Mandi
Active Member
Hi all,
Just in the process of building a Kratos costume. I love the series and would have to be one of my favourite games for playstation. The game itself is quite brutal but I love the storyline, the characters and the inter activeness between game and player.
As there is no female Kratos character I'm going to replicate Kratos as much as I can with of course improvising to hide girl parts haha.
I'm using quite a few reference pictures for this, and there are slight variations in each picture so am working with it as best I can.
Anyway this is one of my reference images..
I decided to create the belt to start with, I'm using impact foam as I really enjoy it's properties and think it has a lot to give in terms of creating costumes. Patterned and weathered, then primered it and did a coat of paint. I'm not happy with how porous this is (it's a slightly different product to the impact foam I'm used to using and am noticing that through the texture) so I will be looking at repainting this when I find a suitable primer/filler.
After that I have started on the skirt, the fabric for this was tricky as depending on what render you look at it can be a different texture so I just went with the one I liked best and what would hang and flow as accurate as I thought, I then weathered and burnt this to give it the right aging and painted on the patterns.
I started making the leather straps but ran out of leather I used a substitute of fabric to see if it would look okay, which I wasn't happy with so have to order some more distressed leather to finish the skirt straps.
So I've gone onto the armour, was a bit of a pain finding image refs for this but managed to find something decent, I hand drew up a template then attempted to use wonderflex for the base, I had my doubts about it and it came out okay but not good enough for me too be happy with it, so ditched that and came back to my trusty foam. I managed to get it into a shape I was happy with and could work with, so used aluminium foil and masking tape to create the basic horn structures then covered with worblas deco art pellets. Once I find a primer I'm happy with I can prime and paint it and make the attachment up for my arm!
Just in the process of building a Kratos costume. I love the series and would have to be one of my favourite games for playstation. The game itself is quite brutal but I love the storyline, the characters and the inter activeness between game and player.
As there is no female Kratos character I'm going to replicate Kratos as much as I can with of course improvising to hide girl parts haha.
I'm using quite a few reference pictures for this, and there are slight variations in each picture so am working with it as best I can.
Anyway this is one of my reference images..
I decided to create the belt to start with, I'm using impact foam as I really enjoy it's properties and think it has a lot to give in terms of creating costumes. Patterned and weathered, then primered it and did a coat of paint. I'm not happy with how porous this is (it's a slightly different product to the impact foam I'm used to using and am noticing that through the texture) so I will be looking at repainting this when I find a suitable primer/filler.
After that I have started on the skirt, the fabric for this was tricky as depending on what render you look at it can be a different texture so I just went with the one I liked best and what would hang and flow as accurate as I thought, I then weathered and burnt this to give it the right aging and painted on the patterns.
I started making the leather straps but ran out of leather I used a substitute of fabric to see if it would look okay, which I wasn't happy with so have to order some more distressed leather to finish the skirt straps.
So I've gone onto the armour, was a bit of a pain finding image refs for this but managed to find something decent, I hand drew up a template then attempted to use wonderflex for the base, I had my doubts about it and it came out okay but not good enough for me too be happy with it, so ditched that and came back to my trusty foam. I managed to get it into a shape I was happy with and could work with, so used aluminium foil and masking tape to create the basic horn structures then covered with worblas deco art pellets. Once I find a primer I'm happy with I can prime and paint it and make the attachment up for my arm!
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I'm in the process of doing the surrounding trim just to tie it off nicely.
