Michael Larsen
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I am looking for a good way to make the eyes in a wolf costume glow bright yellow. I am thinking the eyes could be a glass type material lit from the inside.
@Michael Larsen and @DrewEThank you I will investigate
This is a great idea. Regarding the black olive, I suppose a fake one is best for this costume piece to live of forever.
@Amiers and @Michael Larsen IF this is literally over the eyeballs of a performer portraying a wolf, how would you deal with heat dissipation that close to their eyes plus dealing with the associated wiring leading to batteries stashed in their pockets or the rear of their costume.
I used a ping pong ball cut in half with a red grain of wheat bulb inside you can get them from train hobby placesI might experiment with 3M Scotchlight or similar reflective material. If the rest of the costume (and set) are comparatively drab and non-reflective, it could be quite effective, I suspect, and pretty easy to accomplish. This is not based on actual experience of using Scotchlight in a theatrical setting, mind you.
A COB LED unit behind a diffuser (and maybe color filter), more or less what you suggested, could also be effective. You'd have to pay some attention to properly heat sinking the LED and it would take some experimentation. You probably don't want a glass sphere or lens that would focus the light; the idea is to have fairly wide and even dispersion, so that it's effective from whatever angle the audience might be looking from rather than being focused on a small area (and not really visible outside that area).
Actually green with pimento has some attraction, too...This is a great idea. Regarding the black olive, I suppose a fake one is best for this costume piece to live of forever.
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