Kids’ Halloween costumes are not often meant to impress. They’re purported to be low-cost, enjoyable, and an excuse to run across the neighborhood all night time accumulating sweet. But as Steven Richter demonstrates, you don’t must spend some huge cash to look nice on Halloween; simply spend a number of time with some well-honed airbrushing abilities.

Although Richter first made a reputation for themselves by way of a YouTube channel that originally featured time-lapse movies of the artist making extremely detailed and correct sculptures of popular culture figures, the channel has since expanded with movies of Richter upgrading low-cost toys and collectibles, together with Grogu and even a plastic Jumanji board sport, with paint job upgrades that make them look extra like actual Hollywood props.

For the previous few years, because the climate will get cooler and ideas flip to tiny chocolate bars, Richter has additionally been sharing movies the place they flip low-cost, mass-produced, vacuum-formed plastic Halloween masks into cosplay masterpieces utilizing their creative skills that embody sculpting and airbrushing. This yr, we get to see some skilled fur utility as effectively, as Richter rounds up 4 Star Wars masks and offers them an skilled glow-up.

In this 10-minute montage, Richter transforms a Jango Fett masks right into a battle-worn Boba Fett, a shiny plastic Chewbacca into a very furry Wookiee, and makes Darth Maul and Jar Jar Binks masks look eerily lifelike with further cautious consideration paid to the attention repaints, in addition to pores and skin detailing.

The outcomes are unbelievable, and whereas every of the masks featured most likely price no quite a lot of bucks, the time lapse video sadly glosses over simply how a lot work went into making them look something however low-cost. A couple of minutes of molding and portray represents hours and hours of labor in a studio, and whenever you issue all that in, every of those are most likely price a small fortune now.

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