Recent content by egorleski

yea im working for a company that does sfx for alot of tours and such so i sat down with Marc Brickman for a little and basicaly the same thing he told me was what everyone is telling u. be prepared to work a whole lot of crappy stuff for a long time. LD for small no name bands. They go and...

Another option would be to chill it later down the line it seems like right now you are thinking about a system like this ------------[chiller]---------> this means that you need to create a wind current to make the fog continue down the tubing. However if you do the chilling at the end of the...

Another thing you could try is less of a lighting effect persay. If you get some blue ropelight and sew them into the costume, give the actor the controler and with the line he flips the switch and his costume lights up blue stripes and then they go off as needed.

Some very nice ideas. Thanks! This is a completely new technology to me, and as much as i appreciate all the info you can find online about the way the lightwaves are traveling through the plastic, i just wanted to know how to set it up. Thanks again!

So we are going to be putting on Mid Summer Night's dream, and as such the topic of Fiberoptics has come up. I bet this is probably the most common way to get that sparkle in the mystical trees and flowers. Seeing as I dont know that much about Fiberoptics, i sugested using the premade battery...

Heres my ten cents on the issue. I think this comes down to center of mass. When a genie lift is made, there are obviously complex formulas and all sorts of math to be able to have a bucket of some substantial mass high up in the air without it toppeling. This is probably partialy why you...

If you want that effect done the cheap way, tin foil is your answer. Crinkle it up and then focus the lights on the tin foil and it will reflect off the crinkles and look like water. This can easily be a large effect, and if you need it to be moving you need to extend the tin foil into the...

you said you cannot do flashpots... so im not sure if maybe a flashpot would get the desired effect. if you think it would then i would refer you to the topic something like explosians minus the explosian... yea i stink but u get the idea. basicaly it covers the idea of using compressed air or...

I haven't ever seen the production... so im kindah going out on a limb as to what exactly your looking for. It would probably help if u described it in more detail. From the sounds of it my suggestion would be to use the thin battery powered rope light. This seems like a good option because...

Yea the lazer scanner is definantly out of our budget but amazing technology. We are going to mount the rat on a small rc car and put in some LEDs for the eyes. We want it to be in plastic or at least parts in plastic, like the tail and legs, so that it will look more realistic. Yea, theres...

I want to make a giant remote control rat. that being said i need to procure a giant rat that will read as such on stage. I want to custom make the rat so that i can get it the size i want and to mount everything i need inside. We dont have the equiptment to scan a small fake rat and then...

My question really refers specificaly to stage guns, but i figured why not give it a broad title. We currently have generic long barrel guns that are made of conduit for the barrel, a carved block of wood for the handle part, and some sort of cheep metal to fake a trigger. This has been okay...

i talked to a guy who specialises in fire fx and we chated about flame forks among other things. he showed me his flame for rig. basicaly he has a solenoid just for better remote control and then a regulator rated for propane and then black pipe with slits cut in it and an end cap. when...

Everything these days does cause cancer... at least in california. they say talc causes ovarian cancer and causes lung cancer in rats and evidence in humans is not conclusive. I think maybe a fine flour then may be best. if it is fine enough to get a good smoke cloud then you know it is...

questions for footer: Why did you go with talc powder as opposed to a saw dust or similar? does talc give u better traction or just available cheap? Talc scares me a little in the whole maybe it causes cancer we dont really know aspect. Hopefully the exposure would be minimal and it probably...