Get a Behind-The-Scenes Look at the Animatronic Hand from ‘Wednesday’ - Review Geek

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Dec 18, 2022, 2:00 p.m. EST | 1 min read

A inactive representation from Netflix’s promotional video ‘Wednesday.’ Netflix

To promote Wednesday, a reboot of The Addams Family, Netflix commissioned an animatronic mentation of Thing—the sentient hand. This animatronic manus appeared successful a weird promotional video, wherever it trotted astir New York spreading joyousness and fear. And now, Props to History has a behind-the-scenes look astatine its creation.

The animatronic Thing is reasonably complex. It tin locomotion connected its fingers, thin to the side, and twist its wrist to “look” astatine people. It’s distant controlled, benignant of similar a horrifying RC car, and it contains respective types of silicone to mimic the look of quality flesh. (Interestingly, the fingers usage a dense silicone to trim deterioration and tear.)

But the animatronic manus wasn’t designed in-house. Instead, Netflix reached retired to Raptor House Effects (RHFX) and commissioned the robot. The supra video, by Props to History, includes an interrogation with RHFX’s Jesse Velez, who shows respective prototypes for the animatronic Thing and explains however it works.

To beryllium clear, Netflix doesn’t usage the animatronic Thing successful its Wednesday series. It simply uses an actor, whose y assemblage is digitally removed from scenes. I’m not definite wherefore Netflix commissioned an animatronic conscionable for a promotional video, but the video is funny, truthful I’m not complaining.

The new Wednesday bid is present disposable on Netflix. As the rubric implies, it centers astir Wednesday Addams, alternatively than the full Addams household (though they bash get immoderate surface clip successful this show).

Source: Props to History via Make Magazine