at comic-con I'm very excited and it's time for an income you know it's time
for the big Doug incognito of Comic Con 2016 and this is this is a unique
incognito for me I mentioned in an oblique way that it is a new excursion
for me because the character you created yes I have always replicated characters
created by others for other narratives and this time I decided to fulfill this
lifelong dream I've had of having a seven-foot-tall semi-realistic grizzly
bear class was your friend there um I haven't named him or her but this is
this is my bear and this is my bear costume and we're going to go into the
details of the construction in another video untested but basically this thing
is light as a feather it weighs only about 10 pounds because it's hollow so
it's built kind of like a mascot costume but even lighter and you're going for a
realistic looking bear not a furry nope this is a realistic I'm trying to get a
realistic looking bear I've got a little bit of a taxidermy face going on here
which I'm unhappy about and there may actually I'm a actually construct
another bear after this another bear head when I get back to San Francisco
but right now this is my bear and I'm going to walk the floor of comic-con as
a seven-foot tall bear I wanted to connect this to a movie of course
because it's Comic Con it is Comic Con I wanted to have some reason the bear
existed and that is why the bear will drag Leonardo DiCaprio haha comic-con
then Oscar clutching an Oscar now I have nothing against Leonardo DiCaprio earth
this is not an insult to him at all I hope he doesn't take this as that I'm a
huge fan I think he's an amazing actor I just think this is a very funny joke
it's the bear from the revenue and it's the wrong color for the bear from the
revenant which I totally know except that because I'm a big old ginger of
course I'm going to make a big old ginger bear now in past comic-con cameos
your walks have been very uncomfortable very warm
yes did you design this with comfort in mind I did when I made it very
lightweight I saw a lot of bear I collected thousands of pictures of bears
and bear costumes online professionally made amateur made and one of the
commonalities of them is that they're ridiculously hot because they often
include foam under suits to create the musculature of the bear I decided to do
all that with corset bunting from techniques I learned from Rick Lyon in
his shop in New Jersey when we built the puppets so I learned how to sew fur from
him and I learned about the corset under structure and that was invaluable for
putting this thing together it's a very simple costume this right here is 10
pieces of fabric that's it and by the way I'm going to we're going to release
a PDF of my patterns for this so if you wanted to make your own bear after
comic-con you could make your own bear and it would weigh 10 pounds and you can
wear it wherever you want it spacious and it has a great form like a
silhouette well and this is the other thing is that I really really drew this
thing dozens and dozens of times before constructing it because I wanted a kind
of character I actually looked at the way the bear physiology maps onto a
human physiology the crotch is much lower the knees are much lower the
shoulders are about the same the arms are longer all of these things I work to
put into this and then it all kind of started to come together I'm really
pleased with the final result he's got a big fat belly he's definitely been
eating some pic-a-nic baskets and this is gonna be a whole operation because we
want to have Leo not walk out with you on the floor out of the hotel well it's
a half mile from here to the convention hall it's a lot to ask me to drag
30-pound Leo that whole way in a heavy crowd so you guys are going to go and we
can't be norm because norms been spoiled his face is on a postage stamp everyone
knows who he is and they'll look for him to find me so we're going to plant some
other less known people on our team with Leo at the convention hall so that I can
walk up pick up Leo and start to drag him through the halls of Comic Con it's
time to suit up yeah let's do it now here's the other
innovation I made for this there's no zipper in this costume there's literally
within the framework I just included a kind of a sprung hole that I climbed
through to put the costume on and this is like I'm getting eaten by a bear oh
that's it all right that's right foot yeah all
right I should get together soon
okay that Wow barely see all right so what's our plan
I am ready to go love a team ahead with Leo I will see you guys on the floor
come up
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oh my goodness where are they
my father
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that way yeah
thank you
for almost whoa whoa you ready yeah my favorite part this is oh that's the
reveal yeah oh holy cow
well as hot as blazes but super fun it was such a successful walk
oh my reacted really well hold on just a sec aah aah oh it's engagement row oh my
gosh yeah people really really got the joke there was a lot of laughter that
was exactly what I was hoping would happen I think one of the security
guards got very upset about us trying to leave a fake Leonardo DiCaprio corpse on
the floor you apologize and you will recognize the very game the very end
that was the longest it has ever taken anybody to find me I thought we were
gonna finish it being like wow nobody nobody figured it out but we started
tweeting some actual hints and yeah the most the last hit was war ah because
this is a creature of your creation you had to find it in the walk find the
poses well then the costume you know the crotch is like a foot below line and so
just a walk in that is itself kind of a character and then I you know I can't
stop myself from doing them it'll be with the hands I know it's not very
scary but I guess that's not the kind of bear that I am awesome again we'll have
a build of this costume on the site Montez calm but that's the successful
that is a fantastic you know I'm looking forward to
showering and you pulling down