Thread: Singing Busts... I know... I know lol

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I know a bunch of people have done posts on this in the past, but for the life of me, I cannot find the video clips of the other two singers! I have a big area just to the right of my hearse and 3 busts will not be enough to fill it, I need the whole lot of them. If anyone knows where to get the other clips I would be eternally greatfull! Thanks, Mike

I'm still looking for you Mike, seems we're looking in the same places. The only thing close is a video of the ride through that has a good portion of the song with all the heads but not the complete song. Let me know if you want to take a look at that. I did find a good tutorial so you could do your own face and maybe a friends. You know that might even be kind of fun, I bet not many people will even notice.

Have you seen this one:

YouTube - Grim Grinning Ghosts - Halloween Tribute

Or this one:

YouTube - Grim Grinning Ghosts

You can grab the videos with www.savetube.com
that will get you the flash video file (flv) which you can convert to avi....

I use YouTubeDownloader, here: http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/, converts to a bunch of different formats, .mov, .avi, .wmv just to name a few... Mike, have you Googled for "projected ghost head", "singing statue/ghost heads" or something like that?

Ive tried looking forever and all I can find is just those 3, and I really want to find the last two because of their exagerated eye movements and facial expressions. I guess I could try to match this with me and one of my buds, lol I got the perfect one for it, I just dont know how to do all of the editing and placement. Thats what scares me lol. The busts, projector, and lighting all are easy. I can build and program 3 axis skulls, but the darn video editing... Curse you!!! Hmmm... maybe I can try to pull some strings and get a walk through of the mansion, but Disneyland people dont tend to like us California Adventure people... wrong side of the courtyard I guess lol

Any idea where to get ahold of some life size busts?? I was thinking maybe the swapmeet... and I heard about one at TJMax but I would still need 3-4 others. Perhaps take the one, copy it and just take clay to it to make each one a bit different but that could be iffy. IDK Any Ideas???

How about a foam wig head and build up the base with styrofoam and then put a layer of celluclay or something else to get the texture you want. This would be alot cheeper than buying ready made busts.

I was thinking about that, just Im not that good at sculpting lol. Wigheads cost me about 7+ dollars each, and depending on the cost of the celluclay (enough to build the bust/face/hair), it might work out better to buy the busts at 30 each if I can get a couple at that price. Idk. I might try that though, since Id have to grind off the lips off the busts anyways. I really wanted to cast me and my friends faces, but that is even more expensive lol. Wheres a good source for a lot of celluclay? That air hardens right? Thanks for the tip BB I dont know what Id do without you sometimes

Michael's is the best place to get clay around here and don't forget to look in your Sunday paper for you 40% off coupon. I personally think that using your own face and your friends would be much more fun! Lauriebeast used some stuff that looked like it would be good for an outer shell, not sure what it's called but if you look at her tutorial for the bride she lists the materials she used. You might even get some tips you'll need for your sculpting.

Oh and I forgot to mention I would also use a heavy piece of wood for the bottom piece so they don't get blown away if we get the Santa Ana's again.

I saw how this was done a while ago but don't remember all the details, so what exactly is needed for the face? Nose, no mouth, eyes?

I was able to find 2 other David busts, near identical, just ones thinner and ones chunkier even though they're from the same place (maker), so now I have 3. I got them for 20 each so I just need to find one or two more, or two of another bust. I will try to at a minimum use my friends faces for the busts because I think it would be pretty fun to try, and we are always looking for a random way to spend the afternoon. If anyone goes to their local TJ Max or Home Good's store and can find me 1-2 more I would be glad to pay shipping to get it here or drive to pick it up. Heck Id even make a free 3-axis routine for you! It has to be the big/life-size bust though, with the face itself 8+ inches tall... about 10 inches if you add the hair. The whole thing is around 16" tall. I will try to post picts of the trio. But I want to add some clay to the faces to change the features a bit, and I have to grind off the pupils, mouth, and eyebrows at a minimum. Basically you just need a wig head to do this, but Ive seen mixed results with those (mainly the video wrapping around the side of the face) and I want something that looks somewhat normal when the projection is not on it. So yea, Please be on the lookout for more David busts at those stores And I will definitely check out Michaels for the clay, hopefully I dont do too much damage lol. Thanks again BB! Maybe I will bring this to one of the CalHaunt meetings