Home Haunter Seminars
Saturday June 10, 2023
Supercharge Your Home Haunt With Advanced Pixel Lighting Displays!
9:45 am-10:45 am | Room 12
Speaker: Rudy Vanderbiest, Chicago Haunt Builders
$30 Early Bird Price | $40 Regular Price
Learn how pixels can become a fantastic addition to your home haunt display! You’ll see the basics of programming a light show and see samples of fantastic pixel props geared specifically towards Halloween!
Home Haunting 101 Fundamentals
11:00am-12:00pm | Room 12
Speakers: – Jordon Jones, Brimstone Haunt/Ohio Haunters Association
$30 Early Bird Price | $40 Regular Price
Understand forced perspective and how to design and place scenery in relation to actors and audiences. Then learn how to work with low voltage batteries, gels, securing lights, building flats and jacks for your Haunt structure
Making Monsters Move!
1:00pm-2:00pm | Room 12
Speakers: Jim Slanker – Chicago Haunt Builders
$30 Early Bird Price|$40 Regular Price
Learn the basics of using motors to create animated props for your Haunt or Display. Learn about the different types of motors used in props, how to power them, trigger them. The seminar will also cover basic linkages.
The Ultimate How To Guide For Monster Mud
2:15 pm-3:15 pm | Room 12
Speakers: Cheryl Callender- Chicago Haunt Builders
$30 Early Bird Price| $40 Regular Price
Learn to use “Monster Mud” to make statues, tombstones and other eerie props. Learn the materials needed for creating “Monster Mud” as well as how to create realistic looking status from start to finish as well as to take your tombstones to another level by using Monster Mud on your tombstones to give them a realistic stone look and texture.
How to Build a Walkthrough Home Haunted House
3:30 pm-4:30 pm | Room 12
Speaker: Michael Peters – Chicago Haunt Builders
$30 Early Bird Price| $40 Regular Price
Have you ever wanted to create a walk-through home haunted house? Do you already have one and want to take it to the next level? From wall panels to black plastic, there are many ways to create a walkthrough Home Haunted House at your home! Learn everything there is to go into creating and running a home haunt. Set up, take down, storage tips, building methods on all levels of budgets, set design, how to incorporate animatronics and props, as well as how to get people to come out to your show! Stand out from the rest with outstanding design that makes your show your own unique experience!
Sunday June 11, 2023
Anchors Away – Securing Your Home Haunt Display
9:45 am-10:45 am | Room 12
Speakers: Rudy Vanderbiest, Chicago Haunt Builders
$30 Early Bird Price| $40 Regular Price
Learn about the tools, tips and tricks that keep your props standing tall and proud during those pesky weeks leading up to Halloween and survive the furies of Mother Nature!
Oh The Web We Weave?
11:00 am-12:00 pm | Room 12
Speaker Jennifer Horst
$30 Early Bird Price| $40 Regular Price
Move up from the pulled cotton spider webs and learn to use Beef Netting to make impactful, over-the-top spider webs that will send chills down the spine of any self-respecting arachnophobe! Attendees will learn the basics including where to buy beef netting and more importantly, how to work with it to create amazing spider webs which can be used inside or out.
Corpsification: How To Create A Cool Skeletal Corpse On A Budget
12:15 pm-1:15 pm | Room 12
Speakers: Michael Burnett – Fright Night Studios
$30 Early Bird Price| $40 Regular Price
Creating a creepy custom skeletal corpse can be easily accomplished with common materials and tools, using the techniques demonstrated in this demonstration workshop by special makeup effects artist Michael Burnett (FrightNight Studios, Universal Halloween Horror Nights, Evil Dead 2).
Michael will take you step by step through the materials and techniques needed to turn an ordinary plastic skeleton into a realistic, super creepy corpse prop. This workshop will give attendees a basic understanding of the various materials, tools, fabricating & finish techniques that can be used. Attendees will go home with an information handout covering everything discussed during the workshop, including supply sources.
The creepy skeletal corpse you can create from what you will learn in this workshop will be a great scary addition to your escape room, large haunt, or scary yard.
Distress Clothing For Your Props And Actors!
1:30 pm-2:30 pm | Room 12
Speakers: Kevin Biksacky / Wayne Dvorak, Chicago Haunt Builders
$30 Early Bird Price| $40 Regular Price
In this session you will learn how to permanently change “like new” garments and give it a transformation to give it a look to fit any actor’s character. Or dress up your prop for your home haunt or yard display at an affordable price. Many of the materials can be sourced locally or found online. From ghouls to phantoms to specters to zombies.
