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furtechI try not to toot my own horn too much, but I'm so happy with how these costumes turned out that I wanted to share them with the group. I work with a cosplay group who does fantastic costumes: they're all very dedicated and fun to work with. This year our big set was based on the video game, OKAMI .
The game has a watercolor styling and beautiful designs. My job was to make the title character (whose actual name is Amaterasu) and one of the bosses, Ninetails (the demon fox). The biggest challenge was figuring out how to do the huge tails of the fox: they had to be transportable, manipulatable and we had to make -nine- of them!
These costumes utilize tricks from Japanese bunraku puppet theater, Noh theater and some desperate innovation. I wanted the characters to be four-legged and they had to move and perform as well (so the leg extensions had to be strong). I also wanted to recreate the thin legs of the fox demon, so I used fake legs and feet for the rear limbs and thin extensions for the front legs. The tails utilize huge balloons to maintain their shape. Amaterasu's head has a moving jaw that I'll try to get a video of-- it's really cute!
Here's a cute pic of Amaterasu and Sakuya!
[EDIT: OOPS! Accidentally posted this to my journal instead of the fursuit list...my bad!]
The game has a watercolor styling and beautiful designs. My job was to make the title character (whose actual name is Amaterasu) and one of the bosses, Ninetails (the demon fox). The biggest challenge was figuring out how to do the huge tails of the fox: they had to be transportable, manipulatable and we had to make -nine- of them!
These costumes utilize tricks from Japanese bunraku puppet theater, Noh theater and some desperate innovation. I wanted the characters to be four-legged and they had to move and perform as well (so the leg extensions had to be strong). I also wanted to recreate the thin legs of the fox demon, so I used fake legs and feet for the rear limbs and thin extensions for the front legs. The tails utilize huge balloons to maintain their shape. Amaterasu's head has a moving jaw that I'll try to get a video of-- it's really cute!
Here's a cute pic of Amaterasu and Sakuya!
[EDIT: OOPS! Accidentally posted this to my journal instead of the fursuit list...my bad!]
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Date: 2007-07-04 08:05 am (UTC)Good to see you even for a few moments-- hopefully get more social time at the smaller cons coming up...
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Date: 2007-07-04 03:31 am (UTC)AWESOME as usual!!
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Date: 2007-07-04 03:38 am (UTC)I'd love to find out how to do the arm extensions there. Once looked at piping myself, but couldn't really see a way to make it work for my size of hands. Though, it seems that you've used something else instead?
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Date: 2007-07-04 03:44 am (UTC)http://community.livejournal.com/quadsuits/profile ? Or, please post there yourself!!
great work as always
-J
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Date: 2007-07-04 05:27 am (UTC)The fox demon - he is rather pointedly (no pun meant) wearing a mask, to conceal his real visage - what is the purpose of that? I'm unfamiliar with the game, I take it that there is either a plot or story element, or specific cultural reason for that?
And the hall that you took these pictures in; seems like the ideal mood setting, judging from the backgrounds.
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Date: 2007-07-04 08:14 am (UTC)Yes-- the Hyatt Long Beach has a nice, sepulchral look/feel to it: great for cosplay pics (especially the gothic lolita cosplay!).
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Date: 2007-07-04 05:48 am (UTC)I think everything else I wanted to say has been said.
I can't wait to see a video clip!
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Date: 2007-07-04 05:53 am (UTC)Congratulations on work well done~ I hope I get to see them in person at SDCC? T____T??
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Date: 2007-07-06 09:50 pm (UTC)So I might miss out on seeing the costumes in their full glory, but at least I should have an opportunity to meet up~ ^^
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Date: 2007-07-04 06:36 am (UTC)Just...wow. *staaaaaaaare*
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Date: 2007-07-04 07:02 pm (UTC)I love okami
Amaterasu turned out beautifull ^^
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Date: 2007-07-08 03:47 pm (UTC)We always joke at work about painting Roxy (my white husky) to look like that ;)
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Date: 2007-07-15 07:50 pm (UTC)wonderful job creating those character o^^d
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