Class Projects: reshaping the human body

[labricoleuse]

In the course i teach this semester (Decorative Arts for costume production graduate students), my students are about to finish their parasol projects [1], so i've been preparing for the final unit, called "Reshaping the Actor," in which we discuss body padding and other rigs for actor metamorphosis.

I pulled up several examples from our stock and put them onto forms to show the students, so i thought i'd share them here as well. All of these predate my tenure here, so i can't shed any light on what their original usage was.


a 34 male form becomes a plus-size female body


base form is 35/26/36


nice "back fat" rendering on this set of padding


tumorous hunchback padding--yuck!



I'm interested to find out what my students choose for projects on this one. I know we're going to have at least one male-to-female and one "large buttocks" pad, possibly a pregnancy and possibly a fantastical alien body...


[1] Photos forthcoming on this!

Comments

[labricoleuse.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad to hear it worked out well! (Though i'm sorry to hear about opening, isn't that always the way?)

What did you wind up using for the water-breaking mechanism?