5. Costume Designer/Fabricator: AstroNOT
My first role on AstroNOT was to design and fabricate, on a teeny budget, two hero space suits and 5 background character suits that looked homemade. This was a dream job for me. Based on the director’s look bible I gathered piles of junk from thrift stores and got to work cobbling together costumes for this rag-tag group of AstroNOTs.
Later I was an actor, set dresser and model maker. I made the props and rigging for the spaceship (the minivan) to rise into liftoff postion. Its seen in the background of the workshop looking full scale but in reality it is only a few inches tall!
The objective was to make spacesuits that could never function in space, but had the grit and spirit of a lost soul who would do anything to make it to the moon. You would never know it but that’s me as the purple astronaut, patching a hole in Evan’s suit with purple duct tape.
I don’t know what NASA’s deal is. Vintage jumpsuits and random tubes are all you really need to make a spacesuit.
A 5 gallon bucket, a wetsuit and some knee pads help too.