The last scene down.

We finished a couple hours ago now, I've been pretty wiped and had some other things still to do afterwards - it's all done now.

I went over the footage, everything looks awesome. It's almost impossible to get a bad shot out there. For those of you who know PEI, we filmed in Victoria Park in the woods around Dead Man's Pond. And despite my being overly cautious about using that location, we had no problems whatsoever. Only at one point did I even notice someone watching us (out of the few people actually in the area).

There were a few pictures taken and there's some really good stills to post, but that's for later, for now it's time to sleep. and I will leave you with this.

Final hours before the last scene

I've already been up for about 2 hours or so getting everything ready for the last scene. So far everything's working out pretty good, I had a last minute call from an actor who might not make it, but it's an easily replaceable part so no worries yet.

It's not the biggest shoot I've ever done, I don't think at least, but there sure if a hell of a lot of equipment, props, costumes. My living room is full right now.

I'm just finishing up the shot list for the day, pretty simple - way more then I expected, plus there's a lot of room for improvisation here. You got 8 guys with swords and free reign of a park on a Saturday morning, pretty much anything can happen.

So that's it for now, chances are there'll be something interesting to look at here in the next day or so.

The Plot Twist

I'm going to take time out from going on about my movie to go on about other movies.

I just saw the movie Hancock last night, and if you've read any articles on it - which if you do because, it's a movie that has a "twist" to it and some might give it away. And this here is the main point of this rant.

Movies with a twist ending, or just a twist somewhere in there that's supposed to catch you off guard and make you say "I never saw that coming!" Very rarely have I ever said that, because most movies are incredibly predictable - not in a specific way, but perhaps generically.

The articles I mentioned about Hancock are about how this movie's twist has critics divided. First off, not much of a twist, saw it coming very early on. Did I predict it exactly? No, but I was actually pretty close - if I actually wanted to stop the movie and ponder it, I might've. Now, this doesn't make it a bad movie, just because you can see a plot twist coming doesn't change whether a movie is good or bad - however in the case of a movie like this, where the plot twist is out of almost nowhere, is a good thing. I think.

See there's too many movies claiming "You'll never guess the ending" that are complete and utterly obvious or the twist is just uninteresting or just not enough of one. This is directed specifically at M. Night Shyamalan, who has made a supposed career out of this type of movie, which sort of defeats the purpose. It's kind of like telling you're going to punch them in the face, do it, then you call it a sucker punch. Doesn't work like that.

If you go into a movie and it's basically bragging about how awesomely twisted it's ending it, then you'd better deliver big time or end up looking like an ass. Which is the case with Capt. Can't-Write-A-Good-Ending Shyamalan. He's telling you the movie has a twist ending before you've even seen it, he doesn't bother now because it's implied almost. So therefore there's no real twist, it's more of a case of can you out think him. Which ain't all that hard, kind of like trying to outwit a rock.

Don't take offense if you've actually fallen prey to his endings, I don't care who doesn't and who does - the point I'm trying to make is simply people, myself included, complain about these obvious twist endings that are about as impossible to suss out as finding your way out of your own house and now we have critics divided because a movie actually pulled off a genuine twist - without bragging or making it the big reveal at the end - that's it's too out of nowhere.

So is that to say we like our plot twists to be obvious, but not too obvious? I'm not sure what the moral of this story is really.

If you want to see what a genuine out of nowhere plot twist looks like, I highly recommend you check out The Caller, it stars Malcolm McDowell and Madolyn Smith Osborne (and no one else). Not a brilliant movie, but if you're like me and find most plot twist movies a little predictable, just try to figure this one out. If you do, you were just making random guesses and hoping for the best because there's nothing to indicate the ending of this movie.

