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Hello my predator and prey friends! Officer Judy Hopps here reporting for duty!
I'm really proud of this costume and cosplay. I feel like I did an awesome job!
So how did I make it?
So I decided to go for a short grey wig. A lot of people choose longer grey wigs and do braids, but I was like
know what, I feel like Judy would have short hair.
These are actual Zootopia ears, but you can also make your own ears. But I just didn't feel like trying to do that.
That looked like the most difficult thing that you could make. I was like you know what I could just buy a rabbit ear headband.
You've got the wristbands which I feel like turned out surprisingly well.
I used black felt and I cut out two wrist shapes based on a pattern that I found from a cosplayer called
Firecloak. She had a really great pattern. And I'm going to link to her website down in the description because
her cosplay of Judy Hopps was what really helped me make my cosplay.
But essentially you just cut out the two pieces and then I found some awesome silver thin duct tape that I was
able to make the kind of reflector strips. And then I also put little velcro squares on the inside so that I could
strap them onto my wrists and make them easy on and off.
The vest is probably the most complicated thing to make, and I'm kind of impressed that it actually is on me
and fits me and is not falling off, but I did it. Yay!
I couldn't find any real good tutorial to make the vest other than the pattern that Firecloak had and then some
kind of like pictures that I pieced together of it. But there was no like video or anything and I didn't make anything
much better because I kind of didn't film a lot of the pieces while making it because I sort of messed up a
whole bunch and was fearful of messing up. And I was like I don't want to show this on video. This is a wreck.
But essentially what you do is I used 5 mm craft foam that I got at Michael's and I cut out the pattern that
Firecloak had. And it's got these great slits in it so that you can essentially put it together and it will be more
form-fitting for your body which I was really happy about because this makes it fit my boobies!
The front piece has that pattern. The back piece though really doesn't so once I had made the front piece I
essentially put the front part of the vest on top of another piece of craft foam and traced out what I
thought a back should look like. And the same thing went for the straps where I just kind of made like about
an inch and a half wide rectangular strip. They were a little bit too long in the beginning and then I cut them
down as I kind of tried it on and made sure that it fit me.
The front piece you have to glue or tape all those little slits together so that you get the nice form of a human being.
Firecloak used super glue and I was like there's no way that I'm going to be able to do that. So I just used
duct tape instead and it pretty much worked for everything that I needed it to.
Then comes the wrapping of the craft foam in a nice leathery looking fabric that I got at JoAnn's.
I started out using fabric glue and found that didn't stick so then I thought I would use hot glue and that kind of
stuck in some places and not in others. And then eventually I went to using super glue on the most important places like connecting the straps.
I originally did it with hot glue and they immediately came off so I was well all right let's try super glue.
And in the process I got super glue all over my hands and it was awful. I was really upset a few times.
And so I'm glad I wasn't filming those parts. But suprisingly enough I feel like it came out pretty well
for not having any idea of what I was doing. And then to attach the front and back of the vest once it was on me
I put Velcro pieces. Because I didn't actually see anything online of how do you attach the two pieces together.
But the Velcro worked really well you just have to make sure that the vest is large enough that you can have an overlay of the front and back pieces together
you know, about like half an inch or something.
For the ZPD badge, I considered buying one online but I decided that it'd be more fun to make it. And so I made
it out of craft foam. Which I saw some people using Sculpey or some kind of clay but I feel like that was
going to be too heavy so I felt like the craft foam really did what I wanted. So essentially I found a ZPD image
online, printed it out, cut it out, and then traced the pieces that I would need to cut onto craft foam.
So I cut out all those pieces and then painted everything gold. And then painted the very center of it blue so that
when you put everything together, you would have blue beneath the gold star. Then I glued it together. And I
decided to use super glue because I had gotten all "Hey I can use super glue now!" And that is where I totally got
super glue EVERYWHERE, and it was a mess!
But it sticks together really well now so maybe, don't use super glue on craft foam. You don't really need to. You could probably get away with hot glue.
But it does work!
Then once everything had dried I went back to that reference photo of  the badge and got a thin Sharpie
marker to draw in all the wording on it. And now it looks an awesome badge!
And then I went ahead and attached it to the vest.
Then of course, there are the knee pads. And I saw lots of things online where people where making the shape
of the knee pad in craft foam and doing an elastic around your knee and I liked those but I decided I wanted something a little more intense.
So I found these actual knee pads, foam knee pads online. On Amazon, I'll put the link down below.
And then I got some silver fabric paint and just painted over the knee pad so it would be silver and
look like it's supposed to.
And for the belt, the belt is very important! I did not feel like making it so I just went online and found a pretty decently priced tactical belt because I
was like "You know what Parker, you can have this afterward. I'm sure you can find some use for this belt."
There's the tail which is super cute and I made that by getting grey fur and some white fur at...
not real fur, obviously. I got those fur fabrics at JoAnn's Fabric and then cut out two kind of tail shaped pieces
with the white piece being wider and a little bit shorter than the grey piece. So you sew those two pieces inside
out together and then leave a little opening, flip it inside out and stuff some polyfill into the there.
And sew the rest of it back up and then put a giant safety pin on there to pin it to the back of your pants.
And you've got the cutest little tail!
And finally! The carrot pen!
So I made it all out of model magic. You essentially make a carrot shaped piece and then slice it down the
middle and put an actual pen inside so that you can really write with it. If you look pictures online you'll see
that there are 3 buttons and then the kind of little speaker area so you just want to draw all these on with
or cut them out of the model magic essentially and then theres three kind of like rounded cuts at the bottom
Then you cut out three thinner carrot shaped pieces and put them all together. Make like a fun little tree out of
them and then attach them at  the top of the carrot. Now this was the only scary part because it broke off at one point.
And I was like, "No! What am I going to do!?" Then I painted the carrot part orange and the top of the carrot green
I mixed my paints. I didn't have any orange paint. I used red and yellow to mix it. But I might actually suggest
getting a real orange rather than mixing because it does require multiple coats in order to make it the
consistency of paint that you want. And when you're mixing, you might not always get the exact same mix so
it took me a little while to make mine exactly the way I wanted it. But now I've got my awesome pen!
And I'm an awesome Judy Hopps!
So yeah guys! Here's my Judy Hopps! Oh oh oh!
I'm really excited about this costume. I love when I make things and they come out really well because sometimes
I have these ideas and I start doing them and then they don't turn out as well. But if nothing else I just kind of
want to wear this grey wig around everywhere because it's so much fun!
So what do you guys think? What were you for Halloween? Or what's a cosplay that you were excited and proud of doing?
Tell me down in the comments! And remember to like, favorite, share, and subscribe if this video made you smile!
See you guys on Tuesday!
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