Animatronic Head: Work in Progress

This is a short collection of footage and photos taken during the build of Greg Townley's animatronic head for Edgar Wright's “THE WORLD“S END. Greg played a teenage “Blank“ (Alien humanoid robots), whose head was knocked off against a urinal by Simon Pegg's character Gary King as a precursor to the big fight in the Cross Hands pub. The build process starts with a lifecast of the performer's head which is cast out in wax clay, the eyes opened and generally cleaned up. A fibreglass mould is taken of this an