Showing posts with label maita. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maita. Show all posts

Thursday, August 25, 2016

Lord of Vermilion - Maita

and so.. we chionged 2 costumes + a new skit in the span of 3 weeks for wcs in japan. zzz. couldn't really do very well since i still need to do it in between my full time job. almost died.

anyway, these is the character for yvonne, named maita


thank goodness there's actually not much to do here. i did the red/black half top. 




the ribbon thing had to be redone cos it seems to be too obvious a color to use. saddd.


and the red top was pretty much the same template.


after some adjustments done during fitting, here's the finished product. lined for both tops! lining works very well when you're in a rush and needs to cover all the ugly stitches, and don't want to do seams. haha.


lan helped us research and draw out the template, then yvonne used it to paint on

and the finished product:


the white flaps are a breeze... just that i had to put silver bias tape around it.


yvonne lightly sprayed the surface so there's some greenish tinge to it. it was also done on her white fur around the neck.


then the shoulder thing was done using PVC



lined at the back. 


the 2 flaps done separately, lined with gold ribbons at the sides


then stitched together with the main piece. ta-da~


obi (just 2 long strips of rectangle) and tail (a bottom bubble shape) was straightforward. the tail caused a lot of fur mess =_= the talisman was just 2 pieces of rectangle with the words cut and pasted on by yvonne.



lastly, the wig cutting during one of our practice


After styling to make it look more layered and adding a red tinge to one tuft of the hair on the right. It looked ok then but all the layers seem to wear off afterwards =_=


and the completed set!


Saturday, August 06, 2016

Day 6 Semifinals

so we were like the last 2nd team to perform and just had to wait backstage and take our time to slowly prepare... we could leave the red carpet halfway to get ready, which helped a little.

made some mistakes, but it wasn't very visible in the performance. we had a popper effect at the end, but the cone rolled out and we weren't able to do it T_T in any case, i doubt we'd have gotten in even with the effect, bleahs. here's the livestream in any case.




the interview question was on whether we enjoyed our performance but having known that we made a mistake.. it was really a very hard question to lie through. =_=


i can only say, we did whatever we could in the short span of 3 weeks. chionging 2 costumes and coming up with a new play was no joke, in between my full time job. i don't think i'll ever try to do such a thing for a big competition next time - at least a year of prep would be needed!!!



in any case.. backstage selfie time!

with kyle and sangho~ their performance fully made use of the background video - must watch!





brazil's ff7 - wheee


the winner goes to indonesia!! all those magic acts... omgggg





kyaaa ff8!! i love how true their performance is to ff8!! squall!!!




muahhah i kinda forced them to take pics with me as they were almost going to take off their costume. hengggg. seifer is a very funny guy.


selfie with aussie and netherlands, that super tall guyyy O,o


i love germany's performance! that quick battle after the dance totally wowed me. it was a shock that they didn't get in, which turned out to be a mistake. thank goodness!



their umbrella props were really pretty and detailed as well. puts mine to shame...




and odin sphere from taiwan. i think they did a really good job with the queen nifleheim and that change at the back!



team portugal with le chevalier d'eon, used to like that anime a lot~



and we got to watch a lot of the group b's performances

denmark, who scored 2nd place with their fabulously detailed costume



vietnam and their 3-4x costume change


the very pretty ff4 ladies (but their angmoh japanese voiceover was quite funny..)



france's love live, who scored 3rd place


hongkong's very big kancolle, another team whom we thought would get in but didn't. weird.



the ultra bling mexico!! their costumes are filled with gems, for every single feather too...



and philippines - the girl's acting is really very good!


last few selfies with the past reps~