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Hi there folks my name's James in this is a quick instruction video on how to
make a Minion
from Despicable Me for a fancy dress party. OK so the actual time taken for
two people to create
3 minions was about 24 hours excluding
about 5 hours of shopping around for materials. So
overall, working about 8 hours a week we did about three to four days
of
making. The overall material cost was around about £90 for all three
so that came out to be about £30 per minion.
Also the amount of tools that were required
weren't actually that many. In terms of tools you're likely to need,
we found the following were very useful: One marker pen;
a set of felt-tip pens; An A4 plastic folder not
the wallets but actual plastic folder preferably without a seam line so you can
fold it out out to A3-size. A hole punch
or belt hole punch; A craft knife or a Stanley knife,
obviously use caution, don't do anything silly; fabric scissors;
and tough scissors would be quite useful; a stapler;
and needle and some yellow thread and some strong black thread
a hacksaw with spare blades if necessary, again be careful!
A tape measure or two tape measures in fact, one builder's tape measure
and one fabric tape measure so you can do flexible things
and also draw straight lines, a role of electrical tape
a couple of balls of string; Sellotape, a lot of Sellotape,
and also a lot of double-sided sticky tape - NOT the foam stuff, the foam stuff didn't work.
In terms of materials, you're going to need three 60cm diameter
children's hula hoops
3 bamboo sticks, at least one meter long
about a meter of sticky velcro about
a 1m by 20cm strip of
acetate (that kind of OHP projection film)
3mm-thick insulation foam; and we used about 1.2 meters
by 5meters of it which comes on a roll and
materials we used 2.5x1.5m
worth of blue and 3.5x1.1m worth of yellow, again came on a roll
and about 1sq-m of loose-weave white material
for the eyes that you can also SEE THROUGH. You're going to need standard elastic
about 3mm thick elastic for the bottom of the Minion,
now we used about 3m worth of that, one for each Minion;
and about 7m worth of 2mm-3mm diameter
strong-ish garden wire
from any good garden store
to keep the domes intact. OK so
once you they want about how to progress the most important stage next
is your preparation state now I find it helpful to just write a bit on paper
about the maths behind the dome and the cylinders that are gonna be required to
make the body
and when it comes to the actual formal is used
there's a if he stays you need to make sure you're aware of the number one
is that the materials themselves and materials and announce
at number two
as the actual cut-out and shape for the Dunhams a shaper then
and
basic constructions s Canton and
that thing really from likes a string
risk guys which is kinda makeup is the actual net
ordered and myself and that is
net of the own materials and the fam insulation
right so into that materials and
festival as fun tears
now no minyan
is going to look little bit like this chappie I'm
21 cylindrical body
okay obviously then we've got a and dungarees
can note that the country's
where the country's and there's gonna be a little bit and Anne
and which is elasticated two straps
and my have two bands and he wanted 9
pocket again anyone okay so if there's always be here
outside outside here
his chest you know fabric is a
radius radius from here
here his old
the actual is of the actual and
who itself made his
equals who
in terms all this bit here again
yet have it
and now we're gonna be thinking about the length of it so the actual link the
other fabric is this a comfort to the hula hoop
unit people's circumference
a filler and
this is blue fabric
and again this link is exit conference a
the debt to the other fabric an is something you know I believe based on
the person's height
that is roughly three-quarters of the entire
that's all %uh want him to the next
the link between each unit is and roughly five centimeters above the bus
and shoulders
mmm the person five centimeters above
damn knees here
so about 10 centimetres above the knee said
on 25 10 in our case is about one meter
and about 75 centimetres with the other and
cross over here about 60 centimetres with a
the plus about 20 centimetres other hand
to allow you to have a a bitter an elasticated waistband
to go rental X
intensive glasses they were made at Concorde
radius in about 20 centimetres for the little one of the big one
was about 30 centimetres you know that I believe that the comp because it does
baby
sizes now inside
as I said we got we're gonna have
at one who for the head
too good the body
head is also gonna have for strips with
all have gotten wanna
keep its shape and three smallest registered online keeping this
the round shaped actually came out to be about to meet as well as
each one of those to for 6
7 that eight meetings with a gun why just ahead
and phone wise we're gonna have about one meter squared
ventilation fan cut into petals here because the radius
of the Anna hula hoop dit que cette diameter
