animated leia
Below you’ll find my blog posts about my Princess Leia (Star Wars) Gentle Giant maquette/"animated" style costume, constructed in 2006.
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A Collection of New Photoshoot Pics
I’m sorry I haven’t posted much lately. We’ve been busy packing and dealing with house stuff (keep your fingers crossed) that writing in the blog is not something I’ve been thinking of! In the meantime here’s my more recent white backdrop photoshoot pics.
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2006 in review
At the beginning of the year I said I wanted to do: 1. Hoth Leia 2. Darth Vader 3. Padme’s Lake dress 4. Bespin Leia 5. Finish Yuuko 6. Padme’s Funeral Dress 7. Wonder Woman 8. The Bride 9. White Witch 10. Dorothy 11. ANH Leia 12. Team Zissou outfit So what did I finish? Hoth Leia? Yes, plus Bespin…
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Dragoncon 2006 wrap-up: everything else
All the non-new costumes, and how the held up. I wore classic Leia friday morning at the RL table. That was fun! I had planned on doing that last year, but ended up wearing the metal bikini instead. Got pics with PsychoShinji… yay! I missed her when she was in Robin and I was in Starfire last year. I also…
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Mando updates, and SDCC pics
When you starting dreaming about your costume to-do lists…. well, it’s just plain silly. Yesterday I focused on stamping and almooooost got the thing done. Chase still won’t let me show the secret. But here’s a few other pics I took over the weekend. Stitch’s nose fell off after the Big Scoop. It was inevitable, it had just barely been…
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Comic Con 2006 Roundup: Everything Else
And as for my costumes that weren’t new… here’s how they did! Animated Leia: I know you all know I was squeeing like mad when I saw Gentle Giant had a huge version of the animated Leia at their booth! So first thing thursday morning was to hop over and get pics with it! I was stuck there for some…
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Wonderfest 2006 Pics!
Well, I’m back from Wonderfest. Unfortunately I didn’t get to go to the Ren Faire as I woke up sick on Monday 🙁 But we decided to definitely go next year, and to go earlier in May when it’s cooler. Anyway here’s pics and new costume stuff: Chase and I drove up Friday night – it was an easy drive,…
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Gentle Giant Leia Belt! and Ripley
Working on the Leia belt now. Here’s a pic. I also put Ripley on and took a pic in the mirror, so here’s a look at that.
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Ripley and GG Leia progress
“Different” Leia: Need to cut the slits, hem it, and add the hood, and I decided to go ahead and make a new belt. Or at least try to before next weekend. Gonna hit Tandy leather today. Ripley: Got all my pieces, just start altering and putting them together. New ANH Leia: No progress… I need to get on it.
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Updates for everything!!
Progress report: “Different” Leia: (the other “silly” one for wonderfest, i’m excited about it, LOL) It’s almost done. I still need to cut the slits up the sides and hem it, and put the sleeves in and hem those, and add the hood. That’s it! I have a little weird place on the neck i want to fix, and a…
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a long overdue update
(EDIT: This was a catch-all collection of recent costume photos and events originally posted to my livejournal. Since I ported it over here, it may be a bit redundant.) As I said in the last quick post, sorry for disappearing the past couple of months! Besides the usual weekday work drudge, I’ve been out of town almost every weekend since…
