Haunted Mansion Following Busts 2020 diy
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- Опубликовано: 14 фев 2020
- My own creation of the Haunted Mansion busts. You can get your own vac-formed busts from this eBay seller: www.ebay.com/str/brickbeards?...
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It's freaky how the illusion still works on video as it does in real life. 😲
Cool effect. I wondered how they did it!
Always love walking by the busts! Simple and effective!😎
What helps the illusion is the lighting in the environment. Our brain just assumes that since what we're looking at is a sculpture of a human head, the prominences of the face come TOWARDS us as we typically experience human faces in the real world time and time again. Formally, this is known as the Hollow-Face or Hollow-Mask Illusion. Dim lighting from BEHIND the prop should highlight the forehead and nose, and fade towards the edges of the bust. If you watch video from Disneyland's HM, you'll notice three very important but overlooked details that enhance the illusion: (1) the niches in which the busts sit have a rather high, ARCHED upper perimeter. The distance from the top of the bust's head to the top of the niche appears to be roughly the dimension from the bust's eyes to the top of its head. That seems to be a lot of headroom but the reason for that is for the next detail: (2) there is a chandelier that hangs to the left of the male bust and we assume the light coming from that fixture is what helps to illuminate the busts, highlighting their high points (foreheads and noses). In real life, that would not be the case but simply SEEING that fixture and its position relative to the busts reinforces our expectation of what the lighting on the busts SHOULD look like. Sometimes museums will light paintings with a strong light source positioned where the predominant light source in the painting is and all of a sudden the painting gains appreciable depth. And (3) the niches and the inhabiting busts are placed rather high up on the wall with the floor of the niches being almost at eye level which helps to conceal the bases of the busts. I also read somewhere that while this effect was discovered MANY years ago (some artisan back in ancient Greece or Rome allegedly noticed the effect when working with the negative molds of statues), the Imagineers found a way to "plus up" the effect by slightly and proportionally reducing the overall depth of the casting relief, meaning: if a positive cast was pulled from the form, it would look slightly squashed from front to back. Any surface of the niche from the effect side should be as matte black as possible so as to reduce reflection of the light illuminating the back of the busts. Black velvet works very well in providing a non-reflective, black surface.
My eyes have NEVER registered the desired effect. The first time I rode the Haunted Mansion, I was 16 and when i saw the busts I wondered what was so scary about holes in the walls that looked like faces. It took me a little while to understand what I was looking at, but I still can't not see what I originally saw.lol
I just always see an embossed image and not a 3D bust.
The same with me! But I still want to make these for my Haunted house this year, lol.
Very cool, I just made the same sort of get up last Oct, you’ll see it soon in a RUclips I want to release this Friday the 13th. New subscriber here, thanks for showing us how you created yours!! Thumbs up for sure!
Thanks
Do you know where I can find these vacuum forms now? They are no longer on eBay.
www.ebay.com/itm/Disneyland-Disney-World-Haunted-Mansion-Starring-Following-Bust-Prop-Displays/174322492265?hash=item28966e2369:g:ULYAAOSwHWJe3lDz
Do you happen to know where to find the vacuum molds now?
Thanks
www.ebay.com/itm/Disneyland-Disney-World-Haunted-Mansion-Starring-Following-Bust-Prop-Displays/174322492265?hash=item28966e2369:g:ULYAAOSwHWJe3lDz
Great video. Is the ghost hose bit at the end from the haunted mansion ride?
Yes. The Haunted mansion in Florida has the busts in a library.
To make it a little bit more like you see at Disneyland. It should be like a picture round oval shape in front of the figure..
I am all about folks donating so I can build the things they want to see.
Nice job, how did you paint the vacuforms to do such a nice job of blocking light .
Small paint brush and black latex paint both sides around the heads.
@@BlanckMortuary Thanks for the insight. The paint must have taken a while. I contacted the seller to see if he had a pdf template like Mr chicken but alas no luck. (could have used a cricut to cut out adhesive vinyl) I intend to try and place these in a window . how deep did your project end up.
@@dancascino701 what do you mean how deep? I built boxes that are the length and width of the vacuforms. I put a small strip of wood that the vacuform lays against and another stip to hold it in place. So the box is length and width of vacuform and 13 inches deep. This allows space for the light fixture and light bulb.
@@BlanckMortuary Thanks, I appreciate your time., the 13 " depth was the info i was seeking. I noticed that your 2020 haunt video had them in a window , I will be doing something like that so I was interested in the depth for reference. (especially with the lighting setup you had used.)
@@BlanckMortuary Did you have to rough up the surface of the plastic or prime it first? Do you have a link to what you used? Thank you 🙂
Looks like the eBay listing is no longer up for these, do you know if this guy is selling somewhere else or any idea where I could get them? Looking to do a HM front yard display this year. Love these!
ebay.com/usr/theme_park_archaeology
Mr. Chicken sells his version of the "following you" busts. Tutorial is on his sight and he's great! www.chickenprops.com/p/statues.html
@@katet3999 He also links to Van Oaks props. they do wonderful work. ruclips.net/channel/UCryYWq4kqNI8ffclzDeh79A
Etsy has them but a bit smaller for $35. Name is SMprintCo.
I bought a set on Ebay and I'm curious if you can do a tutorial on how to build the frame for these.
I have been thinking about building a nicer-looking cabinet to mount these in. Stay tuned!
Could you please tell me where you purchased the Vacuforms from, I've found One place but WAYYYYY too much money!
Didn't see the face link.
Looks like that seller has colsed shop for now. Mr Chickens props has a set of vacuform you can purchase. www.chickenprops.com/p/statues.html
Please sell em.
Sell what exactly? I bet the shipping would be off the charts as the cabinets are heavy.
@@BlanckMortuary well like, the busts themselves.
Also I’m joking lol, I just think they’re awesome.
@@sealy1 in my video description I have a link to the guy who sells the individual busts. I checked and its still a good link to his ebay profile and he shows them as available.
@@BlanckMortuary oh, nice!