FROST! Escape Room in Saint Croix Falls, WI. And So It Begins Sleeping Dragon Studios has been hired to design and build FROST! Escape Room for Storyteller Escape Rooms in … Read More
Mississippi Watershed Management Organization Sleeping Dragon Studios has been hired to design and build an urban watershed model for the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization that demonstrates how water moves, becomes … Read More
Giant Tiki Puppet This Giant Tiki Puppet will end up as a puppet / animatronic character for a future show project. I have gone through a sonotube and 35 cans … Read More
Animatronic Eyestalk Moves ! I found my box of radios and hooked one up to the eye-stalk. I stated building this about 15 years ago to test the technology. … Read More
Animatronic Eyestalk Here is an Animatronic Eyestalk I built early in the 21st century. I wanted to make an Eyestalk inspired by the “Eye Bush” in the movie Labyrinth. The Vertebra disks where … Read More
One of my goals when I moved to Minnesota was to get a design patent. Ecolab is a very Patent driven company and rely on people coming up with new … Read More
Robobird and the Peeps – 2007 Robobird and the Peeps / Robobird II is a robot “animatronic” character which combines elements of David’s expertise in sculpture, theatre and engineering. Robobird ll got … Read More
Little Shop of Horrors – The making of a man eating plant. (2004) A project for the St. Croix Festival Theater, St. Croix Falls, WI. Little Shop of Horrors PROJECT … Read More
Miscellaneous Stuff 1983-1995 David N. DeMattia’s artistic style reflects the influence of his childhood in Southern California, where he spent a fair amount of time at Disneyland. He spent as much … Read More
Talking Christmas Tree (1986). The Talking Xmas Tree was built for Lincoln Square shopping mall in Arlington, Texas. It was remotely controlled and talked and joked with guests. Since I … Read More