President of the Assembly, Planet of the Apes

[jessica]

OMG that was me. I was going to say that's Chewbacca...but yes, that was me. thank you.

I'm going to try to remember to take a videotape next time. It's cool to see me moving around in costume.

Here's a clearer shot of the hieroglyph. As you can see, I didn't have a chance to replace the half moon above the pocket.


Horrible photo ID but slightly amusing...


August 10--Now that I'm back from vacation I guess I should sew Ashton his Blue Angels flight suit inbetween doing laundry. Otherwise he'll be disappointed.

I love my new chair!! $5 from Ross, as it was the only one (it's really a book end). But whatever! I love it anyway...



Cornelius needs a nose job. His nose is crooked...



I decided to rework Cornelius and thin the sculpt as much as possible because I want his prosthetics to be as expressive as Zira's.



WOW! There is no greater compliment than finding a private message from a friend on facebook located way on the other side of the continental divide to find out that their avatar is your picture in full ape gear. LOL!!

Minor changes. Probably need to go over the sculpt one last time and clean up the monster clay and then it's time mix some Ultracal30.



Color reference for Sulu:

Pushing paints around:

[samurainoir]

I came across this video and there is a quick flash of an ape-girl at the beginning... is that you Jessica?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR0Ki...embedded#at=13

[Obibob]

First of all, great job on the ape mask/costume. I've seen several of the original costumes from the movies and I would be hard-pressed to tell them apart from your efforts. As for the mask/appliances, well let's just say that John Chambers would be proud...well done!

Anyway, you mentioned something about having some of the Conspiracy of the POTA trading cards on hand - if you still happen to have any, I would love to get my hands on some of them. I tried to send you a pm, but it bounced back due to mailbox limitations...

Let me know and thanks either way.

[Chris]

You're right that is the best ape make-up you have done yet. That's amazing. I love the outfit too. you even have made a place for a pen. I'll have to look closer for the glyph. Zaius' appliance looks like it needs your skillful touch.

[jessica]

Hip hip hooray! 40-gun salute in Ape City. So beautiful, this foam run. It was worth messing up my favorite army jacket. Going to wash up the foam latex now with some mild detergent and squeeze out the water softly. Hopefully this will be thoroughly dry by tomorrow so I can paint her up soon...like tomorrow!! I really like how this sculpt turned out...but again, I won't know how it will look until I really glue it down, since I am not using a positive of my own face.





Rebuilding chimp boots since I lost my first set. Tomorrow I will sew up the boot shaft with zippers and finalize it with a rubber soled bottom. These will be more comfortable than my square-toed short stacked heels that I love to wear, since I will be tromping all day on Saturday on my feet. I won't stress if I can't complete these boots. It would be great to have them but the makeup is more important at this point.


OMG I survived SDCC! Getting there was tough as hell...left at 10:30, arrived by 10:00 with three stops along the way. Returning was not that bad but LA traffic sucks! The whole city is surrounded by a gridlock! Grrrrrr!! Left at 10:00 am and got home by 7:00 pm. So tired...I have some Conspiracy cards if anybody is interested--just send me an e-mail with your address. My PMs get full because I am lazy to throw out the old PMs...my e-mail address is j e s s i c a r o t i c h (at) g m a i l (dot) c o m.

Forgot to take photos, too...it was busy there but surprisingly not as crowded as Wondercon 2011. I don't know if it was because of the size of the venue--that people can spread out and not choke up the aisles with humanity. Only once or twice did I feel like I was swimming upstream, unlike Wondercon which was a struggle all day. I did freak a lot of people out with my makeup. It was the best application I have done so far, and I've been trying since 2008! What made everything perfect was the last Zira sculpt I made is awesome, even though it was not sculpted on a positive of my face. It just fit so very well. I amaze myself sometimes.



The human couldn't take a clear shot of me and John from New York. I have never met him before and this was an unplanned meeting but a very pleasant surprise. Creepy thing was he knew I lived in Ape City.


Chandra and Drew. He wrote the Conspiracy novel along with some other people...and one of Chandra's paintings appear in the Conspiracy novel. I'm actually standing, not sitting in the photo.


Someday if I ever manage to do it, I want to resew my outfit and put real leather. What's great about my outfit now is that after a convention, I just dump it in the wash and hang. Good as new, except I have to touch up the hieroglyph with glue where it wants to peel off. I actually lost the half moon this way, and I keep telling myself I'm going to rig one with neodymium magnets so I can pluck it off before I wash, but as usual I am super busy and before you know it, a convention is upon me and then that's the least of my worries.

I love this photo!!

