Some people say that the products of our animatronic dinosaur manufacturing industry are very expensive (almost all above 1500USD), why so expensive? Here, editor does not talk about what labor cost, material cost, technology accumulation cost and so on, and talk about one thing that how to be a professional sculpted expert of lifelike animatronic dinosaur. After that, you can comment on it.

Steps of becoming animatronic dinosaur or animal sculpted expert:

1. Dinosaur sculpting needs an skilled artist/master who has worked in the industry for more than 5 years to guide the novice (only this requires mature company resources).

2. Can novice sculptures dinosaur with guides? No! As apprentices, they also had to wrap foam, make dye, and help pasters trim excess sponge, so as to understand the properties of product materials.

3. After helping the master to handle chores for 3-6 months, qualified apprentices can formally use knife to sculpt dinosaur/animal, but only from the claws, tail, belly and so on.

4. Gradually, except for the dinosaur/animal head, the rest of the modeling work should be at least 1 year before get opportunity to try to sculpt the head.

5. Once apprentices are ready to shape dinosaur or animal head, they need more product practice to achieve speed and quality assurance. It usually takes about a year to become a passing sculptor.

6. After that, sculpted works will take a year to make the sculpted knife and dinosaur/animal shape be a part of the sculptor body and head that can be a professional animatronic dinosaur sculpted expert.

Note: It seems that there are only 6 steps, but each step needs mature company resources and human resources to develop; Sometimes, in order to give the novice the opportunity to practice, the company has to pay for materials to let them practice, even if the final work is too bad, it has to be the company’s own responsibility; During the period, we also have to give encourage and comfort for novice psychological state and so on.

All in all, a mature dinosaur/animal sculpted expert takes at least 2-3 years training, which is extremely expensive. Think about how difficult it is to cultivate mature sculptor, and there are other kinds of work! So, our industry’s product price really is not expensive.