Here's the alien mask when all the wires and servos fitted and mixed in the radio controller.
It's alive!
Check out my other post about the mask here: Animatronic mask
Animatronic video
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Animatronic mask
There's always some interesting project going on in our workshop!
This mask is one of the characters in a sci-fi short film that will be shot this summer.
Head of a space diplomat
volkswagen transpoter explosion
Sunday, late night, outside our workshop, Anders (Gothenburg Prop Makers) shot the final scene for KMFDM - Amnesia music video:
The great car explosion (it's Anders old VW Transporter) at the end of the video was made by David Peter at Thunder Effects.
Here you can see how it looked like from my point of view:
Special effect course 2009
More old material đ
supplementary training
2009 I attended a supplementary course in special effects at PYRO SmÄlands Krutbruk AB.
We learned how to blow up and flip a car using petrol charges and zinkit + flash powder loaded in a pyretechnic piston that was placed in the ground, partially covered with soil, under the car.
We also blew up a set house with 5g cordtex, flash cracker cal. 21, a pyrotechnic dirt canon, and a petrol charge. Continue reading
Larva 2010
More old stuff
Animatronic larva
This little cute creature is made by Peter at Gothenburg Prop Makers. I helped him to make a servo controller board and to program the radio transmitter.
The larva was exposed in the exhibition hall at Gothenburg Film Studios during the Open set 2010.
Here you can see the "making of" video and the larva in action:
The larva was really popular amongst the visitors, probably because they could try to control it by them self.
Gothenburg Film Studios – Trailer 2010
Putting up some old material!
Open set 2010
I made the pyrotechnic special effects in this trailer for GFS open set 2010.
Open set changed name to GoKinema the following year.
Check out the open set films at Gothenburgs Film Studios vimeo channel!
…and it grew!
I don't remember exactly how we got to the point where we came up with the idea to make it into a modular platform, but it had something to do with the ATtiny4313 I think, sounded like a good idea to make it more versatile!
Why stop at making a wireless firing system, right?! đ
fireCrow: first draw
The firing system was originally designed for squibs (SFX body hits), so it's very important that the size is as small as possible to be easily concealed under the actor's clothes.
At first we were stuck with the idea of a wireless firing system, but when we found the ATtiny4313 with "a lot" more memory (4K instead of 2K) than the ATtiny2313, we started to fantasize about what could be done with all that space!
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SprÀngar BÀngtsson
Cake explosion!
Last year in April I had the opportunity to get into the project SprÀngar BÀngtsson, a TV series that is aimed for children and youth.
A pilot episode was made, in which I made a neat little pneumatic cake and cream explosion! đ
Unfortunately it didn't get aired...not yet that is đ
A couple of days ago I got a link to vimeo, here is the 3 min intro:
16 LED Scanner Project
It's been a while since I wrote last time so I thought I'd better put something up!
Eye of the Cambot 3000
This was my small contribution to GoKinema this year...
...a Cylon scanner to this ĂŒber cool robo statue - Cambot 3000.
Anders at Gothenburg Prop Makers made the fantastic robot and I helped him to give it "life"!
The bot is made from old film lamps, lenses, tripods, and old camcorders, it stood in the entry hall at Gothenburg Film Studios during GoKinema. Continue reading
Animatronics
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