Mike Emiglio

About Mike Emiglio

Mike is a specialist in Custom Designed Props, Special Effects, Animatronics & Robotics for the Entertainment Industry, as well as, designs & fabricates armatures for the Stop Motion Animation Industry.

Stop motion is an old film technique that involves frame-by frame filming of objects that are moved incrementally off camera. It gives the appearance that they are moving by themselves. MFX & Manufacturing designs and builds the armatures — the skeletons of puppets or action figures used in animation films. The armatures he builds are placed in molds and rubber or foam latex is applied before they are painted. For the figures to work, the armatures have to be exceptionally bendable and durable.