Trevor

Today's #maker task: confirm the sizing on the pattern for my kiddo's #TRON Halloween costume!

We did the usual pattern-making thing of wrapping her in plastic wrap and then taping over it, then drawing a rough pattern on the tape, laying out where the light lines will go. (Some of the shapes will not transfer to her, simply because she's, you know, 5 years old, and Olivia Wilde was a whole adult woman and the proportions are not the same.)

Then I added cuts for darts so that the pattern would lay flat and photographed the pattern with some rulers for reference. I brought the photos into #Inkscape where I scaled them to actual size, then separated each piece using clipping masks so I could straighten everything separately.

I used the pen tool to trace half of each chest/back piece and make them symmetrical, and then laid out the light lines. Lots of simple lines that I then added strokes to, then converted those strokes to paths. Added some minor detailing but didn't go crazy because the sizing is still subject to change. Before saving as a PDF for printing, I did a pass with the Measure tool to make sure all the pieces that needed to attach together were more or less the same size (e.g. within half a millimetre or so) and that the light lines were spaced correctly on those pieces.

I printed the revised patterns last night and we'll assemble them for a fit test this morning!

#Halloween2025 #TRONtober #makerdad

Sep 14, 2025 at 1:14pmWeb
Show threadrabbit_fighter (Brad Wright)Sep 14, 2025
@lovemakeshare Very cool. I went to the cyberpunk exhibit at the Academy museum in LA a few months ago. The costumes from the OG movie were just unitards with the lines drawn on in what looked like Sharpie.
Show threadTrevorSep 14, 2025
@rabbit_fighter Kind of amazing that for creating a digital world, Legacy and Ares have leaned so hard into state-of-the-art fabrication and costuming effects and the original movie's construction was mostly limited to modifying off the shelf gear like hockey pads and leotards, and black risers and boxes for the actors to climb around on. (Aside from the tank interior, maybe, which looks rad in behind-the-scenes photos.)