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Starlight Studio

The StarWhispers official blog. Resources and reflections to help bring your stories to life, publish your own work, and build your own platforms as we share the methods used to create our own.

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Pepper's Ghost is a stage effect dating back to the 1500s, allowing designers to 'project' a ghostly image seemingly into a real space with only glass and clever lighting. It was popularized in the 19th century, and is still used in themed entertainment today. A famous example for theme-park fans would be the ballroom scene in Disney's Haunted Mansion, but even within Disney the effect has been perfected, now for a pretty stunning impact in Tokyo Disneyland's Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast.
Tokyo Disneyland's use of Pepper's Ghost in Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast. Video from blackmagicfuckery, Reddit. 
It's also been used for celebrity performance 'holograms,'  advertising, and even teleprompters.

Below I'll show you how I did an extremely no-budget version of this effect for silly TikTik videos in my living room.

(Previously only available on Patreon, until I decided that gatekeeping knowledge is stupid and I won't be doing that anymore.)​

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Trystan (Azrai) has been fabricating and designing themed narrative entertainment since 2016. Lou has a BA in game design and has extensive art & hospitaly experience. Together they create worlds, aim to make storytelling more accessible, and give artists autonomy over their own work.