by [email protected] | Oct 9, 2018 | Disney, Halloween, props, special effects
I created a “spooky face in-the-mirror” special effect in 2009. The effect is of three green glowing framed mirrors that have a spooky face which appears to move from frame to frame on a continuous loop throughout the event. The effect was created with...
by [email protected] | Oct 7, 2014 | Halloween, props
I live in a gated courtyard building in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. We have two columns at our entryway that I wanted to design large, realistic, but thematic statuary for their tops during the Halloween season. I also love crows, and that classic Edgar Allen...
by [email protected] | Sep 23, 2014 | Disney, Halloween, props, special effects
In 2001, Disneyland introduced the Nightmare Before Christmas elaborate holiday overlay to their Haunted Mansion attraction. In the section normally featuring the beloved bust statues singing “Grim Grinning Ghosts”, they are displayed with singing,...
by [email protected] | Nov 6, 2012 | costume, Disney, Halloween
Invited to be members of the audience for the 2008 Martha Stewart Halloween Special, broadcast LIVE from her New York Studios, myself and my 3 guests had only one requirement. We must come dressed as statues. Initially this requirement might sound easy enough, but if...
