Tron Legacy Costume

Rinzler

Yangxiaobo can you do a tutorial on how you made your helmet!

moviebuff5

Here is a progress video of my Identity Disk. There are still some details I am working out but the circuit is pretty much finished.

It is based on the Power Cell portion of the Proton Pack Lights circuit from GBfans by Keith Marshall without the reset and an astable multivibrator added to run the blade.

The blade runs smoother in person, the frame rate of the camera seems to make them appear to be erratic.
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Video removed, see http://www.therpf.com/f24/tron-legac...ml#post1793481 for new video

tullfan81

Moviebuff5,
I'm working on my discs next week, any chance of a tutorial or maybe an offer to work up mine for me because I'm awesome? I make a mean strawberry pie!

JLeezy23

Is one n a half inch look too wide for my jacket? Its the wal mart tape

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nice n bright though. I put a small piece on my boots and it stuck for about 3 weeks, i tried peeling it off but daaaang it works good

JLeezy23

Yea when i wear it it looks kinda thick. Probly use the paper slicer on it

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Hey i made it to 600 posts!

tim

I'm not sure you can do that and still preserve the electrodes and phosphor in the tape.

But yeah, I think 0.75" to 1" would be closer to SA. I'm planning to use 1" wide EL tape in my jacket (once I get 'round to it).

Rinzler

Just put black electrical tape around one edge to reduce the width.

JLeezy23

Its reflective not EL, here's my gloves i did a few months ago with the same reflective tape

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JLeezy23

Oh yeaaa i can buy some black duct tape!

twinight

Tim used reflective tape, not EL. Just cut it.
BTW you can cut EL tape. Here's the glow hut 1.5" tape cut into a curve:
It doesn't matter if you cut off one off the conductors along the back of the strip.

JLeezy23

Alright cool thanks!

moviebuff5

I seriously doubt there will be a tutorial in that period of time. I did add a link to the power cell circuit in the post with the video though.

Yangxiaobo

Thanks for the compliments guys

Rinzler, there's not much I can really say regarding a tutorial (I wish I took build pics now) I kinda just winged it. But I'll try...
Front piece is a backwards bicycle helmet so that the point makes the "nose" on Rinzler. Back piece is a skateboard helmet. Both pieces have had their plastic covers removed and then were carved to the correct shapes to fit together. Bondo was applied to keep the pieces together and was also used to fill in areas to make the shape of the helmet. Next came the sanding of the front piece to get the right angles on the helmet.

After some failed methods of adding a "visor" I decided to just wrap it in spandex and using super glue to keep it on. However, this is much easier said than done and it took some intricate folding to get the spandex to have a minimal amount of creases on the surface of the helmet. The spandex application alone took about two hours

So cost comes down to...
Old bicycle helmet from the garage, probably was $20
Skateboard helmet, Found it in a parking lot $0
2 cans of Bondo, about $40
Super glue about $4 (but didn't use the whole bottle of course)
3 square yards of spandex $18 (only used 1/4 of it)
Reflective tape $7


Total cost: $89, give or take a bit due to not using ALL of the supplies completely (not including staying up until 4 am for 2 weeks before Anime Expo and even until 4 am on the day of the con)
Hope this helps!

While I'm on the subject, I found another video which shows part of my inspiration for this costume. In TRON: Legacy, Rinzler is portrayed as being extremely skilled in "martial arts tricking." While I'm nowhere near the same skill level, I did get filmed and I thought the result was kinda cool It's my impression of how Rinzler starts the disc game with Sam.
It's at 1:40, but everyone's costumes in this video are awesome! (not all TRON related)
YouTube - ‪ANIME EXPO 2011 FANVIDEO 1-4 [SAME DAY EDIT]‬‏

shogunvader

The biggest innovation Yangxiaobo had for the helmet was substituting the clear plastic with shiny stretch spandex. I plan to make a clu helmet the same way, but with wires to form the shape and then cover it with spandex fabric. It won't be shiny as the movies but Yangxiaobo has shown how good it looks plus is astronomically more cheaper. Except I plan to throw in el light tape and a fan. I've done clu fashion, its time to do robe clu and light it up.

Kudos Yangxiaobo for being revolutionary. Keeping it under $100.



Nisei week is coming up, another reason for cosplays to meet up, who's up for lighting up little tokyo at night!

shogunvader

Another AX pic

ClarissaSkadi

Great job, everyone!!!
If anyone is going to SD comic-con there will be gatherings!!
Thur.- 4:30pm by either Tron display(at hall, if they have it this year) or B-Room 20. Thur. after hours gathering at 9:30pm in front of San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina.
Sun.-3:30pm. Same location.

The fb group that everyone is welcomed to join. Even if you won't be there:Log In | Facebook

Keep up the wonderful work, everyone!!

Rinzler

I guess you could achieve the same results for Rinzler helmet quite easily with the stretched spandex, I only see the lighting being a problem if you go that route.

ClarissaSkadi

Does anyone know how to make a disk that will be light weight but still look good??? Thanks!

shogunvader

Yes, real easy. Cardboard and reflective tape. The more time you put into it the more epic it will be! But ultimately much more lightweight.

YouTube link of AX made by RPF

The link above cuts straight to the tron cosplayers

The one below start at the beginning of the video (cool feature that youtube has for letting post links that start at a specific time)

YouTube Anime Expo 2011

JLeezy23

I got buncha pizza boxes, i'm gonna make some disks n use reflective tape. Here's one

TB7024

Very cool progress so far. The completed costumes are amazing!

