Ultima The High Seraph

This madness is complete, finally!

I choose to do Ultima because I was looking through OblivionJenova's FFXII art book (I had just started playing the game) and looked at Ultima and said "Wow...that's cool...that would be a crazy cosplay to do..."

And OblivionJenova, out of the kindness, or darkness, probably the later, of her heart said "OH YOU SHOULD SO DO THAT AND I WILL SO HELP YOU"

And so I blame her for everything...thank you mommy, it is all your fault

Yup, so the fact that Ultima looks friggin awesome and Jenova convinced me (or brainwashed me) into making it. When I went to fight her in the game in the Crystal...place...she freaked the crap out of me and was actually pretty hard to beat, which made me want to cosplay her even more. And heck, for her final attack she blows up Africa (or at least it looks like Africa)...blowing up continents? Heck yes!


I started working on it this summer by making the dress with my friend Joey, then over my February break I built the rest. I ordered 4000 feathers online and dyed them different colors by hand, then hot glued them to PVC pipe and buckram which was attached to a 6 way pvc coupling skeleton on a square of plexi glass which I attached to my back (20 lbs, ouch!) worn in a corset.
The Box was made of that stuff used for the back of cabinets then painted and whatnot then put on 4 wheels to cart me around. (The wheels did not like to stay in the box for some reason...sorry team Ultima members) I stood on 6 inch platforms just to fit properly.
The gloves were painted and I used paper cups from the dining hall to make the cylinder shape..heheh
THEN
The hard part....hahaha

The helmet...the bloody helmet
The helmet was structured out of this stuff called wire form, then I caked it in this stuff called bondo which is like liquid fiberglass used for repairing dents in cars, then used clay, then paper mache, then GESSO...oh geeze, then foam, then finally paint! This thing hurt a lot and was NOT fun to wear

If you have any more questions about the costume feel free to pm me!