How to Make a Monster

The Art & Technology of Animatronics

October 31, 2013 to April 21, 2014

Get ready, the secrets behind how to make a monster will come to TELUS World of Science - Edmonton starting October 31, 2013. See this extraordinary exhibition that shows the ‘behind the scenes’ art and technology of animatronics.

Watch the How to Make a Monster trailer.

How To Make A Monster creates an opportunity for audiences to become animatronic puppeteers, lighting technicians, creature designers and more! Find out how Science, Engineering, Technology and Art all go into creating some of your favourite block-buster films and TV shows.

This internationally-shown exhibition features the work of 1995 Visual Effects Academy Award Winner for “Babe” – John Cox, and his Creature Workshop.

Visitors will interact with some of his creations: run Inspector Gadget into a stop sign, touch alien guts from “Pitch Black”, be an on-set puppeteer with the crocodile from “Peter Pan”, and welcoming you to come inside is the Ape from Disney’s “George of the Jungle 2”.

Discover the skills and process involved in bringing creatures from the written page to the silver screen. Visitors will see how monsters are created and learn how animatronic components such as pulleys, miniature motors and steel, are designed and installed to create the bones and muscles that make monsters move.