Thread: new way of corpsing

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Found this on the wide world of web surfing and wanted to share this. I thought this was pretty awesome.SkullKit.com ~ your one stop halloween skull shop

Nice thanks for sharing, it's always nice to see other ways to corpse.

Never tried this personally, but I think instead of the latex wrap, you could use the panty hose method to save time.

i have never done this but would like to try,,, i doubt i get to do it this year (the project list is huge as it is,, and along with that comes the need for a huge wallet!) Hopefully by next year i can get into more of this type of work,, right now were doing the cememtary thing, so stones, fence, etc. Excellent link, i will be referenceing to that at some point!

Instead of buying that expensive head, I'm going to try and use the cheaper foam skulls that I have. I think that's the major money part of the build.

If you do a search on 'rotted head' within Halloween Forum, or look in my albums, I just built a corpse head last year and documented it. I used the process Skullkit describes as the basis. Hope that helps.

Originally Posted by streakn

Instead of buying that expensive head, I'm going to try and use the cheaper foam skulls that I have. I think that's the major money part of the build.

Want to save even more money? Instead of corpsing the foam skull, use the foam skull to create a paper mache clone using the methods described by SpookyBlue.

Once you have your paper skull, you can use the exact same corpse techniques on this skull as in the skullkit video. All that cotton he's using with latex? Do the same thing with paper mache paste and cotton balls. The only downside is longer dry times, but it's SUPER cheap.

I did this last year and went from this:


To this:


And ultimately the final product below:


100% of that skull is made from paper mache except the teeth. They are made from pistachio shells. I have a write up of the build on my blog here if anyone's interested.

Wow awesome pics!

...not really new. BUT I really like the instructional video, especially the part about using an anatomy book to place realistic muscle structure. The latex/cotton method has been around for many years. The biggest problem I have with the whole process is the the latex itself. After a few years, the latex just disintegrates, leaving an unusable prop (can you tell I have been doing this for awhile?).

That is why I am investigating fiberglass for my props from now on. Of course, the lack of flexibility would be a problem with animatronics. Not sure how you get around that one, except for using relatively fresh corpses....

Interesting video. The secret's always in the layering.