In my years as a lurker here, I was extremely active in the Spider-man costuming world (Mostly on SHH and a short-lived site on proboards.com). I, like many people around the time the second movie came out, bought the TK comics patterns (Scans of what was apparently a HUGE, life-sized copy of the actual pattern).
However, due to bad copying practices (It's rumored the scans were made at a Kinkos) most of the detail in the blue sections was lost. Some people made due, other people made patches of the brick pattern to fill in the missing sections (Though they never looked right since the edges of the real thing and the patches never matched up).
At the time, I was one of only a small handful of people brave enough to try to make my own pattern from scratch. And I nearly did...until a computer virus took my computer AND my work from me. A few years later, I restarted my pattern...THEN my harddrive failed to the point where no data could be recovered.
More recently, I dug up some of my old reference material. (Including low res, but VERY useful scans of the complete brick pattern for the legs and the studio-used muscle maps for the first film)
So I decided to restart my old project! At this point, it's more about finishing the pattern than it is about making a costume from it. I'll be working on this whenever I have a little extra time, but it's not my current focus, so don't expect lightning fast results.
However, just to kick things off, I've been roughly messing around with the brickwork for the past few days, and here's what I have to show so far:
There are a few parts that need to be tweaked ever so slightly, but I'm pretty happy with it so far.
So, what do you guys think?
-Nick
However, due to bad copying practices (It's rumored the scans were made at a Kinkos) most of the detail in the blue sections was lost. Some people made due, other people made patches of the brick pattern to fill in the missing sections (Though they never looked right since the edges of the real thing and the patches never matched up).
At the time, I was one of only a small handful of people brave enough to try to make my own pattern from scratch. And I nearly did...until a computer virus took my computer AND my work from me. A few years later, I restarted my pattern...THEN my harddrive failed to the point where no data could be recovered.
More recently, I dug up some of my old reference material. (Including low res, but VERY useful scans of the complete brick pattern for the legs and the studio-used muscle maps for the first film)
So I decided to restart my old project! At this point, it's more about finishing the pattern than it is about making a costume from it. I'll be working on this whenever I have a little extra time, but it's not my current focus, so don't expect lightning fast results.
However, just to kick things off, I've been roughly messing around with the brickwork for the past few days, and here's what I have to show so far:
There are a few parts that need to be tweaked ever so slightly, but I'm pretty happy with it so far.
So, what do you guys think?
-Nick
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