Adam Savage Builds a Mannequin With Cosplayer Beverly Downen!
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Cosplayer Beverly Downen of @DownenCreativeStudios introduces Adam to Fosshape, a thermoplastic fiber fabric, a felt-like material that can be patterned, heated, and formed to make lightweight dimensional shapes! Using her dressform pattern, Beverly and Adam make a collapsible and portable mannequin shell using the Fosshape material in this One Day Build!
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This was such a great project to do together, and I'm happy to have introduced Adam to some fun new materials and tools! Thank you for having me!
It was great watching you do your craft. You are so patient and so clear in your instructions. Wonderful project!
You made his month with that pattern notcher lol
@@juxxtapoz pattern notchers are the BEST
Thank you So much for this. I've been daydreaming about having a workable dress form.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Thank you so much for sharing all of this! I have made many notes for future projects!! 💜💜💜
Didn't think I'd watch over an hour of making a portable dress form, but Adam's guest is so lovely and joyous and the process was fascinating!
I'm a welder/fabricator. I couldn't stop watching this one. Beverly is one of the best makers you've ever had on. Her personality is electric.
I'm surprised Adam didn't roll out his life-sized 3D model of himself to make a copy of.
I was really hoping for an Adam Savage dress form.
I'm lucky enough to have been gifted my grandmother's 50 year old Zwilling cloth scissors from when she was a cutter in a clothing factory (they used industrial saws, but scissors for minor trimming). They have never been sharpened after leaving Zwilling, only used on cloth, and cut like a laser through butter. It's SO good!❤❤❤
I love this story. Things we buy these days are so cheap and disposable. I’ve lost count of the amount of scissors I’ve gone through over the years, they go blunt so quickly and even buying sturdy, heavy scissors it’s nearly impossible to find anywhere that will sharpen them
@@Dia_7hom Sadly, things today are made for you to buy more later, when they wear out. In the old days, things were EXPENSIVE, relatively speaking, so you weren't gonna buy anything not a consumable that lasted less than several decades. Since people stopped buying them, sadly, nobody sells them anymore.😓
Learning with Adam is way better then being in class. It’s always such an enjoyable experience.
It's always amazing for as much as Adam knows, there's even more that he doesn't know, and is so excited to learn about
That's how I always feel watching makers converse. It's like they're perfectly understanding each other's wavelength and transmitting new information that the other didn't imagine.
What an absolute joy listening to two experts be so generous with their respective institutional knowledge. This is beautiful collaboration.
Agreed
This year's best quote: "The topography of bodies presents all sorts of unique problems".
Yes Adam, that is correct in all sorts of senses.
We got a chuckle from that line as well !
The thing that blew my mind the most is that Adam had never heard of "press and seal" I've been using it for years in the kitchen. It has completely replaced plastic wrap for me.
Or that a man that has made so many costumes has never heard of a pattern notcher! You don't know what you don't know, I suppose.
@@LunarEclipsism1 yeah but he approaches things from the model/miniature maker point of view from his time at ILM
Yeah press & seal been around along time, what 15 - 20yrs at least, he needs to go the store more & explore
I had never heard of it either, I’ve never seen it over here in Ireland so I just ordered some from Amazon 😂
I put a layer on top of the refrigerator, and when it gets all groddy-dusty I peel it off and replace. Much better than scrubbing the dang thing.
Beverly has an amazingly soothing voice to listen to. I could listen to her work on anything! Thank you for a nice calming and interesting video.
More guest appearances by Beverly please. Her ideas and techniques are very helpful to the cosplay community. Her interaction with Adam is blissful.
I was in the sewing/crafts department in Walmart a few weeks ago picking up some denim needles and just browsing. Someone calls from the end of the isle wanting to know if I was lost. It cracks me up every time. I am 58, 6'2", 235lb and dressed like I should be buying tires or fishing gear. I have a very eclectic skill set and a diverse resume. I am as comfortable in the kitchen as I am under the hood. I giggle at the haters.
Beverly mentioned that she liked standing. YEP! My favorite work station is my breakfast bar. The top is 40" (that's mid belly for me). When I do sew, I can hang my peddle at knee height and lean into it (knee peddles are awesome). Stacking dimes or sewing seams, skills are skills.
You know someone is going to mass produce this design now. You know they will make loads of money off of this. They both did a great job. You can tell Adam is having such a blast doing and learning new things.
"Do you need a laser level?" Adam with almost every tool available in the shop.
I’ve never seen someone so happy doing a project like him. I could almost feel his satisfying presence in the steaming of the dress form.🥹🫶🏽✨👍🏽Thanks guys.
An interesting thing about zippers is the parts all pretty much do what it sounds like they should do.
The thingy that makes the zipper zip is the slider.
Other parts...teeth (or interlocks if they're bi-directional), pull tab, top stops, bottom stop, retaining pin, & insert pin.
This is brilliant!
I’m learning to make suit jackets/sport coats & have always wanted a dress form but seems to take a lot of space. This zip-able form is ideal
Agreed. This is So much better than a duct tape dress form.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
I’ve made plenty of the stuffed duct tape mannequins. I will need to try this!
I'm loving this, my dress form is too heavy and takes up too much room to bring to Dragon Con, might also be able to make corsetting forms and fill with insulation foam.
Just a pattern paper tip... I find craft paper rolls really thin and overpriced... I like to get the brown paper roll dropcloth from the paint section of the hardware store. It's nice and heavy and also cheap!
I will keep this in mind! Love this tip! I have used the fabric drop cloths to make muslins for projects where I will be using heavy fabric or for projects where I don’t mind some imperfections. It’s so much cheaper than canvas from the fabric store! Also, I can attest that they take dyes quite well.
I enjoyed watching Adam & Beverly work together so well.
The possibilities of using that fossshape for lightweight support structures and able to sew it or use Velcro is amazing!
I really enjoyed the energy and enthusiasm from both Adam and Beverly in this video. I love to see talented makers collaborate! So much tech transfer going both ways here!
That Fosshape is intriguing stuff. It'd be very interesting to see what you could do with mixing various weights across a project to get different rigidities. They mentioned using velcroed inserts, but I bet you could glue it directly to other plastics (flat, vacuformed or 3-D printed) for extra structure, greebling/accents, etc. I wonder how it takes paint...
Manufacturer's site says it dyes, and that you can bond layers of it together & close the surface up with heat - I see no reason why it shouldn't also take paint 🙂
I feel like paint would probably work fine? After it's been steamed into its final shape, though, unless you wanted to mess around with the material's shrinking properties. Or it might crinkle the paint interestingly as the painted surface area gets smaller but the paint doesn't? Or both?
I have no idea how painting this stuff pre-shrink would go, there's too many possible variables. What kind of paint, how thickly/evenly you apply it, whether it's sprayed/sponged/brushed on, whether you let it dry first or shrink the fabric while the paint is wet, whether you paint the whole piece or just parts... 🤔
This is so phenomenal! Great work Adam and Beverly! =D
Always love with Adams gets giddy about a new tool!
I use two or three layers of Glad Press and Seal and bypass duct tape to make custom sewing patterns. When you change the application sides of P&S, it locks together forming a unitized layer. Simple to lay out cut and seem lines with a sharpie and once it's off the only thing left is dart placement. I'm glad to see others using it too as it's very quick and easy.
First layer, sticky side out. Second layer, sticky side in.
@@lastshadow9351 - Does the limited width of Press 'n' Seal limit how you make patterns or what you can make?
@@goldcoastjon I haven't done huge patterns, but the larger ones I just overlap pieces on both layers. To me it's just like really big tape, except you can form it like tinfoil and the next layer locks it together. I draw my piece lines, cut it apart, and then flatten out rounded shapes with darts. It's so much like tape, you don't really have to flip layers as it's really sticky. I don't see many limits, but I would build more layers if I was making a huge pattern like something the size of a car and probably add duct tape strings across in various spots.
Press N Seal is wonderful! In my sewing studio for a LONG time for copying RTW. I love your idea of multiple layers. Thanks.
@@luckylibbet1 Sure! It is great stuff and I've used it for custom fit corsets, hats, art dolls, sculpture. I'm glad to see that more people are using it and letting others know about it!
I’m just thinking of all the cool and creative cosplay creations Adam can make now 👍🏼
Beverly is just the Best. She's so nice, talented, and knowledgeable
"it's like a shrinky dink" -- and my brain exploded with understanding! great stuff! thanks beverly!
I can't believe I watched this whole thing. Beverly is lovely, and this process was fascinating.
Press &seal is also great to use to cover wounds or surgical incisions when you shower. You shingle the press &seal over the injury and it won’t get wet. A surgical nurse told me to use it instead of the very expensive surgical covers.
Here are the big tips I picked up about rotary cutters from working in a quilt shop:
1) switch out your blades constantly. The second it stops cutting smoothly, switch it.
