CC24 and Cornell

[furtech]

This is the first of a burst of posts about my recent adventures in costuming and Middle America. I'll make sure to put most of it behind cuts to spare those of you (most of you) who would be bored to tears reading most of it.

Here is more about Cornell-the-werewolf:





Richard took a pic during rehearsals: ironically, this image is nearly an exact representation of my worst masquerade nightmare, titled:
"The World's Largest Masquerade and I think I've forgotten something..."


Here's some side-by-sides of the costume to the original artwork.


I am very pleased with an experiment in varied expressions. Getting the different expressions in a single, non-mechanical head involved a LOT of tweaking. Oh, and he had a moving jaw: THAT was half the work. There's nothing worse than an off-kilter jaw...plus they're fragile and constantly in need of adjusting.


But the overall effect turned out much as I'd hoped (and hoped and hoped...)


Cornell vs. Joachim Armster (aka karisu_sama)


Here's a shot of our entire group. From left to right: Joachim Armster (karisu_sama), Sara (Karisu's daughter), Corndog-the-werewolf (me), Leon Belmont (saeto), Alucard (laragoth


We did well as a group, taking Best Workmanship Master and Best Presentation Master-- helped in large part to the hard work of all the members of the group. Overall I'm very pleased.


didjiman took several of these photographs (including many used for the comparisons) and most of those are marked. Those images images are (c) ImageCraft Photography [Hi, Richard: I moved the images to my ftp site-- if you'd prefer I can use the direct links to your images (but for some reason LJ didn't like that...)]
(http://www.imagecraft.com/photostudio/)

Comments

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.... That's neat. Really, really, really neat.

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

If you pop didjiman onto your friends list, he'd know to see this himself. ^^ (or drop him a line in his LJ with a link)

[didjiman.livejournal.com]

Yes, quite all right by me to keep your own copies (as long as the copyright is intact. I know you know that, just a standard wordage thing).

p.s. you Rock!

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to make sure you knew that I was sensitive to copyrights and credits (and it turns out that it was LJ's fault that images wouldn't load, not your site or my bad html).

I was elated when I heard you got your stuff back! Miracles happen!

[diadexxus.livejournal.com]

Can I have a hug? :)

-J

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Always!

[brokkentwolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but you missed Fanime! For shame! ;)

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

We all did. :( And BayCon, too.;_;

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Yeah-- Fanime and (as Karisu points out) Baycon as well. Memorial Day's getting to be as bad as Easter and President's Day for cons. Did the Moro/San costumers show up at Fanime? Fantastic costume!

I'm waiting for a full report on Fanime on your LJ!

[animecat.livejournal.com]

I think Saeto is going to miss A-Kon next week too.... so major suckage. When am I ever going to get to meet you? You never seem to hit the same cons I do... probably because of the location gap. Stupid mid-south region.... *glares at Arkansas*

[saeto.livejournal.com]

Costume-Con 2007 is in the St. Louis area. It would be awesome if you could attend.

-makes sad eyes- As for Akon, you're right about that. A-kin is a no go for me this year. CC 2006 completely broke my budget.

[animecat.livejournal.com]

Daren told me about next year's con. I think it hits way too close to another con I frequent... and I honestly don't know if I can afford the entrance fee. plus, no offense to the ICG, but I've heard the St Louis chapter is full of problems. I'm still debating it. Daren wants to go to spend time with Lance, and if he goes, he's trying to convince me to go as well. *sigh* So many cons, so little time.

[waynekaa.livejournal.com]

Oh San Moro did not show up to Fanime.

[brokkentwolf.livejournal.com]

What? Me? I was only there briefly helping a fellow Gaia Staff member. I heard reports of a 'white dog' running around, but I didn't get to see him. So sorry... No Fanime report forthcoming from me. :P

Hey, when is the next time you'll be in the Bay, I need some advice (and help) on a small project I'm retooling. :)

[moonstone-wind.livejournal.com]

beautiful@

[thakur.livejournal.com]

I see too little of your excellent work these days.
I recall bringing over some dino eggs for you back in 2000. you still collect those?

I am out of the costumers guild now and no longer wish to do masquarades for various reasons but still am interested in costuming even though electrical work takes up most of my time these days.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Thanks again for the dino eggs! These days I'm more focused on the Japanese Choco-egg line: the Wild Animal, Pet and Dino line.

I like masquerades because the benchmark for skills that they give me. I get really inspired by the great costumes I see and that spurs me on to try newer and more experimental projects.

[mognetcentral.livejournal.com]

1 mochachino for the wolf in the red belt, coming up!

I love the changing facial expressions.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

I guess he's bipolar...kind of a dangerous thing to have in a werewolf. Getting the facial expressions right drove me nuts. But that was also the biggest challenge and most fun. This probably says something about me.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Holy Moley! That looks even MORE nifty close-up!!

[fuzzytoedcollie.livejournal.com]

Most impressive!

[spunkywulf.livejournal.com]

Your work is so lovely, I wish there was more of it! Speaking of which, I speak of you often when my friends ask about costumes and such, and yet I've never been able to find any sort of gallery of your work on display. Do you have any such site or gallery somewhere that you post photos of all your lovely creations? I've never found one!

I still remember one year you had made a must STUNNING RedXIII from Final Fantasy, and it was fighting you as Jon Talbain, and I coudln't find the images for the life of me. I wanted to show some friends the suits and bumbled around on Google like a retard.

PLEASE SHARE :D

[furtech.livejournal.com]

I'm a technotard-- I've diddled with a site in the past but the designing and html (even with Dreamworks) was too big a hurdle. That, and I'm bothered by making it easy for the SA/PoE crowd to find. I do have a Yahoo! photo album but it's horribly out of date.

[lacy.livejournal.com]

Wow! He totally rocks, I love the varied expressions and how that works out really well from different angles. You did a superb job as always. :)

[was1.livejournal.com]

Neat werewolf design! Where is the Cornell character from, a video game or anime show?

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Cornell's from a video game called, "Castlevania".

[pikacello.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!! MAN, that is such impressive work. I'm always so amazed by the muscle structure of your costumes!!!

[furtech.livejournal.com]

The muscle obsession probably has disturbing roots in some issue of mine...

[mythos-amante.livejournal.com]

Fantastic fun! That looks great, both your costume and the others'!

I'm glad you guys worked well together!

[mythos-amante.livejournal.com]

And in case that sounds at all condescending, which I did NOT mean it to... YOU rawk! Will we get to see this suit at FC? I forget if you mentioned it going somewhere else or not!

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Your post was just fine-- I pretty much assume (with certain notable exceptions) that posts by people I know are sincere.

FC is more than likely (and I'll probably drag Cornell along: he's a pretty small costume to transport).

[okojosan.livejournal.com]

Wow, that looks great, the double expression thing is really interesting. It worked out really well!

[waynekaa.livejournal.com]

I bet you have neck pain after this.

[satyrus.livejournal.com]

Better late than never:

Holy Fork! This is one of the most awesome werewolves I've seen so far!
*Applauds till his paws fall off*