Author Topic: How make cobweb? Maciej Lewandowski
posted 11-17-1998 05:02 AM
I need cobweb for ghotic horror (amateur film). How make it (like in Frankenstain)?

FXMan
posted 11-17-1998 11:41 AM
Maciej,

I think there is a device called a "spinner" or something like that which hooks to a standard electric (or now cordless) drill. Into the holding container you put rubber cement and it "spins" out this wispy film in tiny web-like strands that will adhere to things and give the effect of cobwebs. Never used it so I don't know if the stuff is then hard to get off of everything but there is a rubber cement solvent that might help remove it from whatever you are using it on if that's an issue. Rubber cement will rub off of just about anything smooth but will adhere to fabric and such and never come out. The device is available at most theatrical supply places - Alcone Company in New York has it and I am sure other places too. As I recall it isn't too expensive for what it does. You could use that stuff that they make to put on Christmas trees that looks like fine white hair. NOT angel hair - that's fiberglass and makes me itch thinking about it. But this is some other fibrous kind of thing that is in fine strands that you could separate by hand and apply here and there with some care and creative use of the stuff. Hope this helps.

FXMan

nike_a_go_go
posted 11-17-1998 05:01 PM
Cotton fiber or nylon fiber would be a good place to start. That it what is sold in the stores around our Halloween Holiday.

The fibers are long and stringy. Simply streach the stuff over the set.

Did you ever find the information you were seeking on napthalene? (sp?)

James
posted 11-17-1998 06:52 PM
I have 2 favorite ways to make webs:
1. spray rubber cement out of a airbrush. Keep the airbrush at least 3 feet from where the webs should start forming.
2. Use a hot glue gun. Squirt a lot of hot glue onto a piece of two by four wood then quickly sandwich it with another piece of 2 X 4 and then pull the two pieces apart. The glue will form stringy webs between the two pieces of wood. A more professional way is to use an air compressor to blast the hot glue away from the hot glue gun as it comes out. The glue will form long strings as it flies thru the air. The glue will cool in the air and land nicely on chairs or what ever else..

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