Is The Caller a good movie because it kind of pulls off the twist ending? Not really, it's an amusing movie that you probably won't like to be honest with you. But it goes to prove my pointless point a little further. Why did we like Usual Suspects so much? People loved that twist ending, but Hancock? Some folks hated it's twist. The Caller? Maybe it went too far realistically speaking, I don't recall how it was received by critics. Even worse is the movie you guess the ending of having only seen the commercials - case in point, The Village.

I don't really know what my position is in all this myself. I like Usual Suspects, that's one I didn't see coming. Why? Because the movie kept my attention at the time and didn't make me want to jump ahead and figure out the ending. Hancock? I saw it coming but what else could you do with the movie? The Caller? Malcolm McDowell is cool and the ending was so abstract I had to admire it for that at least.

I guess it all boils down to whether the movie is good with or without a plot twist. I could even point out why some just don't work, but I won't, I'll just point at Shyamalan-a-ding-dong and say nothing else. How's that for a twist ending?

Fun with Styrofoam...

I probably should've been working on this sooner, but I'm about halfway through getting the Titan Device ready for painting. I've got 2 2'x2'x2' cubes nearly done. Sealing the gaps up in one, the 2nd is ready to sand down and then I have to do 4 1'x1'x2' blocks - which I should get to working on tonight.

So far so good, there's styrofoam crap everywhere in my stairwell. The respirator I'm using while doing this tends to give me a bit of a headache because I already have some issues with my ears, something about air pressure and all that I guess.

I'm hoping to have the blocks nearly all done by Tuesday night.

This is about half the pile, it's getting whittled down slowly.

A failed attempt at creating a decent surface to carve into using
expanding foam. It ended up being way too soft and would've been
way too expensive in the end.

And here's the first nearly completed block. I'm in the process
of sealing it up so it won't be all crumbly like this crap tends to be.

Not exactly exciting, but it's something. As I mentioned before, it's the largest prop I've ever built, I've no idea what I'm doing really, I'm just making it up as I go - so far it's working pretty well, although it's terribly messy. I'm buying a small shop vac tomorrow to clean this all up.

Everything's going well so far. I've got written permission to film in Victoria Park, so no worries there. The Titan Device, as I've taken to calling it, is coming along well too. Might be a little early to say that, but so far it's working as planned.

Seems like everything's lining up to go well. I've got some great shots sussed out, I'll be working on them some more this coming weekend and if all goes well the Device should be nearly done as well - at least well underway enough to know how well it'll look.

I've had to create a makeshift styrofoam knife that seems to be working rather well, a little slow but that's better then not at all. I should have the basic forms done in a few days, I'm making them from huge styrofoam sheets cut and glued together to form 2'x2'x2' cubes, which will then be cut done further to get the basic shape right. Then I'm using expandable foam for the outer skin which I can carve into with more detail.

From there it's a simple paint job, some moss and crap and I should have an assortment of massive stones that form a 6 foot obelisk. It'll be incredibly sturdy and lightweight too.

Should be an amusing shoot.

The Prop of Doom

I've been slowly working away at this reworked scene, and it's going to be so much easier this time around. Taking into account all the problems with shooting outdoors; a power source - can't film if your very expensive batteries die on you, location - hard to find a good one, even harder to find one you don't have to plan a roadtrip to get to, which also includes transportation and the time spent travelling...blah, blah and blah.

Anyway, all that is solved with one location. Oddly enough, I can find everything I need to shoot in the woods in Victoria Park (for those non-Islanders it's about 4 blocks from where I live). It'll require some creative shooting to avoid some minor background stuff that doesn't work, but not much, maybe for a small handful of shots at the worst.

And the best part is there's freaking electrical outlets about every 50 feet out there.

Now taking all that into consideration, it's a great place to do this. I scouted it out this afternoon, it should all work perfectly. However, I have to think about any potential problems such as, will any casual wandering through the woods person stumble upon our filming and cause some massive stink - I don't know why, but let's face it, some people feel it's their duty to bugger things up that quite honestly have nothing to do with them in the first place.

