Rystall, Greeata and Lyn Me

The Cantina Dancers

Any help here would be nifty. I need lots more pix, and anything I that is not quite noticable in the few pix that are easier to find...please let me in on your observations.

Rystall: color of the "hair"...pink or red?
Is her outfit a body suit or a tank top with stretchy pants and some silly boot thingys for those huge feet (an area I will need many suggestions for). What color are her eyes and is her skin white or a pinkish shade?

Greeata: (nobody wants to be this one...party poopers. But I will find someone yet) What is yall's suggestion for her body? Does anyone know where I can get that mask/if it is available?

Lyn Me: (I know yall are going to yell at me and say look it up in the archives, and I will) but in reguards to her exceptional nakedness...what do yall think I could get away with...is there some kind of fabric out there like swimsuit material but not shiny? maybe even a plasticy body suit, and then I can try to blend the makeup into it...hmm. And what color are her eyes? Black?

Thanks a lot, guys


::formerly known as SenatorChristina:::

 

We'll pretend you said Jabba's Palace instead of the Cantina.

Rystall's hair is red I believe. And it's a unitard, yes. Or leotard, whatever it's called. It has "stirrups" or whatever those are, but they're modified to go around the whole hoof that she has, with holes cut for the nails on the hoof. I was confused as to how that worked myself, so I made a special note of it when the Magic of Myth exhibit came to Chicago. And I think her skin's white.

For Greeata, just get yourself a Greedo mask and add the long blonde hair and earrings.
Beats me for the body. You could always make a body cast of yourself, sculpt it over the positive, then cast it in latex. But that's ALOT of work. AAAALLLOOOTTT. Probably more than you wanna do. Hell, more than I would wanna do.

I'm sure you could get away with wearing a body suit for Lyn Me if you're gonna get cold. lol

 

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Rystall

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A very bright magenta pink hair color. In a few MoM shots I've seen without bright lighting on it, it's a darker, almost purple, magenta.

Skin is a very pale lavenderish color, with "leopard spots" in pink and purple. Don't forget about the three horns extruding from each side of her face from about the temple to the ear.

Body suit (unitard, actually) has near-invisble straps holding up the points in front. A very pale pinkish-lavender that's very close to the skintone in between the spots. Feet have holes cut for each claw.

Greeata

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In the movie, it's a latex suit. You can really tell in the shot of her looking down at the rancor pit when Oola gets eaten; her hands bend back funny over her bracelets when she puts her hands to her face. How to do it, I don't know. Unless you go with body paint with something textured to get teh look of her skin. Or a bodysuit with latex hands. VillieGee's idea for the head is your best bet.


Lyn Me

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A bodysuit dyed to match the make-up color, perhaps? Or see what people have done about Oola's lack of clothing.

(dead) Oola thread
(the likewise dead) CIII Jabba the hutts dance troupe thread

 

I think these costumes have to be done as a group. It's sort of like the Cantina Band or Max Rebo's bad, you can't just have one, you have to have them all. I would do one of them yourself and get togethor with two others to complete the gang.

Greeta looks pretty bad whenever her arms are bent. It looks really fake. Unforunately without doing something like the Urak-hai costumes from LotR (prosthetic that takes a really, really, really long time to put on) I don't see how you can fix that. But I'm no expert on the subject.
You could divide the latex suit into a shirt, a pair of latex pants, some gloves, the head, as well as the feet and hide the seems of the two section with clothing.
She doesn't haver the same hands as Greedo, which is both good and bad. The bad part is that you have to make your own instead of buying the Don Post hands but the good part is that there aren't really long fingers so you can actually grab things.
Collector's Empire still carries the Don Post Greedo mask for $44.99. Rubies also makes a Greedo mask that is from the same mould. I have seen it in person and it is excellent. However if you are going to use for a Greeta costume you will need to smooth out the lower part of the mask and repaint it with a more intense shade of green. Greeta has a very smooth face below her brow, unlike Greedo who has warts everywhere. As I recall the screen-used Greedo mask had some kind of biting mechanism to make the mouth/snout move a little. You might want to add something like that.
I am in the process of making a mask so I can tell you that making a full body latex suit is quite expensive. You'll need to make lifecats of your forearms and hands, your feet, as well as a cast of your body. Lifecasting my head was a good $150 in materials (especially since we didn't get it right the first time). Then there is another $45.00 for 20 pounds of oil-based clay to sculpt the mask in, plus moulding materials and of course the mask latex and the paints themselves. By the end of it the mask will cost me about $300-$400. Making a full body latex suit would be expensive as well as uncomferatable and very hot. But a Greeta costume would be pretty awesome if you did it right.
I recomend picking up a few traing videos from FXSupply. Especially the "Techniques of Lifecasting with Rob Burman." It covers face, hand/arm, foot, dental, and full body casting.

