Another day, another device

So it's after midnight and I literally JUST got home. The joys of public transportation at night, when your bus shows up early, thereby leaving you, while another doesn't show up at all, so you decide to take another route, only to argue with one bus driver that what he's proposed ("you'll get there on time for the connecting bus") is impossible, only to prove that you are right and make the better decision anyways and finally get home with the help of Ozzy Osb0urne's reincarnation into a bus driver (I kid you not).
So anyways.....haha..this is what we did. D!sney and other places would actually PHYSICALLY build these devices (or derivations of them) to create movement many years ago for their movies. I know about the theme park stuff, but I never knew much about the actual models they used to build for their characters this way. Makes sense, as it really is teaching their animators to observe movement FROM life.
So for example, they could simulate the movement of a giraffe or a cheetah, etc. He showed us one in which they had an old decrepit character who moved with a walker, and they let the character they built mechanically move, and eventually it tipped over in its walker! So if you give it life in that way, it's almost like it continues within character; it's quite interesting. There are also some INCREDIBLE artists who use things like wind power and sensors using similar mechanical concepts. It's awesome!!!!

So ours is beginner; just simple. I had to ask a friend to help me crank it (first video attempt was a fail trying to tape and crank) while I taped.