Donnie Darko rabbit design miniatures

Ladybee · Post by **Ladybee** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 8:04 am

I hope costume design fits into this forum. It's my first post here.

The story on these is that I was recently hired to design costumes for the stage adaptation of Donnie Darko, which is premiering at Harvard's graduate school for theatre, the Institute of Advanced Theatre Training. My scanner's busted so I can't put up my renderings, but I thought some folks might like to see our 3D miniatures for the rabbit mask.

We decided to come up with our own rabbit rather than just trying to replicate the rabbit in the film. We made little miniatures of the head from polyclay, painted with acrylics and overlaid with leather, so that the director could see in 3D exactly what the rabbit would be like (better than on a 2D rendering) before we spent several days making the fullsize mask.

Here they are:

http://www.pir.net/~baital/DD/bunny1.JPG
http://www.pir.net/~baital/DD/bunny2.JPG
http://www.pir.net/~baital/DD/bunny3.JPG

The second miniature of the 3 is the one that will be the final design.

JaNell · Post by **JaNell** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 9:02 am

That is so wonderful - congratulations!

The second is the one I would have picked, too. All the designs manage to capture the eerieness of the movie rabbit without being exactly like it. Very nice work.

AuralFixation · Post by **AuralFixation** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 3:40 pm

awsome..thumbs up

The Stormstress · Post by **The Stormstress** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 4:54 am

Excellent creationz!

Sonicgoo · Post by **Sonicgoo** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 6:35 pm

I totaly dig your bunnies, I'm curious If you know my friend Blake Girndht (It think that's ow you spell his name). He lives in Cambridge and used to love bunnies not sure if he still does. I'll send him a link to see.

I'm in cambridge as well maybe I'll be able to catch your stuff in person a t some show. I'm currently looking forwqard to seeing the Joe Keinberger show that's coming up.