Dragon Build
Hey all,
This is my first time posting on here so first off I'd like to say thankyou for stanwinstonschool.com. I started making latex masks about 13 years ago and am very happy to have found this site. I've watched several of the tutorials so far and each has taught me at least one thing that has really helped me improve in my craft. My hope is that I can keep improving and eventually do this as my full time job.
The Dragon I'm making is for a game called Requiem. Requiem is a LARP I run in New England and I make a lot of the masks, costumes and props for it. Our season finale is coming up this November and I'm working on what I hope will be an epic costume for the final battle of the year. I thought I'd post here because for one I'd love feedback and advice but mainly because I'm following a lot of the steps outlined in tutorial Make a Dinosaur by Ted Haines so I thought you might like to see how it progresses.
Concept art:



Our plan for the event is to have the players retreat into the main hall of the building and then the Dragon crashes through the main double doors with its head, its tail reaches around the building to swipe at them through the side door and the claw/ wing reaches in through the other side door. I have 4 weeks left as I write this and the frame support for the head may be large enough that I could attach the tail an make the dragon have an actual body allowing us t have a field fight instead. This will of course increase the budget so we'll see how far I get over the next week and reevaluate then.
This is my first time posting on here so first off I'd like to say thankyou for stanwinstonschool.com. I started making latex masks about 13 years ago and am very happy to have found this site. I've watched several of the tutorials so far and each has taught me at least one thing that has really helped me improve in my craft. My hope is that I can keep improving and eventually do this as my full time job.
The Dragon I'm making is for a game called Requiem. Requiem is a LARP I run in New England and I make a lot of the masks, costumes and props for it. Our season finale is coming up this November and I'm working on what I hope will be an epic costume for the final battle of the year. I thought I'd post here because for one I'd love feedback and advice but mainly because I'm following a lot of the steps outlined in tutorial Make a Dinosaur by Ted Haines so I thought you might like to see how it progresses.
Concept art:
Our plan for the event is to have the players retreat into the main hall of the building and then the Dragon crashes through the main double doors with its head, its tail reaches around the building to swipe at them through the side door and the claw/ wing reaches in through the other side door. I have 4 weeks left as I write this and the frame support for the head may be large enough that I could attach the tail an make the dragon have an actual body allowing us t have a field fight instead. This will of course increase the budget so we'll see how far I get over the next week and reevaluate then.
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Pics of the Frame so far:
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I can not see the concept picture.
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Should be able to see them by scrolling down. Seems if you leave a space when putting up pics it creates a really large blank area and I can't figure out how to edit a post.
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Finished the frame and reinforced the neck with a 1 inch aluminum pole. I may be using the wrong foam as I've found the L 200 they use in the dinosaur video is similar to EVA foam which I used for some of the design (top of the crest and the ear fins) but mostly I'm using old couch cushions and some thin sheets of poly to skin it. Anyway here is my progress for 2 days with the foam:
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Ok, it seems the site I was posting my images to requires you to sign up to view them. I've now uploaded to Imageshack so I'll repost my progress pics. Of course for some reason adding them as pics isn't working either so I guess I'll try linking them.
Concept art:
https://imageshack.com/i/0kvwr7jhttps://imageshack.com/i/0uo6jnj
Body Frame:
https://imageshack.com/i/0wu0b7j
Head Frame:
https://imageshack.com/i/5hzoynj
Progress Pic:
https://imageshack.com/i/nr9evxj
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Well the links work, and the head looks Amazing!!!0
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Very ambitious! So far I think you are on the right track to getting this thing made!0
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I never got around to uploading the finished pics was holding out to see if more players would turn some in but got at least a couple decent snapshots of it in the mod building.
https://imageshack.com/i/1nh3x7j
https://imageshack.com/i/3ufuzej
https://imageshack.com/i/f5cmf9j
https://imageshack.com/i/go8pgxj
https://imageshack.com/i/5ixbm2j
https://imageshack.com/i/0jhn88j
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That looks amazing! Great work!0
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