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Post by Primrodo on Apr 5, 2006 23:57:52 GMT -5
I thought I would share some progress with my TJA brethren  I have a few adjustments to be made to my costume yet: • Spats having velcro sewed to them at a local tack shop. • Need to fix waist and cloth tabards • Need glove yet... BUT! I do have some progress pictures to show off: I also noticed after that I am wearing my obi a little low and it really made my tabards look smaller but that shall also be remedied !    (Based on: www.petridish.net/pics/19502/md-anakin25.jpg) Flash versus no flash:   EVIL!  ALMOST there! What do you guys think? |
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Post by JediKai on Apr 6, 2006 0:27:43 GMT -5
Fantastic, as usual!
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Post by admin on Apr 6, 2006 7:33:49 GMT -5
Very nice!!!
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Post by Mon-Jas Charan on Apr 6, 2006 7:52:44 GMT -5
Remarkable job !!
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Post by Obi-1 on Apr 6, 2006 9:05:19 GMT -5
A fantastic job so far, I look forard to the finished product.
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Post by tanzanlinnear on Apr 6, 2006 10:22:36 GMT -5
What is there to say? It's another fine example of your quest for perfection I have to admit (and I don't mean this as a dig) I thought Anakin's pants where a slightly lighter shade of brown than the tunic? Milk chocolate and Dark chocolate, if you will... |
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Post by Primrodo on Apr 6, 2006 11:01:44 GMT -5
Thank you everyone! its almost done and I am so happy with it Tanzan, I went with the photos taken at the exhibits as opposed to the ones done from the promotional pictures, since those are screen worn for sure. Compare with these, pants are actually darker, and in teh DAG swatches they are about the same colour.   |
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Post by jedi12 on Apr 6, 2006 11:06:10 GMT -5
Wow Primrodo your costume is awsome
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Post by tanzanlinnear on Apr 6, 2006 11:30:01 GMT -5
I think that a different costume was worn at the end of the film to the beginning... Looking at the duel with Dooku, when Anakin gets kicked into the wall before Obi-Wan if Force Thrown, it is clear that his pants are lighter than his tunic. I can't do screen captures from the DVD, but this was taken with my cell phone's camera while pausing it, and although the overall image clarity is none too good, the color differences are quite distinct  One thing I'm unclear about, is the tabbards. I know they are synth-leather, but it often appears that there is a fabric set of 'under tabbards' beneath... Is this correct? |
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Post by Primrodo on Apr 6, 2006 11:38:40 GMT -5
Honestly thats more an issue with clour correction and how the material takes the colour and how light effects it since it is not the same fabric. Like I said the DAG swatches all look virtually the same...and yet in person the tunic looks lighter, and the inner tunic photographs lighter, look at even how the outer tunic photographs, pending the colour. The tabards are lambskin, they are not synthetic, and yes there is fabric tabards |
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Post by tanzanlinnear on Apr 6, 2006 12:10:22 GMT -5
I'm sorry, but I'm not convinced about 'color correction' Why would they go to the trouble of digitally altering the color of a pair of pants when they can just make a second pair in a different color? I suspect that the change in color is to represent Anakin's final shift to the Dark Side. I agree, different fabrics will react differently to the light, but not that differently, that really is a vast difference, especially as it is the same light source. I said synth-leather as that was the term used to describe the garments in Episode II, I suspect that in Film Reality, they were still supposed to be synthetic, even if the Real World costume used lambskin ;D Double tabbards? That really is unique... Are they (the under tabbards) only as long as the obi? They don't seem to extend any further than that...
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Post by Primrodo on Apr 6, 2006 12:39:00 GMT -5
No I mean they colour corrected the movie, just not the pants. And no he wore the same material in the whole movie, only costume change was to Darth Vader, nothing in the way you suspect. Colours shift dramtically depending on studio lighting and a bunch of other factors, and they really do change for that..I've worked in enough productions and photoshoots to have experience in that....heck my photos are lit mostly by mercury lights which gives a usually green-yellow cast to everything. the only thing you can trust is your eyes when you see the actual stuff in public, and there have been 3 seperate costumes displayed, all with the same colour scheme. Sorry the entire costume stays the same colours all the way through the movie. Look at Aragorn for an example of colour correction can change an entire characters outfit. As for the tabards, Anakin basically has Obi-Wans costume in brown with added leather tabards |
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Post by tanzanlinnear on Apr 6, 2006 12:51:43 GMT -5
I have a degree in film-making which also covered photography, so I know how much lighting can alter the appearance of a fabric. But. The picture I've shown (although not the clearest) shows both tunic and pants under the same light source reacting as completely different colors, and not even the darker pants as with the pictures you showed, so I think this is something we're going to have to agree to disagree over... Regardless of color accuracy, it is a fantastic costume. I'd be interested to see what you could come up with if you were to now do a personal costume, given the amount of reaseach that you clearly put into your projects When you say three seperate costumes, do you mean three seperate versions of Anakin's costume, and where they all displayed at the same time? Even an official display like the ones you showed above is still slightly suspect in my opinion, as a while back, Kai linked a set of pictures from a similar event. One of the sabers was supposed to be Obi-Wan's TPM/AotC saber, but the detail on the upper emitter was nothing like what had been seen either on screen or in the visual dictionary, but clearly something that had been produced specifically for the event. It wouldn't surprize me if such a thing happened with the costumes as well, and they created display costumes specifically so they wouldn't have to run the risk of anything happening to the originals. Are the leather tabbards completely seperate from the cloth ones, or are they attatched to each other? The cloth tabbards still do not appear to come as far past the obi as the leather ones do, is that so? |
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Post by Primrodo on Apr 6, 2006 13:12:09 GMT -5
That costume is not suspect though and that saber, as I posted in the thread that was posted here, was made for ROTS but Lucas decided to drop it, in fact Obi-Wan was to use it and lose it in the original fight with Dooku.
When they display them at C3, FIDM and the COSI Boston (soon Columbus) exhibits they are the same ones. The only produced ones were for the fashion show, but these are screen used. Just because the onscreen and promotional pictures do not match the displayed costumes, I wouldn't assume that they are differnt because they don't look exactly the same. C3's costume is the one hayden wore in the mustafar fight, I had some nice chats with the LFL representive about it as well.
As for the tabards, yes seperate, I have seen several picturs of just the leather tabards off, leaving the cloth ones on. the cloth tabards are almost exactly like Obi-Wans, stopping at the back and about an inch longer in the front.
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Post by Seda Navilli on Apr 6, 2006 13:48:53 GMT -5
Well, I suppose I should chuck a reply into this thread, although you know my thoughts already justin; truly inspiring work. There are so many little things I need to do to get my own costume right, and seeing your progress at least lets me know its possible!
Well done, and I anxiously await the next installment! ;D
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