[Evil Bob]

Hi there. I'm new to posting here. I'm doing a pirate pub theme for my garage haunt this year. One side of the garage is a pirate ship stage for 6 skeletal pirate singers. Here's the model I built of the stage:
http://hearsefactory.com:80/mini-IMG_1062.JPG
Here's some pics of the progress from last week.
http://hearsefactory.com/piratestage18.JPG
http://hearsefactory.com/piratestage26.JPG
Here's a vidio of the skull test I did for one of the singers.
http://www.youtube.com/evilbobandrews

I'm painting the stage today. I'll post more pics later.
Evil Bob

 

[Spartan005]

Looks cool! keep up the great work!

 

[Dreadnight]

From one Pirate guy to another, Bob..... looks fantastic! Look forward to future photos

 

[Evil Bob]

Thanks Dreadnight!

 

[Dr Morbius]

Arrr...'Tis a mighty fine dig for singin' of the chanty.

 

[JohnnyL]

Absolutely amazing! LOVE the stage!

Got any plans/steps for making a skull not only talk, but also move like that?

 

[turtle2778]

BOB, that rocks man. I love it. Great job.

 

[Evil Bob]

Absolutely amazing! LOVE the stage!

Got any plans/steps for making a skull not only talk, but also move like that?

Thanks, JohnnyL!
No plans, I'm making this up as I go along! The head has 3 servos in it. I wrote the software that controls it. It saves the positions of the mouse or joystick real time and converts it to servo instructions. It's pretty much like operating a puppet. After it records the motions, you can play it back or export it into VSA(http://www.brookshiresoftware.com/vsa_overview.htm). Here's a screen shot.
http://hearsefactory.com/parlay.jpg
It captures X, Y, and Z axis and microphone input for the lip synching.

 

[Evil Bob]

BOB, that rocks man. I love it. Great job.

Thanks, Turtle!

 

[Evil Bob]

Arrr...'Tis a mighty fine dig for singin' of the chanty.

Thanks! Much more important than being able to park my car in there, lol.

 

[JohnnyL]

That had to cost a pretty penny for the software and parts I'm assuming?

 

[Lagrousome]

The head has 3 servos in it. I wrote the software that controls it. It saves the positions of the mouse or joystick real time and converts it to servo instructions. It's pretty much like operating a puppet. After it records the motions, you can play it back or export it into VSA
It captures X, Y, and Z axis and microphone input for the lip synching.

uh.........what???
I just love watching them!
Don't know a thing about how to make them do that though!
Great prop!
I need to learn some electronics!

 

[Evil Bob]

That had to cost a pretty penny for the software and parts I'm assuming?

VSA is pretty inexpensive. And the Parlay software I wrote was free. lol
It's pretty much being done on the cheap.

 

[JohnnyL]

If you ever get the time and could put together a list (and where to purchase) of all the items you used for that and how to put it together, you'd be loved by everyone here.

Maybe even a video of you doing everything, ahahaha.

 

[Evil Bob]

lol okay. Probably after Hallowwen. Here's a pic of the inside of the skull...
http://hearsefactory.com/mini-IMG_1123.JPG

 

[Evil Bob]

uh.........what???
I just love watching them!
Don't know a thing about how to make them do that though!
Great prop!
I need to learn some electronics!

Thanks Lagrousome! This is my first project with servos. But I used to be a computer game programmer in a past life.

 

[Dr Morbius]

lol okay. Probably after Hallowwen. Here's a pic of the inside of the skull...
http://hearsefactory.com/mini-IMG_1123.JPG

Oh man! I'm using the same foam skull for my Wilfred prop too..Gotta love the light weight aspect of it.

 

[Death Master]

Where did you get the skull bob? and your project looks very impressive, I like it.

 

[Evil Bob]

http://statsfloral.com/hlwn00694.htm
I bought 6 of these.

 

[Sickie Ickie]

i AM TOTALLY IN AWE OF WHAT YOU ARE PLANNING!