ClarissaSkadi

LOL I sent you these links on your FB! :P

Looking to make one that I can take on and off.
I been messing around with paper plates. Will most likely end up using my plasti dip on them.
Maybe cover them in craft foam??

APV

Here is my ROUGH blueprint to my C.L.U. helmet... I know I need some things like the pyramid on the top where the camera went in the film version, (maybe one of those tiny helmet cameras can go there if I can find one cheap enough and have an easy way of taking it out,) the front panel looks a tiny bit too wide at the top and bottom, the side panel with the curved crease down the center shouldn't go all the way to the back of the helmet... But, it doesn't look bad so far in planning... I will make a cardboard cutout from each view, then will fill it with sheets of foam, sanded down to generally have the right shape, then a thin layer of clay to actually sculpt it. Or bondo and sanding it down. From that...

I'll be cutting out pieces of paper for each panel so I can cut the plastic pieces to the general size needed for each, then using my portable heater to slowly bend the seperate clear plastic pieces using the sculpture, then I'll cut/finely sand their edges to fit each-other perfectly, glue it together, coat in clear-coat to help the edges look cleaner, tint it so I can see out of it while keeping it black-ish, thicker tint in areas I don't need to see out of so it looks solid, and I'll probably dip the whole thing in clear-coat again to help seal it up and make the outside more purdy/shiny. Then I will install the lights and battery pack when I fit it and attach it to my sanded-down bike helmet so I can wear it comfortably.





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I've found some plastic sheets (at a local craft store,) that are thin enough to bend easily yet not too thin, (1/8",) so they can still hold their shape and be stiff enough... It's $17 for a sheet about 2'x4', so I'll probably be buying two depending on how much I will need based off of the paper cutouts, and then a bit extra just in case...

Before I had thought it be easy to find black-tinted plastic, but it isn't, so I have to tint it myself... But I'd rather do it myself because the clear blacks I was finding weren't dark enough, so I'd have to tint them more anyway. :-/ A spray-can of black window-tinter is $4-$5 in 3oz size... So I'll probably pick up a few. A 6oz spray-can of clear-coat/sealer/protection is $3, so I'll probably get a few of those as well. In total I suspect this helmet will cost no more than $50. ($13 for the power-source and few feet of EL wire.) Not bad for something that I hope will look like the movie one.

My costume I also plan to make look like the movie version... It will cost $175, ($80 for just EL wire and power sources, $48 for wicking lycra undersuit, $3 for yellow gel shower curtain, $3 for white gel shower curtain, $10 for normal black fabric used for under the armor pieces to attach them to the undersuit, and a few other things like craft foam and iron-on velcro so I can remove the undersuit and wash it, and some cans of matte black plasti-dip and matte modpodge....) I'm also making my own 10" disc, (the deluxe disc toy is the 9" version from the movie's props, the female version... All of the men carried 10" discs.)

This is how my lighting will work:



The EL wire will be against the yellow shower-curtain rubber while sandwiched between the top layer of electrical tape and a thinner clear film, and the bottom layer of white. This lights the yellow up rather bright, (the wire is on both sides of the yellow,) and the white on the bottom helps reflect it and make it brighter/lit evenly across. Reflective tape is nice, but it messes with cameras. The electrical tape will also seal up any cracks the light might escape through. The whole thing rests on top of the foam body panel, (but the part it attaches too will not be modged and plastidipped... Because it could easily rip off taking those layers with it.) When there's a break in light strips on the costume, the wire travels under the panel, wrapped in electrical tape, between the panels on the costume and such. When there's a point of movement like my elbow, (well, in-between every gap really,) I will leave an extra three-or-so inches of the wire coiled once in a loop so that when I move I won't be pulling on the wire. This design with the film on the top allows the wire to remain hidden as well. I hope this wasn't too diccicult to understand... It will be a lengthy process, but I do think it will look the best, and won't be as delicate as the EL tape like from the movie. This is how I'm lighting the helmet as well, but instead of the film layer on top, there will be a layer of clear rubber cut to fit the hole I will cut when cleaning up the edges of the plastic when assembling the helmet. Will do it similarly for the disc's inner ring as well... Wiring the costume will be the last thign I do though. Because once I start pulling the wire through all of the intricate things and attaching/sealing it into the layers like shown above, I can't do anything else to the costume without destroying something... Except attaching and detaching the wicking lycra undersuit if I want to wash it, because I do intend on wearing it for more than 30 minutes at some time, so I will probably sweat in it a little. Being able to clean it will be awesome. At least, being able to clean what is in contact with my skin is awesome.

So my costume will be a little pricey, but it will be totally worth it to me... A lot of my materials like the bike-helmet or the shoes I already have, so it's saving me a bit of money. Oh, BTW, I am using dress shoes, which I will cut up into sandals of sort so my feet have less layering (there's still the foam/rubber from the armor, :-/ ) and won't sweat to death, and add gel soles to make them comfortable. The outsole protrudes 1/4" from the side of the shoe, so I can layer the foam and such around it, to line up with it and look seamless... The shoe is rather thick and strong, so I won't need to worry about it falling apart. The only problem I might have with it is attaching it and securing it to the costume. I may take the layer of fabric used to secure the panels to the lycra and roll it's edge up and use a heavy-duty sewing machine to attach it strongly... Also the treads looks EXACTLY like the ones in the movie. Oh, and they are slip-resistant.

Sorry for the wall of text. I am just excited about it.

Also, sorry for the typos if you see any.

shogunvader

Yay, I had no clu there were others. We shall multiply!

FireD

Hey Yangxiaobo, where did you get the shirt for your Rinzler?
Thanks bud!