Wonderful Memories

 INDONESIA CULTURE : COSTUME PARADE

    So, there's an incoming request to create a couple design at this parade. But there's something different about the design I used to make. This time I was asked to make a design with the acculturation of Indonesian culture. To be honest, I was a little scared when I'm working on it because when it came to culture, the responsibility was higher because I'm worried that there was a misplaced design on the clothes I made.

    This time the design focuses more on Balinese culture. I saw the Balinese dance costume several times and thought about putting some details on the costume this time. Usually our division works on costume design only, but it can widen on accessories or properties depending on the demand from creative (there are other divisions that take care of accessories and property, so it is better to work with people who are experts in their field).

    The couple were inspired by the princess and prince from fictional stories. Those who will wear this costume will use hover-boards so there are design specifications made to support the activities of the cast later. I managed to finish this female character design well, unfortunately on the male design I had difficulty on the accessories and property part, so I only worked on half of it. 

CAN CAN DANCE: COSTUME SHOW

    One design that I think is quite time consuming to work on is this design. So, the request this time is to make an outfit that will be used in the Can Can dance. So previously, we had a design and it had been finished in the form of clothing. For one thing or another, I was asked to create a new design to customize with the color design of this show stage.

    The demand is quite difficult this time because the dance features sexy side of the dancer with a fairly high leg movement and also has a difficult part, such as: salto & split. However, it must be adapted to eastern cultural cultures (Indonesia), so the costume should not be too open.

   I made several designs with eight different color variants. Specifically these clothes, are distinguished into two: used for shows and parades. Unfortunately, the parade design will not necessarily be made of finished clothes or will only be used as a design draft only. So, the design I showed you this time was the clothes used in the latest show. 

    The design turn out so beautiful in form of real costume. This was a great work of our vendor with supervised by our head of project.

    My division team included only three people. Two people have the task of designing (me and my friend) and then supervised by the head of the project and thus he will present the design to the CEO and other officials. Once all the designs are approved, it will be divided who will take care of the production process. 

    I happen to be one of the old employees, so I'm in charge of managing the in and out of money from our devision with the help of finance team (Bali branch). These designs above just a few of new design project, which is  mean a new settlement / new managing in terms of money. These designs requires a new price quote to finance team on the centre branch (Jakarta). I'm glad we had our leader who take the resposibility for all the tasks, he manage all processes runs smoothly also share every tasks to each person. So everyone had different resposibility to watch over (costume).

    Tbh, three months less to compose the design until the making of costumes is not an easy thing. A lot of divisions play an important role here, but I certainly don't tell you anything. Maybe on another occasion, they'll appear in my story on this blog.

P.S : Credit photos to respectful owners. I use them as comparison to my costume design.

The two costumes above appear in the same frame.

INDOOR THEME PARK IN BALI

    It was my first experience to work at the theme park. It's not long after I graduated from college, so I applied to be on of the worker there and glad I passed the interview as wardrobe team.  As someone who has limited work experience, this is one of though job for me. Sure at first, I troubled bcs there is no one that I can ask about the work and I stayed with the creative team for four days before the head project of wardrobe and makeup come to Bali (the seniors are stayed in Jakarta and will be moved out to Bali after all the work settled). 

    Long story short, my coworker in my division is all from Jakarta and you know what? they're work really fast! It's difficult to maintain the same work pace as them, but sure after one or two months passed, I began to work as fast as them (I'm still far behind if you compared us, perhaps it has related to work experience they've had. They're three years older than me and previously work for one of the private television in Indonesia. Sure, entertaintment industry is one of fast paced environment in work related). 

COSTUME DESIGN : ACTION ZONE

    So, we got less than a month to complete some costume designs for the opening project of this theme park. As wardrobe team division, who's taking care for the costume from budgeting to maintain the costume as well. We got some duties to create a costume design for specific zone. FYI, we had five-six zones, with different themes and designs and I got an opportunity to work for the entire design of one zone. 

    I wanna thanks to to the whole team, we manage to finish the project in time. Sure, it's difficult to persue the same idea to the CEO and other ranks of official. Furthermore, they need to do meeting quite often for bringing the ideas with the design that will match for each zones. We work in tight schedule, with three months left before the day of grand opening. 

    I think it's quite thrilling for me designing the whole costumes for one zone. Our head project told us to scrolling through web of world famous fashion brand with their latest collection to bring some idea that will match for each zone. I got victorian era costume, so I checked the web and then did digital sketching. (Its bit different to my college's life, at first we began to do research and later do brain storming and then sketching. But at work, I just do sketching bcs we had creative to do the research work).