So I'm thinking, do I contact the city - or whoever, I've no idea really - and tell them that I'm doing this, see what their more then likely apathetic reaction is? Because it's a public place and it's not like I'm murdering babies or something, I'm just filming a stupid movie only a smattering of folks will probably even see. Regardless, it's the only "bad feeling" I'm getting right now about the scene.

For instance, even today as I wandered through there - I ran into a woman and her two kids...Imagaine their reaction to a bunch of dudes with swords and another bunch of leather armor clad demons with executioner hoods on. That won't be pretty. So I think you can see my concern.

My other option, would be to make sure I have a few extra hands on board to prevent folks from accidently wandering into this without warning. Not to prevent them from passing and making the woods off limits, just to forewarn so I don't have to pay therapy bills for anyone. I'm thinking regardless this is a good idea.

And after all that I'm still working out the smaller details of the scene, and one not so small prop. It now centers around a thing I'm just calling an "ancient device," it helps tie together a couple loose ends to certain plot points and whatnot, but also serves as a nice set piece.

It's going to be a 2' x 2' obelisk, about 6 feet tall, it will serve as a device that the Brotherhood uses to save the day - all very nicely explained, as well even serves to tie into the ending in a way I never originally intended - just visually though. That might not make sense until you see the movie though, so I won't bother to explain it.

I'm sussing out building materials today. I've a few ideas already, one if it pans out isn't cheap but requires almost no construction. The design is pretty basic, I'm not worried about that at all.

Overall, it's looking pretty good. The scene itself is 100 times better then before, asI believe I might've mentioned at least once.

And, Happy 50th Birthday to Bruce Campbell.

Rethinking the Near End of the World

As I mentioned in the previous post - I've been reworking the Demon Army Battle scene. I was a little annoyed after cancelling the shoot, only to discover the next day that I still could've pulled it off had it gone on as scheduled. It was a bit of a crappy day, but there was a good 5-6 hour window where I could've got everything done.

Ah well. Not the end of the world...Or is it?

That was a lame set up, in any case, I just got through reworking the scene and it's so much better in almost every possible way - so any annoyance at having lost a day of shooting is long since gone.

The new version should be a little quicker to shoot, most of it's handheld and moving very quickly. It's bascially a fight on the run. It'll have to be choreographed a bit to work properly, that's not a problem though.

It also serves to fill in any plot gaps I might've suffered over countless rewrites and redoing certain scenes - thankfully, I was slightly smart in making sure I had at least 2 scenes where major information is revealed that the spoken dialog could be rewritten if needed and not effect the visuals whatsoever.

I won't go into too much detail at the moment, other then to say I'll be working this weekend on creating what could be the biggest prop I've ever built. Not the most elaborate, but the biggest - the hardest part will be settling on a design.

Then I have to go over the entire script and make sure the line changes - the scene is without dialog, but there's a voiceover during the whole thing - don't contradict anything I can't change.

So that's it. I'll be aiming at shooting this mid-July, or earlier if everything falls into place.

Called on account of rain

I really hate dealing with weather dependant shoots. I stressed pretty much most of the day about whether or not tomorrow was going to happen and I finally decided to call it off. I had a few folks already taking the day off work and I didn't want to leave it to the last minute, I had three separate forecasts calling for rain and even thunder showers, plus I'd just gotten a call from one of the actors informing me he was unable to make it. So, it seems like karma or fate working against me. Tomorrow isn't happening.

On the plus side of things, in the same instant I cancelled the shoot, I came up with a much better idea for the scene anyway. Much less setup in any case, which is way better - and more actiony even.

I hate dragging people along and telling them, yeah we're shooting next week and then cancelling it. I know there's nothing really I can do about it, like I said, "weather dependant shoots" - they're a bugger at best.

So that's it. No shoot tomorrow, a much more stress free evening for me...and a plate of sandwiches for 15 people I have to pick up tomorrow regardless. At least I know what I'm doing for lunch and dinner tomorrow.

