>>115312It's not like it can't be done I can anyone even one of you can do it all it takes is somebody getting off their ass and making a reality somehow?
If I was to do it I know how I'd go about it maybe I think? The dress is gonna give you some leaway so maybe a inflatable suit Uber it with being green or black screen so I can digitally edit skin in with cgi.
Although green screen is always more messy than other methods as you can't fully unkey out the green. But alternatively a fake rubber skin made out of poly plastic might work same stuff Fleshlights are made of as foam latex isn't durable enough to stretch? Paint it with lifelike tones some blue spooky veins or whatever that makes ghostly skin and make boob belly and a full body suit out of it but this would be the more high end route for things.
For cheap use balloons bubble balls whatever really. I've always thought for scenes where you need a weightless ball feel you could make a inflatable doll essentially where the head hands and feet are sculpted onto a inflatable ball in a dress and made durable enough to roll squeeze or throw up anywhere you like. And use close up shots of the actress in a waist up half ball prop (not inflatable most likely static like a pillow or plush) where she can make face expressions.
Then editing does your work for you edit shots use cgi for errors.
Big benefits for sadako is her hair will hide your dummy's face at time still I recommend this slightly as alien ant farm did this to achieve the crowd surfing effect when they passed around the blueberry girl and they aren't the first either only difference is I wouldn't just use some sex doll but put the effort into making the hands a feet as well as the bloated face as realistic as silicone can possible. That way audience can't tell the difference.
But whether you go cheap end or high end professional these types of inflation scenes can easily be done via practical fx!
Again key focus should be
1. Inflatable props and suits for the inflation process.
2. Inflatable dummy's for unrealistic proportions or other scenes such as cartoonishly proportions, overinflating and popping, and of course if you want a weightless feel as humans weigh a lot! Even in a inflatable suit you aren't lifting anyone on your shoulders that's not how gravity works. So inflation prop with efforts done to hid the face no matter how realistic it looks (and I do recommend make it look as uncannily real as possible) is the best method with close up edits of the actress in a separate puffy cheeks prop inner spliced for close up expressions.
Not to mention like I said if you wanted to go with a cartoonishly proportions inflation for things like popping going the big trouble in little china route when you reach a certain size is better and probably cheaper that popping a suit with the actress inside it.
Keep in mind things like that don't always work on the first take too so you'd probably either have to make multiple or make some sort of disposable insert and pre-plan where it's exactly going to pop and just use editing for the rest.
Now there are some props that are made in Hollywood that are designed to be one use and usually people go through the effort of making at minimum two or three of these so you could probably realistically try to do a pop that is disposable but keep in mind physics can screw with you severely and you better make sure you have every camera under the Sun rolling on you when you attempt something like that to get every angle you want or otherwise you're screwed.
Those are my helpful tips I hope it helps somebody on their journey of balloon prop discovery! Seriously I wish somebody would make horror inflation props the silicone mask making world is perfect place to make this a reality again for example look at big trouble in little china. You can do normal and or Uber inflation bursts easy as long as you got a talented paint artist
