Back to Costuming...
Jun. 2nd, 2006 05:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
furtechThere was a (for me) costume at the con that just blew me away. I am so impressed I'm giving him his own entry!
(A no-prize for whoever can identify the character!)
I get complimented on my costume work and (being mostly human) that flattery can go to my head. All it takes is seeing something like this suit to bring me down to earth! And he's a great guy, too: we had long, excited talks about creature costuming and geeking out on each other's work.
His costume utilized a LOT of electronics, from the guns on his wrists to lights all over the cybernetic parts (like the cybernetic eye). The jaw was animatronic, and worked off of sensors connected to his own mouth. He did a hilarious routine backstage with the Llama singing, "On The Road Again". His legs are an amazing bit of enginering: they were professionally built by the same company that did the legs for the werewolves of "Underworld". He could walk, jump, dodge and once even hopped off the stage (to the horror of the masquerade director). His documentation for the building of the costume was fantastic.
Even the ears worked, set on a random actuator:
Some of you may already know him: he had the cool white goat-man costume (with similar, but shorter) jack-legs at Further Confusion. The only downside is that the costume may be too fragile to transport, so he may not be able to bring it to FC 2007. We're staying in touch: we both fed off of the other's ideas and techniques, inspired to do new projects.
Llamas get all the babes...
(A no-prize for whoever can identify the character!)
I get complimented on my costume work and (being mostly human) that flattery can go to my head. All it takes is seeing something like this suit to bring me down to earth! And he's a great guy, too: we had long, excited talks about creature costuming and geeking out on each other's work.
His costume utilized a LOT of electronics, from the guns on his wrists to lights all over the cybernetic parts (like the cybernetic eye). The jaw was animatronic, and worked off of sensors connected to his own mouth. He did a hilarious routine backstage with the Llama singing, "On The Road Again". His legs are an amazing bit of enginering: they were professionally built by the same company that did the legs for the werewolves of "Underworld". He could walk, jump, dodge and once even hopped off the stage (to the horror of the masquerade director). His documentation for the building of the costume was fantastic.
Even the ears worked, set on a random actuator:
Some of you may already know him: he had the cool white goat-man costume (with similar, but shorter) jack-legs at Further Confusion. The only downside is that the costume may be too fragile to transport, so he may not be able to bring it to FC 2007. We're staying in touch: we both fed off of the other's ideas and techniques, inspired to do new projects.
Llamas get all the babes...