2) put pressure through your palm onto its hilt rather than through your fingers or wrist (if you look carefully, Adam does this the first and third time he cuts. The second time he doesn't and gets nicks)
3) work on a surface at or below your waist height. This lets you put body weight into it rather than arm strength
I've actually been wanting to build a form for my own torso for a while now to help with cosplay - but I've been unsure where to start. Thanks for this!!
OMG sooo cool! Another interesting material to spend money on.
wow this was a great video. makes me think "Tested Collabs" might be an awesome series... you can start with Adam getting together with other Tested folks, and they can teach him about some new(ish) fun thing they like to use, or he can teach them... etc etc.. as the series (hoopeefully) gains momentum, you can invite 'friends of Tested', and even just somewhat-random other folks. "Today, so&so is here to show us some of the interesting tricks you can do with a home laser-welder, and what you might want to use it for!" xD
My mind is blown. I've been trying to figure this out for years.
A comment has happened about the material used. There are generaly speaking 3 types of textile materials-
Woven - so fabrics made on some sort of loom with warp and weft construction (materials like Denim are made this way),
Knitted- where a single strand is, by the use of loops connects into itself ( so t shirt material or wool jumpers)
Non-woven- So what is this non-woven material. The fibres here can be held together by several means not connected to either of the first 2 methods. So either simple friction, so as Adam described with felting, taking loose fibres in a web and 'needling ' them or using other forces to lock the together (works well with natural fibres like wool) OR by the use of spraying on a glue, which is then cured or as in this case a mix of theroplastic and non-theremoplastic fibres which are heated after the desired mix is achieved to form flexible. Such fabrics are used in industrial processes- like nise dampening materials in your car or as thermal insulation materials
There a similar-ish "felted" polyester fabric. If I remember correctly it's actually made by just spinning, sputtering, and wobbling the polyester extruder heads to lay down a matte that adheres to itself, and the spacing is controlled by a shallow fluid (water?) bath. Source: I used to sew for a factory that made "instant" sand bags out of it for emergency services and temporary piers. filled via a water pump pushing sand in (kinda like a jumbo sandblaster or paint gun)
@@TheVoidSinger I remember that a similar product was used with biodegradable fibres, which was used in creating earth banks, used to stabilise them until plants could grow and hold the bank together naturally, so used in road and rail construction where they create cuttings or slip-roads
@@steveclarke6257 glad someone came up with something more friendly. the stuff we used was horrid. wouldn't pass water until it was saturated, and would actually wick it out of the air when dry! Had to wear gloves to work with it or it'd destroy your hands
Thanks for the background information . Yes, our FOSSHAPE materials are all nonwoven as manufactured with a proprietary blend of synthetic staple fibers without any additional adhesives or binders.
@@WonderflexFosshape tx for your appreciation - I studied textile engineering at Bolton Institute 30 years ago, so I do know a bit about the background of technology although I specialised in dyeing/finishing. It's interesting to me anyway, how you are getting the shrinkage with the use of temperature using a steamer.
I know there are low temperature amide polymers (like "polymorph") which don't have this feature, but your product seems far more flexible than they are, so it shows how much things have moved on. Congratulations on bringing such a great product to market, I'm sure that milliners and clothing manufacturers love how your product can provide a lightweight and stiffened layers to their creations.
Adam: I hate Duct Tape. My brain instantly remembers multiple reasons why and I giggle
Get Beverly back! We want to see her costumes and teaching us stuff! Great energy! Very interesting video!
She introduced Adam to the resourcefulness of PressNSeal and a Notch puncher, but he couldn’t bare without his markers.
Watching Adam's face when the machine tool draw falls is priceless 😂
Can we please please please have a 10min video montage of Adam dropping stuff. It would be so funny.
Time stamp? 😂
If you are using a rotary blade without a cutting mat like she does in this video that would explain why she was having trouble with her blades getting nicked. The mats are designed to protect the blade after it goes through your material. Hopes this helps someone out there 🥰
They were cutting on leather or some other type of surface mat. Even a wooden surface shouldn;t be an issue if you think of how you use kitchen knives on wooden boards.
Absolutely amazing.
I love this so much. I actually made a sewn Bodyform of myself resently, but something lightweight, unstuffed like this is really a gamechanger for small spaces or travel. Luckily I have some of this stuff laying around. I really need to try this. Also I think Legforms would really work nice with this method. Thank u so much for the Inspiration.
This is such a cool thing to see; I'm working around a dress form that sort of matches me, but could certainly be better. I've been working on patterning blocks which highlighted the differences but I'm thinking of adapting the blocks to become a cover for the dress form that I can then stuff. This process makes me consider what other materials I could make the cover in that could hold form a little better too, rather than default of a woven fabric. Thanks so much for sharing!
