2012 Seattle Meetup Clan Cosplay

[ISV Venture Star]

I wish I had Sarah's nice teeth. I have nasty tea stained wonky teeth. Yes, I am British. The old stereotype is true in my case.

[MOMS Ball Avatar]

Originally Posted by ISV Venture Star

I absolutely agree with Sarah that everyone should find a version of the costume they are happy with. Everything from a single dab of blue paint to crazy stuff like animatronic tails is fine if it is worn by someone who enjoys it and embraces the Na'vi spirit


Edit: Am just recording some short vids of prosthetics, both the (not very good) version I wore in April and a more recent iteration. Will put them on youtube shortly.

I would kill for an animatronic ears and tail!! I'm getting together a 72" English Long Bow with a 7 LED blacklight flashlight head. It's about 1.25 inches wide and it's output is 390 UV. It has a large beam. I'm testing it out with some blacklight paint. It'll look great in the dark to show the fluorescent dots of the Na'vi. The dots will be blacklight, or glow in the dark paint. It will need at least two heads, and maybe as much as four.

Let me know when you put than on YouTube. I want to see them.

I agree the spirit of costume is the important part. From Jane, RDA, Avatar, or Na'vi. It's fun! Did you ever notice beside the nose, and fingers the color and stripes are slightly different on the Avatar and Na'vi?

[Sarah Noel]

Originally Posted by ISV Venture Star

I wish I had Sarah's nice teeth. I have nasty tea stained wonky teeth. Yes, I am British. The old stereotype is true in my case.

Thank you, but don't feel so bad, It takes years of suffering through braces to get teeth like this, was it worth it? it's hard to say, my parents had to chose between braces and tuition, now I take out student loans. Braces totally sucked, pointy metal things in my mouth for years. I look forward to the prosthetic videos. I might try and make my own sometime in the future.

Originally Posted by MOMS Ball Avatar

Did you ever notice beside the nose, and fingers the color and stripes are slightly different on the Avatar and Na'vi?

Stripes are different for each individual, like a fingerprint.

[ISV Venture Star]

First one shown (rough, badly fitting) is the one I wore at the Brisbane Supanova event in April 2011, second version is an incomplete transitional iteration. It's unpainted and the eye-holes have not been cut out. Finalized version to be worn in November 2011.

[Human No More]

I'm just going to use premade prosthetics for ears, I think, over my normal ones - my actual ears are fairly flat on my head, but I still don't know what I'm going to do for hair, so having ears there will complicate it, in addition to more difficulty - I am really not that good at all this
As for face prosthetic, will probably avoid that myself, even if it does make me look a little less Na'vi - I can just be an avatar who turned Na'vi then

[Fiyerwall]

I've recently been thinking that I might just let my grow out and then use tips for my ears. For those of you who saw me in Seattle, I promise I will not be a curly haired Na'vi. My hair actually becomes straight the longer it gets. Then I could make a queue out of yarn and attach it to the back of my neck with spirit gum.

[mikkowilson]

Why can't my hair grow faster?

- Mikko ... 100% natural all the way.

[Fiyerwall]

Originally Posted by mikkowilson

Why can't my hair grow faster?

- Mikko ... 100% natural all the way.

At least you've already got enough for a ponytail.

[mikkowilson]

Well, it was just getting long and scraggly (well overdue for a haircut) ... in December 2009. And then for some reason I lost interest in getting it cut.

Braided the first time (and every day since) Dec 19, 2010. On year anniversary for me.

- Mikko

[MOMS Ball Avatar]

Originally Posted by ISV Venture Star

First one shown (rough, badly fitting) is the one I wore at the Brisbane Supanova event in April 2011, second version is an incomplete transitional iteration. It's unpainted and the eye-holes have not been cut out. Finalized version to be worn in November 2011.

Silicon right? That lasts longer, has a better fit that foam latex that I have. Can't use silicon for the ears. No support.

Looks good. What do you use to apply it?

Let me get this straight.


1. Face covered with what and then a plaster mold made.

2. Put silicon on mold.

What kind of silicon do you use?

[MOMS Ball Avatar]

After looking harder at the video the second one LOOKS GREAT!!

[ISV Venture Star]

Originally Posted by MOMS Ball Avatar

After looking harder at the video the second one LOOKS GREAT!!

Thanks. The first one shown (the one I wore in April) I was not happy with. So many things wrong with it. But I learnt a lot in the process of making it.

First I made a mould of my face with dental alginate and plaster bandages for support. Into this mould I poured Ultracal gypsum cement to produce a 'positive' of my face. On top of that I sculpted a clay model of a Na'vi face. I then 'painted' this (including the bits without clay) with a thin layer of platsil silicone to act as a barrier. On top of this I lumped more cement so that I could have a 'negative' mould of the Na'vi face.

Once I had pried the two moulds apart and cleaned out the clay and silicone barrier, I was ready to make a mask. I poured into the 'negative' Na'vi face some blue tinted platsil silicone and inserted the 'positive' of my real face. Once the silicone had cured the two moulds were pulled apart to produce a custom Na'vi prosthetic for my face.

[Sarah Noel]

Originally Posted by Fiyerwall

I've recently been thinking that I might just let my grow out and then use tips for my ears. For those of you who saw me in Seattle, I promise I will not be a curly haired Na'vi. My hair actually becomes straight the longer it gets. Then I could make a queue out of yarn and attach it to the back of my neck with spirit gum.

Also consider going to a beauty supply store, like Sally's, buying a few packets of the long synthetic hair (its MUCH cheaper than real hair) braiding that and using it as a queue, that's what I use now and it looks much more realistic than my old yarn queue. Just food for thought.

[misstammie]

It's nice to have something so fun to motivate you to start getting in shape than this. I have started working out and eating right and hoping to reach my goal by next year to be able to go as my infamous blonde, IMVU avatar as you see to the left here AS my avatar. LOL

Hey Sarah, I know we exchanged a couple of comments in regards to this idea and I thought I would stick with the dark queue and tuft on the tail since most of my hair underneath is dark anyways. What do ya think? Also, need some feed back, I was thinking about going just regular or going with the look of the Eastern Sea Ikran leader with all the red war paint, blonde of course. Input would be great on that. Thanks Sarah for all your help and kind words ma tsmuke.

[MOMS Ball Avatar]

Originally Posted by ISV Venture Star

Thanks. The first one shown (the one I wore in April) I was not happy with. So many things wrong with it. But I learnt a lot in the process of making it.

First I made a mould of my face with dental alginate and plaster bandages for support. Into this mould I poured Ultracal gypsum cement to produce a 'positive' of my face. On top of that I sculpted a clay model of a Na'vi face. I then 'painted' this (including the bits without clay) with a thin layer of platsil silicone to act as a barrier. On top of this I lumped more cement so that I could have a 'negative' mould of the Na'vi face.

Once I had pried the two moulds apart and cleaned out the clay and silicone barrier, I was ready to make a mask. I poured into the 'negative' Na'vi face some blue tinted platsil silicone and inserted the 'positive' of my real face. Once the silicone had cured the two moulds were pulled apart to produce a custom Na'vi prosthetic for my face.

Wow you're good! I'm impressed. Well done.

Did you learn this by trial and error? Did you learn this by the internet? Did the guy from LOTR show you? I've seen the guy who does me in some parts of this process, but not start to finish.

What did you put over your face so that the first mold wouldn't stick to it? I have a dentist friend that has alginate and he makes other things with it besides teeth