About The mummy returns prop-Help!!!
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Thank you Mathew and all that help to become true this project, also i will need some help with the following new project :
http://www.therpf.com/f40/oz-great-powerful-mastering-magic-book-inside-pages-225989/
I will need some help with the inside pages.I am searching to find the text and the figures, maybe this pages are from a real book with magic tricks.I dont know really but i am searching that.
http://www.therpf.com/f40/oz-great-powerful-mastering-magic-book-inside-pages-225989/
I will need some help with the inside pages.I am searching to find the text and the figures, maybe this pages are from a real book with magic tricks.I dont know really but i am searching that.
mathew
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Hey Guys,
I am super busy with study now so I haven't got much time to look at this at the moment.
I hope you all will also continue with this project. Unfortunately I seem to have lost the layer by layer PS version of the document but if someone wants to work further on his own for, for example the size issues be my guest. Drop me a PM and I will send you the file with most of the hieroglyphs on it ( I can probably re-work it by then so it's up to date)
It would be a shame if this project was abandoned.
I am super busy with study now so I haven't got much time to look at this at the moment.
I hope you all will also continue with this project. Unfortunately I seem to have lost the layer by layer PS version of the document but if someone wants to work further on his own for, for example the size issues be my guest. Drop me a PM and I will send you the file with most of the hieroglyphs on it ( I can probably re-work it by then so it's up to date)
It would be a shame if this project was abandoned.
mathew
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I will send it to you as soon as possible. The Hieroglyphs needs to be re-sized and the empty space re-done to the right size ( the columns are to big at this point) And I needs better pictures of the lower columns.
As I said before: I will send you a PS file with the middle columns done ( but without the lining and outer columns) and a .Jpeg file with the lining and outer columns as they are now.
If anyone else wants them, please PM me.
As I said before: I will send you a PS file with the middle columns done ( but without the lining and outer columns) and a .Jpeg file with the lining and outer columns as they are now.
If anyone else wants them, please PM me.
Much like a mummy; I’m resurrecting this thread!
As a couple of you know already, I’ve been working on the hieroglyph page for a little while now. I’m close to having that finished now. I’ve used the page mathew produced previously and have correct a couple pieces I believe were in error and filled in all the blanks.
The left most and right most columns of the central register have been the most problematic. It’s clear from the sets and other props that the art department had a few hieroglyph references which they liked and then reused on virtually every prop. The unobscured section of the right most column is feather, sickle, placenta, chick (or ImAxw in Egyptian) which means ‘revered one’. That’s pretty common on funerary inscriptions and I had a few real world references I was going to borrow from, however when I was reading through the ‘Resurrecting the Mummy: The Making of the Movie’ book (ISBN 978-0091868307) I actually found what I believe is the correct sequence of hieroglyphs in the cartouche on the front of the book of the dead:
The left most column seems be a repeating pattern and I’ve pieced that together with a lot of squinting and some educated guesses based on the shape of certain hieroglyphs. You never see the last section of that column, and I have decided fill the blank with Imhotep’s name followed by the mummy determinative to indicate the name is a reference to his mummy. Here’s a sketch from my notebook:
The bottom register is never clearly seen on screen and there’s no way to ever make it truly accurate (unless the original book turns up somewhere). I am going to make the bottom register out of various ancient Egyptian calendar day and festival names.
I re-watched the Mummy Returns last night and when Rick flips through the book you see two distinct double pages of photographs, although far too briefly to see what they’re photographs of. They do look a lot like group shots though:
I do wonder if they were maybe an Easter egg and were photos of the art department, or if they were actual Egyptological photographs. However I think I will find some contemporary photographs of people like Petrie on digs in Egypt and add a few pages my replica with them.
You see both of the covers of the book and they’re both plain, i.e. no writing or embossed designs, and covered in marbled paper with a red spine and corners. You never fully see the spine of the book, there is a jump cut between Evy looking at the books on her shelves and her having it in her hand and in other shots the book is being held and the spine is always partially obscured. From a prop standpoint I would assume that the spine is also left un-embossed and without writing or designs on it, however as a real world book would have some kind of embossing (so that you know what the book is when it’s on a shelf) I think I’ll make my replicas with a book title on the spine.
More to follow!
As a couple of you know already, I’ve been working on the hieroglyph page for a little while now. I’m close to having that finished now. I’ve used the page mathew produced previously and have correct a couple pieces I believe were in error and filled in all the blanks.
The left most and right most columns of the central register have been the most problematic. It’s clear from the sets and other props that the art department had a few hieroglyph references which they liked and then reused on virtually every prop. The unobscured section of the right most column is feather, sickle, placenta, chick (or ImAxw in Egyptian) which means ‘revered one’. That’s pretty common on funerary inscriptions and I had a few real world references I was going to borrow from, however when I was reading through the ‘Resurrecting the Mummy: The Making of the Movie’ book (ISBN 978-0091868307) I actually found what I believe is the correct sequence of hieroglyphs in the cartouche on the front of the book of the dead:
The left most column seems be a repeating pattern and I’ve pieced that together with a lot of squinting and some educated guesses based on the shape of certain hieroglyphs. You never see the last section of that column, and I have decided fill the blank with Imhotep’s name followed by the mummy determinative to indicate the name is a reference to his mummy. Here’s a sketch from my notebook:
The bottom register is never clearly seen on screen and there’s no way to ever make it truly accurate (unless the original book turns up somewhere). I am going to make the bottom register out of various ancient Egyptian calendar day and festival names.
I re-watched the Mummy Returns last night and when Rick flips through the book you see two distinct double pages of photographs, although far too briefly to see what they’re photographs of. They do look a lot like group shots though:
I do wonder if they were maybe an Easter egg and were photos of the art department, or if they were actual Egyptological photographs. However I think I will find some contemporary photographs of people like Petrie on digs in Egypt and add a few pages my replica with them.
You see both of the covers of the book and they’re both plain, i.e. no writing or embossed designs, and covered in marbled paper with a red spine and corners. You never fully see the spine of the book, there is a jump cut between Evy looking at the books on her shelves and her having it in her hand and in other shots the book is being held and the spine is always partially obscured. From a prop standpoint I would assume that the spine is also left un-embossed and without writing or designs on it, however as a real world book would have some kind of embossing (so that you know what the book is when it’s on a shelf) I think I’ll make my replicas with a book title on the spine.
More to follow!
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Mike J.
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Your attachment isn't working
Re-uploaded, how about now?
BrotherWilliam
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I can see it now.
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