Thread: Ghost Menagerie Up and running!

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Originally Posted by Xpendable

Wow, I thought for sure that was rear projection. Very clever with the secondary crank arm. I haven't seen that been done before. Why is the wooden frame painted pink? Is that some sort of anti-UV paint or something? Just curious. Great job, by the way!

I hadn't seen that either, but once the thought of adding the little skulls occurred to me I was trying to think of a way to have slightly different motion with them. The wiper motor has lots of torque and even with the way I've got it set up I believe the motor still has capacity to move more objects. The pink lumber I think is "pre-cut studs" for framing walls. These 9' pink studs were on sale and less expensive than a regular 8' 2x4. Unfortunately there were poritons of the pink that actually flouresced under the black light so I had to paint the top pieces black. I covered the lower wall sections with with black plastic.

Would you do a how to?
I love this prop!

Originally Posted by halloween71

Would you do a how to?
I love this prop!

In terms of a how-to the pictures pretty much show what I did. It is really just a FCG. Instead of only running the three puppet points however, I added more for the little skulls. I built a huge frame that kind of works like a stage behind the window and covered the frame with black plastic. Now the second crank arm is a little different but if you look closely at the picture you'll see it is pretty basic. Just different. If you hit a snag trying to build one just PM me and I'd be happy to provide detailed help. Biggest issue was just making sure the lines running off the washers on the crank arms went level to a point for the drop to a puppet. If the incline or decline of the lines is enough to snag on the crank arm as it rotates you get a real mess. I don't have pictures, but...trust me. It's not hard though, not at all. This is my first shot at something animated and I couldn't be much happier.