Zira Kissing Dr. Zaius by sdoorly, on Flickr

[babycyclops]

Smooth rolling Jessica! Best of luck with ALL your projects.
Your creative work is always inspirational!

[jessica]

crap! i got some foam latex on my favorite army jacket.


74% humidity, 68 degrees fahrenheit. Come on, luck be a lady with me...


Me in my ghetto setup trying to make foam latex for Comicon. If you can't do the third world squat, you're SOL in my outdoor studio...Oh snap---I got foam on my pants too. Grrr...Usually I'm way neater than this. I won't know until 11 PM tonight if the foam pull will be good or not. Oh well--at least I am halfway there. I may have to frankenstein together something. Hoping not to--the makeup is difficult enough as it is already.

[jessica]

Yes...the Apemania Cornelius I hear is smallish, and one of my ape friends will come to Wondercon with me. He would really prefer to be a chimp. I would like put on his makeup, as it will be the first time he will go under the goo. I am still trying to figure out how this can happen, as it takes me 3 hours to get ready. We'll have to make sure he's not allergic to anything I will use months before Wondercon.

I can run another Urko.

FUDGE!!!!! 8( Trying to make another suit, with a different type of pattern, based on an outfit I was given. Sleeves are too short so I have to re-do, and it's so tough sewing with silk. Very slippery. 8(

I am seriously reconsidering my choice of fabric. Sounds like a trip to Goodwill....

Oh crap. Down to the wire. Two days to get this foam run perfect, enough time to wash out and dry the foam. I will bake today. Tomorrow is the last possible time I can bake. Luck, be a lady with me.

Found the fabric online at JoAnn's, so I will try to swing by there Tuesday. The silk fabric I tried for the suit is not only slippery, but the way it's woven makes it stretch one way. No matter how carefully I sew, the panels come out crooked. I'm so done with it.




*sigh* Still battling that horrible green suit. Almost done with the pants to find out that I have to take the belt and loops off because the fit was too tight. Was going to just start from scratch but the fit of this particular pair of pants if I got the measurements right were so nicely done. Too bad I went gung ho and really overadjusted.

Too many things to do, so little time. I want to season the molds but I probably won't be able to bake until Sunday to see how well Zira's appliance came out. Cornelius is ready for the mold, and then he's got to dry out and season.

Frickin' suit! I'm so done with working on it but I must chug on...



Not perfect foam latex but I have two weeks to get it right...


Oh snap! Two possible days to get my foam run perfect, so they can be washed and air dried. Luck, be a lady with me.

[Chris]

You are going to attempt a Corneilus too? That could be very interesting. Did you make a copy of the gorilla you did? Halloween is just around the corner (I start planning early).

[jessica]

I am always working on multiple projects at any one time. It's a real surprise to me when I do finish a project. Pry bars were a bit overkill. The mold separated nicely without too much effort, and the mold looks nice and clean too.








Back side of human face cast that I will need to beef up with more ultracal. Pathetic pencil thin grab bar needs a bigger replacement, which is what that shelving item is for. Once that's done I will work on Cornelius' facial appliance.


I forgot to mention that Ashton wants me to make him a Blue Angels boilersuit. The last time we went to the aeronautics museum, they had one for sale...but at $69. I said I will sew him one. On the same day, we went to the fabric store and I was able to purchase enough fabric to suit him up properly (provided I cut the fabric right the first time) for $10.00.

Drying out the mold for four hours or so...Tomorrow, time willing, I will dry the other half of the mold...I need to prepare the male human face so I can start up Cornelius while I dry/season Zira molds Take II.


Scratch that idea. We are expecting rain in Ape City, tomorrow, so there is no way I could plug my convection oven in the backyard. Guess I am forced to work indoors and may as well finish up Riddler jackets or do some pattern studies of mens jackets so I can cut out the fabric and sew these up.

[Cmonster]

Looks fantastic, Jess!

This is the greatest thread ever!

SC

[Chris]

That is so cool! You might just end up with an exact replica.

What do you think of a 1:6 ape-o-naut outfit for Zira? Are you up for it?

We can ditch the leather Ceasar idea. It sounds too hard.

[jessica]

When the exacto knife just isn't cutting it, time to bring out the big guns. Kids don't try this at home!

[starsky]

wow, looks really awesome!!

[jessica]

Omg way awesome! It was a suggestion from apemania to overlay my sculpt and actual photo to see where it needs to be tweaked in Photoshop. Of course lacking this ability I turned to resident Photoshop guru (devil_666) from a different forum for help. Really surprised at the results. If my schedule is willing I will reshoot my sculpt to be in the same position as the APemania photos of the original helmet so that I can get a Photoshop comparison and get my sculpt as accurate as I can make it.