So I wanted to make one of the most inspiring animated characters of all time; one that has been parodied in popular culture dozens of times. Surprisingly, I couldn't find any evidence of a cosplayer making a fully-transformed Tetsuo.

I began by purchasing drywall stilts, then building legs around them out of chicken wire. The arms are hand-made arm extensions with more wire wrapped around it and heavy guage wire for the fingers. The base for the torso is a framed backpack while there's a bike helmet inside the head.

Everything was covered with beef clothe (which has a theoretically-infinite stretch) and then covered with layers of expanding polyurethane foam.

more to come later...