Fing
Full time elf
Hi Everyone,
I'd like to share a bit of a story on my coro singing faces, that I made for my 2015 display. I'll add to this thread as I get the opportunity.
Firstly, my designs "borrow heavily" from the previous work done by Loganc99 and Baf05, who both deserve the credit ( or is that blame) for putting me down this path.
their posts can be found here http://auschristmaslighting.com/forums/index.php/topic,5860.30.html and http://auschristmaslighting.com/forums/index.php/topic,7588.msg69205.html#msg69205
Thanks for the inspiration gents and for sharing your ideas.
I made 4 elements, a star (patrick*) a reindeer ( Bruno*/Rudolph) and two trees as well as a tune to sign which was a late addition. There are programmed in Xlights.
They have moving mouths and eyes and the trees have rotating bows in their hair to indicate male/female vocals. these kinda look like a dalek's eye stalk.
They are mounted to a frame of 20mm gal RHS and fixed to the roof using stainless solar panel mounts which I got from a liquidator on ebay. the power supply and pixlite 4 controller is mounted in a box behind the frame.
to start things off here is a short video of them in action singing uptown funk, sorry but the sound is woeful. You'll notice Patricks hat is on fire as he's so hot, his colour and hat matches the colour of Bruno Mars in the film clip. this was just me being funny, but I was surprised by the number of kids who picked up on it. And I was surprised by the number of kids who understood why he is called patrick..
more to come
Cheers
Fing
https://vimeo.com/154033154
[attachimg=1]
I'd like to share a bit of a story on my coro singing faces, that I made for my 2015 display. I'll add to this thread as I get the opportunity.
Firstly, my designs "borrow heavily" from the previous work done by Loganc99 and Baf05, who both deserve the credit ( or is that blame) for putting me down this path.
their posts can be found here http://auschristmaslighting.com/forums/index.php/topic,5860.30.html and http://auschristmaslighting.com/forums/index.php/topic,7588.msg69205.html#msg69205
Thanks for the inspiration gents and for sharing your ideas.
I made 4 elements, a star (patrick*) a reindeer ( Bruno*/Rudolph) and two trees as well as a tune to sign which was a late addition. There are programmed in Xlights.
They have moving mouths and eyes and the trees have rotating bows in their hair to indicate male/female vocals. these kinda look like a dalek's eye stalk.
They are mounted to a frame of 20mm gal RHS and fixed to the roof using stainless solar panel mounts which I got from a liquidator on ebay. the power supply and pixlite 4 controller is mounted in a box behind the frame.
to start things off here is a short video of them in action singing uptown funk, sorry but the sound is woeful. You'll notice Patricks hat is on fire as he's so hot, his colour and hat matches the colour of Bruno Mars in the film clip. this was just me being funny, but I was surprised by the number of kids who picked up on it. And I was surprised by the number of kids who understood why he is called patrick..
more to come
Cheers
Fing
https://vimeo.com/154033154
[attachimg=1]