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A giant ring.

Created at	April 27, 2010
Created by	Martin Lejeune
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Thierry Gschwind	Size ?		2/40%

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Rather then a goose that lays golden eggs the characters steal a gold ring from the giants.

What would be the best way to realise this? I'm thinking of simply upscaling a ring when the actors don't need to interact with it but there is a scene with one of them stealing it, so how can we mock up a tire sized ring without spending too much money?

or could we use something like a hola hoop and replace it with a CG ring? (can you still get hola hoops?)

thoughts?

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Carl Voluntaryist May 15, 2010 22:49 0 Thumb-ups

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Plastic

You could plastiform your prop.
http://www.studiocreations.com/howto/stormtrooper/index.html
...has a decent guide on the process.

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Michael Hudson April 28, 2010 19:27 3 Thumb-ups

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OK, I did some calculations and the results probably aren't as massive as you might expect. So, I think it's worth considering a prop of some sort.

If the giant is 20m, and average UK female height is 1.6m

This gives a ratio of 1:12.5

Taking an average ring size of say "Q", this is 18.5mm inside diameter.

Using the above ratio, the "giant" ring would have an inside diameter of 23.1cm. Taking a standard wedding band and it would be about 3cm thick.

23cm is not as big as expected, I bet there's some sort of pipe this size which could be painted gold. The only effect would be making it look heavy when moving it and sound fx.

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(null) May 02, 2010 15:51 Flag

Thanks for the maths Michael, this is a good guide for everyone on the task.

As you imply, 23 cm with 3cm thickness is nothing, you could make the ring out of almost anything.

Thierry Gschwind April 29, 2010 08:48 Flag

The Pipe could be filled with something heavy like sand or so...

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Thierry Gschwind April 27, 2010 11:26 2 Thumb-ups

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Size ?

How tall are the giants ?
If the ring tire sized, this means that the giant is around 50 m tall.
Also a ring of that size in gold would weight several 100 kg and could not be carried by the protagonist. One classic gold bar is around 12 kg.

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Thierry Gschwind April 27, 2010 11:41 Flag

Then just take an old tire maybe (from a scooter), and cover it with some stuff and paint it gold.

Martin Lejeune April 27, 2010 11:34 Flag

The giants are ten times larger than our heroes (20 metres tall roughly) which if you think about it would mean they would be too heavy to stand up and probably find the air to thin to breath.

So I'm going to ignore all that science stuff on the grounds that we are well and truly in the fantasy genre.

Bearing that in mind, they will only pick it up and roll it along rather then be carrying it over their heads.

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