Blue Meanie Project!
Aug. 24th, 2011 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
furtechThis year's big costume project for the SDCC (aka, ComiCon International 2011) masquerade and Reno Worldcon (Renovation) was the Blue Meanie Boss!
Here’s the complete set of pics
I'd wanted to make him for a while: he looked like fun to perform and I love the Beatles and Yellow Submarine. Working on him was a one reason I was so scarce here: he was a large undertaking in every way.
HUGE kudos and thanks to my fellow Anything Goes School of Masquerade Arts builder-performers: Wayne, Henry, Lydia and Kim! for their wonderful animated Beatles costumes in the SDCC version of the skit!
Incredibly heart-felt thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
genjitsu and waynekaa for doing the script and dialogue and voice and mixing for the Reno skit (as well as the AGSMA skit at SDCC!).
I also made a couple of faux-Rock Band guitar props . I'm really happy with how they turned out!
Blue Meanie details:
Constructed by Lynette and myself. We had a hard time finding any fur that looked like Blue Meanie fur...we considered ruffling up kong-fur; blue-dyed sheepskins (which would have weighed about a hundred pounds); and finally settled on...Clown Wigs! 39 of them! I got such an education on purchasing clown wigs: apparently there is a whole range of quality...we needed to buy the Sooper Deluxxe Clown Wigs, not the Deluxxe Clown Wigs if we wanted wigs that looked like every picture in every costume catalog in existance (they all use the same pic, though the wigs themselves range from thin-and-skanky to plush-and-poofy). I feel so enlightened. If I ever decide to change careers, I'm set!
We dismantled the wigs and essentially quilted them together. Very poofy. I also got an education on large-sized go-go boots: I was originally going to use those for the Blue Meanie's boots, so I had a dickens of a time trying to find them in my size (11+). Finally hit on the idea of searching transvestite resource sites and discovered another whole world of Amazing Facts, including where to buy man-sized go-go boots. The world is a wonderful place.
I used a pool toy to get his shape, which has the added benefit of efficient storage later. His hands have finger extensions so that I can manipulate the over-sized sausage-fingers. His head was the hard part: I made five different-sized foam-maquettes trying to get exactly the right proportions. His boots we ended up foam-sculpting from a pair of pimp-boots. Vision is sucky, but the effect is nice.
About half the people who saw him recognized him; the other half was perplexed.
Here’s the complete set of pics
I'd wanted to make him for a while: he looked like fun to perform and I love the Beatles and Yellow Submarine. Working on him was a one reason I was so scarce here: he was a large undertaking in every way.
HUGE kudos and thanks to my fellow Anything Goes School of Masquerade Arts builder-performers: Wayne, Henry, Lydia and Kim! for their wonderful animated Beatles costumes in the SDCC version of the skit!
Incredibly heart-felt thanks to
genjitsu and waynekaa for doing the script and dialogue and voice and mixing for the Reno skit (as well as the AGSMA skit at SDCC!). I also made a couple of faux-Rock Band guitar props . I'm really happy with how they turned out!
Blue Meanie details:
Constructed by Lynette and myself. We had a hard time finding any fur that looked like Blue Meanie fur...we considered ruffling up kong-fur; blue-dyed sheepskins (which would have weighed about a hundred pounds); and finally settled on...Clown Wigs! 39 of them! I got such an education on purchasing clown wigs: apparently there is a whole range of quality...we needed to buy the Sooper Deluxxe Clown Wigs, not the Deluxxe Clown Wigs if we wanted wigs that looked like every picture in every costume catalog in existance (they all use the same pic, though the wigs themselves range from thin-and-skanky to plush-and-poofy). I feel so enlightened. If I ever decide to change careers, I'm set!
We dismantled the wigs and essentially quilted them together. Very poofy. I also got an education on large-sized go-go boots: I was originally going to use those for the Blue Meanie's boots, so I had a dickens of a time trying to find them in my size (11+). Finally hit on the idea of searching transvestite resource sites and discovered another whole world of Amazing Facts, including where to buy man-sized go-go boots. The world is a wonderful place.
I used a pool toy to get his shape, which has the added benefit of efficient storage later. His hands have finger extensions so that I can manipulate the over-sized sausage-fingers. His head was the hard part: I made five different-sized foam-maquettes trying to get exactly the right proportions. His boots we ended up foam-sculpting from a pair of pimp-boots. Vision is sucky, but the effect is nice.
About half the people who saw him recognized him; the other half was perplexed.
