Everyone's Outcomes

I wanted to make a post to show the things that other people have been doing in the group that I haven't been involved with, outside of overseeing the entire group.

Cheetahs! Outside of helping with the initial sculpt and attaching the first mask to a hat, the cheetahs have mostly been worked on by Rhian, Esme and Claire.

The completed cheetah sculpt. 

A rhenoflexed cheetah mask.
Rhian and Lorraine both did work
rhenoflexing the cheetahs.

Claire painted the first cheetah mask. They look
great with the paint on!

The wet underside of acrylic eyes, cut,
sanded and painted from a scrap of
clear acrylic found in the bin. 

A completed cheetah mask, this time
one that Esme painted.

Pumba was made exclusively by Ollie and Becca in their time outside of working on the Fame project. He sits on two backpacks, and has a hinged jaw so the actor can make him talk. He came out really well! He was initially carved from polystyrene, then covered in gum tape and painted. His body is willow with fabric accents, and carved polystyrene and paper rope back legs. Because the costume requested for Timon was so minor (ears, a tail and some paws) we have decided to complete it after the deadline.

Carving Pumba from polystyrene.

Pumba covered in gum tape and mounted to a
backpack.

Pumba after the gum tape layer was first painted.

Pumba's body and back legs being
assembled. 

The finished Pumba, being worn by Ollie.

The Giant Mufasa head was made almost entirely by Melissa, bar a little help from Ollie towards the final stages. It is a willow frame with muslin and wadding glued on, and painted with acrylics.

A willow face frame, held together by
cable ties. It is similar to the elephant
but lacks 3D qualities. 

Muslin pinned to the muzzle frame before being glued down. It is a
straightforward process because the pieces are so flat. 

The upper and lower muzzle pieces.

One of the face panels, with the small wadding
border as a mane. 

All four of the pieces making up the head. It
has some symmetry issues that I think we will
need to address before the production.

And finally, the giraffes. This part of the project was pretty huge and it was brave of Rhian to work on the making process alone. I had done some research and found a great giraffe head online that was made out of corrugated cardboard pieces that slot together, and Rhian decided to make these as the full heads. They are really lightweight and, due to being covered in gum tape, pretty sturdy. She initially toyed with putting it on a hat on the smaller child's head, but it was too weighty. We later discovered a solution - having the head sit on a shoulder with a strap. The cardboard neck runs down the wearer's back. This animal was as challenging as the elephant due to the incorporation of lifts in the actor's routine to make it - the two people making up the giraffe had no free hands between them!

Rhian hot gluing the giraffe's mane on, just like how Alex did on the zebras.

The painted and attached mane.

One of two painted giraffes. Esme painted one, Rhian
did the other. The eyes are made in the same way as
the elephant's.

We also had some fabric custom printed for us by Naomi with a little help from Lorraine. She took design inspiration from all the tribal research that we did and posted in the Facebook group. After doing the screen print, some of the designs were accented with more colours painted on with acrylics. Here's what she came up with, with this colour-way being for hyena (which was later darkened), and below, the giraffe;