The Problem: Exhibit builders for the Santa
Barbara Maritime Museum were creating a display telling the story of the
cattle hide and tallow trade along the central California coast in the
1800's. They wished to show both scale and some sense of dynamic human
interaction within the cross section of the Dana that they had created.
The Challenge: MIT was hired to convert
five poseable 'action-figures' into sailors/workers of the period, as
well as provide a batch of details (a few hundred 'cattle hides', several
dozen leather 'bags of tallow', and several individually sculpted 'Norway
rats'). The (3) figures at right began life as poseable Nascar race driving
stars Bill Elliot, Dale Jarrett and Mark Martin. The (2) figures below
started as poseable 'generic male' GI Joe-type guys with hazardous materials
suits and rubber gloves.
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