I wanted to be able to see through the skin. It needed to be as thin as possible, in order to add as little weight as possible to the motors. I made silicon using Smooth on Dragon skin F/X Pro. All you need to do is put some releasing agent on the plexiglass, and mix the silicon together 50% +50%. It takes 45 minutes to be fully made, and is super flexible and can be made really thin.
I made different thicknesses for testing.
With the remains of my material, I just spread across a sheet of plexiglas. It came out really well. Super thin, and very strechable. 
Next I added wire in the center of the silicon, to be able to detect conductivity on the creature. I used wire rope, because I needed the wire to be flexible, and to have bad memory (that it wouldn’t bend).
Silicon Experiments from Talya Stein Rochlin on Vimeo. After all of this, I’ve decided this isn’t the right material for the skin of the creature. I feel like I’m hiding all of the interior of the creature. I really love people standing and figuring out the mechanics of how the creature works. For now I’m just going to leave the skeleton of the creature exposed.
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