Blizzcon?

[furtech]

Man, I wish I knew about THIS earlier! I really want to make a Tauren costume for it. I'm not surprised that they finally have a WoW con, but I would have thought there would be more publicity. And it's -local-!

Ironically, I neither play WoW nor have the slightest idea what the prize is (I'm a Mac-head). But still! They have a Costume Contest!! An excuse to make a stinky minotaur costume!

Unfortunately, while I could probably poop out a pretty decent costume in that time, they're apparently -sold out- of tickets for the event! There's some mention of "more tickets becoming available in the future" or at the site, but I hate that kind of uncertainty. I'll keep an eye out...anyone else going?

[EDIT: *Aieeee!* The Offspring is doing their closing concert! I -really- want to go now!]

Comments

[tcreynolds]

Hmm hmmmmm! Lance, take a look at that screenshot. I know you have wolf heads lying around, if you wanted to make a character wearing one of these helms it'd be a great shortcut.

Also I know the body shape is tricky, I dont know if you have any suit parts that would work, but another well-known monster you might like to do is the Moonkin.

http://www.rpgexpert.com/bear4_files/moonkin.jpg

It's an owlbear.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Ahggg! Those antlers! Those feathers! Although I like your thinking: I was going through WoW sites as well as StarCraft and Diablo sites to see if there wasn't some character that I could modify. I could possible take a werewolf body and add hooves and a cow head to do a Tauren. Or I could just take the grey werewolf and add a bunch of gratuitous bones and stuff and try for the "most creative" category.

If I did a full-on Tauren, I would want to do riser-feet (at least a foot, maybe more) to add height (that would be the most time-consuming part of modifying an old suit to a Tauren-- the feet!). Wish I'd found this earlier!

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Now that I think about it, I could just modify the Frost/Deer suit: it already has split hooves: I'd just need to make hands and a head for it. Unfortunately, I'd probably have to make it a female Tauren, since it's too slight a build for those massive males. Plus it's a poofy white color.