Incredible Homemade Groot Costume
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The bare beginnings. Mask progress at the end
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Blocks of foam cut and sculpted into shape
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Stilts, empty paint cans reinforced (and reinforced again and agin) with 2x2, 2x4and plans of wood. Shoes drilled to the planks of wood.
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Building up the stilts.
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Spackle spread over all the foam, sanded, and then primed with black spray
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Everything from this point on is hand painted
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Every...single...line...
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Close up paint job
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The mask was turned into a helmet, vision went from looking out the eyes to looking out the mouth
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The start of the arms, the hole is where my mouth is, my neck is a great deal shorter than the mannequin.
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This is the fit BEFORE any alterations to the sculpt and there were A LOT of alterations.
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Alterations and a little rocket for scale.
Alterations include and not limited to,
Chest reduction, splitting the shoulders to individual pads instead of a continuous piece, looking out the mouth instead of eyes (million times improved neck motion and sight, mask turned into helmet, hands are getting completely redone.
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My goal was to make this wearable for female or male without looking obviously chesty. I hope that at least was accomplished.
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I'm wearing a one piece black spandex suit under it all, those zynga suits?
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Groot on the mannequin
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Mask build! I started a month before Halloween so I went shopping for a mask that would work.
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Crayola model magic to sculpt and the lenses cut out from a darth vader helmet. over everything.
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Before and after alterations. Alterations include filled out cheeks, new eye paint job, new overall paint job, overall friendlier expression, Loads of plasti-dip
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Still have so much to get done!
