How I Built My 4-Stilted Costume! Halloween 2021
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- After 2 years of tinkering with my original 4-stilt costume, I decided it was time to take it all apart and rebuild it from the foam up -- complete with a fully articulated skull with bite force! Presenting my forest creature costume 2.0, and everything that went into creating it over these last 6 months.
If you have any questions or would like to see any of the steps explained in more detail, please leave a comment and I may film a more detailed tutorial video to address it! :)
RESOURCES:
- 4 Legged Stilt Spirit instruction book | Melissa Irwin www.etsy.com/listing/206658064/
- Paper mache tree bark | Sharon Ojela • Fake Bark Made In 2 Di...
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Introduction
0:45 The Skull
1:57 The Stilts
2:33 The Body
3:13 The Hardware
3:55 The Decor
4:17 The Expenses - Навчання та стиль
Stilt creatures are my favorite type of costume
Why are you not like the biggest thing rn?? This is amazing!
U aint lying lol
Me and my siblings had an idea and this helps with a lot of it! My little sister wanted to be a forest elf and we thought how about we go as guards? So imwatching a ton of videos oh how people make these costumes, this gave me so many ideas!!!
Was thinking of having my dream haunted house and having an actor in a costume like this and you made EXACTLY what I imagined. AWESOME JOB!!!
the bicycle cable for moving the jaw is genius. I just got my first stilts. I cant wait to build a walker costume
Time for more town terrorizing!
Hey just coming back to thank you for being a huge inspiration. These types of costumes are top of the line but take So Long to make. Seeing what it could look like and having a final product to work towards is relieving. I’m also remaking my costume this year.
Keep making weird art we love you!
Amazing work.
For those without access to a 3D printer, I've found that coating clay in casting latex improves durability for things like fangs and horns. But you do lose some of the cool texture rough clay has to make it look more like teeth and bone.
Great video! I was looking for something different than the usual blank mask costume and this didn't disappoint! I'll be making a quad stilt costume for 2022 and I'll come back to this video for inspiration during the build! :)
I love to hear it! I'd be happy to provide guidance if you have any specific questions about techniques or materials. :)
I’m building this for a haunted trail
I loved seeing this! So cool that your grandmother got to help you with it! Mine maybe didn’t understand some of the stuff I made, but she still supported me and called it a pretty thing
Incredible Jessica, just incredible!
This incredible. Amazing stuff. Great team work.
This is stellar, jess, oh my gosh
Stellar work!
Oh my goodness, this is great!
This is next level. You are an inspiration.
this costume design really inspired me to think of my own costume design. great job👍
Great job
This is truly amazing! I wanna do something like this, but I'm not sure where to start. I guess stilts are step 1. Lol
Its beautiful
This is very impressive and awesome. Wish there was a back story for this creature.
You totally deserve more subscribers!
I have been working on a costume like this but with my head working its head and couldn't figure out what was wrong(this is my first costume project) and now I realize whats been wrong! I just use some plain old crutches I had lying around with some fabric glued on.
THIS IS SO SIIIICK!
I’m gonna be doing this but different I’m gonna wear a black costume and a plague doctor mask I’m not gonna be tall but creepy because I can make really animal and creature/extra terrestrial like movements.
I'm going to do a similar thing for one of my characters, using thid video for some technical stuff!
Awesome! I'd love to see the final project
Love this build and we're using it as a jumping off point for our building of our monster for our stage version of "A Monster Calls" at the high school I teach at. Question: is there a reason you use medical tape to hold stuff in place? Would painter's tape or the like work as well?
Thanks for the kind words! I used medical tape because (I already had a bunch on hand) and the porous surface absorbs the paper mache substrate pretty effectively. It’s not the most cost-effective material so it’s worth experimenting with painters tape, however I worry the slick surface may repel the paint/ paper mache in comparison. Let me know how it goes for you and your theater team!
I shall call it a skull walker
The costume itself is fantastic tho
That is so fucking cool
i wanna make a Wendigo Costume for this years halloween, i just dont know where to start, this vid helped me tho, i need to get so much stuff done, and alone its realy hard
Hey, is there a way I would be able to purchase this costume? If so how much would it be
What kind of stilts did u use im tryna make a costume like this for next halloween
The front legs are crutches and the back legs are running/ kangaroo stilts. These aren't necessarily the best stilts for a costume like this but they're what I had already on hand. Good luck!
Can I use your costume for a new character design in a story of mine? 👀
Great job. The stilts where not the most expensive?
Thank you! I already had the stilts (found in a junk yard) before getting to work on this costume, so I did not factor them into the project's expenses.
Can u do a tut for the head? I'm gonna be making my own 4 legged spirit walker and the head for the classic own is just to basic.
Hey there! I did a tutorial on making custom heads/ masks for 4-stilted costumes last year: ua-cam.com/video/r13pvKXIwYo/v-deo.html. Hope this helps!
Any ideas on how to keep the front and rear legs from falling down? Would sincerely appreciate the suggestions.
Happy to help! In what way are they falling down?
Thanks! The foam is encasing the stilts and the crutches with buttons making pressure in 2 areas to keep them sturdy. But when in use, each step causes the foam to start falling down,
@@rubencaicedo8206 Is the foam loose and slipping off the bottoms of the stilts? or is the foam top-heavy and flopping over from the shoulders/hips? In the first case, I recommend adding additional buttons to several more spots to keep the foam snug around the poles -- one button on either side of a pole, for example, creating sleeves wherever possible. In the latter case, you'll need to add some kind of rigid material (corrugated plastic?) to help the foam maintain form. Hope this helps!
Yes the foam keeps falling. I added more buttons today and it's a little bit sturdier, thanks.
I have a pretty good idea for another one and would like to purchase it so I can use it but I’m not sure if I’ll have enough for what I would like you to make. If your interested just view the comments on my comment
So it’s a robot spider tank that has a gun on its back and the head would be the cock pit
it’s the mega blocks destiny fallen walker set I would love to have one of these as a costume just look it up to see what it is
Does this take a toll on your body?! This looks really tiring haha!
Oh it definitely does haha. The combined weight of the skull, neck, and harness puts a lot of pressure on my back, especially while walking hunched over on 4 stilts like this. It's difficult to stay in costume for more than 30 minutes at a time! The next iteration of this design will definitely take that into account to make it easier to get around in. :)
@@jdhatfield723 Sounds rough. Can't wait for the next design! It's a really cool concept and totally morphs your body into a magnificent creature!
Am i crazy for thinking it’s cute?
No your not
Not at all
Same bro
How do you see out of the costume?
Poorly, haha. I cut some windows into the belly area so I can look down to see where I'm stepping, a small window in the top of the neck so I can peer out over the head, and can see out to either side through the arm holes. Lots of blind spots, though, so I always have a spotter to help give me directions and alert me of nearby obstacles and people.
go watch the dark crystal. original 4 stilt walkers
I would love to say that i wouldn't be startled if this rounded a corner of a misty foggy night. Love to say i wouldn't make some garbled squawk, have a small heart attack before tripping over my own feet in attempt to flee. Love to say that.
Except i can't. You see i happen to know a lot about me. Been in my life for, well my whole life. So i know me and I'd likely make some noise that's a mix of cussing and other primal fear sounds before the more rational part of my mind catches on enough to at least get the message to my legs: Pivot dangit! Lift foot place, repeat quickly.
I wish you could make me one and I just buy it from you😢
Looks great until you have to pee!
Okay the edits in the beginning are horrible I can barely see it before the shot jumps to the next one
Nothing is perfec-