Re: Iron Man Costume. Update 10.12.07 Update Page 10
I make armor in steel, and I have a good idea of the problems you face in making this sculpt a reality.
If you work with midevil armor you know allot of the problems for wearability. What people seam toforget is that what they se in a cartoon, comic or on movies usually are done with movie fx or pure creativity.
By wearing an armor like this you limit your movments by allot of you follow the sculptural design to the fingertip.
What i like about the movie design is that its constructular design looks good and logic.
However there are aspects to the suit that whould be very dificult and most uncomfortable to wear if all the parts were soposed to be metal in real life. If you notice the legs on ironman the design it self has overlapping armor that slides in and out, and move with allot of hinges and slides.
You will se the tecnical aspects of this in the movie. But the screen suit is all rubber so it allow him to kneel and move and they add the tecnical aspects later with Cgi rendering removing the wrinkles and add the sliding in and out overlapping armor to make it look real.
Our problem for the wearer is that we can not add CGI graphic to it when its worn it at convention.
We must make it look sharp from the start.
We can not do any shortcuts and relayon these movie fx aspects.
I whould say we got a bigger chalange than the movie suit.
We have to make a working armor from hard materials.
That is why that some of the armor must change in small aspects to meet the wearer, public attention to get a feeling this is a real armor its not a guy dressed up as ironman but it is ironman.
The legs is probably the biggest problem.
It is virtually impossible to make it to the movie version tecnical aspect. unless someone is willing to trow me additional 100.000 to make this tecnology. But i am not saying we have not taken this in consideration. I have taken this much in consideration of the desgn and final sculpt it self. I will share more info later.
I also find the neck in the movie poster to be unatural long.
It looks good in the poster but a real person wearing that whould probalby have the helmet placed more down on the neck.
What i find most dificult to an design with a overallaping armor like a medevil armor, is to make the design so it overalps as much as possible without revealing to much flesh without comprimising the needed movment.
I have given this much though with this design, but it will require some of the joints to be cover with rubber or shiny material in exposed areas.
By doing this the wearer will have comfort, movment and the estetic look needed to make this realistic.
My goal with this project is to make him LOOK LIKE IRIONMAN .... Not a costume of Irionman.
I also started this project with the goal of a wearer in focus not just the design it self.
The wearer must enjoy wearing the costume. Not hate it.
To like it you need comfort to get comfort you need as natural movment as possible.