the actual length the family quite as a roundabout 1.82 meters with
and in the size the hutu and the actual depth of it
is one quarter
circumference wanna for times see
equals the debts as a material quiser eventually
we're gonna go on to that in a second right an intensive the
so I'm this bit it's just this a conference of
the who did it which is about 1.82 meters times
whatever this high here was said hears about want me to really
one point 8 times
wanna meet massive
and from mister that make sense
okay for the street the den to in
we have a hutu King israelis
are we wanna make it don't matter this everyone
another who an invisible who
which is going to be have a spear coming out this her
spare its rate is also going to be
I'll which means that its totaling all
material is going to be office comforts a
if this conference equals two pi then
this particular value here at the is gonna be one
to turns to you I'm up answer simply
company times the nineties night
in our case came out to be roughly
forty hi the Navy especially
sentries
tactic night
again then you wanted another set from here to here
going by the tough to their she said no wire
and in some ways around it I was about sixty as about
so has about forty centuries as about 60 centimetres in this one is about me
40 to make it a winter to
missus gotten the 10 in terms of the fabric
we have thanks have fun quiet
K we want to have a little bit of an overlap
so I put about 10 centimetres with up
said the unfolded under the age at the time
this began everything about that overlap
is going to be Michael petals so the bits and nestled in and make them itself
so in our case we want to 12 these patterns because it kinda came about
quite nice you know that well presence in
12 grant
these 12 petals I split
equally along this radius and on this link
the next materialize again is this a conference of
who see equals about
no case 180 centimeters
each petal p was around about 180
divided by 12 which could this be
came out to be min
she's same 3
to
u2's 15 to know 15 centimeters long
appears not fifteens which petals fifteen centuries annex in a can make
some rest and whose
15 centimetres wide by X high
height Senate
loss to be
this value hess et from here had style height:
so that's actually how the says about 45 into meetings
because the was nineteen I twice from here
to hear we five centuries
because the petals themselves messy interesting thing is
at actually they have a specific way it being
made to make a radius fit have to make that fold up into the correct manner
and because at the top here the angle between the blades
must be 1760 his number two reasons a good about it by
in this case 12 when you zoom in a bit
362 on from me
it's actually that angle there not turned out to be
30 degrees 3 times
2003 sixty returns to his 36 instance
sixties is that it agrees and here goes because they're all going to be
sat next to each other the angle years actually ninety degrees
say one has to trace a circle
of a specific radius between these two points
to make an actual done flap as it were
the petal shape happen no will match
okay so the actual form in a for the the hunt here
as nope point 77 Yemen paid
times the the circumference
officer you transcribed send this case is about 190
conference and return 0.77
and came out to be roughly
100 and 30 8
sentiment is songs to do is
you ask what's 138 into it is is the radius his
imagining that is that
ninety-degree see run and and ministry
from here way back yes I'm
and 178 centimetres no and you pull it all
and you end up doing segment the central
with radius I'll 13 8.75 a quick way to do this is to do that
on a paper knockout right lance and not have 25 centimetres time
12 centimetres wide sign 15 centimetres wide
they have a full paper extraction tennis string up and said
Penn only just touches the quarter good left ankle in the paper
and he's dragged out a few times across Anthony and me
%uh 7 house and meet is alongside stronger
have creepy the paper here
and I actually ended up sticking to this paper together because
a dumping them so much attention to it down here
cut it to 15 centimetres at this point here
test a pen blistering
and that blank stare with this break 138 points and
I centimeters in my case but as I said six
radius equals its hands hands you know
a times a conference call who using
from there I think drank that and around there
met in the middle which is at 7.5
sentiment is from the and
its right maybe sell me that it's not that I use it won't make this a game
engine is correct
then just reflect that the paper down SAT have an XP
I think cuts hair this bit
and Kate myself a nice little net
international template you know drawer and
I and give yourself little bit on the way
as well thinking about a centimeter leaving all the way around the internet
yes do you get to that in just from the back and
thank you enough that accompany mistakes and Majid Ronan's
you the in that session really discuss how
on the edges and you sent me margins you find the best way to do this me
got no double sided sticky tape long choked up
so the dome is the first thing really that struck me as the most
