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This is my second costume. I originally built this as a way to highlight my high school robotics team and inspire young kids to explore STEM based projects.  Covid shut down everything and I decided to use it to "reverse trick o treat" and hand out candy to little kids. The body is basically chicken wire over PVC pipe held up by a backpack harness and carabiners. The legs are polycarbonate (Lexan) pieces from our FIRST robotics field covered in fur. I built casings for the drywall stilts. I made a giant head out of Plastilina and covered it with 20 or 30 layers of caulk and cheese cloth. After I made a poor man's mold, I used post filler from the hardware store to make the foam head. I painted it with acrylic craft paint and brushed out cheap yarn for the hair. I included pictures from the winter too because I think it looks cooler in a Hoth like environment.

This is my last submission for the Halloween Costume Contest. Like the TaunTaun, I built this for community outreach and to highlight Young Makers at Detroit Maker Faire. This entire costume is basically foam core board, PVC Piping, pool noodles, HVAC tape and Acrylic paint for effect. I used a driving harness to hold the suit (I wore it like a backpack) while walking on Drywall Stilts. The legs are reinforced with scrap Lexan. 

Here is my son's Groot costume for Halloween this year. The mask as well as the suit were handmade.
The mask I made from eva-foam, and other mixed materials. The suit was fabricated and sewn from scratch.

 Thanks for checking it out.

I did this Jack Torrance makeup as part of my 31 Days of Makeup Challenge for 2021.Included a picture of myself for reference as a before and after.

This character is Super Buu from Dragon Ball Z.

The head was patterned using aluminum foil and duct tape. The patterns were then transferred to 4mm eva foam. This was assembled using contact cement and more details were added with foam clay.
The gauntlets, belt, and ankle pieces were also made using this method. All those pieces were then coated in flexbond and painted with Angelus leather paint using an airbrush.
Buckram was glued in with hotglue for the eyes before painting on the red eyes.

The Muscle suit was made by carving and gluing upholstery foam to a spandex shirt with foam fast 74. The base structure of the hands was a pair of thick leather gloves which also had upholstery foam glued to it. These were then covered in spandex. eva foam nails were added to the hands. It was then coated in creature cast rubber sprayed through a critter gun. Then painted with angelus leather paints using an airbrush.

For the shoes I made a pointed structure with eva foam to slip over the toe a pair of sneakers. Then a stretch faux suede sock was sewn to slip over that.

The pants are harem pants I purchased since they were cheaper than the fabric would have been.

Here is a short video of me putting on the costume - https://youtu.be/EC1oOh2kuMY

I also have 11 videos which document the the whole process of creating the costume - https://www.youtube.com/biocosplay

Some are more of a vlog format, but some lean more towards a tutorial such as this on on how I made the muscle suit - https://youtu.be/R8GuOxON0Ls

A personal take on the Mother of Dragons and paying homage to the Game of Thrones costume designer Michele Clapton and the show's "dragon designer," Dan Katcher for Halloween 2020

Dragon puppet original design, materials used:
L200 foam (also for bracers), modeling foam (nostrils, feet, teeth etc), acrylic & spray paint, Target shopping bag for wings
Scaled fabric for body and legs, spandex for under belly.
Dress upcylced and modified to accommodate for false left arm (actual arm in dragon)

I was inspired by characters from movies "Hills Have Eyes" "Wrong Turn" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre".
Casting, sculpting, moulding and painting by me. 

I know this has no real chance of winning.  I just wanted to the share my first mask.  I created it after watching the Learn to make an articulated mask on a budget class on the Stan Winston site by Patrick Magee.

It took me awhile to compile all of the materials and tools,  I ended up making my own easel, as I could not find quite what I needed.  I am super happy with the results!  This is the first iteration of what I am sure will be many different masks that I will make using this technique.  I really enjoyed the class and plan to take more very soon!

This mask was inspired by my time spent working in middle management as a salaried employee in the hotel industry.  That job really sucked the life out of me.  I felt like I wasn't even alive.  I felt like... The Working Dead

Here is a link to a video short of the mask in action: