Every week between now and our October 2026 Kickstarter, we post what came off the bench. Waitlist members see it by email first.
A finished sculpt is only half the job. The plaster mold that comes off it decides how much of the original expression survives into silicone — so we pull test skins, look at how light falls across them, and go back to the sculpt when it doesn't read right.
Charisma is the spec. We keep asking one question of every revision: does it feel like someone is in there? Small changes around the brow and mouth change the answer completely, which is why this stage takes as long as it does.
Motorized, emotional, versatile — and small enough to sit in your hand. Every part we make has to earn its space, so most of the week goes into fitting movement into a volume that keeps shrinking.
Before a single motor goes in, the face is sculpted by hand and refined until it reads as a character rather than a mechanism. That sculpt becomes the reference every later layer has to live up to.
Our prototyping studio is where the whole thing gets made — sculpting, molding, fabrication and assembly all happen a few feet apart, which is why we can turn an idea around in days instead of months.
Eyes carry more of the performance than anything else on a face. Each one is finished by hand, because the difference between believable and unsettling lives in details this small.
Waitlist members get each update by email before it goes public — plus first access when the Kickstarter opens.
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