a costumer who'd done an exquisite monster bat costume showed me how to fake the jack legs. Full credit to him for both coming up with the trick and for being willing to show me how it worked!
Did you happen to get any pics? I would love to see how these work. OH, BTW, speaking of jack legs, have you ever seen Ginger Snaps? If you get the Canadian version of the DVD, they have a small "making of" of the actual werewolf costume. This guy HAS to be on some sort of short 6" 4-legged stilts. Totally awesome. Apparently the DVD for DogSoldiers [and also Windego], which I think are the same monster makers for both movies, also has the making of the werewolves and shows their stilts. The Gingersnaps werewolf looked farely natural...not overly-stiff like 4-legged stilt suits tend to.
The work and rehearsing paid off, because I took both Best Workmanship: Master and Best in Show: Master (single participant). Wah-hooo! Lots of ego-puffing kudos from people and only now is it really sinking in
TERRIFIC news!! It is a gorgeous costume. It's what I call a 1-foot costume. Looks good from only 1foot away :) Are you going to bring him to CF? I wish I had a body like hers, I would adore to take some pictures like that for my personal collection :) :)
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Date: 2003-04-21 02:04 pm (UTC)Did you happen to get any pics? I would love to see how these work. OH, BTW, speaking of jack legs, have you ever seen Ginger Snaps? If you get the Canadian version of the DVD, they have a small "making of" of the actual werewolf costume. This guy HAS to be on some sort of short 6" 4-legged stilts. Totally awesome. Apparently the DVD for DogSoldiers [and also Windego], which I think are the same monster makers for both movies, also has the making of the werewolves and shows their stilts. The Gingersnaps werewolf looked farely natural...not overly-stiff like 4-legged stilt suits tend to.
The work and rehearsing paid off, because I took both Best Workmanship: Master and Best in Show: Master (single participant). Wah-hooo! Lots of ego-puffing kudos from people and only now is it really sinking in
TERRIFIC news!! It is a gorgeous costume. It's what I call a 1-foot costume. Looks good from only 1foot away :) Are you going to bring him to CF? I wish I had a body like hers, I would adore to take some pictures like that for my personal collection :) :)
Seeya in a few days, eh?
-Jen