Zebe painted, and prepared for Flocking

Just a little note.

Hello to fellow viewers of my blog, this needs drastic updating which will be happening very soon

This video is me trying and testing the zebra mask, to ensure comfort and ease of movement is accomplished.




Please excuse the display of this video, have not had time to adjust as of yet. This video shows actor Daniel Shelly wearing the zebra head, and demonstrating a snug fit, with ease of movement. This fitting was enrolled to ensure that the mask fits, and for the client Faye Young, Tailor and Costumier to ensure the neck line of the costume fully caters for the mask, and fits snugly. This overall fitting was successful with minor adjustments needed.

Below are images of the Actor Daniel Shelly trying on the Costume Produced by Client Faye Young. The costume you see is a draft made in calico

What materials did i use

The materials I used to cast the zebra head were:

Easyflo 120

-Which is a “fast setting low viscosity resin that has been specifically designed for slush casting or rotational casting. The resin has "less of a snap cure" enabling it to flow around the mould avoiding the risk of cured lumps on the inside of your casting that when set, can pull your casting out of shape.”

PT Flex 20
-This is a fast curing flexible polyurethane elastomer, which was perfect density to reduplicate the soft texture of a zebra’s nose whilst having enough rigidity.
To added in hessian weave to give the cast more strength.

Materials purchased from Mould life.
Web address: http://www.mouldlife.co.uk/

Development of sculpt and three part silicone jacket rotational mould

Zebra armature

After taking a head cast of my model I tried to vacuum form the head to give my self a shell to work with, as the vacuum forming machine was not big enough to take a full form i worked around this by tilting the head on a angle and vacuum formed as much as I could. Then I heat bend strips of plastic to get a good impression. This did not work as accurately as I intended. I used an alternative method of taking a cast made out of a thin layer of Mod Rock. This worked efficiently and allowed me to attach to the zebra armature.

Templates

These are templates i used to help aid me sculpt.