Faceless Mannequin (URGENT!!)

[ddirector]

I asked this before a while ago, but I wanted to refesh some things as some of the things I said, and the advise given was unpractical.

We are making a 10min si-fi short film. There are 3 faceless robots (mannequines looking) that we need to make. They will be real people in a costume.
These mannequin robots will need to have a faceless mask but still be able to see though it.
The body will have molds onto them to give it more of a solid mannequin look to them, but still be able to move and do anything needed.

We are wondering on how to make a faceless head.

Some ideas are:
But without hair. A solid smooth texture throughout the head.

But with less facial features and more flat looking

My director did find a mask at a halloween store that is faceless. Which is awesome. However, it works on the one-way mirror method. They can see out, but from the outside its just a big 180' reflection, which isnt practical. We need something non-reflective.
And this only covers the face, not the sides, top or anywhere else.

Maybe if we use this as an underlayer and have something on top, that could possible work. As long as the mirror isnt visible from underneath still.

Any ideas?

This is kinda neat looking, and basically what we want. Not sure on the colours

very minimal budget

 

[Scuba Bob]

Well there are a couple of ways to do what you're looking for. the most straight forward would be to do a lifecast of your actor or use a generic lifecast and use clay to create the exact shape that you want the covering to be. You'll want to make sure to account for your actor to breathe from their nose while wearing it. Once you've got your sculpt, you can make the mold out of epoxy resin, stone, plaster or whatever and then cast your mask. For an effect like this i would suggest ecoflex series silicone from smooth on as it is highly stretchy and you want a tight fit with this mask.

 

[Coz]

Not so much sculpting, but how about a generic undermask (so all actors wearing them look the same) like in the Spider-man movies, with a plain zentai or morphsuit type fabric mask?
At a pinch, those plain white plastic 'robot' masks with a morph mask could work.
C.

 

[punisher]

try making a duct tape mask and paint it after some paper mache. For the shapes; for the back half cover someones head in tape and for the front, blow up a balloon inside of the back half and line it up for the face and cover it in tape also.

 

[kwalsh0000]

How about a hockey mask (nose sanded flat) ? If the holes appear on the fabric then wrap t he mask in duct tape so it appear to be without holes?

Failing that, as mentioned above, one of the universal face shells that people use for Spidey etc

 

[SajaRawr]

How about this one buddy?

it would be cheap and you can re scale it to match the measurements you need, then you can make it smooth or maybe cast it or put some fabric over it? there are lots of opptions, let me know if you want the file
Good luck!

 

[steveo]

My director did find a mask at a halloween store that is faceless. Which is awesome. However, it works on the one-way mirror method. They can see out, but from the outside its just a big 180' reflection, which isnt practical. We need something non-reflective.

could you cut out the eye holes and then cover the entire mask with some sort of netting, like panty hose, white bridal veil or some sort of black netting - this would be see through and not reflective.

 

[BATS]

could you cut out the eye holes and then cover the entire mask with some sort of netting, like panty hose, white bridal veil or some sort of black netting - this would be see through and not reflective.

That's what we did for a friend that went to Comicon last year as the question.

We put a skin toned nylon over an abstract val kilmer life I made a long time back, so it becomes a facial shell with only small cut outs for the eyes...

its about as covered and abstract as you can get but still see, long as your not in the dark, then your going to bonk your noggin

 

[Spider84]

They did that on doctor who with the 9th doctor. There are still replica masks floating around you might get hit with copyright.

Or you do a prosthetic mask with pin hole eye holes they did that before.