Video Tag
Every video tagged “rear projection” in the library — a focused slice of the Halloween archive.
5 videos
Wicked Makers duo Jay and Jaimie construct a massive life-sized stone portal for their front yard haunt, inspired by the Dark Portal from the Warcraft universe. The arch is built entirely from XPS foam, carved and painted to mimic aged stone, with LED-lit runic carvings embedded throughout. A semi-transparent fabric screen on the back panel enables rear projection of a custom hellscape VFX video at night, creating a dramatic portal illusion. Plans and the custom projection video are available through their Patreon.
VanOaksProps launches a new experimental series called Prop Lab, where the creator openly documents the learning process behind ambitious Halloween builds — including mistakes and limitations. This debut episode focuses on building a DIY fog projection screen capable of displaying a ghostly digital effect from Spectral Illusions. The build combines a small pico projector with a reptile fogger and computer fans to generate and shape a fog curtain thin enough to serve as a projection surface. The video emphasizes honest problem-solving over polished results, making it as much a learning resource as a how-to.
Wicked Makers — Jaimie and Jay — transform their foam-built Halloween dark portal into a show-stopping Christmas yard prop by redecorating it as a magical gateway to the North Pole. The build leverages rear projection onto a semi-transparent fabric screen, AtmosFX Christmas digital content, and glowing LED runes carved into painted XPS foam. The video goes deeper than their original portal build, covering projector selection, positioning, and digital decorating workflow. The finished piece reportedly drew neighbors from around the block.
This short demo from FrightProps showcases Hollusion projection material, a specialized scrim that makes projected ghost and spirit animations appear to float in mid-air. The effect combines digital decoration content with the semi-transparent material to produce a convincing phantom illusion suitable for haunted house environments. Even in a brief runtime, the clip effectively illustrates the visual impact achievable with this approach.
FrightProps showcases their Cursed Coffins CGI DVD, a ready-to-play projection resource featuring two distinct coffin-based creature effects for haunted house environments. The disc includes a vampire bat creature and a flesh-eating zombie, each animating from a skeletal form into their monstrous final state. A buffer loop featuring cobwebs and a tarantula rounds out the package, providing seamless transitions between scares.
