Rainbows Productions Ltd Costume Character Maker

Since Graduating from the Arts University Bournemouth in the summer of 2012 I have been working at http://www.rainbowproductions.co.uk as a freelance character costume maker. 

I have worked on many of the costumes building up my costume making skills, these include:

• Pattern drafting
• Updating existing Rainbow's patterns
• Costume Making including: Foam underbodies, clothes, fur skins, hands, feet, shoes

Here are a few pictures from the Rainbow Production Ltd  official website  ( I have linked the website above) showing characters I have worked on: 

Licensor: Copyrights Group

THE SNOWMAN™ by Raymond Briggs © Snowman Enterprises Limited 2013.
Books published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

Licensor: Twentieth Century Fox

Ice Age 4 Continental Drift™ & © 2013 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Licensor: Aardman Animations

© Aardman Animations Ltd 2013

Licensor: Entertainment One UK Limited

Peppa Pig © Astley Baker Davies Ltd/Entertainment One UK Ltd 2003

Licensor: HIT Entertainment

© 2013 Hit Entertainment Limited and Keith Chapman

Angel Exit Theatre's The Secret Garden

Peacock Costume

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    For the Second half of my Major Project I wanted to concentrate on using the skills I have already developed on the course in making and interoperating a designer’s vision for a costume.  This also involved working with puppetry and costume props, which is an area I am interested but have never done before.

For this project I wanted to focus on developing not just my making skills but also more importantly my ability to be creative and imaginative with the interpretation of the design provided. Also to be able to judge when things are impractical and come up with a solution, which will please the designer and the production company.

  For this project I was able to do some research on previous work from other costume makers on the construction. However the most part of this project involved trial and error with self-learning on how the structure would work and move together. A pattern was used for some of the costume but most of it was made on a mannequin again visually judging where changes should be made.

As the costume was to be created from two different designs put together it became easy for the designer to make changes throughout the whole process of making this costume. So it became increasingly difficult for me to judge the time frame and budget for this costume. Also trying to interoperate what a designer has in their head compared to a design they have made is very difficult for me.

Costume Designer : Daisy Jane Turner

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Textile manipulation Consideration

I will need to look at marbling and spraying lace for a lot of the fabrics which I have never done before so I will need to experiment with how to do this for each type of fabric used as I don’t know how well each one will take the effect.

I will also need to create a weathered and polluted look.

Embelishments will also need to be added to a lot of the costume.

 

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A lot of the materials will need to be very light weight for most of the costume as they will be layered up. Also if I can get hold of transparent materials for the tail this will help with the skeleton like appearance that is shown on the design.

The trousers will need to be made out of a bouncy, light weight material.

 

Wings completed

This is attached to the air brush to spray the dye evenly.

used to spray cold dye over  lace effect on lycra body suit

Marbeling effect on lace

costume in the end of year exhibition