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Postby kolm » Nov 21st, '10, 14:35



Uses the hollow mask illusion:
http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/11/p ... ting-swap/

Skip down to the bottom to see it in action

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Postby Ant » Nov 21st, '10, 14:50

Very surreal.

I particularly like the way it follows you vertically as well as horizontally.

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Postby Alec Burns » Nov 21st, '10, 15:06

I don't really think it's a great likeness but can appreciate it's a work of art.

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Postby BigShot » Nov 22nd, '10, 12:56

It gives him a rather funny expression. He looks kinda angry.

Kobain - it won't follow you as you move, but for an ultra-realistic likeness check this one out... nothing related to magic (at all) but it's a stunning likeness even down to the cauliflower ears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZi_TlAZ7T0

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Postby Mr_Grue » Nov 22nd, '10, 16:50

I met Hughes a couple of days after he took the casting. There was beard sacrifice, apparently.

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Postby BigShot » Nov 22nd, '10, 20:33

I just realised I neglected to paste the link into my previous post. Done no though... and repeated here for luck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZi_TlAZ7T0

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Postby Ant » Nov 22nd, '10, 20:59

BigShot wrote:I just realised I neglected to paste the link into my previous post. Done no though... and repeated here for luck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZi_TlAZ7T0


That's pretty amazing, I especially love how they did the facial hair!

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Postby SamGurney » Nov 24th, '10, 22:02

Oh dear. My first thought was 'he kinda looks like Lenin there'


and then he tells us the name of his parrot. :shock:

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Postby BigShot » Nov 24th, '10, 22:10

A_n_t wrote:
BigShot wrote:I just realised I neglected to paste the link into my previous post. Done no though... and repeated here for luck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZi_TlAZ7T0


That's pretty amazing, I especially love how they did the facial hair!

Yep... I think "laboriously" and "carefully" are the words there. :P

It is shockingly good though. The only thing I think was missing was a side-by-side of Couture and his LifeCast... though with it looking that realistic I don't suppose there would be much need for that.

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Postby Alec Burns » Nov 24th, '10, 23:42

I don't think they could improve on that effort!

It's breath taking. I would love to know how many man hours it took and how much it cost all in.

Thanks for posting that.

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Postby BigShot » Nov 25th, '10, 00:06

I went on their website to see if they advertised the service, but I couldn't even find a mention of LifeCasting, let alone a price.
Can't be cheap though. There's a heck of a lot of work in that, none of it exactly "unskilled" either so we can probably assume none of them are on minimum wage.

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Postby Ant » Nov 25th, '10, 12:43

I do not know if it was a joke but under the video in the comments section someone states it is $12,000 to buy.

For all intents and purposes (considering similar things I have seen for sale in the US) that actually seems quite cheap though.

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Postby Tomo » Nov 25th, '10, 12:52

What a smashing illusion. Remind me to do "Sad Queen, Happy Queen" on Saturday (if a flurry of snow doesn't render the West Coast train line inoperable).

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Postby BigShot » Nov 25th, '10, 19:40

A_n_t wrote:I do not know if it was a joke but under the video in the comments section someone states it is $12,000 to buy.

For all intents and purposes (considering similar things I have seen for sale in the US) that actually seems quite cheap though.
Well if that's right or cheap (or even a bit of an over-estimate) there's no way I'll be getting one for effects, jokes or vanity. :P

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