difficult to construct an and you can see from these videos
it only took about well about 20 minutes to make each don't make the initial nets
for the
construction for the phone that was then double sided sticky tape
onto some rings
we should be in pre prepared with garden while at activites
height at the den musing about quarter thus a conference again
as the height for the time now when it came to
actually measuring out the gone wire in making the den
turned out that it was best to have a so the some skeleton
outgun why not just to criss-cross but also 3
hoops of it varying diameters sell its aight
or stuck onto the initial scan it in the garden while
that way you actually ended it with a dome-shaped rather than soda with
pyramid format
when it came to making the bodies of the minions
we found the most useful way walls to you have to hula hoops
connected by bamboo on Heights
to reach just above the way their shoulders about five centimetres above
the shoulder
down to about five to 10 centimetres about their knees doesn't really matter
too much but
saves knocking into the bottom of the frame when you walk
after measuring out the length about be required within tight both hands onto
and one or the other hula hoops with string
you can drill for the hula hoop and put the bamboo in that way in securing
blue doesn't really matter with regards to the placement the bamboos they traced
out the outline of the night equilateral triangle
around the outside who and over to bamboos
as the front and on bamboo at the back of the body
once they're all together you ended up with a nice send
outline with three members to who'd
then cover this with phone along the circumference of the hutu double sided
tape
enough to fold over the edges so that you can have a nice so
secured phone outline
with wrap around age may be easier and made it stronger
now the Goebbels themselves we made out of some couple boxes really
as when you need a pair of compasses we deserve you looked on the internet
about what I mean really looks like vanna their eyes are roughly
if there was one eye on the main unit was about half die the
diameter the heads about one rate is and if they had to allies
those about to said that the diameter of the actual had its ups and we found
about 40 centimetres 30 centimetres
depending on his 2i wanna
so obviously the goggles outside diameter we're gonna be
20 centimetres for the one of the to Pericles
or 30 centimetres for the single global arbitrary value
about three centimeters worth or rim and
that was then cuts out as a ring about
for the one of the two and the side to the goals we just made out of
strips of cardboard around about ten to 15 centimetres deep
night got a bear in mind that you can stick I don't have a good time so the
the deeper the better really and later on in the process
and when those goggles had been made the best kilotons be made stuck together
within coated them in just cheap paper double sided sticky tape paper on so
that we could be
ready for spray painting them and I found using some
white labels cut into quarters asset as little
letter names you get about those cut into quarters along their
lang you could then wrap them around the very
edge the that the actual gobble
to create a smooth finish rather than having bet paper
and paper the top meeting the middle as you know cell is a on the upside
because the spray paint my stick after we'd sprayed them after we put them all
together
there was a process actually fitting them to the dungeon I'm gonna come on to
that
in a minute so once the dens are being made
and his job here was to make the fabric to go around the minions
so the fabric itself had to be of links the circumference
and upbeat all of the the actual hula hoop so
here is about 2.2 meters and
you can see that she's quite capably
creating Sourav ka selected for massive the blue to match the
dungarees because from on the back to the country's is raised its
and sizes low it says kinda like the castle itself
she I bowled the the actual measurements by drawing on one of the cylinders and I
think that's the best way to do it
into the yellow it was the opposite radio that the other has to stretch all
the way to the top
the ring but it doesn't have to stretch the bottom it's also
an inverted castle really for the don't sell
the yellow was really about a meter squared draped over the top
and literally find the best way to do that I think securing the front back and
sides
then sorta concertina it in on itself and talk everything under the edges
and then every age was so around the hood it was near Stephen on the body
or they just said okay so we then had to figure out
how we're gonna fit the things onto away reso harness is required
we thought about things like cat just tying string around your neck
obviously a dangerous be very uncomfortable so when it turned out
'cause
couple have 84 plastic folders
plastic Wallace that you can use when stretched out to an 8-3 size
actually sits have provided quite nice oval-shaped ring
you could fit ahead quite easily and hole punch some holes into the site and
said
