Indy's brother
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Looking for advice. I'm still waiting for my life-size crystal skull to be ready to order, as it is currently out of stock:
In the interim, I'm trying to figure out how best to light it. Of course I want it to operate as close to the film as possible, so it must be battery-operated, and with small enough components to be hidden inside of the clear-ish skull (it's hollow). The lights in the film were obviously done in post-production, so I'm trying to make something that doesn't exist.
So far the best I can find is this thing, which (if reasonably affordable) will of course be gutted for it's parts:
I'm awaiting an email from them to tell me their price.
I'm not married to the idea of using this, in fact I'd like to find something better since the lights in this one only fade from one color to the next without any movement. With the exception of the above light (which isn't even as good as I would like) all the supernova effect lights that I can find are ac instead of dc.
I don't necessarily even need the "supernova" effect per se, but I can't think of much else that would approximate the effect from the film, aside from building a crystal skull from scratch out of glass and turning it into a battery operated plasma sphere, which I'm just not up to!!!
Anyway, if anyone out there has any brilliant workable ideas, I'm all ears!
In the interim, I'm trying to figure out how best to light it. Of course I want it to operate as close to the film as possible, so it must be battery-operated, and with small enough components to be hidden inside of the clear-ish skull (it's hollow). The lights in the film were obviously done in post-production, so I'm trying to make something that doesn't exist.
So far the best I can find is this thing, which (if reasonably affordable) will of course be gutted for it's parts:
I'm awaiting an email from them to tell me their price.
I'm not married to the idea of using this, in fact I'd like to find something better since the lights in this one only fade from one color to the next without any movement. With the exception of the above light (which isn't even as good as I would like) all the supernova effect lights that I can find are ac instead of dc.
I don't necessarily even need the "supernova" effect per se, but I can't think of much else that would approximate the effect from the film, aside from building a crystal skull from scratch out of glass and turning it into a battery operated plasma sphere, which I'm just not up to!!!
Anyway, if anyone out there has any brilliant workable ideas, I'm all ears!