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Obi- Wan Kenobi is the best.  He is the coolest Jedi that has ever existed and anything that is wrong with the prequels is not Ewan McGregors fault.  In anticipation, of the Force Awakens I whipped up my own Jedi outfit in, just under 4 days!  Not a ton of unique redesigns on this one, most of the creative challenge came from adjusting the fit, selecting fabrics and interpreting how to replicate certain elements that the base pattern does not provide (i.e. the belt).

cinderella - photo shoot

Andrea and I did photo shoot for her Cinderella cosplay (which she calls dress up) at Atlantic Station in Atlanta.  The Millennium Arch was a perfect stand in for a castle!  Super happy with this one.

More shots after the break.

black widow - photo shoot

These images are from the photo shoot for Andrea's Black Widow costume.  I patterned it off of the Avengers design.  For what is basically a cat suit this costume was pretty complicated build.  Figuring out how all the pieces fit together from a few high res screen shots was no easy task.  Plus there are the boots, which I already talked about in a previous post and all the accessories.

Rather than try to build the wrist rockets, belt buckle, and shocker disks by hand I built them in Rhino and 3D printed them.  Plus Cobra buckles (the kind all the superheroes use) are crazy expensive so I reversed engineered them from some pictures and built some working replicas in various sizes that could be 3D printed.

We are still working on a wig for this.  Andrea was considering dying her hair red the week of this shoot so we didn't bother,   but then she decided to stick with blonde and we ran out of time.

More pics after the jump.

flynn rider - quick look

I tried to squeeze a quick Flynn Rider photo shoot onto the end of one of my other shoots but the sun was going down and the photos didn't turn out great.  Here's a quick one shot of the suit.

Everything on this costume is made by me except the white shirt.  I'm particularly proud of the doublet for this one.  Its made of blue corduroy and padded and quilted which I think makes it look a bit more authentic than some of the leather / vinyl ones that I have seen because the quilting lets you capture so much more detail.

ironman shirt - sketch to

I posted this sketch a while back for a shirt I was designing for a shirt for Andrea to wear to the Ironman 3 premier.  I got the shirt finished for the movie (which is not that good by the way)!  Andrea wore it with the Mark 3 arc reactor and I wore my Ironman glove with the Mark 1 reactor to the the premier.

More detailed shots to come once I have more time.

Captain America - Photo Shoot

This one has been a long time coming....because its one of my first cosplays and I just now got around to shooting it!  This is my Captain America suit.  It's based on the Avengers costume and I actually built it before the movie came out so I only had a few reference photos to work from when I was patterning.

The main change I made to the suit from the movie version was darkening the blue fabric.  I like the movie costume but that blue....it's bright.  The one thing I will say is that the brighter blue fabric does show detail better;  I used roughly the same pattern for the running shirt and you get a much better sense of all the work that went into the paneling.  I also made this suit out of athletic fabric so 1) it wouldn't be too hot at cons and 2) I liked the pattern in the textiles.

Again this is one of my earlier cosplay builds so there is a ton of stuff I want to go back and improve, namely some nice new red tactical boots and adding some depth to the shield.

More pics after the jump.

black canary - photoshoot

Last weekend Andrea and I finally had time to do a Black Canary photo shoot!

As I mentioned in my previous post, when I was designing this suit I wanted it to be a bit more tactical and practical than the Bunny Suit used in the comic. I actually completed this design / build with pants before the Black Canary TV costume was revealed at last year's Comic Con panel (which is pretty similar).  Now that people are a bit more familiar with the TV/ pants look we might be able to get away with them again.

More photos after the jump.