I have a set of 2 jersey covers, one is made of just a front and back piece and I’ve stuffed it with pads and batting, then the next one has princess seams for a guideline when I drape, but mostly it just adds additional smoothing over the padding. I used small tailors pins to help keep things in place throughout the process and over the top where the covers didn’t hug the shape (such as the breastbone or spine). They sell dress form alterations kits online, but you can also just look at what they do and copy it with your own materials!
I had no idea this kind of material even existed. Mind. Blown.
Adam & Beverly, your next sewing project together could be making a custom dress form. Order Bootstrap Fashion pattern with your exact measurements, instead of using fabric, use the 30 Fosshape felt, sew it together, fill dress form with expanding foam first, once set, steam the outside to shrink the Fosshape. This could reduce the lumpiness issue people seem to have from stuffing the dress form with wadding.
the only issue is that fosshape stretches and expandable polyurethane likes to bond to just about anything.
A better plan is to make a plaster cast and fill it and then draft the fosshape right onto the mannequin and try steaming it in one piece by pressing very hard.
if you choose the right flexible foam there will be some give so the fosshape will be only slighly bigger and that will fit inti the wearing ease you'd need for a living person to wear it.
This is why I love your show. Always coming up with cool techniques for hobbies I never knew I wanted to try. Thanks for all the great content!
This sounds great for prosthetic shells
Not sure if our FOSSHAPE would be suitable for that, but I recall our WONDERFLEX has been utilized in some custom prosthetic applications.
Press n seal:
Ideal for taking showers after surgery
It will stick to your skin and cover the stitches so you can still take regular showers for that week where you can't get the stitches wet
i love working with Fosshape, i made a base for a togruta cosplay with it so light and was able to get super rigid and self supporting but still with some give to it. Its MAGICAL stuff!
Not sure our materials are "MAGICAL" or not......but depending on the application....they do come in pretty handy. Thanks for being a Fosshaper.
@@WonderflexFosshape Hello ! Can the material be ordered from and shipped to Europe (France in particular)? Or if not, is there perhaps an equivalent ? I found it on the German distributer ... but unfortunately at 50Euros/meter, which is nearly double that of the US price.
Thats really cool, thanks Beverley, Adam and the Tested team Tested team.
Bootstrap Fashions has an amazing pattern to make a custom measurement mannequin.
I've looked at those too and would love to use that pattern with this material, but the problem is not having a solid base to then shrink the thermoplastic to. You'd almost have to make one the traditional way first, then make copies of it with this thermoplastic fabric.
@Robin Laska exactly. The original can be fit to your custom measurements and be pinable. Then, cover it with a close fitting shirt when steaming the fosshape.
Seconded! I’ve made two body forms from their patterns and they’re amazingly accurate to the *measurements you provide*, so be sure to enter good ones! Fortunately they have helpful guides for that. I recommend also completing all the optional measurements and body shape descriptions.
Best of all, the pattern for your form is emailed to you within an hour; any issues are communicated immediately and resolved quickly. I’m hugely impressed with Bootstrap’s products and can’t say enough good things about them! They’re incredibly useful for makers like myself who design / fabricate costumes.
I’m definitely interested to see how I can use this technique in combination with one of their patterns.
Adam, Beverly…you two have made me geek out once again. BEST DYNAMIC DUO EVER!
@@BrainyBrunetteBarbie Two rock stars in the same video.
Cloth or die scissors!!!! Yes! In the 6 years I've known my husband, the only time I've ever actually yelled at him was when he was about to use my fabric scissors on paper!
I love revolutiony art creations such as this!
So many things to learn !!! Great use of a fantastic material !!
I feel like this material is perfect for a certain kind of semi-rigid small bag or case like I'd expect to see in a movie though I don't have any immediate examples of a rigid felted case from a movie that I think needs to be replicated. Still, I wonder if we'll see Adam using this to make a box, bag, or case for any of his props.
We like the way your thinking.
Fascinating video. Beverly Downen is amazing!
We agree.... and can't argue with that.
Man, I can see some of the tips in this being useful for making puppets too.
This chemistry is so entertaining.
As was both Beverly and Adam.
QUESTION: Are you able to steam it and form it while it is on your body? whats the heat requirement and safety there?
