Supporting character in 'Band Of Wild', senior thesis film for the Rhode Island School of Design.
Steel wire and brass tube armature, sculpted clay head, foam core, and felted exterior.
Costume process & pattern making:
Chick’s whole shtick is danger and fire and fearlessness. She is very rude and smokes half a pack a day. So I thought it would be awesome to give her a cutesy little look consisting of an A-line dress and some Mary-Jane’s. At first, I considered a pair of white ruffled bloomers to peek out from under the super short dress, kind of mimicking the tail feathers that chickens have, but ultimately I ended up on a petticoat (similar to picture 1) instead to increase the volume of the dress. The petticoat was pleated and had a lace trim to give more oomph. Of course, to make her even more adorable, I just had to add a lace collar (like the one in picture 2). The look was only fully complete with her 2 foot long silver sword in hand.
FINAL COSTUME
