PacmanCostume

Here's what it looked like after I finished the frame. You know, it's surprisingly difficult to get a circle to be perfectly round. I attached a string to the center and went around the edge and taped the circular tubing to the rest of the frame at just the right points.

{img src=http://g42.org/projects/pacman_costume/PacmanCostume_01_justFrame.jpg}

Now I have hung it up and put some fabric on it.

{img src=http://g42.org/projects/pacman_costume/PacmanCostume_02_hangingWithSomeFabric.jpg}

It turns out that the fabric was too easy to see through, even when I put 2 layers on, so I added some black latex here. (The latex has a white fuzzy side for some reason, so I put that side out.)

{img src=http://g42.org/projects/pacman_costume/PacmanCostume_03_addedLatexOutside.jpg}

You never think about these things until you actually try to build something like this, but a costume this big doesn't just float around on you. You have to attach yourself to it in some way. I've used two belts. One goes around my waist and attaches to the 4 corners on the bottom. The other belt goes around my chest and attaches to the upper back part of the costume (to balance it).

{img src=http://g42.org/projects/pacman_costume/PacmanCostume_04_harness.jpg}

I won the group costume contest at work! The top of the ghost costume looks a bit lopsided, but it's really an optical illusion that results from the placement of the eyes and the angle we're looking at the costume. The top is a tiny bit lopsided, but not nearly as much as it looks like in that picture. The fabric hanging down near my legs is the result of me accidentally tearing the stitching when I stepped too widely.

{img src=http://g42.org/projects/pacman_costume/PacmanCostume_05_wonContest.jpg}

I received two emails from someone named daqmustang. They kindly included pictures of a pacman and ghost costume that someone else had made. I have no idea about when these costumes where made or where or who made them. But, the pictures are very cool, so I'm displaying them here.

{img src=http://g42.org/projects/pacman_costume/BlinkyCostumeFromDaqmustang.jpg} {img src=http://g42.org/projects/pacman_costume/PacmanCostumeFromDaqmustang.jpg}

I found the following image of another Pac-Man costume in google images. But, this tiny image is all there was. The link to it was broken. {img src=http://g42.org/projects/pacman_costume/green-yellow-pacman-costume.jpg}

If anyone else has pictures of classic video game related costumes then feel free to mailto:pacmanCostumeATg42DOTorg?!