Halloween was great! I ran into a small problem of none of my help showing up! In anycase heres a little look at what went on.....
I took a couple vids real quick while I was setting up. I havent hidden wires and tacked everything into place but it gives you an idea of a couple of the creatures I had going that night.
First one... a crawling zombie. He is on a motion sensor so he starts up when you get close but then stops when you move away. He's about 4 years old now. A little cobbed together but he was an early experiment.
One of the main attractions.... my demon/witch stirring a cauldron. Ok so it's a large mouse mask but in the dark with the head draped most people think its a devil cause the ears stick up like horns. It's about 8 1/2 feet to the top of the head so it towers over most people. The arms stir the cauldron and the head slowly moves back and forth to look at people on the path. The cauldron is lighted on the bottom to look like coals once it gets dark and there are lights on the inside of the cauldron along with a fog machine to blow smoke out the top so it appears to be cooking.
I have a large fog machine with a chiller setup at the top of the yard. Since it slopes down slightly the fog crawls nicely along the ground all the way out to the road. In the "daytime" vid you can see how it hasn't cooled enough and is starting to rise up.
Another 2 bags of ice and it stayed low to the ground. The cam isnt the best in low light but you should be able to see the blanket of fog as it moves down the yard.
Once I find my still camera ill post up the pics I had.
I took a couple vids real quick while I was setting up. I havent hidden wires and tacked everything into place but it gives you an idea of a couple of the creatures I had going that night.
First one... a crawling zombie. He is on a motion sensor so he starts up when you get close but then stops when you move away. He's about 4 years old now. A little cobbed together but he was an early experiment.
One of the main attractions.... my demon/witch stirring a cauldron. Ok so it's a large mouse mask but in the dark with the head draped most people think its a devil cause the ears stick up like horns. It's about 8 1/2 feet to the top of the head so it towers over most people. The arms stir the cauldron and the head slowly moves back and forth to look at people on the path. The cauldron is lighted on the bottom to look like coals once it gets dark and there are lights on the inside of the cauldron along with a fog machine to blow smoke out the top so it appears to be cooking.
I have a large fog machine with a chiller setup at the top of the yard. Since it slopes down slightly the fog crawls nicely along the ground all the way out to the road. In the "daytime" vid you can see how it hasn't cooled enough and is starting to rise up.
Another 2 bags of ice and it stayed low to the ground. The cam isnt the best in low light but you should be able to see the blanket of fog as it moves down the yard.
Once I find my still camera ill post up the pics I had.
