Truth be told, I kinda hate Halloween. I like the idea, but I hate the event. Maybe I would complain less about the situation if I thought I could pull off sexy bumble bee better. Usually I spend the evening hossing the candy meant for trick-or-treaters with more enthusiasm for costuming, but not this year!
This year I'm doin' it up tongue-n-cheek chic as Fannie Mae. I just wanted to document the effort it takes to look adorable yet witty in an understated way in something that ultimately needs to also survive a night of dancing.Step 1: Laser Cut acrylic name plate.
This was the most intensive step. This is Brush script Medium at 240pts. I used Illustrator to create outlines of the type so I could use them like a vector. Ungroup all the characters, rekern them so that everything touches (if it's a cutout it has to be continuous) and then trim all the overlaps. Rejoin so it's 1 vector curve again. Import into Rhino to export as a file type that can be read by the laser cutter.
It took 2 passes with the laser cutter to fully release the letters (at 37 minutes a per pass.) But this is what the piece looked like fresh out of the bed.
I dropped my nameplate somewhere between the bed and our um, spray booth. This is Andrew by the way, life long studio friend and fellow DFAB enthusiast. Midas touch that shit!
While we were killing time between rounds of spraypaint, we played with a robot. You haven't experienced CMU until you've played with a robot at 2 am.
Its 12,000 lbs and can cut ANY material. It looks like some modern day torture device, or maybe a dentist chair. Maybe those aren't different.
Um, yeah I don't know. We were inhaling a lot of that aerosol. Mostly on accident.
Finished product, yizzerd?! We did dollar signs just to add to the ridiculousness of it all.
Honestly the craft on this thing is so intense, I wish I could wear it year round. Maybe I will... if all those mamacita-rita's at the mall can pull these things off, I'm not sure why I can't.