 

Excuse my exceptional lame-dorkedness for mixing that up. :: Thanks for those pix and all the advice! I searched forever these past few days and never found those. Much appriciated.

For the Greeada thing...I'm thinking I'll just do a catsuit and apply liquid latex over it and mold bumps with the latex (ala Mystique in xmen movies). I'd prefer something reusable..and I'm thinking the liquid latex will crack and mess up when the suit needs removing.
(NO BATHROOM BREAKS!! ::cracks whip:
Hm. Any thoughts on that? I've never used the stuff before.

I was thinking of something similar for Lyn Me. I really don't want me (or whoever I con into this) to be naked..maybe I can find a plasticy bodysuit. She is light poweder blue? Right?

 

I don't think that would work. Latex isn't like clay. You can't just form it into a texture. I think whatever you do, it's gonna take quite a while. From those pictures though, it just looks like she's just kinda warty. So here's an idea. Get yourself a green bodysuit. I'm guessing you want something knit, not a plastic (i.e. vinyl or pvc). Drape the suit one section at a time (making sure nothing's touching it on the other side), without stretching it too much. Then get yourself a crapload of hot glue and a glue gun, and drip dime-sized blobs of hot glue real close to each other on the suit. Cover the suit, paint it green, maybe dry-brush it with a slightly lighter green, and presto! Now this is just an idea, I've never actually done this. I'd imagine the only problem would be what happens when you stretch the fabric to put it on. I would imagine the hot glue is strong enough to not tear, so it might just hinder the elasticity of the fabric. So if you found one that doesn't stretch too much when you wear it, you're all set. As far as those hands go, you can either find a green pair of hands without fingernails that look good, or else I would just go with the Greedo hands. They may be a little inaccurate for Greeata, but they'll match the mask at least.

What does everyone think?

 

That's not a bad idea, but it would be better to do the hot glue while the bodysuit is stretched out like it would be when worn so that there's not as much danger of it coming off when the bodysuit is being put on. Stretching the bodysuit just a little bit won't mimic how the fabric stretches when worn. (I'm facing a similar problem attaching some armor to leggings.)

 

Actually, you could use green puffy/dimensional paint instead. it's meant for fabric, won't wash off and you wouldn't have to paint it

 

Hot glue re-melts in a warm car. It also tends to not stick to fabric very well.

The fabric puffy paint would work a lot better, though. I've had some of that on my Fett shoes for years and it looks the same as when I put it on. And that's shoes, and you know how much they flex when you walk in them. One thing about the puffy paint is that it will not dry as "puffy" as it is when it's wet. It sort of deflates. You might have to go over spots a couple of times to make it warty enough.

 

Ooh, puffy paint. Even better. Maybe I'll steal this idea for myself. lol.

I have very little hands-on experience with puffy paint though. If its on a stretchy material, would it crack or peel? I'm not sure of the stretchy abilities of puffy paint. Although, one could argue that even if it did crack, it would just look that much more like scaley gross skin.

 

It will stretch somewhat, but if you are really pulling on it, it will crack. It *flexes* well. People put it on t-shirts and sweatshirts and wash it and everything, and it stays new looking. It's a cheater way to applique. Dots should be ok, but long lines might not be. I used puffy paint to do details on my slave leia costume, and I know Guri, who's doing some really awesome Helms Deep armor, used something like puffy paint for details on some parts.

 

Puffy paint--we use that a lot at my house. As long as you're not pulling it into unreasonable dimensions, it shouldn't crack. And even if it does crack, it will usually stay on the fabric unless you pull it off on purpose. Dots of it shouldn't really hinder stretchiness of fabric, since the fabric in between would still by stretchy. You'd just have to be careful when getting into and out of the suit.