Thread: HELP! Undead doll idea's

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So everybody, thanks a lot, you've been a great help. I'm fairly good at doing make up and I have photoshop, so its easy to get simulated looks. Recreating them using acutal make up is the hard part haha. I appreciate the videos, they have inspired me, and I have a few ideas now actually. Here below is a Living Dead Doll. I love the 'no eyes' idea with the mask. I'm highly considering it. Making the mask should be fairly easy and although I dont have the contacts to make my eyes all black I DO have prostetic pieces that go over the eyes to make them look like they are not there.



Now we actually themed our haunt this year. It will be the first time that we have a high gore no children haunt. So there will be a lot of blood, severedness and no one under the age of 15-16. We'll also have an adult themed area, which is themed around bordello of blood. Also we may touch our patrons but with props only. We couldnt touch them at all the year before. Anyways, the theme is, theres a mad scientist and all the creatures you see in the haunt are his experiements gone wrong. All of them have stitechs and are made to look like they've been tampered with. All frankenstien looking and what not. I have to incoorporate this in with my doll look, so stitches and mutilated body parts is almost a must.

Have you looked at Little Apple dolls and Begoth dolls? I know they are really bears but Teddy Scares might give you some ideas. Google images has great pictures of each of these.

Originally Posted by Sychoclown

I seen a doll that had the Wednesday Adams look from the Adams family , I thought it looked creepy. Check out the Living Dead Doll series , you might get some ideas there.

I have a big collection of Living Dead Dolls and I agree, I think you can get some great inspiration from them! I went to savers/value village a couple years ago and got a big fluffy ridiculously bright pink nightgown and tied a ribbon around the waist and it was a PERFECT dead doll costume. I just painted my face and got the white stockings with stitches on them and it worked really well!

Also, here is the link to LDD:
lMezco's Living Dead Dolls | Official Website

lol sorry I missed read your post about you already finding a doll inspiration. I know there are black out contacts but they are kind of expensive. I dont know if you can find a cheaper place to buy them or not but they are really cool.

Black Sclera Theatrical Contact Lens

Blood: I highly suggest Bloody Mary's blood. It dries and runs like real blood and adds some serious creep to whatever you do.

As far as porceline doll look, you can get some latex (and white, black, blue, and red latex paints if you want to spend the money). Paint your face in plain latex to get rid of the pores that show through makeup. Where you have porceline cracks you can have sharp edged tissue build up with latex (like a chunk missing from your face and cracks radiating out from it). It might take a bit longer but the 3-D texture will really bring your makeup to life.

I suggest the latex paints because not only do they have a sheen when they dry they can also be painted on the skin or tissue.

You have great features for this look...

If you wanted to have the ragdoll look...do your base makeup. Then get a piece of burlap cloth, dust it with a slightly darker makeup dark enough to see but not so that it is "oh LOOK makeup". Then use the burlap and gently use it like a texture stamp when sculpting. It will probably help if you keep the pieces texturing going in the same direction.

Have some thick threads hanging off where your stiching mught be unravelling, some stuffing coming out of latex and tissue build holes (not a lot, just enough to show you have been misused) and that should turn out pretty cool.

Good luck, can't wait to see what you do.