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It seemed necessary to do a cooler shot in my zombie hunting shirt, although I have too much hair for you to see the front logo in this shot.
You should all be very happy that calvo and I are keeping you safe from the zombies.
Custom zombie mini-fig. Like to make a horde of your own? For a limited time, the decals used may be purchased here.
I bought a number of pens, and these were the ones that worked. The white is applied first, because as it dries any ink under it will show through. Black is applied next (with both the thick pen and the Micron 005), then the light red, and then the dark red.
Any Sharpie will do in the place of the black Identi Pen]. The ink from the IP dries to a glossier finish than the ink from the 005, giving the faceless zombies' empty eye sockets a creepier look.
Saturday 4th April. A group of people dressed as zombies perform a flashmob around Liverpool city center. At 1pm they set off from St Georges Hall and headed through the streets of Liverpool via Liverpool One. Along the way shoppers and passers by laughed and looked confused as the zombies meandered around. At one point they attacked the window of Cafe Nero and tried to get into John Lewis's only to be turned away by security.
Zombie Captain America. No double sided face on this one, just awesome printing, as LEGO continues to lift the bar with the Collectable Minifigures.
There is some speculation that the word derives from West African languages – ndzumbi means ‘corpse’ in the Mitsogo language of Gabon, and nzambi means the ‘spirit of a dead person’ in the Kongo language. These were the areas where European slavers forcibly transported vast numbers of the population across the Atlantic to work in the sugar cane plantations of the West Indies, the vast profits of which motored the rise of France and England to world powers. The Africans took their religion with them. However, French law required slaves to convert to Catholicism. What emerged was a series of elaborate synthetic religions, creatively mixing elements of different traditions: Vodou or Voodoo in Haiti, Obeah in Jamaica, Santeria in Cuba.
Zombies have a complex literary heritage, with antecedents ranging from Richard Matheson and H. P. Lovecraft to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein drawing on European folklore of the undead. George A. Romero's reinvention of the monster for his 1968 film Night of the Living Dead led to several zombie films in the 1980s and a resurgence of popularity in the 2000s. The "zombie apocalypse" concept, in which the civilized world is brought low by a global zombie infestation, became a staple of modern popular art.
The English word "zombie" is first recorded in 1819, in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey, in the form of "zombi". The Oxford English Dictionary gives the origin of the word as West African, and compares it to the Kongo words nzambi (god) and zumbi (fetish).
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I decided to try a different approach to the zombie theme today. Since I'm planning on a larger themed zombie shoot this saturday I figured I'd try both Zombification both in reality and in photoshop. Day 121 was in photoshop while today was all special effects makeup. Either way it takes along time.
We started with a trip to Walmart to grab craft clue, vasoline, toilet paper and Elmer's white glue. Oh and a what trip to Walmart isn't complete without a stroll down the toy isle!
We started around 9pm and first began applying glue to Shawn's face, followed by ripped pieces of toilet paper. This was applied in layers over and over to build up the scared skin look. I opted to leave his hand normal to show the contrast between fake and real.
I airbrushed his eyes and lips with black non toxic paint then did a light wash of white from his chest up to get rid of that tan Florida look. This would eliminate the need to desaturate in post and save me time. From her we mixed brown and white with Vasoline to give a mushy flesh like paint and dabbed it on. We built up layers of brown, green and red until we were happy. I then peeled back some of the tissue and applied red paint. This would give the nasty falling apart look. Later I would pour ample amounts of fake blood in these wounds to freshen them up.
Shooting was tricky as I wanted to show the texture but not give it away that is was the same stuff we all use each day in the bathroom. I used two blood recipes today in hopes of avoiding the plasticy look of the blood in yesterdays shot. I mixed some red and black airbrush paint with water. This isn't ideal as it just looks like he is a sloppy zombie when drinking cranberry juice.
Lighting was trial and error as I originally setup one light and was going for a dark moody portrait. However, when previewing I wasn't happy as I was loosing a lot of texture. I setup an edge light and it seemed to solve the problem.
I'll try again Saturday. I scaled back the styling today and went for a more "b-movie" look. I'm not sure which style I like better but will mess around abit more before saturday.
Post wasn't difficult because 90% of the effect was done. I just went over areas to solidify the effect. I dropped in this background to finish it off.
After the shoot I spent 30 minutes scrubbing off blood from the house. I felt like a crime scene cleanup crew. I wont spatter blood on my models near the house again. It took bleach water and nearly all my remaining energy to get it off. Come light I don't want the neighbors thinking I'm any more strange than they already do. and blood spatter on my house would definitely bring me to the next stage of weird and creepy
The prosthetics came off very easy and shawn was back to human form in less then 10 minutes. Another victory in not staining, maiming or injuring my models. I'm on a role.
Lighting:
AB800 Beauty Dish Boomed overhead 1/4 power
AB800 Med Softbox 10:00 Full power
Cyber syncs on Beauty Dish, Optical on Softbox.
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Zombie Response vehicle on Garrard Street (behind the old Friars Walk Mall).
A company called Zed Events use the Mall for Airsoft and Zombie events. They have people made up like zombies (very realistically!) and you fight your way through the old abandoned Mall :)
31112 AMOC again, Zombie Winnie. If you can't figure out what the piece behind is, that's alright, me either. Who know that piece of limb was called Eeyone, and who know how cruel Winnie is.
First time to make instruction through Stud.Io and this is a funny learning process. Please free feel to have a look, or build with it and comment. Normally, builders who share instruction may worry about some cloned brick brand will use this for making profit, and I think this doesn't apply to me this time.
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Zombies: At first, nobody really notices. Then people start disappearing, people get attacked, but for the most part they continue to be ignored. Eventually you start wondering what's wrong with the guy next to you... But by then, it's too late...