Castor/Zuse at Gallifrey!
I got all the final bits finished in time, and here are some fabulous photos from Gallifrey One!
(Most of these are courtesy of Linda Wenzelburger… Thanks!)
I got all the final bits finished in time, and here are some fabulous photos from Gallifrey One!
(Most of these are courtesy of Linda Wenzelburger… Thanks!)
Next up is building Rocky’s body. He’s such a simple character design that I’m going for a very simple onesie style fursuit rather than one with sculpted padding. I’m using the Andrea Schewe Simplicity 2853 pattern for the starting point. I will, however be using a number of tricks (including Matrices’ technique for installing the…
just some pix from the convention
The goal is to achieve something reminiscent of Michael Sheen’s costume as Castor/Zuse in Tron: Legacy. Without having to build a frockcoat from scratch. I started with a very inexpensive costume “frockcoat” purchased via AliExpress. It was essentially constructed like a labcoat — no lining, made of inexpensive cotton/poly twill, and the “waistcoat” is actually…
The very first step (after buying more 10mm EVA foam) is laying out the pieces for the fursuit head base. This is the downloadable Mantacraft “kiko” head base pattern which I purchased as a starting point. (the license for building with the pattern is acknowledging its use; I have no issue doing that as it…
Had a board meeting, so only got a tiny bit more done — upper big teeth and building out the lower jaw a little.
Richard got a great series of photos of my performance, including the wall of streamers. To cap it off, Christine Doyle captured this non-embarassing recording of my performance. You can tell I’m having fun and so is the audience (though you can’t hear them singing along; well over a quarter of the room joined in)….