Class projects: padding round two!

In my last post, i shared some pictures of the more "conventional" sorts of body padding projects my students might elect to do for this recent unit--pregnancy pads, gender-crosscast padding, and "permanent" dress form padding.

Some of my students though chose to do what are called "pod bodies" for this project--the kind of non-human physique structures typically made for creature costumes, like theme-park walkarounds. Due to space and time constraints (and in the interest of conserving materials/$ as well), we do these on the half-scale. Check them out!

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