Toy Design & Sculpture: Joint Overview - FREE CHAPTER

Toy Design & Sculpture - #ActionFigure Joint Overview

In this excerpt from Part 1 of "Toy Design & Sculpture for Action Figures," master toymaker & creature designer Sandy Collora (Predator 2, Men in Black, Batman: Dead End) explains three key joints that put the "action" in toys - disc, hinge, and ball & socket.

#MiniLesson Highlights
-- Disc Joint: A simple swivel
-- Ball & Socket Joint: Creating a full range of motion
-- Hinge Joint: Knees, elbows, and more

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[legnasarrop]

Heeeey, you are the Director of te fan film “Batman dead end “, awesome!!!

[kevinobill]

Actually ball and pin socket joints or dumbbell joints are common in newer action figures like the SH Monsterarts Godzilla figures, Pacific Rim, King Kong, ... and many more in the future.

[AlphaProto]

I am going to try to get some use out of this course.

[legendre]

Thank you very much for providing this information. :-)

[vigeefvg]

will other classes teach about more complex joints because a lot of collectors of high end figures demand more articulation

[TikiShootah]

name any toy that got big from using disk joint.... ball joints is where its at.

[pedrohenriqueboscofi]

I had wave rider nemo a long ago! awesome!

[jaztermareal]

the shoulder joint on the figure looks like a ball hinge joint not a ball socket joint

[plcreator]

This looks cool I always wanted to make an action figure that looks like me.

[luckcify]

Why did the company's stop making toys with joints. They make them so the arms and legs just move up and down

[lasarith]

So whos ( she) ready right 0:46 🤔
2:20 whispering is distracting

[tracies]

I love these people and learning all these cool things but its so expensive. Plus I don't want to have to pay all that money to hear people whispering in the back ground XD

[MrMomobot]

4:19 That.. is not a ball joint.. Unless perhaps.. I'M wrong. Still, really cool video.


btw don't you hate it when action figure reviewers call a completely different joint a ball & socket joint?

[irvingdiaz]

All the whispering makes this feel very cheap...

[kaiyodei]

is it really that hard? otherwise people would be making and selling all kinds of home-made 'fat barbies" and deformed dolls. or is it that people want big name brands to do it?

[a.wcomicpublications]

A lot of your channel videos don't even belong to you you are kinda ripping them off

[Marvls]

Appears to be a worthless chapter - you can learn more by looking at a GI-Joe figure,