Thread: Designing ChromaDepth 3D Haunt Images

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Terra,

Absolutely incredible work and ideas.

I found some comic books that fit with my theme for next year, and the art work is great. I never would have thought of looking at comics without you. Many thanks!

Shawn

Many thanks from me too Terra! Mine was a vERY rough version...was trying to use cardboard and we had a very strange, wet Oct when it's normally dry as a bone around here. So I didn't get a chance to paint until the day before the party. So I just tried to copy some of your ideas, plus added in some flowers, spiders and skulls that had painted.


I do want to give a heads up though on my use of cardboard...it DID work, but will probably not use it again, except for maybe the floor. What I did use was the 4x8 sheets of insulation foam, painted black with regular latex wall paint. And for the flourescent paints I used just basic flourescent paints you can get anywhere. I'm sure it wasn't as nice as the high powered stuff, but if anyone wants to try the 3D affect but are intimidated at the thought of putting a lot of $$ into it, don't sweat it! The foam and cheap paint worked fine. I did use some pieces of 2x4 wood as the base and pvc pipes as the frame (went up almost 8ft to the top of the awning). We platic tied the foam boards to the pvc, it was sturdy but I think next year we'll put some black duct tape on the foam before the plstic ties go through it to make sure it doesn't tear. We had over 150 TOT'ers and some went through more than once and it all held up very well!

I ran out of time so never did get anything painted for the ground. I think for next year I'll take some fiberboard type panels I got from work (already painted black) and pre-paint steps & some of the other things people have suggested. Then I just need to tape them down to the ground that day. I'm also going to ask the neighbor's son to paint some things on black poster board, or something like that and then we can just tape it to the foam board. That would make it easy to get him to help out, and get things done in advance.


One more comment...the black duct tape I got from the same place those little battery powered LED spotlights came from (the Tool Shed???, can't remember) was awesome! That was the BEST duct tape I've ever seen! It sure was a PITA to take off though, because it was there to stay! I'll get more of that stuff again for the really important spots.

Thanks again Tera! You sure are an inspiration.

Screaming Demons, glad it can help

Originally Posted by Haunted Dogs

Many thanks from me too Terra! Mine was a vERY rough version...was trying to use cardboard and we had a very strange, wet Oct when it's normally dry as a bone around here. So I didn't get a chance to paint until the day before the party. So I just tried to copy some of your ideas, plus added in some flowers, spiders and skulls that had painted.


I do want to give a heads up though on my use of cardboard...it DID work, but will probably not use it again, except for maybe the floor. What I did use was the 4x8 sheets of insulation foam, painted black with regular latex wall paint. And for the flourescent paints I used just basic flourescent paints you can get anywhere. I'm sure it wasn't as nice as the high powered stuff, but if anyone wants to try the 3D affect but are intimidated at the thought of putting a lot of $$ into it, don't sweat it! The foam and cheap paint worked fine. I did use some pieces of 2x4 wood as the base and pvc pipes as the frame (went up almost 8ft to the top of the awning). We platic tied the foam boards to the pvc, it was sturdy but I think next year we'll put some black duct tape on the foam before the plstic ties go through it to make sure it doesn't tear. We had over 150 TOT'ers and some went through more than once and it all held up very well!

I ran out of time so never did get anything painted for the ground. I think for next year I'll take some fiberboard type panels I got from work (already painted black) and pre-paint steps & some of the other things people have suggested. Then I just need to tape them down to the ground that day. I'm also going to ask the neighbor's son to paint some things on black poster board, or something like that and then we can just tape it to the foam board. That would make it easy to get him to help out, and get things done in advance.


One more comment...the black duct tape I got from the same place those little battery powered LED spotlights came from (the Tool Shed???, can't remember) was awesome! That was the BEST duct tape I've ever seen! It sure was a PITA to take off though, because it was there to stay! I'll get more of that stuff again for the really important spots.

Thanks again Tera! You sure are an inspiration.

Yeah! So did the kids like the illusion? What did you think of it? and great idea about using the cardboard on the floor! Especially for people that don't want it permanently there. I don't mind so much but not sure the next owners would This year I changed up one of the old floor illusions and so painted over the old one with flat black exterior paint.

I giggled when I read about your duct tape being hard to remove. I outline the maze in duct tape on the floor prior to hanging the walls up. I leave the duct tape on the floor for the year. This Halloween, I changed up a bit of the maze so peeled off some of the old duct tape. Well, when I was walking by one of the places where the duct tape was... all of a sudden I lost a shoe! It was still stuck on the remnants of the glue from the tape! Hee!

Use masking tape for floor layouts. It holds up pretty well, patches easily and is easy to peel up.

I like the idea of cardboard (or maybe some other type of panel) for the floor. I've never had very good luck painting floors of any type. It never seems to hold up. Cardboard would be great because the paint would soak in better and wouldn't be as likely to chip.

I used clear shipping tape. Worked really well. My floor illusions were the biggest hit of the night.

I used chalk to outline where I wanted my walls.
Most of my floor pictures were painted on tar paper. Worked great.
A couple were on lumber wrap.. bad choice. Had a party saturday night and it was all chipping off. Stayed up until 4:00 A.M. sunday morning redoing the picture on tar paper!
The one other picture on the lumber wrap was in a low traffic area but was still pretty battered by the end of halloween night.