Hey, welcome to Backyard Effects, the program that shows you how to make your own special effects for cheap and gives away expired Christmas candy. This week, we’re teaming up with the masterminds behind barely digital and showing you how to make a new cyborg arm.
The people over at Barely Digital asked us to make a robot arm for one f their upcoming videos and we couldn’t say no. this project was also requested by Cityscape Pictures, Yemo Films, Sniffy Films 93 and NasaGuy88 and even though we tackled the cyborg effect back in episode 8, we can always improve our designs.
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A scrap piece of PVC pipe that’s about 2 ft long with the one and a half inch inner diameter, another piece of scrap PVC that is smaller and slide smoothly into the first PBC. A small LED flashlight, some green tape or green spray paint, some silver and copper-coated spray paint, an old spray nozzle, some green fabric and an old plastic wire spool.
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Male: This project is rated skill level 6. To build the prop arm, you’ll first need to cut the plastic spool in half. Next, take the larger diameter PVC and cut a rectangular notch out of it like so. This creates a basic windows so you can see the smaller diameter PBC slide in and out.
Next, use some hot glue and attach the two ends of the spool to the larger diameter pipe. Make sure your window is in the middle. Now paint the outer PVC assembly and the inner PVC pipe silver then paint the spray nozzle brass. Once the paint dries, hot glue the nozzle to the end of the smaller PVC pipe.
The last two steps is to add the flashlight, add some grease and cover the outside in green. Now onto the shoe, pin or tape some green fabric to the arms of your actor then film all your scenes in front of the green screen. Edit down a rough cut of your movie and figure out all the angles you’ll need for your prop robot arm.
Now, go back to the green screen room and film these angles with your prop arm. Try and use twist and bends to replicate that robot piston feel. A C standing clamp will help make your prop arm footage more stable. Now, to the magic of editing, you can key out all the green resize your pro arm then use key frames or motion checking to match the movements of the prop arm with your actor.
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All right everybody, that wraps up another build episode of BFX. Make sure to navigate back to Indymogul.com tomorrow to check out the original film that barelydigital.com and indymogul.com, made together. It features sexy cyborgs with robot arms, Amazon babes, biker zombies and yours truly. That’s right, I’m in the film.
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