Tokusatsu Film School [GPTV] (Ongoing)
 

Here's the playlist for my tutorial webseries, "Tokusatsu Film School"! The goal of the series is to give people the basic knowledge and resources they need to create their own original Tokusatsu Hero! Be sure to check back at this playlist for future episodes!

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That was really fascinating! How often do you think y'all will be releasing more videos like this?!

I'm tempted to try making my own helmet! :D

...Though you probably just made it look really easy and I'd suck at it lol

That was really interesting, I look forward to watching more of these.

I demand more. NOW!!! :lol Buenos and I have talked about this a couple times over the months so he knows I've been waiting for this, though he's probably forgotten about me by now. :lol

It all just takes time. You can't really be good right off the bat and your sculpt is pretty much done when you're finally satisfied with it. Took me a year to get one of my sculpts to look exactly how I wanted it to look. Learning is one of the best parts of the process!

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Nah, I've seen you around every now and then! You're one of the only few people who cares about my work. lol

I don't think anyone on here is going to watch any of the Toku I make unless it says "Kamen Rider" on it. :P

As a cosplayer, this definitely will be helpful

Thanks for actually rememvbering me. As for others not watching...this may be true. But I'm sure that there are more than you think that've been dying for these videos. Not everyone is as vocal as I am y'know. XD My friend just joined and he's already saved the link to this page...why, I hav no clue. :lol

I have watched some of your stuff. It's just that you do things that I don't know enough about to comment on :lol
My bad~

It's still pretty cool to do this, though~

It was a cool video. Nice work on it, would have liked to see how to smooth the helmet even more and get the little bumps out and painting and fitting it over your head.

Me an my boys are actually working on multiple projects so it difficult to get all the time in to finalize all the details of the sculpt. Also, there pretty much ISN'T a finish point. Your sculpt is finished when you decide that it is. It takes a lot of practice, so the sooner you buy your clay and start sculpting, the sooner you can will get better and be more satisfied with what you create.

I wanted to do something that gives back to the Toku fandom. The fandom right now seems to only consists of collectors and not enough creators. When someone says that they're trying to create a Toku, they usually just end up with an idea on paper and that's it. They don't know where to go from there. This series hopes to give people the resources and knowledge they need to bring their projects to fruition.

Actually, the point of the series is not cosplay. It's to be able to make suits that are usable for Tokusatsu action sequences. If these techniques were used for cosplay, your suit would most likely fall apart since cosplay designs don't really work with action scenes so well.

Besides, we really want to see the fandom use its imagination rather than just cosplay as something that's already been done.

Again, I just felt that this is what the fandom needs right now since it tends to lack in the resources to make anything original. There WILL always be another Rider, Sentai, Ultraman, and Garo each year and there's not much news beyond that. If the fandom was able to show what it can create, perhaps it would make things a bit more lively and people could anticipate more out of Toku.

Interesting video, though the ending felt a little abrupt and left me a little confused. Is the helmet only for display or is it the base for one that can actually be used? I assume its the former since that's what your aim is with this series but as someone who doesn't know a thing about sculpting I'm still completely in the dark about how it would go from that to the finished product.

Obviously I expect this is all stuff you'd address in a later episode, but I think it would work a bit better with a "next time we're going to do this..." if you see where I'm coming from. PERSONALLY I'd rather see longer videos where you cover the whole process, but of course that would mean uploading less content less regularly and it doesn't work for everyone so I'd understand why you might not want to do that.

That's my two cents anyway, it was a good first video though and I'd be very interested in seeing more.

This is the first step in the process of making a Toku helmet. Afterwards, you have to make a mold, cast the resin helmet from said mold, and then add the finishing touches (sanding, painting, etc.). These steps will be covered in later episodes, but sculpting the helmet requires a lot of practice and takes the most time.

The episodes are meant to be watched on your mobile phone let alone at home, hence the 5-7 minute format. Besides, I don't think anyone would want to watch plastic settle in a mold for 4 hours. If we have enough followers, I might do a livestream of me sculpting sometime, but my main focus is to give people a general idea of how to make Toku to give them the confidence to get started.

Okay I understand now. I just think having a little "next time we'll be doing this" addendum at the end would help the video flow a little better, especially for those like me who don't really understand where it would be going next.

That...seems like an oddly specific way to say how these videos are going to be watched, especially when people are likely going to want to refer to them while doing these things themselves. Might I ask why exactly you're aiming them to be viewed that way?

Well yeah, I wasn't suggesting that :lol you'd just say the mould takes that long to settle and then just film the next part in the process.

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In all seriousness, I assume the next step would be using the clay to make a mold, and then using that mold to create the helmet? That's the method a lot of the more legit cosplayers use. However, I haven't found a really good guide on how to do stuff like that, so I'm hoping this will show me more. But how will using this guide make it fall apart? I don't understand what you're getting at there. You'd think if something is used for action, it'll hold up better, not worse.

But it's not just cosplay I'm doing. I'm an aspiring filmmaker and really want to do toku-based stuff. I eventually want to create my own series, but I'm more focused on doing fan videos using my cosplays first (to get the hang of it more). Since I didn't have a lot of time earlier, all I really posted about was the cosplay aspect.