I love this build! Given that the shrinkage on the fosshape can pull the ends of the zipper apart and make them hard to connect, is there any reason you couldn't replace the segments for the neck and base openings with a heavy canvas fabric? If they are cut to be slightly smaller than the openings when finished, with the fosshape forming the curve that leads into them, the unshrinking canvas should create enough stability at the centers of those spaces to keep the zipper ends aligned.
I was wondering the same thing.....I think that would
Work.
Wow! Awesome material!
Does Adam know about Bernadette Banner’s RUclips channel? I’m guessing he does know already, but if not he would really like Bernadette.
How cool would it be if you could set the fosshape directly on your body!?
This is an amazing advertisement for fosshape, Im probably going to go buy some now lmao
God, what fun to discover new materials and ways to make stuff! And great lessons on human topography, patterning, and how to"dress" a mannequin with duct tape! (I'll never make a mannequin but who knows what a mad genius DIYer might come up with for this process...) ;-)
Nice! Thanks!
Beverly is absolutely lovely!
This was great to watch, thank you!
There is a magnetic attachment you can put on your scissors to guide your cut to make the seam allowance
This was one of you "funnest" videos. I so enjoyed it.
One of the sewn (in part) items I regularly find myself making are custom climbing harnesses; mostly for arborists, but occasionally for rec
escue. And since the pattern doesn't change much, it one I made sees a lot of use. And I can tell you from years of experience that paper don't hold up too well, over years of use. So I started making my paper patterns out of Tyvek. You can even get it without the branding printed all over one side too, because apparently a lot of people use it for things like that. But even if you just buy a roll from the lumberyard, you can just draw on the back side (which is plain white). It holds up _WAY_ better than normal paper! And it transfers to ridged (non-stretch/skew) fabrics better than stretchy tapes.
I love this company! They are just 2 miles from my house!!!!
Was very interesting world to have a deep dive look into.
LOL!!!! I was working on a form like this for my thesis, 45 years ago!
I use Press N Seal for covering my oil painting palette before sticking it in the freezer to keep the paint from curing. Also to easily portion things for freezing , because I can make an easy-to -open flap, compare to other plastic wraps.
This is a brilliant idea!
VERY cool! Gotta get me some of that stuff!!!
Press and seal is the best. I discovered it a few years ago and completely forsaken regular plastic wrap
Where you write "mirror," standard patterns say "cut on fold."
Cool product. Count me in when you do a segment on creating a durable, pinnable dress form.
"Future me will make better decisions." 🤣🤣🤣
Adam,
Press and Seal is also known as the friend to mommies who want to keep leftovers and wrap their kids’ sandwiches for school and picnics.😊
wow! my very first thought was using this material to make a new nazgul hood that is way thinner than foam and i guess a little more flexible in the wind when been heat treated very lightly 🤔
We are gonna need a whole video on tape!
I was so physically excited to see this video I moved to the front of my seat. Let's go!
We were as well......excited so much, that we had to phone Beverly Downen and say ...."thank you"
All so super cool!!! (I don’t think felt is traditionally made with a binder though 🤔)
Our FOSSHAPE is comprised of synthetic fibers without any additives or binders.
This is an amazing way to build models for Halloween props. haunted house and other displays. brilliant. Thank you so much for sharing. I am for sure using this! by the way Joanns visit your local joann they need the help right now.. Just as a maker i feel like it is just a shameless plug for them they are in a bad spot right now. please forgive me for saying on your channel :)
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please make more of this
Great video!
If you love good sewing machines, then Bernina can be just the thing for you. Above all, you will find used machines (from the good old days) that are really good. Even devices that are 40 or more years old. Ours is from the 1960s and still rocks! And it has a beautiful red color...
"Clearly adam doesnt have a midwest grandma who needed to preserve her jello" my girlfriend amazed Adam hadn't heard of press and seal
Next One Day Build idea: Interface device for between a light stand and a dress form. 🤪
Gr8 video as always!! This material is pretty cool from what have seen in this video!! Til next tyme...keep those cre8ive juices abrewing!!!
You could make a spacesuit out of this material.
Tested should sell these template systems for different standard human sizes. That would be incredibly useful.
Interesting thought.
Proof Adam is from Southern California. Dual separating zippers are common on longer winter jackets
This Fosshape looks like a miracle material. I really want to play around with it now, but the price is still a bit steep for that.
That's amazing!!!
GREAT VIDEO!!! I need to get some Fosshape 600 so I can make myself a personal dress form so that the clothes I make fit my body!!
Where can I find Fosshape 600 at a reasonable price? What I'm finding is way to expensive for me...
Adam any ideals on a duck tape holder to make it easier to use for this project. Like your kraft paper dispencer for when using alot