Stay tuned for more action-packed details. Not about my lunch and dinner, but what's happening with the scene next.

It’s been an incredibly busy week, it’s looking almost over however. The last of the costume stuff has been sorted out and finished, the hoods look pretty good – if not rather demonically gimpish.

The prosthetics are already pre-painted – and since very little of the full face and neck will be visible because of the costume, they should be easy to slap on and blend it.

I’ve been doing my homework on the best possible methods of getting my demon army shots. There’s only 3 shots that require a massive horde, so I’m hoping this will go as well as it can. . Worse come to worse, I do have a good-backup plan – one that I hope not to have to use, but I’m more then prepared should I have to.

The shot list is relatively short and simple, only a page and a half, about 10 of those shots are incredibly simple and handheld (which always makes for a nice quick shoot).

Now, about the swords. This is one of those situations that just infuriates the hell out of me, it's not a huge deal - but it becomes a huge deal with mistakes are made. There were two version of the sword I wanted - here's a pitcure right from the website itself:


They're not bad looking, but of course the one with the "blood" on it looks a little silly. I specifically asked for the ones WITHOUT the crappy looking blood - you can see where this is going. They didn't have 4 without, 4 with - but not 4 without, in any size, small, medium or large. They had 2 of each - with and without - but I was being picky and this caused a hold up. Tthen I was told they could get 4 without no problem from their manufacturer in Denmark - so I waited..and got 4 with the crappy looking blood anyway.

Now I'm going to give whoever the benefit of the doubt and assume that somewhere alone the line someone didn't mention which version or miscommunicated with version. In any case, I wasted 2 months waiting on the assurance I'd get what I wanted, only to get exactly what I didn't want.

I'd be pissed it the swords weren't so dark the blood's barely noticable - thank god. Anyway, all the wonderful costumer service in the world doesn't make up for the fact I go the wrong item and it's too late to do anything about it.

I probably won’t update anything until the evening, or morning, after the shoot on the 18th. So be prepared to see some pretty damned cool looking shit. Or at least a bunch of guys standing around in a field trying to look cool.

I'd like to say everything's ready for next week...

...but that'd be a lie. Not that what's not ready is going to ruin everything, it just means as usual with everything else I have going on it's going to be a little hectic.

On the plus side though. The demon swords are on their way right now, here's hoping customs doesn't see 4 rubber swords as a threat to our way of life and seize them. I had some last minute makeup that I may or may not need on it's way here today as well and that's the last of the packages.

This weekend we (and by we I mean myself, Kim, Draper and my friend Dave who was over from NS) took the demon costumes for a walk in Victoria Park and abused the hell out of them - they look pretty good now. I just need to do a little of the same for the gloves and the hoods - whenever the hoods are actually made that is, that's another thing I still have to go.

I still also have yet to get confirmation from one of my demon actors/stuntmen - not much I can do there but wait.

And I was hoping to snag a little portable battery type thing to power the equipment with - that was a dismal failure. After charging it for 2 days it last all of 15 seconds. We're going with plan B, which is "make it up as we go along."

And that's it. I'm going to try to suss out a quick and simple way of marking off areas for when we're shooting the mulitple passes of the demons and that should be the last of the crap I need to do for next week's shoot.

Until then, I'm sure you're going to have a much more relaxing week then me.

Quick update - no pictures

I've almost got everything taken care of the for big shoot in June at Fort Amherst. I've got a couple demon backups in case some folks can't make it, I've got a few extra hands to help out, I've got all the heroes lined up and the new costumes 98% completed, the demon costumes are about 90% complete as well.

And if all goes well this will be shot with a brand spanking new camera that'll allow me to do slow motion shots and all manner of "damned that just looks awesome" kind of stuff. To avoid dead battery syndrome, I'll be getting a small portable generator.

