The Twisted Ones- as described by Scott Cawthon and Kira-Breed Wrisley (FNaF Model Showcase)

Just finished a proper animation with these models! https://youtu.be/My3LROzJW_s

When William is tired of making the child trap look child-friendly so he gets straight to the point:

These videos made me realize two things. 1. This guy is an awesome YouTuber and modeler 2. I would unironically watch a 40 minute documentary describing the design of the FNAF animatronics like they were real.

The way they "move" - that twitching, jerking, limp attempt at locomotion and articulation... it perfectly evokes what it must be like for a ghost in a machine. They want to move. But it's hard. It's so hard. A weak listing spasm that accomplishes nothing. Not enough force. A sudden, mechanical jerk. Too much force. And the slow, grinding movements... the focus. For brief moments, they can hold enough attention and focus to what they're doing to make very small movements smooth and controlled. But none of it looks alive, no matter how much they want to be such.

The creepiest thing to me is how you captured their movement. Really brings the power into the "possessed robot" concept, the way their movement is halted and weak, like the soul is hindered by the husk they're possessing, which is all but hollow of mechanisms

You know what detail unsettles me the most? The lack of eyelids. Many animatronics in FNaF do have them, but them lacking here really adds to the unsettling factor of them, as they are always looking

It’s funny how whenever people try to draw the twisted ones they look like the nightmare animatronics, yet looking at these alongside their descriptions it just is obvious that this is as close as we’re gonna get to seeing what they actually looked like.

I literally watch this monthly, and still can’t get over the part at 1:35 where it shows a human hoping out of the chest cavity. This is just so amazing and truly a work of art

The most eerie part is the fact you could totally imagine it holding a child, the teeth-like ribs acting as a cage is terrifying to me

Honestly this makes more sense than the “actual” designs. If the robots are going to be obscured by the illusion discs 99% of the time, there’s no reason to really polish them, add joint covers, etc.

I think what makes these versions so terrifying is their sorta.. Color pallete being a very much paler, almost Skin-like color. Another reason why they're much more terrifying is how hollow they look, with the original animatronics they looked like they were filled with machinery. With this? They feel.. empty, cold, waiting to grab you and put you inside. They don't feel like they're ment to entertain, just attack, collect, and Dispense.

The worst part is that it looks and sounds real. I think the scariest is Freddy due to how human-skull-like and droopy the eyes look. He looks like he's almost scared, but his eye sockets are too big for his eyeballs so he just has this constant skull-look to him. Amazing work, Nick

The slow look at the camera (1:14) was perfect dude! I would watch an entire series on just models of the animatronics as described by the books/games

I haven't read the books but the way you brought these characters alive, while keeping them as this menacing thing, makes me want to read all of the twisted ones books

The little clicks of gears, the clacks of plastic and metal, and the whirring of motors. Entirely unneeded, but you took the time to add them anyways. Impressive!

It's incredible how your design is so much simpler compared to the other ones. But it's much MUCH more creepier.

In a way the sound discs basically adding the much needed detail to these animatronics is Brilliant. Nothing is going to look as good or compare to your own imagination and the concept of making a robot look life like, while ideal is also pretty impossible. So these twisted ones requiring your own brain to give them life is a deep metaphor for how fantasies cannot stack up against the bleakness of the reality. Freddy's Pizza even uses the catch phrase "A place where fun and fantasy comes to life." No kidding, lol.

This is honestly more terrifying than the actual 'twisted' look they're illusioned to be Because this version is very real in that world, and this version looks like something out of a nightmare

The TSE triology is horribly underrated in the fandom these days I'm so glad you're making these, they look absolutely unreal

I think the Twisted Ones are the base prototype models for the Funtime animatronics’ feature to hold people inside of them, as these ones are less refined than the Funtime’s way of getting their capture secure in the designated area.