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'Princess' Dinosaur Costume by Nashoba Hostina

'Princess' Dinosaur Costume

Nashoba Hostina

Oh man, where to begin?

This is an older, retired costume of mine that i did back when i was getting my BFA. At the time, I wrote:

First off, sorry I’ve been so absent lately guys… honestly! But I’ve had good reasons! I was finishing up my degree, and working on some special projects… like, Princess, which I have been working on since last September!

This “CardboardOsaurus” was the proof of concept: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sENuyV71hAQ

Nearly a month after I filmed that, I started working on her final look. I doubt anyone remembers these: http://nashoba-hostina.deviantart.com/art/Princess-T-Rex-color-studies-101029334# But here are the first ‘finished’ drawings for her.

And here was a WIP video of her when She was nearly completed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SZ5kY_cC_k

In this video, she still had some technical difficulties: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tgdhwOF8ro

However, I did manage to get most of the bugs worked out before Marcon’s Masquerade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVaQtnF4KhA (I made the tech bits too.)

As it turned out, even though at the time I was a journeyman level participant, I took both Audience’s Choice, and Best In Show at the Marcon Masq, (You can see the other winners and myself here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVgx_GaynE ) and now, I’m a Master Class costumer squee!

The poor Judges. I put together a multi-page booklet on how Princess was made for my documentation… Maybe I’ll post some of the pages here sometime. Or, well, in my scraps or something.

This costume is retired. She's just too big to transport easily and is very strenuous to wear, due to her weight.

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    OH. MY. GOD. I LOVE THIS

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      Thank you so very much; I'm flattered <:3

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    Wwwwwwoooww that's super neat. Love the face!

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      Thanks so much! The face was the most fun of all of her to build!

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    Simply stunning!!

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    "Hear me roar!" Favin' this here, too.

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      Because dinosaur.