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Make your own ModiBot Magnetic feet!
Here's a quick visual tip for using magnetic tape to to cut and glue your own Magnetic feet for your ModiBot characters. Great for creating scenes for stopmotion animation.
New Chrono Commander figure expands ModiBot's ExoSkin build system
A fresh new direction As many of you have seen over the past year in my social posts, I have been tinkering with the ExoSkin figure format. The first iteration created a lot of excitement, but after a couple years of playing with it and talking to the community, it was clear that there were some real opportunities for improvement. How could it be better? That question pushed me back to some of the core foundations of the ModiBot build system. It had to offer more, but needed to align and build upon the core values and connector options of the original Mo kit. Its easy too rat-hole with so many opportunities, so I created a short list of broad design...
Diy figure stand for animation and aerial posing
Here’s a quick tip for better action and flying poses- Use leftover parts or reassemble another Mo figure to build your own diy figure stand.
ModiBot Mod Shop revamp at Shapeways
2017 is on the horizon and we’re putting some long-overdue time into the ModiBot Custom Shop. Its where to buy essential upgrades and accessories for your standard Mo figures, as well as some alternate body styles like a full Moli (female) figure, Myke (minifig), ModiRaptor, or Mo Blanco (no hex holes) figure. If you haven’t […]
ModiBot Custom Shop revamp at Shapeways
2017 is on the horizon and we're putting some long-overdue time into the ModiBot Custom Shop. Its where to buy essential upgrades and accessories for your standard Mo figures, as well as some alternate body styles like a full Moli (female) figure, Myke (minifig), ModiRaptor, or Mo Blanco (no hex holes) figure.
Mo as a simple stop motion animation armature
ModiBot Mo works great as a stop motion animation armature. It’s amazing to see how much time, passion and hard work Mike put into this short. I love that you can’t even see the bots beneath and the hand-made clothing truly brings the animation to life. Great work, Mike. Really inspiring! See more of his […]
ModiBot Mo figure as simple stopmotion animation puppet
How to use ModiBot Mo figure kit as a stopmotion animation armature for designing custom puppets.
Buy ModiBot at our shop on Shapeways!
Check out all the various ModiBot kits and accessories at the Shapeways BotShop
ModiBot X: Compatible with Xevoz accessories
Finally got some time to shoot pics for ModiBot X’s product page at Shapeways. Here are some of the highlights using some existing parts to show cross-comaptiblility with many of the Xevoz accessories. I stopped short of switching out body parts because we all know how you can get sucked into mixing and matching to […]
Lair of the ModiBeast!
Lair of the ModiBeast- Check out ModiBot and the the possibilities for customizing him at our Shapeways BotShop. Stay Tuned, much more to come.