hey everybody Adam here from tested and I am NOT at tested I'm in a very special
location last fall 2018 there was this amazing story that came to my attention
about a high school but put on a high school play production of alien well I'm
actually standing in that high school right now I'm in North Bergen high
school in New Jersey and the art class of our teacher Stephen deaf and eating
the class that put on this play and the kids had built all that amazing stuff
well some of them are in this room right now working on some costumes for New
York City Comic Con which happens to me why I'm on the East Coast so I'm gonna
go see what they're working on all right Dakota I see that you're doing some
preliminary draping here yeah what what is the customer like so basically this
is Red Robin so in the comic books Tim Drake's Robin kind of evolves from the
Boy Wonder into his own hero okay wants to step away from Batman
uh-huh it kind of be his own thing this emblem and this strap over here I think
that's kind of like his his trademark so and he has his cape over here which I
need to attach in a second it's gonna have red sleeves so he's gonna attach
right to this guy yeah it's gonna attach right here so I found that with this cuz
I just wanted to be as I use the top with gloves and I've never seen such a
thing yeah so I basically kind of glued on the knuckles it's awesome yeah foam
pieces that you know just buy anywhere uh-huh so I used this skin suit that I
bought online because I wanted something that was flexible and yet like wouldn't
it be as hot and then I bought this fabric at Michael's it's like a red
satin uh-huh but I found that the challenge with this was that this was
stretchy and this was it yep that's so I didn't I didn't
anticipate it'd be so much better if this was stretchy and this was yeah it'd
make my life a lot easier right is there a Robin mask yes Robin mass
well this is his helmet oh okay thank you we're really looking all right whoa
I see it so actually wet with paint yes it is look at that I'm that's awesome
and that's just camping foam and yeah some hovering over so I used a red like
a red material and it con like when you heat-treated it kind of
like attaches to the phone oh so and then I just painted over and it kind of
covered up some of the seams yeah it has some of the crimes yes we say yes we
doesn't look good when those crimes are showing yeah
the code I can't wait to see what you finally come up with thank you sir thank
you all right jaylen now you did a lot of
the costuming for the spacesuits from alien yes so you crawled over a lot of
the same reference material that I've spent so many years crawling inside of
it sigh I just love knowing that other people have sort of like gone down the
same weird mental pathways that I have but what are you working on here today
um here it's not really finished yet but this is gonna be a jacket for America
Chavez which is she is a female Spanish superhero for Marvel yeah and she's
really cool she's on the top five for Spanish superheroes amazing everywhere
so love her yeah and then next seat next to of the jacket is my brother's suit to
be tight a fall outfit ok so what's gonna happen with the jacket is the key
part of of the costume yes and what are you gonna do this jacket is gonna be
America's colors so the red white would be over here
and then the blue would be on the shoulders with the stars okay what other
parts of the costume do you have to complete you're gonna wear this a
comic-con yes Sunday I'll be there Sunday okay and
it's Thursday today that all right helmets
weapons whips crossbows what is she carrying she's very casual because you
know you don't growing up Spanish you don't really have much to like you know
oh you don't really own lunch you don't have that much money so she wears a jean
jacket t-shirt and shorts and she just goes out there and saves people she just
showed up to play she showed up to play awesome custom to me um what is what are
you anticipating will be the biggest challenge of getting this across the
line she's a little bit more muscular than me
not gonna lie okay she's she's also six foot yeah yeah not building that yeah
yeah so they you didn't ask for advice but I'll tell you you know shoulder pads
you could take some take some foam and carve some shoulder pads in Jan
in the shoulders and just a little bit literally half an inch wider I'll make
you look way more muscular yes just in the shoulder thank you so much for
showing me that that's great Gabriel I'm seeing what looks like some
foam armor talk me through this custom that you're making okay the armor I'm
making is from Halo 3 ODST okay I come to find out like ODST yeah had to be
like my some of my favorite characters in the game how come well it's because
they had so much personality compared to the Master Chief in the game okay yeah
so I want to make some ODST armor both my own twist so as you can see with the
white and blue I'm giving this ODST armor first aesthetic yeah is this like
I'm looking at this is a preliminary paint job but this is more of what the
finished paint job should look like yeah yeah in a sense I really like this the
gradient you've got going on here with the darker on the outside it makes it
feel very weathered and I love this idea of using stormtrooper color scheme for
halo armor wow this thing's still what yeah oh it's latex
I'm kidding I do oh that's great so then this guy lives like there yeah right
there nice and some of these will be blue and some of them wait yeah chuckles
go around here or something so you're in the home stretch how many hours do you
think you have left 5 6 10 20 all the time that I have whatever time there is
between now and then that's your time that's great Gabriel I love your
paintwork this is really really exciting then paint job is excellent I can't wait
to see the finished product yeah thank you sir Sarah nice to meet you
meet you I see you've got did you cut yourself burnt myself burnt yourself
hell hot glue gun welcome to the club that is
a badge of honor okay tell me what tell me what this Minnie Mouse is about so
basically I wanted to combine poison ivy with Minnie Mouse and make something
different I got this idea cuz I was in my sculpting class in our my teacher mr.
Kutz up was talking about how this kindergarten school that this mirror of
Minnie Mouse Mickey Mouse tells like I want to do something creative
something that is like you know I don't know it brings your spirits up with
something creepy this is great and this is some kind of amazing textured fabric
you found oh and so that's what all that right I know again why the flowers are
all over here because you're doing me the floor all the way because it's
poison nice yeah and this is my first project that I'm working on by myself
with help here and there but something that I'm working on some kind of part of
it I as you should be I also really love
the weirdness of your mashup like one of my all-time favorite customs was the
pink Hello Kitty Darth Vader that was at a Comic Con about 10 or 12 years ago cuz
it's weird and awesome and really cool stuff happens in that space so thank you
for showing you this beautiful appreciate it
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