Anyways, I do have a question about the technique. My head is a bit on the larger size, so it's likely that simply sculpting over the mannequin head will result in a helmet that's too small. Do you have any suggestions on how I could make sure it's big enough?

I agree with this. The video ends with a "here's a clay helmet" and I'm left thinking "okay...but what good does that do me?" Even if you're waiting for future episodes to tell us the next step, we as viewers don't know that.

I would've assumed a suit built for action would be sturdier than a suit built to stand around and take pictures in :lol

Exactly. The only thing I can think of is if he was trying to say that you can't use a cosplay suit to film a toku because it'll fall apart, but worded it pretty poorly. I dunno.

Either way, I'm going to try this at some point. Probably wait for a few more episodes to come out though, so I know what to do next.

The first two episodes took half a year to get the scheduling down to be able to shoot them. It takes a bit more organization to shoot these than your average tutorial as we are working on multiple projects and wouldn't want people's expectations of the next episode to be prolonged more than it already is.

I filmed my first toku movie, Gun Caliber, 6 years ago and there STILL ISN'T a DVD for it yet. But we will try to get these episodes out as much as we can.

Also, making longer videos would use up people's mobile data along with people tuning out of the episode because its too long. Making it shorter brings up the viewership and enables people to have the tutorial both available in and outside of their home when they need it, raising viewership.

This is the first episode, so the rest of the steps of what to do with the clay sculpt will be covered in the next episode. There's actually a small bit of footage in the trailer that I posted, showing a bit of the molding process but I don't think anyone bothered to watch it. lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFZqxr3iSqE

Stay tuned.

As for measuring your head, I might cover that in a Q&A episode. In the meantime, I will tell you this. Using a tape measure (the loose kind for sewing. Not the hard construction kind), vertically measure your head from the back of your neck to your chin, followed by measuring it horizontally from the bridge of your nose to the back of your head.

Let's say you wanted to make something like that angel-like character from Overwatch. The materials from these tutorials COULD be used, but you would have very limited movement as you're trying to be careful with not making your suit fall apart. These tutorials are meant to show you how to make suits that can move decently and how you can repair them as they will be on the cheap.

If someone were to make a full-on quality suit the same as Kamen Rider, they would be spending 7000 USD. We hope to show steps on how to make your own original hero for a fraction of the cost.

Well, I figured lol

But isn't the point to be able to make our own suits for independent toku hero shows? If they fall apart when you move then won't that not work? Is there something I'm missing?

We'll be getting into design in a future episode. For my upcoming project, Strega, adjustments had to be made to the original design I had due to my limited budget and also for the sake of movement. Parts were getting in the way of me doing action and some also fell off. Luckily, my crew and I all know how to fix the suit on location. This knowledge is also something that will be explained in future episodes.

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In the end, you'll be in complete control of what you would like your suit to look like and how it should move. After all, these tutorials aren't made to help you become the next Rainbow Zoukei or Blend Master Studios. They're here to give the viewer a basic understanding of the process. Afterwards, the rest is up to you.

MODs, would it be possible to change the title of this thread to "Tokusatsu Film School [GPTV] (Ongoing)"? Rather than make a new thread each episode, I figured I'd just upload them all in here instead.

EDIT: Thank you MODs!

New episode of Tokusatsu Film School this Friday! Be sure to subscribe to my channel to keep up to date!:

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Added episode 2! Please rate, share, and subscribe!

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Stay tuned to my channel for more Tokusatsu Film School this Friday! We'll be showing you how to "cast-off" your helmet from your mold! Share, rate, and subscribe!: https://www.youtube.com/c/garageprotv

Added episode 3 to the playlist!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrGY0c8uXXA

These videos are seriously awesome, Bueno. Thanks for making time to create and post these beauties.

Oh wow, I didn't realize you'd already started releasing the series. Can't wait to watch them all. I've been wanting to do a little toku production with some college friends.

You're more than welcome. Please share them around! The more subscribers we have, the more videos we'll be able to make!

Much obliged! Look forward to seeing what you'll make!

New ep is up. We talk cameras and lenses in this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-L1j3PyDk

That Sanyo camera looks like a henshin device :lolol I love it :)

Inspiration...;)

I can't wait for you to cover suit design and props!!

We're actually not going to be talking a lot about that since there's a bunch of other websites and YouTube channels, that cover that stuff already, but we will be having an episode that will give you a basic understanding and also point you to said resources.

Awww! DX Oh well.

We'll be wrapping up the helmet tutorials on August 19th! Please subscribe to my channel for more Tokusatsu Film School!: https://www.youtube.com/c/garageprotv

New episode of Tokusatsu Film School is up! Be sure to share, give our video a "thumbs up", and SUBSCRIBE to us for more upcoming indie Toku content straight from Tokyo, Japan!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tswH-vx6Ls

This is crazy cool! I might just give it a try!

New tutorial up for working with foam for armor and weapons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqjSMbCI3pg

Hey Bueno, how to they do those pre-cgi spark guns?

Not exactly sure what you mean. Do you have an example clip?