A Project
Katie, the coworker who was in charge of last year's big Batman promo at work (for which I helped construct life-sized Batman and Joker figures) asked me if I'd like to work the Up promo downstairs... they're putting on a mini-fair of sorts in the lobby with games, prizes, face painting, and lard knows what else. I said I wasn't much good at that sort of stuff, but I'd help make something if they wanted.
To the point, I ended up getting to make the two main characters.
I have until Saturday (the fair thing) to finish them, but I'd prefer to get them done by Friday for opening day. I started on Saturday, I was off yesterday (and BADLY needed a break from work after working six days, so I didn't even THINK about the project, much less work on it), and today I spent my whole shift going between doing my actual job and working on the characters. I stayed three and a half hours (off the clock but the hours will count toward vacation time) late to work on it, and Jamie, the closing projectionist (and organizer of the Watchmen project a few months ago that I kept offering to help with but she never gave me anything to do), helped a little, mostly with holding things while I taped them.
OBVIOUSLY THESE ARE NOT FINISHED, but here's what I have so far.
Carl:
Russel:
ETA: Here's what they're going to look like. This is the exact position I'm going for for Russel, but Carl is just going to be standing grumpily.
Carl is 40" tall, and Russel is a little under 3'. This does not include their bases, which are about 9" tall each.
I asked the manager if we had any budget or if I had to work with what I could find. He said zero budget for this one, because we're doing a BIG one for Harry Potter in a few months, so I started scouting for supplies.
Their "skeletons" are made from cardboard boxes (cut to shape) and poster tubes (we have a few gazillion of these lying around, being a movie theatre and all). The facial structuring is newspaper crumpled and held in shape with masking tape. Carl's body has some foam packaging I dug up for hunchback padding, held in shape by duct tape, and his belly and chest padding is newspaper and a trash bag. We have some cornstarch left over from Batman, so the faces will be coated in paper mache for extra strength and smoothness. The clothes are going to be fun. I have an idea... I'm going to make the clothes from giant sheets of newspaper, "sewn" together with glue and made stiff by cornstarch. We have plenty of paint.
I'm off tomorrow, but I'm going to go in and work on it for at least four or five hours. I'm hoping to finish the bodies and start on the clothes tomorrow, finish the clothes and start painting on Wednesday, and finish up on Thursday.
To the point, I ended up getting to make the two main characters.
I have until Saturday (the fair thing) to finish them, but I'd prefer to get them done by Friday for opening day. I started on Saturday, I was off yesterday (and BADLY needed a break from work after working six days, so I didn't even THINK about the project, much less work on it), and today I spent my whole shift going between doing my actual job and working on the characters. I stayed three and a half hours (off the clock but the hours will count toward vacation time) late to work on it, and Jamie, the closing projectionist (and organizer of the Watchmen project a few months ago that I kept offering to help with but she never gave me anything to do), helped a little, mostly with holding things while I taped them.
OBVIOUSLY THESE ARE NOT FINISHED, but here's what I have so far.
Carl:
Russel:
ETA: Here's what they're going to look like. This is the exact position I'm going for for Russel, but Carl is just going to be standing grumpily.
Carl is 40" tall, and Russel is a little under 3'. This does not include their bases, which are about 9" tall each.
I asked the manager if we had any budget or if I had to work with what I could find. He said zero budget for this one, because we're doing a BIG one for Harry Potter in a few months, so I started scouting for supplies.
Their "skeletons" are made from cardboard boxes (cut to shape) and poster tubes (we have a few gazillion of these lying around, being a movie theatre and all). The facial structuring is newspaper crumpled and held in shape with masking tape. Carl's body has some foam packaging I dug up for hunchback padding, held in shape by duct tape, and his belly and chest padding is newspaper and a trash bag. We have some cornstarch left over from Batman, so the faces will be coated in paper mache for extra strength and smoothness. The clothes are going to be fun. I have an idea... I'm going to make the clothes from giant sheets of newspaper, "sewn" together with glue and made stiff by cornstarch. We have plenty of paint.
I'm off tomorrow, but I'm going to go in and work on it for at least four or five hours. I'm hoping to finish the bodies and start on the clothes tomorrow, finish the clothes and start painting on Wednesday, and finish up on Thursday.