MALEFICENT PROSTHETICS

MALEFICENT PROSTHETICS

by michaela de bruce, September 5, 2014

What I may do is sculpt them flat, I’ll be able to then make two part ultracal molds that can be stacked away and also be easier to cast. But I can also make the pieces absolutely identical and also get some texture on more easily.

So it seems a waste but it’s not, I want to make really thin casts and make them more even too. So these little pieces will be a guide 🙂

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    • KRISTEN

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    • September 5, 2014

    Heya hun. Found an awesome magazine that has close up images of Maleficent’s makeup including the prosthetics in their moulds. You get get a digital version of the magazine by going to makeupmag.com/digital issue AUg/Sept 14. it has two covers one is Mal the other a vampire from the show penny dreadful. Says what BJB Enterprises eurathane and polyeurathane mix they used for the horns too. if you cant get it ill try and scan in the pics from the mag for you.

    • ADMIN

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    • September 6, 2014

    I’ll see if I can get an app for my netbook 🙂 It is elligible for android apps and I can get back copies that way 🙂 But A lick of thr lolly may make me just go and get the magazine as a subscription as I’m interested in everything anyway 🙂 http://www.arrayedindreams.com/2014/07/19/did-i-post-this-artisan-article/ Did you see this link? The article is mainly text and interrupted by a few pages of ads 🙂

      • KRISTEN

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      • September 6, 2014

      Yeah the magazine is fascinating. and that link is interesting too!

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ooooh, feather production soon!

ooooh, feather production soon!

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So far I have just tested unaltered glue, unaltered blade, and half altered spine. So right now it’s a feather if you squint at it and look sideways.

Once I start on bulk blade processing and finding some sort of press (okay all my art books wrapped in plastic to protect them) I’ll be able to get assembly going.

 

My horns are very close fitting- which is great but it shows how uneven a skull is- I have to line up the hairline then swing the sides down from the top of my head. If I try to line up sides first it won’t work. They need to be sanded back ready for the final thin layer of soft texture too. I may or may not be able to cut a tool to shape…. I’d like to but the putty needs to be sticky to hold in place, so then I’ll need to use some sort of release agent on the tool and that will then build up in the resin.

 

I also have a new set of lenses. Currently sterilising them, then will soak them for a day in my own solution (and will buy some of the newly recommended stuff as my eyes are drier than they used to be. But they can be a good back up for pretty much all the lenses I want for costumes, so long as my eyes are happy.

 

No photos as I’m about to have a catch up nap- and I need to evade the fumes ?

 

What else.. oh I forgot to make resin samples. Will have to catch up on that later.

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ELISSA TEXT UPDATE

ELISSA TEXT UPDATE

by michaela de bruce, August 26, 2014

I have bound the top and bottom with gold ribbon and the belt is actually looking good 🙂 So I’ll see if I can line all those applique pieces so they also look nice when taken off 🙂

Cold of heck is still here so I am seeing my GP tomorrow just in case.

Also, I managed three goes of Think of Me in a row with no fatigue in my upper range so I may be busting out my Mozart aria CD if I can find it and playing around with this new lightness (possibly due to the cold and how I am holding my soft palette and getting a lot of resonance in my nose proper- not nasal but I can feel the bones all around vibrate more than usual.)

The inner smile trick works, inner smile combined with breathing through a cold and yawn. Seems to be the trick 🙂

Oh also, I am now just down to a bucket of trims for the gown. Trims, not all the things to make, just the trims. It’s a 10L bucket.

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ELISSA/HANNIBAL BODICE

ELISSA/HANNIBAL BODICE

by michaela de bruce, August 26, 2014

Front and back views of the upper applique snapped in place and the belt and lower appliques pinned in place.

I decided I did like the twisted braid after all and I’ll probably do a mix of Aussie and US styles here too: big stones and braid on the middle three seams. The loopy braid on the side and back seams.

 

I had to stop singing the cadenza at one point today. Yeah, but I managed a few scales as well and some good leg stretches (also if I support both hands I can still bend really far back and see upside down, so there is that!)

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New Maleficent horns

New Maleficent horns

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Yeah yeah yeah, if anyone needs a set of horns to tidy my slightly smaller set would be proportional for someone closer to 5’2″ or so.

So the head base fits closer as I did knock a heck of a lot of layers off the head cast, still a bit bigger just where the horns sit. So that may require some knocking back.

Also yay, I relented and used my hot glue gun. Hot glue is fab for some things and holding pieces together before properly gluing is one of them ?

Oh and that is indeed a set of appliances, overflow channels and mold border. A little rough in places because moldmaking and making them pretty is difficult! It requires a similar skill set to sculpting (funnily enough) and so if you don’t tidy you don’t get a tidy mold.

Yes the undercuts are also filled in where possible as I don’t want to break the mold when it comes off nor do I want to break the headcast.

 

2 thoughts on “New Maleficent horns”

  1. kristen says:

    I’m 5 foot 2 and a half lol! I have a dremel lol

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    1. admin says:

      They are yours girl 🙂 And I can probably also post a pattern with it if it’ll help? My patterns tend to be sans seam allowance and work a bit backwards ?

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UPDATE! AND CAT PURRING! I HOPE.

UPDATE! AND CAT PURRING! I HOPE.

by michaela de bruce, August 25, 2014

Worked a bit on the Elissa and Elsa bodices (Elsa spanx thing so as to have that super flowy effect of the bodice and skirt which will not have any support- I’d cut the fabric on the bias if I could.. sigh)

Just left the Hannibal bodice like this, the applique is just laid on. The only wiggly trim I could get is my braided cord and I twisted it to make a good cover for the zip.

 

The bodice before gold trimming.

 

The inside of the bodice! Tight weave cotton mix. Herringbone twill tape (will need to install some as a waistband too) herrinbone stitched to hold the boning in. These means easy removal to alter seams. Cunning plan for a bodice supposed to be used in the theatre.

 

Utilispanx! Two layers of heavy stretch lingerie, bra cups denuded of every thing and covered in shaped fabric.

Just four bones in there so far but there will be a panel of them down the front or some sort of extra elastic stays. The cups are deliberately dimensional so they should fit right over to the top neckline.

I have also admitted defeat in the dyeing of the lining of the Maleficent tabbard. I’m going to just use the soft charmeuse after all. I wanted silk but it’s so horrible to dye.Unless I can get 6 packets of those tiny dylon packets which is impossible as it seems only Spotlight stocks it here and they have not been restocking the shelves- they are on sale.

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