oh right Felicia is so nice to meet you it's wonderful to meet you this is an
amazing costume I'm holding this beautiful helmet
what is this costume first and foremost this is emphasis from solo a Star Wars
story okay and you built this whole thing from
scratch um yes so I belong to the emphasis facebook
group and that's a place where everybody kind of trades resources traits parts
tips tutorials so everybody kind of helps everybody there so it was it was
really awesome it was a great resource to have while building this so this is
like other people make oh oh I found the perfect tile for the front yes what tree
did this character gosh so there was so much mystery around if she was male or
female nobody knew and then she was just so cool and so awesome and then at the
end she just took her helmet off whenever I heard there's like an audible
gasp in the theater and I was like oh no oh no I have to make it I have to make
it now there's a wonderful sort of textural thing going on here and that it
feels sort of futuristic but also very old like this almost like a skull and a
helmet at the same thing yeah I think so the designer I think was basing it off
of a dolphin skull is what I heard okay um so it's got a lot of like texture to
it and this very futuristic feel like you said but also this old-world miss to
it and the chrome here is that multo yes yes it is and I recognize it's amazing
stuff it's I mean I could I couldn't believe that you can see your face in
something you can spray out of an airbrush I know I know it was it really
impressed me so did how did you sculpt this helmet so it's actually 3d printed
um it was over 32 pieces and then the file is actually from a friend of mine
Jesse okay and it's absolutely beautiful and it was 32 pieces and it all came
together and it's I love it so much who signed it oh yes so Paul Bettany signed
it and then Aaron Kelly man the actress who
played emphasis signed it oh it was really really great I got it a signed at
celebration today did they express admiration for the yes Aaron especially
which just warmed my heart and it just it really made every bit of hard work
absolutely worth it so there's a huge number of pieces to this costume it must
be a production just to wear it um it is it's by far the most cumbersome costume
I have and I kind of reach my comfort limit quite quick in it which is why I
have handlers with me usually so they help out and and I made they're able to
kind of take things off and help me get back into it as it is
yeah tell me about these arm fans are they functional there's semi-functional
okay so they open and close and the tops are 3d printed and all of the fan blades
are resin cast because otherwise I felt they'd be a little bit too delicate
mm-hmm and so they just they're they're Chicago screws underneath these two oh
yeah and so they one of my favorite things to me too
and so they just open and close and I want to soon work on a way to get them
to I want to have a loop around my finger so I can pull my wrist down and
have them open nice that way I don't have to do it myself I can just kind of
you know for photos and stuff it makes total sense and these these teeth are
these also each individually molded so these are resin resin cast these are 3d
printed this is actually a pecs plumbing tube things we use the part and
underneath there's some plastic tubing and a copper wire to help it keep shape
and this was 3d printed and these bones I just sculpted out of sculpey and then
just random and resin and I'm assuming this is this is a fake fur so yes I I
believe the use the screen use piece was an American bison belly and I just
didn't have access to it so I went from national fibre technology yes
nfg yes they're amazing they pointed me to exactly what I needed and and it was
I was just like oh thank you guys so much fairly cheap but there's nothing no
I know but it was just so beautiful I just I couldn't I could not do it
totally I also see they've got the orange lining on the Cape here did all
the sewing in the seamstress absolutely did all the soft parts this is suede
painted it was Angelus leather paint okay and the shoes are actually from a
company in Europe called demo Bozza and they I love them so much and I've always
wanted to own something from them and this was my chance and ironically enough
I had to alter the heck out of them but it was a really really fun challenge to
do I've never altered shoes before like that so it was really cool I'm also
feeling on the inside of this helmet you've actually got some lovely comfort
pads it looks like it's not that bad to wear no no it's not terrible it's like
two sets of just military padding in there it's super super awesome now how
long have you been doing cosplay in 2020 will be my tenth year okay and this
costume took me just about six months to build and what was the first costume I
made Tara from final fantasy 6 which is my favorite final fantasy game ever and
her character just really spoke to me so I knew immediately that was going to be
like my segue into cosplay it wasn't an elaborate build the funny thing about it
was that it was the first one so I had no concept for what was advanced what
was easy and I just kind of dove in and it took me a few months to do but I was
so proud of the results I was like you know like I need to keep going with this
this is really fun and it was so rewarding that that feeling of it took
me a while to realize that making the costume is literally only half of the
equation yet wearing it as the other head it fulfills its purpose yes
absolutely what drew you to dive into that first costume what was it that you
were looking for that you saw that you wanted so I remember this this very
vivid memory I have of Halloween one year
I wanted to be a cat woman and it was Michelle Pfeiffer's cat woman and I
remember going to the store with my mom getting the costume opening the package
being like excuse me this is not patent leather I was very disappointed and I'm
so identified with that feeling and I remember being like it's not shiny I
don't have cat claws what is this much piece of crap so from that moment on you
know it that thought kind of went on the back burner for a while and then I was
like I older I was like you know this is something I'm really interested in I
always looked at cosplays and said you know I wish I could do that and then one
day I just said you know what I'm gonna do it so I did it and the results 10
years later this is magnificent and III know that it's not necessarily
comfortable but it can also tell that you feel great wearing it I do I feel
like like such a badass will you put the helmet on we can see them yeah
absolutely oh yeah
you've got the stance thank you so much for showing me this beautiful costume
voice absolutely it's so inspiring thank you so much for taking the time this is
wonderful what a pleasure