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Elsa sequins May 15, 2014 by michaela de bruce Well here’s an interesting thing. I used a cutter to just test how my various materials look as cut properly. Turquoise upper left, Blue Iris upper right, cornflower blue lower left. Under natural lights the turquoise is darkly mirrored, it’s not as pale as it appears…
Elsa, plans being tested and they work 🙂 May 14, 2014 by michaela de bruce Just a super short test using a test pattern. That is the Shimmer Sheetz cut in to 10mm squares. The test cutting patterns also do rounded rectangles 🙂 The smaller the shapes the more glassy they look 🙂 So I’ll see if…
Elsa screencaps and musings 🙂 May 1, 2014 by michaela de bruce Sparkle of doom! This is so like a big torchlight solo, oh hey given the music was written by B’Way peeps this may be part of the rationale behind her Diva gown? I think of it as her Broadway Diva gown because really…
I finally have a cape fabric for Elsa that I can easily dye with predictable results! I can’t believe it is available so randomly… Geoff’s Emporium on Lincoln Rd, Henderson has two rolls of about 30m each of off white cotton tulle. I may have grabbed what I could of the white. There is a…
I finally have a cape fabric for Elsa that I can easily dye with predictable results! I can’t believe it is available so randomly… Geoff’s Emporium on Lincoln Rd, Henderson has two rolls of about 30m each of off white cotton tulle. I may have grabbed what I could of the white. There is a…
The colour is gorgeous! Super pale! Super pale, I was worried it would be quite dark but it’s only just warmer than my Shimmer Sheetz, not darker. To the recharged camera! It’s a very similar thickness and the film is still a bit fragile however when you see the state the post bag…
Given how badly everything is going right now in terms of costuming I think it may be a case of being too tired to actually do all this stuff. So I think I’m going to start printing and drawing and will actually sculpt the horns because yes. It is all total pants right now. If…
Sadly they don’t have an opaque aqua or subtle turquoise but look: http://www.josyrose.com/sc-sequin_film-1307.aspx I hadn’t really understood the site the first time I visited so only saw the sequin waste but they do indeed have narrow sequin strips (83X5000mm) which are just wide enough to go through stamping and cutting machines and to be hand…
So, the frozen art book has a lot of cool stuff. Of note is the tense- everything is written as if it was pre-production. So I’ll add in my conclusions below. Giaimo put Elsa in a triangular aqua cape decorated with snowflake patterns. I think this describes the art work which is indeed aqua. The…
Just worked out what a “roll” of sequin material actually is.. it’s not quite as advertised! Not going by photos.. in otherwords do you know how ridiculously overengineered my Elsa gown will wind up being? I am even looking at making my own sheeting from urethane. Yeah.. it’s a bit softer than I expected but…