My focus of attention has been completing the Illustrated Storybooks, and in that regard, I am expecting to install a Digital Press into the production line.
But another significant aspect of this project is Animatronics. I am looking at expanding Image of the Mind Studios to include IMS Technologies, a mechanical design and manufacturing operation, focusing on prototype development of Animatronics and Robotics, for The Gnomes and beyond.
That being said, I will be looking for personnel familiar with electronics, nuematics, hydraulics, CNC setup & operation and computer programming. We have discussed methods of implementation, but in my mind MIDI is the most practical, because that syncs with the control tracks of the music for "The Gnomes of New Hope; Zach and Zebby's Grand Adventure". I'm also looking at DMX to sync with staging controls and other protocols that are connected to 3D CGI.
These are the directions we need to go into and we will need personnel who are familiar with this kind of knowledge.
Above and beyond the hands-on personnel we are going to build the management team for this as well. That means, by and large, more than one Board of Directors.
My approach is to encourage these arenas to grow in a natural flow as we complete our tasks in other arenas, but it is important and indeed, essential, that a larger organization begin to grow out of the foundation that has been established. That larger organization is already defined in the Business Plan. But, of course, will need to be refined as we progress.
Truth be told, I have maybe ten to fifteen years left in me, so we need to shake a leg on this.
AG