   This project is one of my tasks that I did from 0 to 100%. From sketching, finding the vendor (the one who will sew the costume), taking care of the budgeting, and check the final parts (finished costume also final fitting for the cast of the show). I wanna thanks for the opportunity given to me to this day. I create eleven design for this zone and thanks to our head project who supervised the whole designing process, from the color matches also the lenght of each design for the costume set. I thank God for this opportunity, bcs for me this's one of big event that come to my life. From someone who doesn't really know how the show works and now is the part of backstage crew.

• SKETCH

 GENSHIN IMPACT

    This game itself has been played by many friends on my fb timeline. Honestly, I'm very curious at first sight but I don't think it's going to work good on me bcs the spec of my phone. So, I'm not trying to download it at first released (September 2020). After completing the costume commission in early December, I finally thought about downloading some mobile games, namely Twisted Wonderland and Genshin Impact. First I just tried without expecting much & it turns out that my phone can still download GI and I play for up to 5 days. Unfortunately, after the latest update, my phone can no longer afford to continue playing it (my phone is heating up and I've set the game graphics at the lowest level still doesn't help & finally, I gave up on continuing the games).

Genshin Impact Accessories

COSPLAY ACCESSORIES

    Since I'm a cosplayer, of course the character from GI caught my eye. Unfortunately, after seeing the details of the clothes are better done with printing techniques. I chose to just enjoy them through games, I can't imagine myself working on such complicated details lmao. So here I am, making some GI accessories samples.

• LUMINE : HAIR ACC SET

• AETHER, XINGQIU & ZHONGLI : EARRING

INSTAGRAM FILTER: RYOMEN SUKUNA

    Actually, the underlying thing of makeup test this time is an Instagram filter named Sukuna by maendanindya. I use this filter quite often because it's unique (you can use Sukuna face tattoos in two different modes). To be honest, I don't have the exact same clothes like Sukuna from the anime series so here I'm tried to modifies it into high school student like I've ever seen in Facebook with Mahito as the main of the illustration. 

    I did the cosplay test in the early of July and finally I'm able to edit in the end of the month. I took several photos but unfortunately just doing the 5 photos to edit. I do something different for these costests, started by Mikey from Tokyo Revengers and now is Ryomen Sukuna from Jujutsu Kaisen. The thing is, I started to make Tiktok's video that focused in cosplay as the idea. Beforehand, I was focused in Kpop and Traditional drawing and for now, I broaden the topic into cosplay since I'm a cosplayer too (as a hobbyist).

COSPLAY TEST: RYOMEN SUKUNA

    Ah yup, this cosplay test can happen because I already have a pink wig which I think is quite similar to Sukuna's hair color. For the costume, I already have a white top and pink skirt that I think is suitable when combined with this cosplay look (btw, the color goes with Sukuna hair).

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WHICH TEAM ARE YOU?

    The team that watches anime every week or who waits for the anime to finish and then started to watch it?. To be honest, I'm the second type. The reason is simple, it's because I'm pretty impatient and the type that easily forgets the previous episode, so I need to rewatch one episode beforehand when watching the latest episode.

    At Tokyo Revengers I started doing different things. What's different is that I started reading manga from Tokyo Revengers and then watching the anime. I rarely read manga, maybe because of the habit of waiting for the series to end first and then I followed. Sure, bad behaviour followed me after. When I start reading manga, I tend not to be interested in watching the anime ;;;; I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, huh?

    In This Tokyo Revengers I tend to like Kurokawa Izana and Mitsuya. I love Kurokawa Izana for his character design, but unfortunately his life story is quite tragic and ended up being shot by Kisaki Tetta (cmiiw). I think it's bit different with Mitsuya, even though he's in the part of Tokyo Manji gang and is the head of the second division, I find him has calm personality. I think he showed a slightly different side than someone who was in the gang and held the position of divisional chairman.

COPLAY TEST: MANJIRO SANO

    You said you liked Izana and Mitsuya, but why is it costest as Mikey? Well, this is because I already have a wig that would otherwise resemble Mikey's. So, I just need to styling it a little bit and then find a suitable outfit in my wardrobe. To be honest, Mikey's time leaps interest me a little bit. If you read the manga, you can see Mikey with a variety of different designs in the future.

So to not waste time, this is where I share my costest results as Mikey.

    The costest results are not perfect, but I think I'm quite satisfied to have tried styling wig and makeup for Mikey. I think doing makeup like this can even be a difficult category for me, because it has to make minimal makeup but must still show the character of Mikey. I was helped by the choice of poses, if only relying on makeup I think is far from perfect.

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