor Christmas animatronic, welding on custom limb extensions to match the character's unnaturally elongated proportions. A massive, double-rowed-teeth head is 3D modeled, printed over roughly a week, and painted, while the body is sculpted from foam and pool noodles before everything is finished in blue fur fabric. The finished build is a striking, genuinely unsettling practical animatronic that joins their growing collection of DIY horror figures.

Wicked Makers· 2,222,456 views
We made a real LEGO Zombie! (Animatronic)
12:08
DIY AnimatronicsAdvanced

We made a real LEGO Zombie! (Animatronic)

Wicked Makers' Jaimie and Jay construct an oversized animatronic LEGO Zombie Minifigure inspired by Zeke from the Scooby-Doo LEGO set. The build progresses from a cardboard prototype to 3D-printed parts, which are then detailed with Apoxie Sculpt for realistic texture, dressed in fabric clothing, hand-painted, and finally brought to life with servo motors programmed in Bottango. The finished prop was field-tested at a kids' LEGO summer camp with enthusiastic results. It serves as both a showpiece Halloween decoration and a masterclass in combining multiple maker disciplines into one cohesive animatronic build.

Wicked Makers· 515,464 views
We made a real DOGDAY Animatronic!
27:55
DIY AnimatronicsPro

We made a real DOGDAY Animatronic!

Wicked Makers' Jaimie and Jay build a full-scale pneumatic DogDay animatronic inspired by the legless, imprisoned character from Poppy Playtime Chapter 3. The build combines a steel frame powered by pneumatic mechanics (sourced from haunted attraction specialists Hallucinations Creations) with a custom 3D-printed and modeled head, a wire-and-foam body armature, and a shaggy fur exterior. Animation is driven by a prop controller from Purgatory Props, and the finished piece is set inside handmade theatrical flat jail cell walls. The result joins an expanding collection of Wicked Makers' video-game-inspired Halloween animatronics.

Wicked Makers· 17,066,933 views