My next dress was inspired by the fire called Calcifer in Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle. My plan was to add lights that flicker to the beat of the music, but then I changed that to be that it would flicker as she walked or twirled.
Sep 6, 2010
Preview: Soot Sprites and Fire
Since there are 5 days until STRUT(!), I've decided to share my sketches and inspirations.
The first dress I made was based on these little dust balls called soot sprites (also known as susuwatari in Japanese) that are in both My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away. My vision was to sew a little black dress with spokes, or pyramids sewn all over to create the feeling of the puffiness of the soot sprites without looking messy. I used the same method mentioned in Diana Eng's deployable structures video, but took one of the commentor's advice and used an iron instead of sewing each edge. This turned out to be one of my favorite dresses of my collection.
My next dress was inspired by the fire called Calcifer in Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle. My plan was to add lights that flicker to the beat of the music, but then I changed that to be that it would flicker as she walked or twirled.
My next dress was inspired by the fire called Calcifer in Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle. My plan was to add lights that flicker to the beat of the music, but then I changed that to be that it would flicker as she walked or twirled.
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Hey- great blog- and great work you do. I don't think any of those outfits would work for me- but you're very talented/driven. Keep up the great work!
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Hayao Miyazaki's work is very inspirational!
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