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Permalink Reply by Ted Jones on September 8, 2015 at 1:59pm

Many years ago, in the mid '70's, I put a piece of white scrim in the tree that was stretched tight and shaped into the tree branches with leaves lightly painted on it in dye, not paint. We used 3 lights with gobo's for the cat face, the eyes and the smile. We faded out the face, then the eyes and then the smile.

If you can get a video projector with a tight enough picture, you could probably do it better and even animate the cat face. You should put some sound insulation under it to keep the fan from disturbing the house unless you can rear project. You may need to use black wrap to hat the projector to get the image small enough and maybe shaped so as to look right.

Ted

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Permalink Reply by Sara Morsey on September 14, 2015 at 4:45pm

If you have an actual actor playing the role, you can use black light or glow in the dark paint on the face to paint the smile, make sure it's activated by the stage lights or whatever. When you go to black it'll glow. It works. It's cheap and it's safe.

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