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fritz42_male
10-30-2009, 07:07 PM
Please meet Occulus - alien.

Occulus is part plant, part animal. Breeds by budding for which he needs an adequate supply of fertiliser. He gets this by dissolving his favourite food down to a liquid then plants his legroots in the liquid and absorbs the goodness. His favourite food? Humans of course.

Occulus is a Spitter prop. The head is made from some foam skull leftovers from a Doc Janus prop for next year (Doc Janus has 2 faces - his first name is Hugh by the way).

Crests on the skull and the mouthparts are airdry clay reinforced with wire. The eye is a cheapy glow in the dark one with a green LED at the back. The spitter system is a flexible reticulation pipe with a small nozzle on the end going down through the 20mm PVC tube frame and exiting out of his back to a car windscreen washer reservoir and pump.

Body is expanding foam over the frame.

Electronics is a Nerve Center controller that on PIR activation, plays an Audacity enhanced home recorded track (Ahhh, Humans, my favourite food. Please wait while I dissolve you, slurp, slurp, slurp sounds) with the washer pump activating for the last few seconds to provide a jet of water.

Be finishing him off at the haunt this morning with some red highlights and some green hot glue dripping off his mouthparts.

morbid mike
10-30-2009, 10:58 PM
very cool how far can he spit and how often???

RoxyBlue
10-30-2009, 11:58 PM
Ewwww, gross! (and I mean that in a good way:D)

IMU
10-31-2009, 09:29 AM
Wow, pretty wild looking creature!

fritz42_male
10-31-2009, 05:44 PM
very cool how far can he spit and how often???

The sound track runs for about 12 seconds and he spits for the last 3-4 seconds. There's a 3 second pause then he is good to go again.

Can't spit very far on this one but for next year I'll improve the mech - probably go to a air assisted spit.

Devils Chariot
11-03-2009, 01:10 AM
coolness. I like your alien alot. Think you could get a video?

fritz42_male
11-03-2009, 02:05 AM
He's dismantled now and I need to send the prop controller back for checking. As soon as I get it back, I'llre-assemble and try out. I want a better nozzle on him anyway!

I'll probably rework the body a bit to smooth it off - the effect doesn't really match the claws and skull. He also needs some red highlights on the chest - I'll buy an airbrush kit soon.

Hauntiholik
03-10-2010, 06:14 PM
http://www.hauntiholik.com/Emoticons/worthless.gif

pyro
03-10-2010, 06:34 PM
http://www.hauntiholik.com/Emoticons/worthless.gif
i agree i dont see a thing :googly:

Rahnefan
03-10-2010, 09:11 PM
What she said!

fritz42_male
03-10-2010, 10:44 PM
Did have pics but I ran out of space on the forum and since the thread hadn't been read for a few months I deleted the pics. I've uploaded to Photobucket. Links below. The pictures aren't very good - I'll take some more soon and repost.



http://i773.photobucket.com/albums/yy19/fritz42_male/Occulus2.jpg

http://i773.photobucket.com/albums/yy19/fritz42_male/Occulus1.jpg

and also a Crow holding an eyeball

http://i773.photobucket.com/albums/yy19/fritz42_male/Crow1.jpg

The Watcher
03-11-2010, 06:59 AM
Boy you just wait! When my mother in law, finds out you posted her picture. You are in trouble.

belldoppler
03-11-2010, 07:15 AM
you should get some pics posted... id like to see what im trying to imagine. sounds awesome!

Hauntiholik
03-11-2010, 08:25 AM
Here are the pictures he tried to post:

http://i773.photobucket.com/albums/yy19/fritz42_male/Occulus2.jpg

http://i773.photobucket.com/albums/yy19/fritz42_male/Occulus1.jpg

and also a Crow holding an eyeball

http://i773.photobucket.com/albums/yy19/fritz42_male/Crow1.jpg

Lady Nyxie
03-11-2010, 01:02 PM
Cool. I love the bird.

hpropman
03-11-2010, 10:52 PM
Cool Fritz! I like them both. He is very original.

fritz42_male
03-12-2010, 04:46 AM
Thanks Hauntiholik. How come yours show and mine don't - what did I do wrong?

Occulus came out well considering he was made from foam skull leftovers. I wasn't too happy with the squirt function though - the pump took too long to come on and the stream wasn't strong enough - I may go with an air powered venturi jet next time so I get a nice fast spray with wide divergence - should surprise people. May even animate the arms or 'fingers'

Hauntiholik
03-12-2010, 09:34 AM
Thanks Hauntiholik. How come yours show and mine don't - what did I do wrong?

You have your permissions set weird on your photobucket account so when you posted the url links they couldn't be seen. I added the links as images [img] and they showed up.

SPOOKY J
03-12-2010, 12:52 PM
Very cool Fritz!

fritz42_male
03-13-2010, 04:41 AM
Thanks Hauntiholik - I'll take a look.

Thanks for the comments all.