Carnage

[Crimson Phoenix]

Hey there, I've been wondering for sometime now if anyone has made a decent or outstanding carnage costume.

I think it'd be very interesting to see what some people have made!

 

[Geniepants]

I think I've seen one or two over the years, but nothing I'd call "outstanding". Usually just red spandex with black stuff painted on.

 

[PadawanLearner]

man, you got me all excited thinking I was going to see pics of someone's costume of this. I've never seen one so...hopefully someone will show their handy work if someone here did one.

 

[Minder Thr33]

You can try posting at one of these forums for advice

http://thesuperherocostumingforum.thesuperherocostumingforum.com/
http://theleagueofheroes.yuku.com/

As mentioned, it's been done before, but doesn't look as satisfying as the comics

 

[PadawanLearner]

I'm thinking what might be cool is done in the style of those crazy air things you see at car dealerships. granted, it wouldn't be a costume, it would just be a static thing you could get a pic with. But the tendrils would constantly be moving :lol

 

[loganallenwolf]

You can try posting at one of these forums for advice

http://thesuperherocostumingforum.thesuperherocostumingforum.com/
http://theleagueofheroes.yuku.com/
As mentioned, it's been done before, but doesn't look as satisfying as the comics

Actually, we just had a member on The SCF start a thread on wanting to do this exact same costume; maybe the two of you could share ideas.

& Minder, thanks for the plug :thumbsup

 

[electric jay]

I'm thinking what might be cool is done in the style of those crazy air things you see at car dealerships. granted, it wouldn't be a costume, it would just be a static thing you could get a pic with. But the tendrils would constantly be moving :lol

Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tube Man!

 

[MooCriket]

This would be one difficult costume to pull off well. I did find this one on the web for refference:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxpaws/3760008138/

 

[Boba Binks]

I was working on a Carnage at one point. I took a red zentai suit (full body spandex) and then took some fabric strips soaked them in black latex and while I was wearing the suit I had a friend apply the wet black latex soaked fabric strips onto me so they would be where they needed to be for when they dried and would be form fit to my body.

This was done from my neck all the way down and making sure not to get the zipper.

It looked really nice but then when it came to the head I had some ideas but never figured out what to do so I stopped.

 

[GeneralFROSTY]

I think the latex idea, or even using silicone would be the way to go. If you really had the time and money, you could do a full body cast and sculpt the details then mold and cast them in flexible rubber and glue them on the bodysuit kind of like the Spidey movie suit's webbing.

 

[SonOfPumpkinhead]

All the spidey webbing was designed in the computer and then CNC'd negatively into a sheet of metal to create a mold. Could do something similar for some Carnage pieces. I know there's a lot of guys out here with CNC machines.

 

[Minder Thr33]

I always pictured Carnage having the black spots moveable. I imagine it like be Rorschach's mask from the Watchmen movie. A member here did a thermal movement piece. If it's a full body, then it might be limited heat movement (constant), but maybe modified so if the body heat changes any little bit, it starts to move.

 

[TK8541]

I've thought about doing a carnage costume before... but it would be hard. Done RIGHT though it could be AMAZING!!!

The way I would do it is start with a base of a dark, blood red spandex suit. Very dark red. Then I'd get cold foam latex and mix it so that it's almost the exact color, if not exact, of the suit. Actually put the suit on and have someone "drip" and "fling" the foam latex onto the suit... very minimally at first... then let it cure. (1 to 2 hours of not sitting / moving much... not too bad.)

Do this again with another mixture of foam that is darker red even still... almost black.

And one final time with a mixture that is back to the lighter (but still dark) red.

That could make a very layered looking, organic suit. But, it would still be "static." What it needs is to "move."

The only thing I've thought of to make it "move" is either a) really have movable robotic fibers that are hooked to servos and rotate and flip and stretch and all... OR... b) do it with optical illusions.

You know those Coca-Cola billboards they had years ago that looked like the Coke was pouring from the can? It was simply done with light reflecting elements... sort of like those 3D baseball cards from the 70's that you could scratch and make that "zing, zing" noise on the plastic. Okay... none of that may have made sense... but what you'd need to do is make the layers of the skin (the stuff you did with the foam latex) out of something that was instead clear... like silicone... even fast drying clear silicone caulk. UNDERNEATH that caulking and piping you'd paint lines all over the suit — like a barber pole — then, when people walked around you, the refraction from the silicone would make the stripes underneath it seem to move... making the whole suit look like it was "crawling" around on your body!!!

If it worked it'd be awesome... and I THINK it could work.

That's my idea at least. :cool

 

[Saz]

I would say it's very hard to mimick life without it becoming impractical for the costume, so there would always have to be a realism/reality trade off when it comes to carnage and, to a lesser extent, Venom.

 

[Monkeywiz]

Would be cool to see if someone managed one that looked a lot like the comic.

I always thought Carnage was actually black though (like venom), but covered in/constituted of shifting patterns of blood, which was why he was largely dark red in colour.

 

[TVsRobLowe]

Universal Studios did a decent one for Halloween Horror Nights in 2002:

http://www.hhnvault.com/images/haunts/hhn12/pics/islandundersiege/IUSStreets019.jpg

http://www.hhnvault.com/images/haunts/hhn12/pics/islandundersiege/IUSStreets001.jpg

But I'm not a fan of the white highlights they used.

Personally, this is the method I would use for the costume:
1. Start with black spandex fullsuit
2. airbrush red muscular striations, not bright red, but a nice mid-tone that separates off of the black
3. Highlight with orange
4. Put on the black swirls last, maybe painting on with Plasti-dip to get a nice textured gloss.

I want to do a photoshop mockup of this showing the layers, but in the end, the amount of detail and contrast, especially using the orange to highlight, really would make it pop.

For the tendrils, maybe some cloth wrapped around wire armature, then painted with liquid latex or plastic dip. The result would be nice and stiff, yet still bendable and poseable.

 

[BDK]

They lost me at the black sneakers :lol

Actually that suit looks really well done for night shots, that 2nd pic showed how you could picture a "real" carnage looking.


I'm not sure how you could make the suit look alive, I mean Venom and the black suit looked eh OK in Spiderman 3 but deffinatly not really alive looking.