Todd Otte from Mariner’s Church in Irvine, California brings us this silhouetted excitement.
This set is constructed out of medium-density fibreboard. People were cut out of the MDF and painted black, then hung 8 inches away from an additional piece of MDF painted white and gray. The light gets absorbed into the black and reflects off the white. Brilliant!
Another way would be to hang white fabric panels and have smaller scale people cutouts behind them and then back-lit with color bulbs from behind from a low angle to make the shadows appear larger. Wouldn't get as clean or sharp a result though, but would allow for movement if you wanted to use live people for some reason. This is very cool!
If you go to Home Depot in the painting area, they have these HUGE rolls of brown paper. (I think they’re to use as drop clothes) around $11. There has to be at least 100′ x 40″ (Est). I have made people with nice clean details- including spaces between arms and body, and openings through the hair. For stability atatch to cardboard. An old refridgorator box does nicely. I look for free or close to free matterials where ever possible.
this is great. i really love it. thank you Jonathan for keeping me updated.