Halloween costume

Halloween! woot! So I decided to make my costume this year and I went as a test subject from portal! I made my cube which took me about 10 hrs! I wish I could have done all sides but 1 side took me about 6 hrs and the contest was the next day. But here are the final shots fallowed by the work in progress pictures of me putting the cube together! All in all tho I got to the judging kinda late and they had already picked the people to win the prizes but they gave me Honorable mention “Best minor costume” lol. Anyways here we go.

Final pictures!

Ok and heres me making my costume! For the cube I used a hot glue gun and foam core. I also went out and got some colored markers. For the jump suit I went to the costume store and got a convicts costume. I also purchased transfer paper a printer and an iron :P. All materials and things came to a cost of about $200

The making of!

After getting the basic square shape I had to figure out how I wanted to handle the small extrudes on the companion cube. I busted out 3ds max and recreated one of the corners while looking at some reference photos I took while in portal. I figured out the best way to do it was to cut out the slanted angles and stick to one face. If I ended up doing multiple faces I would have eventually made small slanted pieces that I would have put on the corners of the blocks.

Each corner piece took about 30 mins to make. Because of the strength of the foam board I had to make halfway cuts through each bending piece so it would be easier to fold. I also had to do some crazy stupid stuff to get the pieces to fold into each other so I could glue them and they would stay there. Some people might wonder why I didn’t just make separate pieces and glue them together in the end. Well the answer to that is if I bend them I get a nice rounded edge where as if I cut them and glue them together they look not as nice!

And the center piece! :D!

Here I started putting the corners on the cube just to see how they looked along with the center piece.

After doing that I started putting the pink lines on the cube. I wanted to put grey on the cube but I didn’t have time to color each square panel! In the end it still looked nice tho so I’m happy with it!

You can see that even tho I didn’t have enough corner pieces to finish off the rest of the cube I still completed the outlines as to give off the look that they were there. Also since that’s where I would be holding the cube I didn’t want there to be blocks in the way. That decision seemed to be a wise one in the end

Now onto the costume!

And here is me wearing the jumpsuit

So I guess that’s about it. I did have some troubles with making the jumpsuit and using the transfer paper but I solved them and now I’m ready to go trick or treating!

I want to thank valve and the Portal team for coming up with such a great game! I had fun working on this costume and I’m looking forward to Halloween. Ill post more picture of the Raven Halloween party when I get a hold of the picture!

-General vivi

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