Make a hinged head costume like the ones used in the Lion King musical
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Ye might be wondering why the hell i decided to make a giant bear costume. Well its part of a project i am doing for my uni course... as an illustrator. (I know that usually involves lots of drawing but i also like to make stuff and so want to illustrate that way too :p)
We were given a short section of poem "Three little schoolboys walking in the zoo, a big bear hugged one and then there were two" and told to spark off ideas from that. Instead of actually doing it about schoolboys, bears or possibly paedophiles (also, in the gay clubbing scene a bear can also mean "a large hairy man") i decided to go a lil bit out there and concentrate on what everyone thinks of when they look at bears. Yup, thats right. Berserkers. (taken from the old norse bersekr meaning "bear shirt") Replace the schoolboys with young and inexperinced soldiers and you've got yourself a massacre _
It must be the panto seething in my blood (i have been clean for 3 years but it gets hard at times :p) but i decided to make costumes, then take photos and work back into them to create the final piece. Here is some of the initial ideas for the story and the costume. I went thru many phases of bear related clothing and then decided that a giant floating skull (kinda lifesize) attached to the person so that you could see them as well. (When berserking it is said that they take on the spirit of the bear or wolf and so i wanted the person to be seen clearly too) Also I wanted the costume to move the same way a bear does and so create a hunched gait when the person is crouched forwards. i took the idea from the lion king musical on how they suspended giant masks above the heads of the actors that moved into a feline stance when they leaned forward.
We were given a short section of poem "Three little schoolboys walking in the zoo, a big bear hugged one and then there were two" and told to spark off ideas from that. Instead of actually doing it about schoolboys, bears or possibly paedophiles (also, in the gay clubbing scene a bear can also mean "a large hairy man") i decided to go a lil bit out there and concentrate on what everyone thinks of when they look at bears. Yup, thats right. Berserkers. (taken from the old norse bersekr meaning "bear shirt") Replace the schoolboys with young and inexperinced soldiers and you've got yourself a massacre _
It must be the panto seething in my blood (i have been clean for 3 years but it gets hard at times :p) but i decided to make costumes, then take photos and work back into them to create the final piece. Here is some of the initial ideas for the story and the costume. I went thru many phases of bear related clothing and then decided that a giant floating skull (kinda lifesize) attached to the person so that you could see them as well. (When berserking it is said that they take on the spirit of the bear or wolf and so i wanted the person to be seen clearly too) Also I wanted the costume to move the same way a bear does and so create a hunched gait when the person is crouched forwards. i took the idea from the lion king musical on how they suspended giant masks above the heads of the actors that moved into a feline stance when they leaned forward.
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Secondly, would you be able to post more photos of how you attached the supports to the to the mask and the belt? I think I understand most of this, but that part is a little hazy to me...
Lastly, as to the claws mentioned at the end, I thought you might like this link to a guy in Ohio that showes how he made a pair of retractable Wolvereen claws...
great job, I look forward to further postings
Jen
I will try and edit this to add more pics but the basic jist of the fastening is that there is a loop on the top of the support made out of carboard that the pin slides through and on the bottom the two rods are between the belt and myself and so are held in place by friction i guess. I havent actually play tested this for a long period of time but you could make it more secure by using a climbing/hiking rucksack instead of the belt (ie one with a belt around the waist as well as the arm straps) but hey... penniless art student here :p.