Tools/Materials
1-Tape: Really just used for taping together the paper patterns.
2-Scissors: Mostly for cutting the pattern.
3-Thumbtacks: Used to pin the pattern onto the EVA foam.
4-Sandpaper: Probably more than one grit, but today I only used coarse sandpaper to smooth the edges a little bit.
5-Box cutters and spare blades: The sharper the knife, the less you have to sand! I change blades almost constantly.
6-Sharpies: Both fine and
super fine to trace the patterns onto the foam with.
7-Rulers and straight edges: Good for keeping straight lines straight.
8-EVA Foam: Essentially what I'm using are those puzzle-piece floor mats you can find at hardware stores. Usually they have a patterned side and a smooth side.
I traced the patterns using screenshots from the Character Creator in Photoshop CS3 and had to modify them to fit myself, so they probably aren't 100% perfect. I had to cut the pattern in half at the silly belly-button window since I couldn't fit it on one sheet (2'x2'). Then I just cut them out with the box cutter (sweeping motion, not sawing!) The cross-hatched areas are those that I'll need to wear down with a dremel tool.
That's really all I got done today. Cutting out the basic chest piece and sanding down the edges. I'll be using the caps from drinks like those bottled Starbucks drinks because there is no way in hell I'm going to handcraft 6+ of those little circles. XDD
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