Make: Volume 86

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asks are awesome and come in many

shapes and forms, but adding special

features will take them to the next level! Here I’ll

show you how I approach creating an advanced

mask with moving parts, such as my werewolf

head, with no motors required.

For any mask, I start with a 3D scan of my

head, and lots of reference photos of the animal,

and I think about my line of vision, how I’ll see

out of the mask — see-through eyes, or hidden

mesh peepholes, or in this case, looking out

the mouth.

Then adding moving features to a

mask is, for me, a process of reverse-

engineering:

• I sketch which part is going to move,

in what direction, and where the st