hey everybody norm from tested here at Silicon Valley Comic Con and we ran in
our friends Mike and Shelly again this year how you guys doing we're doing look
amazing now remember last year Mike and Shelly cosplay at an amazing Totoro as
well as a dark side and we saw you at Maker Faire where you're working on this
new costume it's one of my favorite things I saw at Maker Faire was this
mess the full suit is even more incredible tell us about the making of
the whole suit so for the suit we actually recycled and reused
totoros body it's Totoro under here and we repurposed him to have new life for
manspider so that's what that's him under him under me and scratch patterned
the foam redid that I actually we had this makeshift like rock climbing
harness underneath to carry the PVC pipe legs behind me and then we have foam
noodles pool noodles around the PVC pipes we use golf balls for the ball
joints and then we use just four layers of EBA foam carved and scorch them to
have this nice bubbly look for the claws and we on line two that we purchase and
ripped up and tore up to get the kind of like distress monster-movie that might
be my favorite part that it's like an off-the-shelf spandex stretchy but the
way it's torn up it's like you're not be Precious about that because it just adds
to the character yeah and it's for function because I have this rip right
here and yes I want to show the chest hair but I can reach down and adjust
where my body needs to go yeah and it's it's really great and it's a big foam
suit that's like nice and like sweated in but at the same time like people
don't know who I am underneath so they're like oh thanks great good job
man good job yeah you're welcome woman's spider not mad spider no I don't
care I just appreciate that they appreciate how much work that we know we
saw this mask at Maker Faire but we need a chance to talk with you really about
the making of this you got to get up close because there's like hairs on it
it's it's so great you're like how did it how was this all sculpted any longer
in our play actually dries out we're not that good sculptor as I guess so it's
all wet clay and then molded and plaster of Paris and then cast in a creature
cast rubber with the Flex foam yeah so it's back it's back though the Flex foam
yeah so it's got to kind of have the helmet element we do have three kind of
different custom fiberglass to it and then inside we had some drone goggles
that we you know there's the one I yeah yeah so we do have like fans and we have
our batteries and we have the moleskin that actually learned from Adam the
first time around as battle Ursula because I was getting irritated from the
fiberglass he suggested more skin so I put that on my face so not so irritated
and then these were also hand sculpted golden casted a nice squishy this is our
first time doing hair punching what do we use for it to make of a nice sweat
like five epoxy five-minute epoxy that's right and then we sculpted this and got
this cool like job breaking open bone look I really want to get that for
element you know because I mean why not it's it's a man
spider he's transforming from inside out yeah five minute epoxy is perfect to get
the trippy stuff to make teeth look like it's like--there's there's wrong there
but it's hard he's four eyes great I also love that because it is the
creature bursting out of the human there is like a human skull up there as well
we really wanted to make it look a little painful and make it like a
transformation ought to be painful I get so we really wanted to do that and we do
that with the eyes and the nose because the nose is like superhuman like very
human the jaws human and everything else just has insect like futures I guess
when you guys work on a costume together you get to like is it a battle between
who gets to be the one it's designed for
like oh we're gonna either way we're gonna suffer in it you know we've both
done er we've now we both other time we've both of our time and our fur
costumes this is my first time in a fur costume and he's done like - yeah - and
it's it's hot like I people like no yeah it is and but you just got to keep it
well-ventilated hydrate we brought straws that's a good hack bring your own
straws because you can't bring your own beverages and cons all the time
straws are very helpful even if you have like a makeup or a mask a straws are
very helpful well congratulations it's an incredible costume so striking people
are swarming over wanting to take pictures and maybe next year we'll see
you back in a costume it's so close a total repurposed as well make sure like
great to see you I hope you have a great con