All that's really left is to finalize everyone's involvement, do some test shots with the demon costumes - the swords are on they're way from a flooded warehouse in Denmark as I write this, some test shots of how we'll do the logistics of moving the actors from mark to mark onscreen for the final post effect of an entire army.

So far so good. After having had a taste of the worst case scenario kind of shoot, I have a pretty good feeling this is going to go much more smoothly. Knock on wood, or plastic, or whatever you have on hand.

The outcome of the Orwell Shoot

I spent several hours today going over the footage, editing it, colour correcting it and roughing out the minor visual effects shots. I've just a few minor tweaks and it should be done.

One that the worked really well was the colour correction - the weather was shifting all during the shoot, some shots were bright and sunny, others came out a little flat - I can't tell the difference anymore just by looking at these stills which ones were which.
It's not perfect, but I never expected it to be. I wanted a quick fight to open the movie and this will do just fine. The actual fight is over a minute, the opening itself I believe is about 5, should work out just fine.

So, here's some stills from the near final edit.


And now I can take a bit of a break again from this movie for another couple weeks, then I've got potentially the bigest disaster or most awesome scene I've ever shot.

The Orwell Shoot, Part 2

As the title suggests, this is part 2 of the shoot out at Orwell. So iffen you haven't seen the first part, I highly recommended you read that first.

And now, on with more pictures...

This picture pretty accurately portrays
how I felt the bulk of the day.

And now, for the big finish!
The New Wyld Stallyns!

There you go then. I'm planning to get around to doing a rough edit of the footage this weekend, hoping it works out.

And I'll take this space here to say thanks again to you guys that were out there. Draper, Kim and Kim - thanks for dealing with the bugs, the less then hospitable environment, the ultra, high speed shoot and me being a cranky, crusty, impatient demon all afternoon. Not all our shoots are that rushed and stressful, this was an exception to the norm.

Thank god that's done. The Orwell Shoot, Part 1

I think it'd be fair to say it wasn't the easiest shoot in the world, probably more accurate to say it was stressful and a little tenses by time - but from the looks of the footage, it was worth it. I think.

In any case, thanks to all who helped out - there weren't that many involved. Draper in front of the camera as the dude who chops off the Beast's head. Kim Bradford shot the scene as best she could, and from what little time I've spent going over the footage, she did a great job. And Kim Johnston who got some awesome pictures of the whole ordeal.

I call it an ordeal because being in the prosthetic and that costume was extremely uncomfortable, moreso then I'd expected, and it just made me really impatient and pretty much frustrated and exhausted the whole time - and on top of that I had to make sure everything was working with the shots (it's a fight scene and they're so hard to make look good under the best of circumstances) and that we got everything we needed before the inevitable death of our equipment batteries. All of which gave out within seconds of the last shot actually.

It's over in any case and I can easily say that I will never attempt anything like that again, at least until I can figure out a way that I'm not the slightest bit concerned about what's going on behind the camera. The attention split was really overwhelming this time around.

With the ranting overwith, now the good side of the shoot.

Having just gone on about how horrific my costume was, it looked great on camera. From what I gathered, all that frustration kind of worked well since the Beast is supposed to be a pretty angry little fellow in the first place.

The latex swords worked brilliantly. I'd been assured by the manufacturers that they'd more then adequately hold up to this sort of abuse, but I still had a nagging doubt and was just waiting for something to go wrong - nothing did though. And it wasn't like we held back, those things took a massive amount of abuse from us.

The real swords on the other hand, chipped and scraped and even bent at one point. I can only imagine how long a real sword in a real battle would actually last, or at the very least stay sharp enough to do any damage.

Anyway, here's some pictures:

Kim Bradford helping me take care of some
of the parts of the makeup that were next to impossible
for me to do on my own.

Draper getting suited up.

The evil demon going over his Checklist of Doom!

Setting up the first shot.
Action Shot #1

And Action Shot #2

And the resulting Death Shot #1

Of course, the inevitable useless shot.

