Featuring more metal parts than a Terminator robot, but using exactly zero electricity, this mechanical typewriter is a wonder from recent history! CREDITS Jacob O'Neal - Modeling, animation, texturing, vfx, music, narrative script Wesley O'Neal - Research, technical script PATREON Help us keep making videos: https://www.patreon.com/animagraffs PRIVATE WORK Need 3D illustration and animation? Let's chat: https://animagraffs.com/contact/ WEBSITE See more explanations of how things work: https://animagraffs.com/ SOFTWARE USED We use Blender 3D to create these models. It's free and open source, and the community is amazing: https://www.blender.org/ 0:00 Intro 01:34 Pressing a key 02:25 Typeface 03:21 Mainspring 03:56 Escapement 07:17 Spacebar 07:59 Margins 11:17 Line space lever 12:19 Backspace 14:17 Shift 16:27 Ink ribbon 19:28 Tabs 21:09 Feed rolls