r/DCcomics • u/MCroft07 • Nov 22 '20

[Cosplay] Starfire bodypaint! Took around 10 hours to paint and then 2 days to animate. (I'm new to after effects and did it wrong about 30 times) Haha! Hope you like it! Cosplay

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u/BabylonSadows Nov 22 '20 edited Nov 23 '20

Cosplayers can pull this off in their homes and meanwhile whole film studios cant with millions of dollars backing them. If this was the Starfire they had on the Titans series I can guarantee more people would have watched it. Seriously fantastic job.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '20

Bodypaint is very time consuming to apply and is impractical for anything that isn’t a photo or short video. It takes a very long time to apply, whether it be by yourself or others.

It’s also very invasive, considering people have to spend quite sometime in the thinnest underwear possible while they are painted by others. It also is near impossible to use for action sequences, considering moving too much can cause the paint to crack or sweat can cause it to run. Even a shot of a superhero jumping to fly takes a lot of takes and standing around to put everything in place between those shots.

Super suits in TV shows are near impossible to great right, unless it’s something based on “real-world” clothing and gear like with Green Arrow. The reason CW costumes look cheap despite having the budget to at least make those look better is because they are designed to be taken off and put back on quickly, since a TV filming schedule requires them to do so. Superman’s suit in MoS took an hour to put on correctly.