Peeling off the makeup on the drive home was awesome fun.

Don't I look ever so happy?

Overall the shoot took the better part of the day. I started the makeup around 11, we were on the road by shortly after 1 and I think it was close to 5 or so when we got back into town. I think the actual shooting took about 3 1/2 hours. Not too bad, but a little tiresome when you're running and fighting the whole time.

There was one incident that I actually found rather amusing. I wished we'd kept shooting, but ah well. Makes me think of those videos you see online where a guy impales himself on something, or someone falls off a roof and rather then help the guy with the camera just keeps shooting instead - I can say that I don't know anyone like that after this incident.

After that buildup, all that happened was an overshot jump that landed me right over the edge of the bank into the mud. I thought it was funny myself.

The area of incident.

The aftermath.
That lump in my hand is my muddy shoe that I almost lost.

There are a couple hundred more pictures to go through, from another camera. I'll go through them in a while and maybe add some more images here in another post, but until then, I'll leave you with some random snippets from the drive out to the shoot.

Bright Green Demon Blood

I just got done my first day (of only 2 hopefully) as the Beast, the demon that starts the whole mess that unfolds as the plot of the entire movie...sort of. You'll have to see it I guess.

Today was I guess what you'd call 2nd Unit kind of stuff. Just some quick cutaway shots that didn't even require prosthetic makeup or anything - since you never see the Beast's face until the confrontation at the end. It was also to get Kim Bradford used to using the camera - although it was pretty hurried so I'm sure how used to it she got.

Overall it was relatively painless, although the costume was really heavy, cumbersome and warm. I felt a little rushed because the forecast was pretty damned sure it'd be cloudy and raining by 1 pm...it's almost 8 pm and it's been a blue sky since near 2 pm and not one drop of rain.

In any case, here's some pictures and whatnot from the day.

Getting suited up.

The super awesome Green Demon Blood (tm)

Stills from the footage

If the weather holds we'll be shooting the remainder of this scene, the actual fight, on this coming Wednesday. And as much as I'm looking forward to it, I'm really dreading the makeup and the costume.

A quick update

Preperations for a quick shoot on this coming Saturday and the opening fight sequence are well underway. There's been a few new added shot of the Beast as our hero, whose been given the name of Dunham in the last round of storyboarding, tracking him down.

To keep the scene a little brisk I'm doing a shot of the Beast rushing through the forest for every shot of Dunham doing the same. As well as a quick series of shots of the Beast bandaging up his arm - his freakish green blood being the thing that leads Dunham to him. Kind of a Predator homage in a way.

I spent the day taking care of some final details. I gored up a shirt with some demon blood for the Beast. I worked on preping the makeup, the bald cap is annoying little bastard - the slightest nick turn into a massive tear, so I did some patchwork and it looks good to go. I also had to touch up a real sword to match the fake sword. The fake has a gold looking hilt to it, while the real was silver - some gold paint took care of that easy enough.

So Saturday I'm running my new camera person through her paces, kind of a trial by fire. I figure I can get her up to speed, get some extra shots done now so we can just focus on the fight scene - which I've tentatively scheduled for this coming Wednesday.

So there should be some good stuff to see soon enough.

Two posts in one day! Exciting!

The reason for two posts today is that some stuff arrived unexpectedly early. The prosthetics. This was the part I was worried the most about, one of those things that you have you get dead set on when you see it and you know that nothing else will really work. They're nothing too crazy, but there's just something about this particular prosthetic that I really liked.

I like this, I guess because, it was just different enough from the average monster face. I suppose it's kind of werewolf/vampire looking to a degree -whereas this sort of solider demon character is normally very orcish or goblinesque looking.

Here's all four of the little buggers.

And a swanky closeup of one.

It's odd though that I'd be so picky when really only the nose and mouth will be really visible once the hood is on - but I see it as part of the foundation of the characters I guess. For me, just knowing that's the face under the hood is what works.

