For my fmp i wanted to create a costume for a post apocalyptic setting, I looked at the Fallout game series and Mad Max films for inspiration. I have always had an interest in this whole post apocalyptic setting and the range of armor and clothing made in these games and films. I began by looking at the costume design from a variety of apocalyptic set stories such as Fallout, Mad Max and Brink to get inspiration for my own costume.
There are exactly 102,247,681,536,000,000 possible character variations in Brink, this includes all sub-options such as clothing colors, voice packs and Body Type.
The costume department for Mad Max, Road Warrior had an incredibly low budget meaning all costumes were made from the actors own clothing swell as sports wear and S & M gear creating a staple look used by many when creating apocalyptic settings.
Mad Max, Fury road took the look from Road Warrior and made it even more tribal and gritty with people dressed in fur, leather and scrap covered in dust making even more savage looking wastelanders
The fallout game series has taken a huge amount of inspiration from the Mad Max look with raiders dressed in old automobile pieces, slavers dressed in football gear to resemble the soldiers of ancient Roam and street signs used as body armour. The Fallout series has created a world where the most useless piece of scrap can become a piece of armour ensuring the survival of its wearer
After looking at these costumes I began to craft my own using old pieces of clothing I was able to find. I created a shoulder guard/cowl from a leather skirt adore in nails to create some form of medieval scaled armor and added white hand prints to the shoulders for a tribal feel and a chest plate made from an old computer chair.
In the end I felt like it was quite a boring piece so I began to look at my references again. I created a new costume that looked more fitting for this setting. The second costume was made from a leather jacket cut to resemble the leather jacket worn by Mad Max in the Road warrior, a tattered vest, distressed jeans and a pair of Dr Marten boots. I used a method to age the clothing and add more grime to it that I shall show later.
Ageing the armour:
step 1: choose your fabric
step 2: distress the fabric with any tool and smear it with black paint
step 3: sprinkle any dust of your choice and add plaster to pick out hi-lights
Once I had created my costume I decided to add props and a setting for my character. I looked at the general items found in fallout and recreated some of my own.
irradiated water
food rations
repaired pistol
home decor
ukuclub
ukuclub
chair
raider battle rifle
raider battle rifle
for the setting for my character I decided to make a stall selling salvaged goods food and other useful gear found in his journeys, most of the items were waste pieces I found and modified into useful tools
I furnished the stall with old pieces of wood and metal and fashioned a makeshift bed from two pallets. to offer some shade in the extreme heat a created a rough roof from scrim to offer some protection from the sun. I also created a sandy floor with litter, bullet casings and bricks scatted throughout to show the little amount of life growing in his world.
Bibliography:
- Bethesda.com
- Fallout.com
- Falloutwiki.com
-Brinkwiki.com
-Nuclear snail studios, youtube channel
