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Lots of preparations to be made before my flight to Australia tomorrow, where I'll be attending AFTT for the year, but I wanted to update my blog. Just edited some photos from a recent Thor photoshoot, in which my good friend Airra Faih cosplayed Loki.
This was the culmination of a six-month project, debuted at Denver Comic-Con. We were also able to participate in the cosplay catwalk. Loki, as expected, hammed it up in front of the audience and literally stole my thunder.
Now, on to the costumes themselves.
Thor's armor and accessories required the better portion of 6 months to complete, amidst a relentless onslaught of other busy-ness. I have to admit I've never before experienced such a claustrophobic schedule during the summer, one event bleeding into the next and the next and the next.
That being said, I'm pleased everything turned out as well as it did. The armor and all other related components are entirely in leather. To do otherwise would not have sat well with me. I'm just too extra.
So hundreds of hours of pattern-making, cutting, shaping, tooling, dyeing, sealing, gluing, burnishing, and painting later, the armor was finished. (If you're attempting a similar project, feel free to contact me. I'm happy to provide some pointers that may save you a bit of frustration.) The nice thing about making this cosplay in natural, durable materials was that it will hold up basically indefinitely.
The rondels are 3D modeled and printed. An awesome guy I met through the RPF forums kindly did the printing for me, and then I sanded, smoothed, and painted them. They're also screwed into the leather from the inside, so there's no way they're coming out. (Incidentally, I'm also screwed into the armor on one shoulder, so I can't escape without assistance. My Loki found this terribly amusing.)
Loki's cosplay is also entirely in natural materials, the coat in black deerskin. The design on the front is hand stamped. It took us four days to complete, and we were still working on it in our airbnb before the con. (Typical, I know.)
During the photoshoot, we decided to try to recreate some of the Thor: the Dark World posters. We elected to put Loki in Jane's poses, because c'mon... it was too good.
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| Loki looks like he's dabbing. |
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| "Loki... NO." |
So this will likely be my last post for a while. I'll be back in business next year, and ready for my next project. For now, my life will be film school. And Australia. And avoiding spiders, snakes, and sharks. *glances around warily*
