Animatronics & creative engineering · UK
Brass To Bone designs and builds custom animatronics, interactive props and themed installations for attractions, museums, escape rooms and productions.
02 Selected work
Brass To Bone is a new studio. Everything shown here is in-house work, labelled with exactly where it is — from concept to finished build.
Concept development
An original baby dinosaur that breaks out of its egg. 3D-printed internals, a silicone skin and a sequenced hatch, designed in-house from first sketch.
03 What we do
Custom animatronics, interactive props, themed installations and the creative engineering behind them — designed and built in the UK.
Characters engineered from the mechanism outwards: how a jaw travels, how a skin loads a servo, how the motion reads from across a room. Designed to perform repeatedly, not just once for the camera.
Typical scope
Props that notice people and respond. Hidden sensors, reliable actuation and puzzle logic for escape rooms, exhibits and attractions, built to survive daily hands-on use.
Typical scope
The engineering behind a moment: moving scenery, kinetic set pieces and installations that tie mechanism, light and sound into one sequence.
Typical scope
For problems that don’t fit a category. Mechanical design in CAD, rapid prototyping, embedded electronics and motion control for productions, studios and fellow makers.
Typical scope
04 Our approach
Every build follows the same four stages. Each one ends with something you can see, test or sign off before the next begins.
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We start with the moment you want an audience to feel, then work out what has to move to create it.
Output Brief · references · motion intent
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Mechanisms, structure and electronics are resolved in CAD before anything is cut or printed.
Output CAD · mechanism layout · control plan
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Critical motions are built and tested early, so problems surface on the bench rather than on site.
Output Test rigs · motion trials · revisions
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Final fabrication, finishing, programming and testing for repeatable, maintainable operation.
Output Build · testing · documentation
05 Behind the mechanism
Animatronics live or die on what you can’t see: the linkages, the wiring, the code that times a blink. That work is done here, in-house.