YubNub the Ewok WIP

[SheKing]

All right, my motivation for this feat is to show the public their childhood or to be goofy because nobody will know who I am, while in suit, at Starwars Troops. Also, I want to become approved as an active member.

Troops are great and I love dressing up in the suits. I mean, more than four times a month you can appear at a charity event. SO MUCH DRESS UP! WHOOOHOOO! AND MY STUFF DOESN"T SIT ON THE SHELVES COLLECTING DUST! Ahem...

Excuse me. Anywho, let's see what i've done so far! This head has been converted from a former fursuit head that i tried to sell, but refrianed from because it wasn't quality-enough to be bought, let alone sold...

One thing i for sure...I'm going to be the biggest and tallest freaking Ewok there ever was! I'm 5'8 so, yeah, I'm pretty up there. However, I was informed the legion grades on costume accuracy, not size.

This is all from the night before last night!




This is what I have from earlier this morning. Its practically 4am and I have a doctor's appointment...IN THE MORNING! GOSH I LOVE COSTUME BUILDING!

 

[SheKing]

These are all from tonight. The monster gloves and fur I've had for a while, now. THe fur is a pretty burgundy all most. Hopefully it will be approved. The color worries me, but it was perfect!

 

[SheKing]

Um, its 5 am in the morning and I've been messing with this dumb thing since 1 pm yesterday!

EWOK SPAMMAMAJIGS!

Took me FOREVER and MANY MANY coats of paint, polyurethane and anything else I could find in our house to act as an adhesive to make the paint stick. I found out we have killsit on the back porch so I'll use that next time. I hate waiting 2 hours for poly to dry!

Solved some ventilation and heat issues with this fat thing and also made a mock hood to see how the shape of the head will look when its furred. That fabric is just...I use it for the interior of my animal backpacks I make XD By no means would any Ewok be able to strut proudly in...this. And the judges would yank it off me and burn it if I took pictures with it on.

Anywho, I've also made the ears bigger. I know people said they were too tall, but they needed to be in proportion to the rest of the head. I also pulled them up and set them farther apart from each other. Not sure how I feel about that yet or if it will look good or to my standards when I fur the thing.

Oh! And the orange thing is from a pair of giant fun glasses. I needed ventilation in the neck so I can breath and not have a heat stroke because I can't get fresh air in this thing. It has slots so I was pretty proud of myself for improvising. This Ewok is a poor man's construction XD Once she's furred though, you'd never know the uglies and hells this head base as went through. All my work is usually kind of messy any way. When I fur it looks like SnowBunny, lol. You have no idea what her base looked like, but all that matters if the finished product! Also, I'm on little to no money so anything I can get my hands on around the house are my dark, crude secrets under the fur.

The eyes for this monstrosity will come soon and the furring will probably happen this weekend. I need to find fabric for the hood. breathable fabric and a really thin fabric as well. preferable a light color to reflect sunlight somewhat when I'm outside. I wanted an olive green, aqua, or forest green hood to compliment the reddish-purple-rusty brown fur I have. Gotta see where my budget is at.

The fur is going to stop at the cheeks and the hood will cover the back of my head to help with heat, once again, that darned thing. I think it works for the darkside to be honest. Giving poor Ewoks heat strokes and what not! The jedi need to do something!

My mother suggested I buy fanny packs or those that are designed to house cooling packs for your kidneys and make a belt, basically of those under my suit, to help with puffing it out. I need the big head to make sense on a body that's just as poofy-looking. Also, a cooling pack directly on top of the head will be invested in, if I can find some small enough.

Going to try to find some formal ways to add some female accents to the costume. Padding out the glutes and adding the typical, female-trait of a belly pooch should help with that. Going to puff out the arms and the legs as well.

If I consider it, I might shave the head down a bit, even. The fur will make it HUGE!
All that I know is, I'm going to be a monstrosity compared to the other ewoks I've seen. I hope I don't scare kids because I appear "Bigger" I'm afraid I might, lol. Can't really help that.

But yeah just imagine her with fur and the creepy-oddness will flee in fear, lol!

 

[SheKing]

Ewok has teefers. I could have done a MUCH better job as far as craftsmanship, but I didn't read everything through and I thought I didn't have to have teeth as a requirement. So, next time, I'm researching before I get too far. This has caused me to be very scared of messing up my craftsman ship on the lips I struggled so hard to get paint spread on, solid. The teeth are rather just shoved in there with very little hot glue so it doesn't creep up around and out of the lips.