Anyway, there you go. One more thing down.

I also just got word of 2 more shipments, one should be here tomorrow or Wednesday - with this one down I'm able to finally get my scene as The Beast over and done with. The other shipment - maybe late next week are just the gloves. I'm still waiting to hear back about the swords for the Demon Army, hopefully it'll be good news.

I also wanted to point out, these came from Makeup Mania, there's a link over there on the side if you're interested.

New Stuff

Here's the stuff I said I'd post from this weekend.

This here's more or less the armor for the Demon Army. This is just the tunic (which has to be torn and raggedy looking), the breastplate and the mantle. There's way more to the costume, this was just on a sewing dummy and I thought I'd take a picture.

The gorget keeps making me think of the Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz, but ah well - what can you do?

And keep in mind there's a black top and bottom that go underneath this, as well as leather gloves, greaves and bracers and finally a hood. And after they're all done, I'll also be taking each costume out to wear it in and dirty it up so it'll look like it's seen a few wars already.

And here's the two axes I made. They're small hand axes, not giant crazy things like the warhammer is. The blades are 8 inches long to give you a general idea of their size. And they're a lot tougher then I expected them to be, I still wouldn't risk smashing folks with them though.

They were relatively easy to make, all things considered, so I reckon I'm going to try to make a mace, that will be a third weapon this particular member of the Brotherhood gets to use. Everyone else has massive sword or a warhammer - I figured what his weapons lack in size, they can make up for in number.

The best part of trying another weapon is that it won't cost anything other then the price of the handle. There was more then enough materials and supplies left over from these two that I can do the mace without spending much more. I'm starting that this afternoon, I'll let you know how it goes

Productive weekend

I managed to get a massive amount of work accomplished this weekend, and there's still almost 2 hours left, so you never know what else might happen.

I did a good chunk of work for my actual paying job and got some new shots done for an animated movie I'm doing for someone - it's looking pretty damned good so far too.

In the middle of all that, got some work done for the Demon Army costumes, I made the mantles, or gorgets...or collars, whatever you want to call them. Didn't come out as I'd hoped, but they do what they need to do. They're pretty crude looking, which was the look I was going for so I guess that's a "mission accomplished".

I even made some attempt to create the tunics for the same costumes. Not that there's much skill involved in making a ratty, torn, piece of crap looking tunic. Still, it's done.

So far all that's left to be made for these costumes are the hoods - that'll be an awesome good time.

And I also made two weapons. I wanted to give one of the Brotherhood characters two small hand axes for his weapons. I couldn't find anything reasonable to buy, so I figured I made a warhammer - how hard could and axe, or two, be?

They're far from flawless, but for what little they cost - they're pretty good looking. I'd post some pictures, but it's getting late and I'm tired - plus they still need a couple more coats of paint and latex to really solid them up.

I think that's about it. I'll probably post a few pictures soon.

The Demon Army

I've finalized the design of the demons for the Demon Army. There's still a bit of work to do to fully complete them. I was hoping to keep it pretty streamlined, but it just didn't look right at all. It's a lot of layers, but it should be really easy to slip on and off without too much problem.



I think each costume has at least 10 pieces - maybe 11 depending. I've got most of it all sussed out, either on order, made or almost made. The only part that been causing problem is the hood. It's not something you can just buy - or at least not like I want it too look - so I'm hoping it's something that can be made relatively easily. That hardest part will be creating a workable pattern. And then the most fun part comes along, wearing the costumes in so they don't look all bright and shiny new - I get to take each one, wear it and roll in the dirt and whatever else with scuff and filthy then up a bit.

Other then that it's nearly take care of. I have the weapons being shipped as well as the prosthetics I wanted. It's coming along really well and I hope to have this scene shot and over with by end of June.

Things are insanely busy these days so knowing this is coming to an end is a bit of a relief.