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So, there's this Anime/Manga convention my friends are currently dragging me to. The current situation has it where I MUST wear a costume, or I'm not getting laid for the entire event, apparently - and atop that, I wouldn't be having any fun.
In my spite, I decided upon the character Rorschach from the Watchmen Graphic Novel - so I'm not going to be winning any awards in some weaboo contest for best costume, but it would definately be badass.
The costume seems simple enough. I got a musty old coat from Goodwill, along with the gloves. And I did everything short of sliding down a hill face-first to give them that rugged, worn-in look. I have comandeered a stage pistol that looks 1950s-60s era. Simple enough as a costume goes. And I have over9000 fedoras on-hand at any time.
But then - there's the mask... In the comic book, Rorschach's mask is no ordinary mask. Spacifically, it is a full-face veil that has a constantly moving ink-blot on it, much like that encountered in the psychiatrist office on the "What Do You See" flash cards.
Now THAT is the tricky part.
Now, any man can just paint a pillow-sack, pull it over your head, and then walk around. Myself, being an aspiring scientific enthusiast and avid comicbook reader, absolutely refuse to undermine the integrity of the badassery that is Rorschach by putting on some 2-bit hood and gallavanting around.
No. If I'm going to gallavant around looking like an idiot, I'm going to make it in the most realistic and life-like Rorschach mask possible. Moving ink spotch and all.
Here's my delimma - in the comic book, Dr. Manhattan makes the mask by manipulating quantum mechanics between two latex layers and some kind of ink dye that allowed for a constantly-shifting pattern. Kovacs (Rorschach, before he lost whatever moderate sanity he had left) had played with this stuff for a long time after working at a dress shop.
So, I know no way of toying with Quantum Mechanics - and I only have a few days left to accomplish this feat.
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Currently, I'm trying to obtain Thermochromatic Ink, to somehow crate that effect with my breath hitting the fabric and unevenly but gradually distributing throughout the mask (based upon what I know from thermal energy transferrance through cloth mediums) - and the heat from my breath will spread and make parts of the mask disappear and reappear at different intervals and levels to reveal different patters on the mask...
But I want to know your opinions, or other ideas on how to make this perpetually-shifting pattern effect.
If none, then this thread is about good old-fasioned non-Japanese Super Hero nostalgia.
In my spite, I decided upon the character Rorschach from the Watchmen Graphic Novel - so I'm not going to be winning any awards in some weaboo contest for best costume, but it would definately be badass.
The costume seems simple enough. I got a musty old coat from Goodwill, along with the gloves. And I did everything short of sliding down a hill face-first to give them that rugged, worn-in look. I have comandeered a stage pistol that looks 1950s-60s era. Simple enough as a costume goes. And I have over9000 fedoras on-hand at any time.
But then - there's the mask... In the comic book, Rorschach's mask is no ordinary mask. Spacifically, it is a full-face veil that has a constantly moving ink-blot on it, much like that encountered in the psychiatrist office on the "What Do You See" flash cards.
Now THAT is the tricky part.
Now, any man can just paint a pillow-sack, pull it over your head, and then walk around. Myself, being an aspiring scientific enthusiast and avid comicbook reader, absolutely refuse to undermine the integrity of the badassery that is Rorschach by putting on some 2-bit hood and gallavanting around.
No. If I'm going to gallavant around looking like an idiot, I'm going to make it in the most realistic and life-like Rorschach mask possible. Moving ink spotch and all.
Here's my delimma - in the comic book, Dr. Manhattan makes the mask by manipulating quantum mechanics between two latex layers and some kind of ink dye that allowed for a constantly-shifting pattern. Kovacs (Rorschach, before he lost whatever moderate sanity he had left) had played with this stuff for a long time after working at a dress shop.
So, I know no way of toying with Quantum Mechanics - and I only have a few days left to accomplish this feat.
----------------------------------------------------
Currently, I'm trying to obtain Thermochromatic Ink, to somehow crate that effect with my breath hitting the fabric and unevenly but gradually distributing throughout the mask (based upon what I know from thermal energy transferrance through cloth mediums) - and the heat from my breath will spread and make parts of the mask disappear and reappear at different intervals and levels to reveal different patters on the mask...
But I want to know your opinions, or other ideas on how to make this perpetually-shifting pattern effect.
If none, then this thread is about good old-fasioned non-Japanese Super Hero nostalgia.
