The Unborn
While watching the trailer to the movie “The Unborn”, I got this idea for
another prop which I call “The Unborn.”
Basically the idea is a humanoid creature which walks on all fours, and
its body’s structure goes against the physics of nature. As shown in the picture above. The character that I used for inspiration from the movie is the picture right below.
The first photos show a basic drawing I did on the structure of the prop. I wanted to make its body like in the movie, but with my own twist. It isn't a very good image, but it was my first thoughts on the prop.
After getting a basic understanding of how I wanted to make the body, I started cutting out pieces out of PVC shown in the photo below. Each PVC was cut in dimension to that of a 6ft human. I used the Zobietronix Calculator to figure out what to use for dimension for his arms, legs, etc.
The next thing I needed to do was to make an arch on the back. I felt it would be a lot easier on me if I made the props back with a bit of a curve to it. That was done by taking a blow-torch and melting the back. As you can see it came out ok.
I am working on the ribs, face, hands, and feet. In this photo you will see that I attached the face. The face was bought from Fright Theatre. I put some latex on it and painted it. I ribs I started out with wire and hot glued them to the pvc pipe.
In this photo, I added paper mache to the ribs. The ribs are a combo of newpaper and tissue paper.(tissue paper on top) I also added cardboard hip bones and the points to the spine were cardboard as well. I then paper machined over them. Everything was painted with gray, black, and stain. The red was a mistake, so I painted over it. In this photo I also added clothes which were medical scrubs from ebay. Also added foam onto the pvc pipes to add depth.
This was the finished photo(I will have to take a few photographs in the dark) At this point I paper machied the legs that I added foam to. The feet were made with duc tape, paper, and part of a flip flop. The hands and arms were made of combo of pvc pipes layered with foam.(You can get that in the PVC section as well) I added wire to the end of the pvc pipes to make fingers. I then paper machied them.
Night Photos 2009
More photos to follow.