"oh it's just a vest" no sir it is not JUST

how the fuck did they put this damn thing together

are all these topstitches just literally "piece slapped on top of other layer and stitched down" plz

I expect better

on the plus AND minus side one of my October commissions just up and vanished so uh. guess I have time to struggle with this

boooo to vanishing commissions but yay to money!

at least whatever the MCU thing is... I guess it must actually be a real piece of costuming rather than sometimes how anime is actually impossible? like it might look like total nonsense but presumably someone made a real one at one point

though I guess maybe that's worse lmao maybe you can't lean on "well see this is physically impossible so I did my realistic best"

they both suck but in very different ways, yep

with movie costumes you have no idea what sort of hidden tricks the costuming studio did to make it look good from the front only

especialy when you have enough reference from all sides to say "I know they're from the same movie but these are different costumes. I swear."

oh man yeah there's that too, I didn't even think of that

different costumes for different shots because one fell apart before they reshot it, different costumes for the stunt people,

yeeeep

Three copies of the 'hero' costume, twelve copies for each stuntie....

One for the stand-in because Lighting insisted on it...

and all the stunt costumes have hidden elastic panels yep yep

so now the hero costume has to have the same seams as Elastic Guy

I'm mad that it look amazing because holy shit what a nightmare it's been

So who were you reproducing here?

Hawkeye, first movie version

dude had an amazing quiver reproduction made for him, I'm like, all this for Halloween? OKAY?!

Sounds like a perfectionist.