This is pinned in here.
[Excerpted from : MUSCLE SUIT FABRICATION] I've got the webbing that goes around...
so as you move the arm
it would actually move the chest out.
Y'know, like that. But it's gonna be kinda tethered in the center,
but I'll tether it to the other chest piece.
So this'll just get tacked together.
So as you move, it'll just kinda separate these two,
and the Spandex will stretch.
So I'm not gonna glue all of the Spandex down.
I'm just gluing the webbing to the back here in a spot.
Then I can stitch the Spandex closed.
Or on the webbing,
I'm not gluing the Spandex to the L200.
That way when you move the chest,
it'll separate and stretch in between here.
And so it'l be a nice positive movement
for the webbing.
I'm kinda just wrapping that around the shoulder into the back...
and so that can go around, I think, maybe about 5 inches... 6 inches.
But all this is basically,
it's a lot of trial and error and it's a lot of experimentation.
But it has to make sense for your character.
You want to keep testing it, putting it on.
A lot of the times, what I'll do at the shop,
is anchor all of these onto a Spandex unitard
with safety pins...
and so I haven't sewn anything yet.
I have everything put on with safety pins,
and then I'll put the outfit on or put it on a performer.
And they'll move around and we'll see what works,
what doesn't work.
Don't commit everything to needle and thread first,
because you're going to get disappointed.
Even if you've been doing it for a long time.
-(Matt): Quick question from, I'm sorry, Anthony Latony,
while we're talking about this...
Would you ever spray-glue on the smaller muscles,
biceps, that sort of thing, or do you always like to sew?
-Ted: I like to sew-- I wouldn't spray-glue this on.
There's no reason to. I'm gonna sew all the way around this.
Same thing with the tricep. Any form, muscles...
If I was doing abs. There's no reason to spray-glue them...
because I'm sewing around them,
and the glue-- simply with the body heat,
somebody running around in a creature suit-- the body heat softens the glue...
might make it tacky, and you just end up with a gooey mess.
So I just-- I like to sew everything.
You could possibly use...
like 74 Spray would get tacky. Barge cement...
You could do like a little dot in here, y'know, underneath...
and just tack that down just to hold it,
and it would probably stick to the fabric, but...
the more you move around that may actually just rip off of there,
so... it's really not necessary.
This strap, you see I put down that chest piece,
and I want the shoulder to be able to kinda ride over the chest,
'cause that makes sense.
I don't want the chest being over here.
But now this strap is kind of in the way,
so I need to find a different place to put this strap.
So if I had actually committed this...
to sewing, first, I'd be a little disappointed.
There'd be a lot of ruined work right there.
So I've got the tether in the back.
So what I might do is just go to a tether straight up on the top.
And again, this is trial and error guys.
Seeing what works, what's getting in the way, what's not.
So now, this will always slide-- I've got this piece of webbing here
that'll always slide underneath this shoulder piece.
So you have to test this stuff constantly.
You have to make sure--
'Is this going to work with what I'm doing?'
And again, this piece that I'll have sculpted for next week,
this is gonna go up in.
Obviously it's going to get sculpted down quite a bit.
And then the chest is gonna ride over the top of the ribcage.
I can't fit this up in there right now,
I haven't sculpted it down, so the arms are kind of in the way.
Y'know, this is one of the body-casts I did...
I could actually break this arm and move it out a little bit more
so I've got more room for the body-cast, but...
So I'll be sculpting this.
This'll go under the chest
and actually pop the chest out a little bit more.
This'll be sewn down, like I said-- this top line--
will be sewn down all the way around.
And then just down on the side here, a little bit.
And, who knows I might actually end up splitting the sternum
and getting that to move a little bit too so it stretches...
but I want it to be a more rigid piece of the L200 and not upholstery foam.
So this is just some of the concepts of hanging muscles.
Getting these to ride and move.
Getting the webbing in some areas, so you've got a nice positive pull
that's not gonna be a stretch.
This'd be connected to the other chest.
And i would do this exactly the same way on the other side--
is having a the webbing up over here that goes around the shoulder.
And what I would end up doing is tethering the center of this together...
simply by hand-stitching this Spandex together so you get a nice stretch,
right here.
So the chest muscles will move underneath the muscle suit.
-(Matt): This is from (student name!)...
Could you skin with floating muscles, this way?
My project has exposed muscles, in most places.
What do you do about all these floating muscle groups?
-Ted: Ok. So. And this is something we're gonna cover next week quite a bit...
...I think what she's talking about is joining all this together...
to make it look like a solid, cohesive piece.
And that's gonna be the skin suit--
I'm just trying to grab a piece of scrap Spandex--
that's the skin suit.
And I always do a skin suit over a muscle suit
because I don't want anything getting trapped in here
or getting pinched or anything like that.
So over the entire muscle suit-- or at least the moving parts of it--
not always over here,
I will do a second layer.
And who is building the Hulk is Mike, is building the Hulk suit,
and I think we talked to Katherine, as well,
about her -- the Anubis -- or a-NU-bis, I'm sorry,
... character... which is gonna be all just black Spandex
because she can't use the foam.
So this is something that you would pattern and cover...
everything. This'd be pulled tightly around here.
Let's see if I can get it around.
And this would come in.
And so that would, essentially, be a skin suit-- how you'd cover it.
So it hides all of these little seams.
It would be pulled relatively tight...
'cause you still want to have the definition of the muscles.
The only thing I hate about skin suits
is that you're covering up all your cool work underneath here.
But you're gonna cover it anyhow.
But this'd be pulled really tight and contoured to the shape.
You're gonna see all of the contours you're doing,
the biceps... all that sort of thing.
But we're gonna cover this next week with skin suits,
...and skinning, y'know, the entire character with Spandex.
So that's how you bridge all of these areas,
so you don't see all these separate muscles.
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