コスプレを大きくしすぎました! – エイリアンモンスターコスプレパート2

I made my Cosplay TOO BIG! – Alien Monster Cosplay Part 2

In part one, we constructed a complicated frame for the most ambitious cosplay project I could ever have conceived of. And in this video, part two, we finally get stuck into the foam. We are now talking foam. We have a frame. We’re chucking stuff on top. Please illuminate me. So, Maggie from Lumen’s Workshop is providing me all the foam we need for this project. On a service level, it might appear confusing, but Maggie and her team really helped me understand what is useful for what. I think we’re set. Let’s bring you to the studio right now. Well, wow. It’s wow. It’s like magic. She’s here in our studio. Thanks for coming, Maggie. I’m preparing myself. Those legs were so heavy. You know, like in Dragon Ball Z when they train in like uh like 100 times Earth gravity and stuff. So, I bought like 10 kilos worth of leg weight. We’ve got like 3 weeks till packs. So, I’m going to wear these until packs. I’m going to start off with one set and then in a week and a half, I’m going to add another set. And then I think about 3 or 4 days before I’m going to take it off so I can recover and we’ll keep track of how much I regret this decision. [Applause] We have done the skeleton inside this and now we need your help to figure out how to do the skin. Yes. What do I do? Okay, so Maggie showed us what to do. And it turns out this roach that I 3D printed and painted is one of the most useful things I could possibly have made because it is literally providing a 3D template for our build. Apparently, you can just cover an entire surface in masking tape. And with her expert eye, she sort of deduced how these plates might be divided and where they would split. Basically converting all these curved and organic surfaces into flat images and at a consistent scale which we could then use to using the grid transfer method upscale to the size of the roach we would be making. [Music] But we hit a bit of a road bump after we had the first two pieces cut. Oh no. Okay. Yes, they are. It turns out our maths was slightly wrong. Fortunately, our maths was wrong in a really convenient way. We just happened to have done exactly twice the size that we wanted to end up doing. So, by simply subdividing the grid that we traced onto, both small and big, we conveniently and accurately half the size of all the pieces I needed to trace. And then we could smash through the process. I knuckled down on transferring and cutting out the paper templates while the others set about cutting and gluing them all together. [Music] Oh my god, look at this come together. Oh, that’s so good. This is great. Yeah. And it should be really solid on the frame. Yeah, it will be. I’ll let you go. But in the meantime, we have a ton of work to do. The following day, the work continued. Me on the grids and templates, while Mari and Amy cut and glued the carropus piece by piece. And we slowly realized how stupidly big this project would be, he said halfway through part two. I mean, I I did realize this earlier. It’s just becoming more and more apparent. The next day I was by myself. Mari and Amy had finished all of the outer shells and so I moved on my lonesome to the last carropus covered section and quite a tricky one at that. The head cuz obviously it’s going to be the most crucial focal point and it’s going to have a bit of its own movement. I bought this thing which is uh like one of those one of those trash pickerapper thingies. So, the idea is from within my shell, I will be able to animate the jaw of the monster. Not only that, with a swivel pivot point in the middle, I should be able to look around. Now, I cut all of my template pieces for the head with a much thicker foam with at least a good inch of material with the idea that I could later carve into and organically shape out the details of the head. Now, this was actually my first experience using this phone. Mar and Amy had been using it for several days. I’d only cut little bits here and there, but oh my god, this stuff is so good. Like, it just feels incredible to work with. The only other time I was doing cosplayish stuff with foam was in my Diablo giant sculpture build, and I was working with floor mats that you buy from Kmart or the hardware store, which is a great budget option, but it turns out the good stuff, it’s really good, you guys. Even though the foam was quite thick, it felt really workable to shave back in areas. It adheres to itself extremely well with the contact adhesive. And it really feels shapable in a surprisingly controllable way. And the results, I mean, I think they look better for it, too. [Music] So, now that I had both halves of my head shaped out, even though it was the very end of the week and we were a little bit over time, I had to see what it looked like with a little bit of animation. Obviously, I will spend more time finessing the mechanism. But the theory is there we go. Is it working? Sort of. Hello. I’m really friendly, actually. Okay, we have done a ton of work. We’ve carved out all of the foam pieces for all of the shell. I’ve roughed in the head. Next, we’re going to actually construct it. And I need to be able to wear it and get it to be functional. So, we’re going to have to reinforce everything and stick it together. And I guess we’ll see how heavy it is and if I can carry it. But that’s a problem for next week, which is right now. So, it’s another week and another massive workload for another massive project. Amy and Maggie got stuck into reinforcing the shape of the back shell, one plate at a time. As we turn up the intensity on this whole operation, I’m turning up the intensity on my body conditioning. I have been uh working out a couple of times a week, just focusing on legs. And now it’s time to up my leg weights to 5 kilos per leg to condition my body for the wearing arduous brutal task of trying to take a few steps in these things. Oh god. Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice, I had set about giving the claws their proper shape. Cutting this nice thick foam to stick on either side of the aluminum claw skeleton. Turn the arms from sticks into proper claws. [Music] We have all of the back plates roughed in. Now, they’re not all glued cuz these ones are going to have some articulation so I can move the head around. Come inside. It’s literally like a freaking mech. This is how much room I have inside. How the hell I’m going to see in front of me, I have no idea. But this is the head and that’s where it sort of meets the front plate. And then I can The other thing to keep in mind is like that’s the shoulder height. This is how tall it will be to the lay person walking around. It’s going to be huge. And the project itself is a mammoth task. We’re going to need more help, which is great because we have extra hands on board tomorrow. Jazza from the future here, just because I realized as we’re editing this, I forgot to mention what we’re doing all of this for. Pax Oz, I’m going to be there on Friday and Saturday, but I’m going to be there doing this on Friday. I’m going to hang out at Lumen’s Workshop’s booth pretty much all day. So, if you want to come see me, say hi, get a photo or a signed copy of my book, come over to Lumen’s Workshop’s booth, and somewhere around midday, I’m going to put this thing on and go somewhere where, I don’t know yet. And if you don’t catch me while I’m in it in the brief window on that Friday, it will be set up and on display in the entrance to the cosplay lounge. See some of your packs. Day two of our 3-day smash, and we have moved the whole thing into studio 2 so that we can assemble it with a bit of space, free up some space in there to make plenty more mess, but I’m going to be like a foot and a half higher. So, I think we need to raise it to get the proper sense of scale. This is uh going to become more of an ordeal every time I put on this suit. Oh, my legs hurt so much already. Yeah, we’re going to have to raise the height of this thing. We have a team change. Come on, guys. Uh we have Jason and Murray in today and of course Maggie as always. All right, you guys are going to have to take a stand each and lift it and I’m going to have to crawl under. Cool. Cuz it’s going to be higher than this. Let’s go. Prepare the suit. All right, I got to go crawl in. Okay. All right. Whose idea was this? So, now we can lower. Everyone can come down. I think you guys can let go now. Grab an arm each. Bring me the claws. Okay. So, this is what the assembly shall look like. This is pretty ridiculous, huh? Yeah, it’s fine. Okay. So, this will be where we keep the body at. And then we can sort of come in and out as we need as we continue to construct the beast. [Applause] [Music] Maggie was here for a second day in a row and brought Jason with her from her workshop. So I moved on to adding layers of foam to the claws to give me material to carve away and shape into an alien form. Later, while Murray and Jason got stuck into making and transferring templates for the underside of the body, which will eventually be transformed into the kitan and senue of the underbody. You’ll see more of that really in part three. Meanwhile, Maggie made a move on bulking out the legs with a plan she spent the night before trying to figure out how to bulk them out without adding too much weight and to allow for support without making them too rigid for me to move in. [Music] I had to pull her away in the middle of her work, however, because once I’d finished the claws, I needed to learn how to put the head and the neck together so that the neck plates could articulate with my puppeteering motion. And this is done with elastic bands and D-rings. Yeah, these things, these are D-rings. We’re going to stick them down. One here, one here, one here. Then we just peel the sticky off the foam. Yeah. We’re going to thread it through here. Yeah. And then or you’re just going to anchor it in that line. And then where we stick these ones along this line is determined by how far you want this thing to stretch. Yep. With Maggie taking me through the whole process of how to make articulating plates, I felt confident that I had the tools and materials I needed to do it myself. And honestly, like every step in this whole process, it all feels so doable, so much more doable than I ever imagined. I honestly can’t thank Maggie and her team enough. Maggie, John, Jason for not only providing us with all the materials for this build, but with their time and expertise. This is a mammoth project and I absolutely would not be able to do this by myself. Not only are they helping me do it, they’ve made it more ambitious and big and they’re just in it every step of the way and helping us whether they’re here or not here, helping us figure out some of the problems we’re facing. Maggie and the team at Lumen’s Workshop, thank you so much. And you guys watching this, go check out Lumen’s Workshop. both on Instagram and Tik Tok and the website because Lumen’s Workshop sells all of the foam and all of the glue and I mean all of this stuff. She makes all this stuff. A lot of this is like her formulas. Maggie has put together a bundles page where you can get a mini beginners bundle or a beginner’s bundle to try cosplay foam armor making yourself. If you’re looking for guides, there’s plenty available on their website. And if you use the code Jazza 10, you get 10% off of their various products. Not the bundles though, cuz they’re already heavily discounted. They have everything you need and ship worldwide. Go check them out with the link in the description. They are so awesome for making this possible and your future builds possible. Okay, so putting the arm in place. First of all, let’s just take a moment to appreciate how this is coming together. That