Our Last Studio Day

I am sad that this is the last day we have all together as a team on the Razzamataz project. It's certainly been challenging, but enjoyable too! If I was offered a job doing this sort of work, I'd be over the moon.
I finished Nala today, attaching and bunching her fabric drape at the back. She is the most comfortable and possibly the most lightweight out of all of the masks due to her simple but effective construction.

Hoping to get some better photos of the finished masks after the deadline, particularly when they are performed with - we were told that there will be a professional photographer for the production, which will be great for portfolio pictures.

I'm really happy with Nala - I think she looks really good, and she's comfortable and sturdy, so should fill her role in the play perfectly. Scar and Simba were also finished today, along with a zebra which had it's mane painted. Unfortunately the black backdrop has made it impossible to see the end of its muzzle - but I can assure you it is there.

Beautiful Zebras!

Here is how the elephant's head is looking. The exterior of it is finished, but it still needs some head padding and backpacks on the inside for the girls to carry it with, since the unfortunately have no spare hands. There is also a picture of how the antelope is at the moment. I feel it looks a little bit like a corpse, with it's fabric guts escaping out of it's belly. It needs some refinement, reinforcing to stand up more upright, sewing up and painting. I will be helping with this along with Andrea and Naomi after the deadline.

Big, luscious goat hair eyelashes and tusks carved from polystyrene
with a gum tape covering, painted with acrylics by Esme.

The poor, dead antelope.

Zazu is also looking really good, needing only his fabric drape to be completed. Most of the work on him has been done by Esme who sculpted and rhenoflexed him, and Andrea who painted him. I attached him to a hat. He differs in colour to the original concept art and fabric - he was going to be mainly black and white - but has been painted blue and yellow.