 

[SheKing]

Head isn't done yet, fur is just pinned on. Ventilation preparation works like a dang charm! Not going to forget the glasses lens anytime soon!

 

[tauriice]

This is cool, I haven't seen an ewok suit yet. Can't wait to see it completed.

 

[SheKing]

Thanks! I'll keep up the good work!

 

[SheKing]

Just a few things to attend too. GOing to add some feathers to her hood-yay! Also, going to tint her eyes with window tint. I'm beginning to think it might be too dark. Not sure, but I hope its not.

 

[FatMan]

SOOO MUCH WIN!! :cheers

 

[SheKing]

Another update. My sewing machine is on the fritz. I recently moved and I hadn't got it out until two nights ago to work on it, and the tension is messed up. It was in storage for a month. Supposedly, it got bumped or jolted. So, the body suit is on hold until I can muster up the money and transportation to get someplace to have it checked and adjusted.

Hopefully, its soon, I have other costumes I need to finish BEFORE certain dates.

Got the eyes in this baby, had quite a bit of trouble with the car tint conforming to a dome shape. I saw someone else do this and he had no creases or air pockets. Don't know how he did it, but I could not mirror to save my life. So there are creases on the eye-balls, but as long as I do not take close up shots of my face, I should be all right when submitting for approval. We even tried car head light and break light tint and that doesn't work on plastic. It is NOT translucent. You can see light, but you cannot "See".

There are feathers on the top of the hood for "pretties" as I call them. We'll see if that won't fly with a judge when I submit photos.

 

[smoothrat]

Looks great! Add some weathering and you'll be "straight outta Endor."

 

[SheKing]

Looks great! Add some weathering and you'll be "straight outta Endor."

Thank you and I'm working on that now! Gotta make a stick and find a little leather pack of some sort to carry my trooper spoils in.

 

[SheKing]

Experimenting. Yes, I know the fur is backwards. The fur isn't AS furry as the movie Ewok's were, but it was all I could afford and the color I wanted, so I thought, by patterning it the wrong way and rubbing it the "Wrong way" (Techincally, though it is facing the wrong way all ready)(The wrong way from it's current right way) That I could make the fur stand on end and look Puffy. Puffier than it does. Its like, when you rub your dog or cat's fur the wrong way. I just need to figure out what will make the fur stay like that and look like that.

I've got quite a bit of criticism. Scolding, really on the fursuit forums for this stunt, but i know what I want. People in costuming are so picky *Myself included* But I know what I want and how an Ewok should look...on a budget....wait...nevermind XD Starwars was a very badly constructed movie, really. The costumes were, anyway.

I'm going to make BIG hands and BIG feet so I have excess fabric to make sure I have some to fix mistakes with if I have to cut some away. GOing to build up the feet and hands with foam to make them appear larger.

Working on padding to appear more tubular, like a real ewok, as well. That's going to be fun, lol. A bajillion different pillow segments or trying to manufacture long segments of it with varying shapes to fit down my legs. I'm skinny as a twig, so I have to bulk up quite a bit and i want to look relatively Ewok shaped. Its not going to be PERFECT, but I want to be easily recognizable to what people saw 20 to 30 years ago in the movies.

 

[SheKing]

I have succeeded in making this costume ONE UNIT so it doesn't look as much like a Costume as much as it does an actual Ewok running about. I will post full body pictures shortly. I'm struggling to get myself back in the suit to just take finished pictures of it, lol. I actually wore the suit at a starwars troop last night 6/14/2013(First Rebel troop with a legit Rebel legion costume) and sweat my butt off.

I added more to the hood so it would cover up more and hid more.The shoes have been buffed up with foam and covered in a pillow case that resembled a similar color to the hands and facial features.Stay with me guys, this girl is pretty much done!

 

[SheKing]

Finally got the pictures from the last night! Here they are and this is the finished Ewok Costume. I will post even more, after this. These were my best shots, I thought, for the suit's debut. Yeah, I'm a wee-bit on the tall side, but hey, I'm freaking adorable, so get over yourselves. ;D I have succeeded in making the suit one unit. No gloves for the hands or seperate shoes for the feet. I truly captured, what I could for my current skill, the look of the Ewok. Yet, the costume is washable. Remove the monster hands out of the finger holes and take the shoes out of the elastic and the body suit and padding can be washed. The head will be unable to be washed. After each use I spray it with an alcohol-water mix to kill the smell and sweat bacteria that creates the smell and I let it air out from the inside.

 

[smoothrat]

That turned out really well. Nice job.

 

[SheKing]

That turned out really well. Nice job.

Thank you!