Summer break

Just realise the animation of the Aquashark did not work in the previous post. Thus, we post it here again and hope it works.





Looks like we might not be able to complete the Aquashar instruction on time before the planned summer holiday break. We will be away for 2 wks for holiday and probably continue our work after we are back. Hope to capture more automata ideas along the way.

Enjoy.

CeraCera - the Automata People
We simply love designing Automata and can never have enough of it!
We even dream Automata!

Dream Butterfly

In a hot summer afternoon last week, I dozed off while working on the instruction manual for the AquaShark ZZZ, zzz, ZZZ, zzz...... In a dreamy state, I saw a beautiful butterfly resting on a huge chrysanthemum. The butterfly was flapping her wings and I could feel the cool breeze in this hot afternoon. It was a blissful experience.

Butterfly is beautiful. Eureka!

We will love to have a butterfly Automata and this will be our next project. The challenge is on the mechanism because the wings are simply a thin sheet of paper and there is not room to house the mechanism. But we have figured out the concept and will probably put it into drawing shortly.
We love it and I think we will really enjoy designing this butterfly in the dream.

We call this model " DREAM BUTTERFLY ".

Do you love Butterfly?
Do you love Paper Automata?
Then you will love a Butterfly Automata.



CeraCera - the Automata People
We simply love designing Automata and can never have enough of it!
We even dream Automata!

AquaShark is coming!

Final adjustment done and we have just finished the animation of the aquashark model. Show here for yore review and hope you like it. Turn the handle , see the shark swimming in the ocean looking for its food. Shark !Shark!

New model - JAW!

We have finally completed the shark . Putting the final model together and it works just fine. Turn the handle , the shark start swimming swiftly looking for it's food deep in the ocean. We will need to put together the instruction , arranging all the pieces into a package.... Hi, stopping looking at the shark swimming, get back to work on the instruction manual.......