Reactive Dragon Mask
Process Photos
This Dragon Mask was a collaboration between a Costume Technician and myself. Our goal was to create a mask that would light up based on the performers movements. When the performer rears back their head to ‘breath fire’ a tilt sensor is activated and causes the eyes and nostrils to flash red. This was achieved by using micro controllers and writing code to make it perform how we would like.
Finished Mask
The Photo to the left shows the micro controllers as I start to map out the path. I used a Gemma II for the control and power.
Credits:
Lighting: Zach Young
Mask Construction: Lucia Callendar
This Shows how the lights in the eyes and nostrils look when lit up. The eyes were created with LED filament to give the idea of slits and the nostrils with red LED sequins.
To the left you can see how the dragon mask looked in process as the lights were installed into it.
The photo to the Right shows how the mask looked before painting and sculpting.