Bat Spinner

           





 This is my bat spinner made two days before Halloween 2009.  It uses the flapping bats momentum to spin the bar. I will post a slideshow with instructions in the future.   Everyone can agree on how cool those motorized flapping bats can be every Halloween, but what about two? This project was three years in the making.  I can conjecture that this spinning bar was based on the circling sharks from the "graveyard of ships" scene from the old "Submarine Voyage" at Disneyland.  i'm not quite sure yet.                                                

Light up eyes

                                                                                                                         

 These are my light up eyes for my skull mask. I had always wanted to do
lights inside the mask, as part of my ongoing haunted house project. A simple diagram can be found here:

                              

2006

With the return of the Hatbox Ghost to the Haunted Mansion this month.  I have decided to post a picture of when I tried to match the 2006 Haunted Mansion bride,"Constance Hatchaway" or as she is known as a Black Widow Bride who decapitated 5 husbands.

The Axe could not stay up.  But it worked well with  a strobe light.  In the dark, All I could see was the glowing eyes and heart, and when the strobe light flashed, it revealed she had an Axe.

Gremlin Puppet

I have had a desire to have some gremlins  from the 1984 movie "Gremlins" for a few years.  This has become more of an obsession over the past few days.  With that being said, I am going to have to learn advanced puppetry and animatronics.  The following art will be for the trick or treat candy eating gremlin.

Ghost Bride Day Shot

Behind the scenes of CREEPSHOW

Now some of you may not like horror movies at all, but there is some interesting behind the scenes footage of how a movie is made.  Most of the skills you need or already have are being used.   I watch this footage now and again to study casting and sculpting.   I happen to be a fan of the movie CREEPSHOW , and the special effects were done by Tom Savini and his assistant.  The footage has been saved to a playlist which can be viewed here