Well, honestly it's not too much more work to make it able to slip on your arm.
If you take a cast of your arm, make a copy out of plastic or something. Then you can sculpt the Prosthesis on top of that. Most of it looks like it can have movable joints anyway, just use small rivets for the fingers. You can cut out the peices using a dremel probablly.
It wouldn't be the most comfterable thing to wear. But it would be custom fit, and look sick.
i've been working on an idea for making a blade come out of an arm. The motor is located towards the shoulder (in a jacket or something) and using some secured cable or wire, it runs along inside the jacket (or arm in this case), to where the blade is on a track. have a pressure switch in the palm of your hand or attached to a string, connected to your fingers.
It sounds weird, but I have the picture in my mind, and I can see it working.
I could see how it could be done too. If you need any advice or the like let me know. I am not an eng, but a film major and we find all sorts of odd work arounds for SFX
Yes and no. Depends on budget mainly. If you look at the transformation sequence in An American Werewolf in London that was before CGI. That whole thing took a couple of months to build and if I remember right about 2 weeks to film.
Pac Rim is similar. Del Toro had them build scale sets as often as possible. The cockpits are a re-dress of the same one, but it is to actual scale of what a Jager cockpit would be.
The movie industry tends to go through cycles. Back in the Golden Age between the 00's and 50's they would go all out. The Walls of Babylon in Intolerance by D.W. Griffith stood for 3 years before it became cheap enough to take down. Thing was massive.
I was excited because I thought it was a functioning prosthesis. It's not-just a life sized art/collector piece. So sad: (
Well, honestly it's not too much more work to make it able to slip on your arm.
If you take a cast of your arm, make a copy out of plastic or something. Then you can sculpt the Prosthesis on top of that. Most of it looks like it can have movable joints anyway, just use small rivets for the fingers. You can cut out the peices using a dremel probablly.
It wouldn't be the most comfterable thing to wear. But it would be custom fit, and look sick.
i've been working on an idea for making a blade come out of an arm. The motor is located towards the shoulder (in a jacket or something) and using some secured cable or wire, it runs along inside the jacket (or arm in this case), to where the blade is on a track. have a pressure switch in the palm of your hand or attached to a string, connected to your fingers.
It sounds weird, but I have the picture in my mind, and I can see it working.
They certainly could have done that, and it would have been awesome, but as-is it's just a show piece which was a little disappointing to me.
...I still want it though, even as a sculpture.
Absolutely. It looks stunning.
I could see how it could be done too. If you need any advice or the like let me know. I am not an eng, but a film major and we find all sorts of odd work arounds for SFX
Really? That's cool!
I'm more function cosplay oriented in terms of wearable/usable props.
From my understanding a lot of film sfx is a bunch of "do it faster" type tips.
Yes and no. Depends on budget mainly. If you look at the transformation sequence in An American Werewolf in London that was before CGI. That whole thing took a couple of months to build and if I remember right about 2 weeks to film.
Pac Rim is similar. Del Toro had them build scale sets as often as possible. The cockpits are a re-dress of the same one, but it is to actual scale of what a Jager cockpit would be.
The movie industry tends to go through cycles. Back in the Golden Age between the 00's and 50's they would go all out. The Walls of Babylon in Intolerance by D.W. Griffith stood for 3 years before it became cheap enough to take down. Thing was massive.