that’s looking really cool. Now I need to do something that’s uh been needing to be done for a couple weeks now. I need to put handles on this so I can actually properly move. The higher the handle, the more leverage I have. Obviously, I’ve got this here, though. So, I’ll need to angle them in and forward is better. So, this means cutting and welding again. [Music] While I was finalizing the claw handles, Maggie and the rest of the team were finalizing the bulking out of the legs. Now, it turns out a very useful part of this project would end up being one of the most surprising, your common cheap pool noodle. I mean, don’t get me wrong, awful quality foam and really not great structurally, but turns out for bulking out and holding rough shapes without adding too much weight would be very useful. And the round outer edges, we can also shave off and use to glue into weaving musculature that later we can cover with textures that we can add that kitony senue texture over top later. [Music] I have made the handles and that is freaking cool. This is a mech, man. This is a big freaking neck. Now that the claws were much more manageable to control, it was time to piece together the head using the articulation attachment trick Maggie taught me. But instead of elastic, the ends of the neck and head are held together at their pivot points with cable ties, which means they can be cut away so that it can be separated for transport. And later, I can just simply attach new cable ties when it’s time to suit up. And now with the head and the entire back carropus and arms all put together, I could finally try and figure out how the weight distribution and balance of this beast would work. So now I have a neck with some articulation. I haven’t got the pole where it’s going to be yet, but that’s okay. We’ll get there. The goal is by the end of today, which is in half an hour, I can put the whole suit on. It’s going to be heavier than the last time I put it on. Now, obviously, we’re bearing all the weight at the front with those poles, but I want to try and see if I can put something in here where my shoulders will be. This is my fake shoulders. Copyright. Okay. So, what I want to be able to do is take the weight off of these and counterbalance in the tail to see if I can get any sort of lift to not lift, but just balance. Yeah. Okay. The glories of engineering. Speaking of which, if there’s enough tape, it’ll hold just fine. Gaffer tape is the solution to all life’s engineering problems. Perfect. Okay. Chuck me that big shop bag. All right. It’s a heavy boy. But in theory, if I just pop this here, let’s see what happens if I remove the support from the front. Oh, it’s li it’s lifting. Now, that’s a how many kilo shot back? Oh, okay. That’s heavier than we need. That’s good. Okay. Then remove this. Oh, now it’s fully forward. Now I put this on. Oh god. This is fine. This will be fine. Okay. Um, it’s perfectly balanced as all things should be. Next test. If I raise this bar, does it raise evenly. I’m also going to get a feel for how heavy this thing is. Oh god. Oh, now I got to do the thing up. Go, Benny. You got this. Yes. Okay. Is it just me or is it What the hell? Next test. The height I will be standing at, which is taller still. So, up we go. Oh, God. All right. Look at that. Nothing’s touching the ground. The whole thing’s on the pole. Oh, damn. Oh my god. What have I done? Yeah, the problem is if I’m going to put this on, there’s not enough room in here. A few things became clear as I began to dawn the gdan away’s skin. And now I can take these goddamn things off and I’ll be in a whole new world of pain putting on the legs. It would take a whole team to help me put on and take off this suit. Like a knight in armor needs squires. This roach needs roachlings. And I also learned that there would be no escaping the fact that I was just going to be covered in sweat when I became the beast. Nibbukaza reveals to me the Gdanoway’s yearning. He shows me what is in its simple mind. I begin to feel what it feels. I want what it wants. I am Gdano. I am overwhelmed by an insatiable hunger, a desperate, ferocious need to consume. I must feed and replicate. I can smell the distant feast. So many fresh morsels. We can all sense them. At last, it is time to feed again. I learned another thing the hard way and that is that this suit gives me no way to rest. Second, get me out of this thing. Like this was like holding mid squat or wall sit with weights, but I couldn’t stand up or let go and release myself from it. Oh my god. And after just a few minutes, I was in excruciating pain that I couldn’t release myself from. Can you get me that step ladder? Just right behind my butt so I can sit on I just need to sit. It’s Yep. It’s somethingoo. Oh my god. I need a signal. Maybe one of my sounds. Maybe like maybe that’s the sound for Holy Shove something up my Gucci. There’s your thumbnail. What am I doing? There are still challenges to figure out. It’s getting cooler. and heavier and more awkward. And we’re still going. Thanks for watching. Thanks again to Lumen’s Workshop for literally supporting my ass through this whole project. And thank you for watching. Lest I forget to plug the book that this creature comes from, go check out The Ascendants, available on Amazon now in paperback and Kindle. And coming soon in audio book, you can subscribe to my author’s newsletter where I’ll be sending out an email update the moment the audio book launches. You’re really going to love the book, especially if you love the vibe of this crazy creature. And make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss out on part three. The clock is ticking and I need to figure out how to wear this suit without begging for sweet release. And we still have to make all the muscles and sculpt all the foam and, you know, finish the monster.

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