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The question is simple. How could I make spiderweb in a movie? What is the material used for it?
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I used to sell that stuff! It stretches out for miles! Use it sparingly and get the best effect! I was selling it for £1.25 a bag!
You can also buy spiderweb spray in a can, although I admit I haven't seen it on sale for a few years
To aid the spiderweb look, spray talc all over the set. It creats a lovelly "hasn't been lived in much recently" look! Don't put it on the floor, just on surfaces.
You can also buy spiderweb spray in a can, although I admit I haven't seen it on sale for a few years
To aid the spiderweb look, spray talc all over the set. It creats a lovelly "hasn't been lived in much recently" look! Don't put it on the floor, just on surfaces.
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Eww! I couldn't do that because after I take my webs down they are all intermingled with real cobwebs! Sometmes real spiders too!Famous wrote:I kept all of mine from october just in case i needed them.
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The hot glue strings method it's very good but it's time consuming to achieve a realistic loock. There is a device to attach to a regullar electric drill that makes really impresive spiderwebs using a special fluid sold with the device. I't a cobweb spinner.
http://www.yardhaunter.com/halloween_cobwebs.html
The source page of the images explain another method using compresed air and hot glue:
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COBWEB SHOOTERS
Ever wonder how haunted attraction spin their cob webs? Opposed to the unit above, these are called Cob-web Shooters, and that's exactly what they do.
Cob-web shooters spray out realistic looking webs much faster than fan type web-spinners. The base unit is a highly customized hot glue gun, equipped with a special tip that transfers the webbing material into a stream of compressed air, allowing for detailed application of cob-webs. These types of web shooters do require an air compressor with up to 100psi.
Whether you need close-in webs for detailed work, or are shooting webs over the front of your garage, this unit can do the job. Using the flow-valve, you can adjust amount and density of the cob-webs produced. The web material cleans off easily, but we always recommend that you test some on important materials. This unit uses regular hot glue sticks to produce lots of great looking cob-webs. Or, you can buy special glow-in-the-dark glue sticks that glow under Black Light. Another nice benefit to these types of web shooters, is that you don't have to worry about the web fluid drying up over time.
Minions Web actually has detailed instructions for building your own, or if you prefer, you can buy a ready-to-go unit for less than fifty-dollars from them.
http://www.yardhaunter.com/halloween_cobwebs.html
The source page of the images explain another method using compresed air and hot glue:
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COBWEB SHOOTERS
Ever wonder how haunted attraction spin their cob webs? Opposed to the unit above, these are called Cob-web Shooters, and that's exactly what they do.
Cob-web shooters spray out realistic looking webs much faster than fan type web-spinners. The base unit is a highly customized hot glue gun, equipped with a special tip that transfers the webbing material into a stream of compressed air, allowing for detailed application of cob-webs. These types of web shooters do require an air compressor with up to 100psi.
Whether you need close-in webs for detailed work, or are shooting webs over the front of your garage, this unit can do the job. Using the flow-valve, you can adjust amount and density of the cob-webs produced. The web material cleans off easily, but we always recommend that you test some on important materials. This unit uses regular hot glue sticks to produce lots of great looking cob-webs. Or, you can buy special glow-in-the-dark glue sticks that glow under Black Light. Another nice benefit to these types of web shooters, is that you don't have to worry about the web fluid drying up over time.
Minions Web actually has detailed instructions for building your own, or if you prefer, you can buy a ready-to-go unit for less than fifty-dollars from them.
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Looks good. For most people, it is easier and cheaper to go buy a large packet of halloween spiderweb.
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Thats what glue useually does.
I like the "Holloween Web" Idea. The only problem is that they usually come in one huge, bulging, Pulsating mass or carbon, and it would take time to unravel, but probably less time that it would take waiting for glue to dry.
I like the "Holloween Web" Idea. The only problem is that they usually come in one huge, bulging, Pulsating mass or carbon, and it would take time to unravel, but probably less time that it would take waiting for glue to dry.
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Hot glue dries pretty fast, especially as thin strands. Probably around a second to harden.
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Cobb webs
I am making my "amnesia" film in september. I have several scenes where the main charcter comes into abandoned houses. These houses have been abandoned for atleast 3 years. I will have dust every where, and that's the easier part. The hard part is to fake cob webs. Does anyone have any suggestions that work the best.
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Just buy plenty of that Halloween fake spider web stuff. (The cottony fibres that come in a big tangled ball.) Just take your time and stretch it out as fine as you can, it really works well. I think they make spray on stuff in a can too, no idea how well it works though.
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Check out this existing topic on Spiderwebs: http://www.matthawkins.co.uk/forum/view ... ght=spider
By the way, if you're trying to find anything, use the search facility. I simlpy typed in spider to find it.
By the way, if you're trying to find anything, use the search facility. I simlpy typed in spider to find it.
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here, ive used this method, except i ended up using a propeller from a model plane (backwards so the air blows forward) and a prescription pill bottle, it works fairly well. you may need to practice a little to get the webs to look right. also you might need to mess w/ lighting so they show up on camera...
http://thehorrordome.com/HDPROPS/SpiderWebSpinner.htm
here is a hotglue version, it is a little more ambitious though.
http://www.minionsweb.com/webgun.htm
http://thehorrordome.com/HDPROPS/SpiderWebSpinner.htm
here is a hotglue version, it is a little more ambitious though.
http://www.minionsweb.com/webgun.htm
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i never used the search thing because whenever i tried it nothing would come up but then i realiozed i was using the one for searching articles and stuffBy the way, if you're trying to find anything, use the search facility. I simlpy typed in spider to find it.
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