Zebras & Hyenas, Oh My!

Today Esme and Andrea finished up the sculpt for the zebra masks. It looks great and I think it will really be solidified design-wise when the ears are added to the masks. We decided it would be easiest to add the ears after the basic mask shape has been made, by cutting a sheet of rhenoflex into individual ear shapes, heating them to form them and then gluing them on.

Today I made a tape pattern for the hyena to be cut out of rhenoflex. We decided to do a tape pattern instead of a basic newspaper trace because it could easily be cut out of a thicker card, and therefore have the durability to last until all ten of the hyenas were cut out. I added a seam allowance to the pattern pieces but after cutting this out and making a sample first hyena that this allowance was not required in the same way that it would be for a fabric pattern - rhenoflex only seems to need a millimetre or two to form a secure bond between two pieces.

Here you can see how I added ~8mm of seam allowance to each tape piece, which was later removed as it wasn't required.