Re-Animator liquid?
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(IronFist @ Jan 29 2007, 09:18 AM) [snapback]1406997[/snapback]</div>
Those little glow lights only last for a couple hours. Are you looking for short term or long term. If long term you could take a fluorescent yellow marker (or other color) and soak it in water and illuminate it with a UV LED to make it glow. There are ways to make a small tube of water bubble from the heat of a 1 or 2 watt resistor as well.
Those little glow lights only last for a couple hours. Are you looking for short term or long term. If long term you could take a fluorescent yellow marker (or other color) and soak it in water and illuminate it with a UV LED to make it glow. There are ways to make a small tube of water bubble from the heat of a 1 or 2 watt resistor as well.
M Bison
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Nexus6 @ Jan 29 2007, 08:39 AM) [snapback]1407006[/snapback]</div>
Yes, they use the liquid from light sticks for the blood of the Predator. They mentioned in the behind-the-scenes documentary on the special edition DVD that they went through buckets of the stuff.
Yes, they use the liquid from light sticks for the blood of the Predator. They mentioned in the behind-the-scenes documentary on the special edition DVD that they went through buckets of the stuff.
Robot Monster
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From what I remember from long ago, the liquid was beefed up by some neon. One of the KMB guys told a story at a con about having to climb up an old diner sign and steal some of the neon for the effect. I can't say for sure where the neon was used but I assume it was for a large beaker. Sorry I don't have more detail but it was over 15 years ago.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tekmage3000 @ Jan 29 2007, 10:12 AM) [snapback]1407022[/snapback]</div>
I thought I remember reading that they used blacklights which is close to UV to make the green "blood" brighter.
I thought I remember reading that they used blacklights which is close to UV to make the green "blood" brighter.
Robot Monster
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Oh I'm sure they used a number of tricks. The one I remember just had to do with the larger beaker's
rubbing alcohol + neon yellow marker = happy green make life again fluid.
best recipe i ever got
it wont let anything grow in it, but you will have to strain it because the little neon yellow marker "sponges" tend to leave little bits of sponge floating in the medium.
the more yellow marker to the less alcohol means a brighter green color.
it will also stain like crazy, so be careful with it.
chris
best recipe i ever got
it wont let anything grow in it, but you will have to strain it because the little neon yellow marker "sponges" tend to leave little bits of sponge floating in the medium.
the more yellow marker to the less alcohol means a brighter green color.
it will also stain like crazy, so be careful with it.
chris
PHArchivist
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We had an identical thread here back in '01 or '02... FWIW.
Great_Bizarro
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I remember seeing in a Dennys a tube they ran around the counter that had liquid pumped through it that glowed. I traced it back to an box and think they were using a black light in the box to charge glow in the dark liquid that was being pumped through the tubing to return to the box and be recharged again. Not too bright but did have a glow to it in ambient lighting.
The KNB guy was pulling your leg or it was a load of BS. Neon is a gas! Excited by high voltage electricity. It is amazing the urban legends that persist on stuff like this.
I showed McTiernan the green Cylum sticks and suggested they be used as blood. The DP said it isn't bright enough to photograph. I said, your right it isn't, but here’s a trick. I cut open the stick, poured the contents in a cup and popped it in the microwave for a few seconds. Presto, bright as a 40 watt light bulb.
To which the DP replied, "We won't have microwaves in the jungle." “No, but you will have hair dryers!” I replied. So that is what was done (according to Kevin Peter Hall) hair dryers where held on the "blood" until the camera was rolling and presto, bright green glowing blood.
I showed McTiernan the green Cylum sticks and suggested they be used as blood. The DP said it isn't bright enough to photograph. I said, your right it isn't, but here’s a trick. I cut open the stick, poured the contents in a cup and popped it in the microwave for a few seconds. Presto, bright as a 40 watt light bulb.
To which the DP replied, "We won't have microwaves in the jungle." “No, but you will have hair dryers!” I replied. So that is what was done (according to Kevin Peter Hall) hair dryers where held on the "blood" until the camera was rolling and presto, bright green glowing blood.
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Robot Monster
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They used the neon for backlighting. It was not mixed in anything. Thought that would be obvious.
