Life-Size Ludo from Labyrinth Cosplay

Special effects makeup artist and costume maker Heather Jones created this incredible full scale Ludo cosplay from Jim Henson’s Labyrinth for C2E2!

You can see more of her build process for creating this masterful replica in her facebook album here. The build started with a 1:10 scale maquette which she talks about:

“I created a human maquette from Monster clay to the proportions of both me and my hubby so that either of us could wear the suit. On top, using modeling clay, I created Ludo’s proportions for the purpose of making a pattern. A layer of latex and masking tape was added. Pattern pieces were marked, numbered, and cut out with an X-acto.”

She drafted the patterns for all the body pieces on paper and used foam covered with fur for the suit. The eyes, face, and horns were more complicated. She especially took a lot of time with the eyes and rigged them with an microcontroller board for movement:

“This is connected to an Arduino Uno which was used for the servo and button control (the button was for the mouth to open and close which was operated by a Spectrum Hi Torque servo) and to randomize the eye movements so that the actor can focus on other things and an RF control was not necessary for the animatronics.”

Wow, talk about detail! Not only does this Ludo cosplay look almost movie quality but his eyes are even animatronic!