two holes in the front about the sign with as a hole puncher
and one hole at the back in the middle
four-time onto the rear restrict of the cost him
it turns out that the two front struts were able to then be streamed up
quite tightly to these two hole punched holes and
so in a harness was sitting in the middle levitated
quite well about a debt to 30 centimetres down from the top
and the rare harness was tied on quite loosely
also the deficit he sent to me just to the Rio love this ring
an but it wasn't as tight as the front to
then you could and two more holes slightly higher ups are about the same
high again as a whole bunch slightly higher up
this ring to add to stabilizing strings we found to be quite good so on the
front to
bamboos now about 10 centimetres down from the top 10 sent me his death
the anti-tumour strings to Lee on its two new holes
again relatively tight but not quite sizable ones in this country provided
enough
natural and fought back stability in any way to really test it was to wear it
and but it seems to work okay yet
okay sit back to the global again in this particular case
I saw we need to these goals which %uh flat backs
onto a curved send me
hemispheric surface basically and so to do that
you get a bit a string anytime to append
and you measure the distance in the into the ministering to the never the pen
and that distance has to equal the same as the radius all
the done you gonna put it on so in this case the down miniature
came came to about 10 28 I think
centimeters you then
have to tie that and a string onto the cardboard
and pop the the goggles which have now been stable together by the way
dried for spray painting you attach them to the other end and you make sure that
nap
Penn only just touches the third this point the goggles
lie the goals sorta standing up on the floor opened it to the floor
the pen is a test the floor as well and the
pen nib should only touch nearest the furthest point
of the go you can make it turn out to be a roundabout the top right hand side in
the top left inside the pair
or the very top hope the single doe because those are the bits that
gonna be the longest left basically said in with that pen
just trace where that string is it is tightest
all the way around inside the couple's you should end it with so the
strange-looking shape
which at the top has very little I know so ever right way
at the bottom wear the goggles are going to be as
a the Google line is gonna be as short as possible so the Google still stay
vertical with respect to the mosque
than you get about to 30 centimetres left with
government here here to parity to have
enough material initially over goals
before you make them so that's what is it about 10 to 15 centimetres with poly
are on the 15 centimetres side depth and
13 marked out those then just simply chop off
the remaining material with a knife all with a with
at Paris's at being careful indeed to
make sure you have enough and kinda koibito
if it doesn't quite fit increase the radius by about a half
it looks okay couples look like they've been a bit scratched on but actually
they still work fine
okay so when it came to drawing the eye balls onto the minions well
one eyeball saw the Cyclops minion
and of course to idols so the normal
to i'd million and me in that we have brown
irises and we chose to do green blue and brown because the people wearing them
and I you some felt tips traced around the
double sided sticky tape containing to drive the iris is an insult
hibels literally a with a permanent marker the actual people's now the
donkey
get these things better cuz you actually end up seeing through this bit in the
end
when it came to coming the arms out making sure that people need to get
around that other things
when they're wearing the costumes but the harness on put them in and make sure
things adjusted said the top hula hoopers about five centimetres above
shoulder level
and at this point a very trusting friend
and should get a knife or maybe a penpal
better and I make a tiny little hole
roughly in line with where your shoulder is sort of
in line with your body so person standing upright straight when the shows
would only be
arms down by the side and just spoke a little hole through the phone
and about midpoint the shoulder on both sides slightly back from the center line
we found about 10 centimetres back from the fest and first two bamboos
around the outfit itself for not going we may 25 centimeter incision
up five centimeters is back
10 centimetres forwards and then the incision extended
so this is basically across so far and from the original point
make Anne line down to just above the elbow
love the person wearing so this will alter with with size
person obviously change it as and when necessary
say that they can get their arms in and out with care around the
out on the phone we then found it best to line this with
electrical tape and put it sorta ripstop
but it will take the NWN getting huge big cash when you really don't need
so then in terms of putting smiles on well
we got some pictures of the Internet varies million smile
the black bit was just some black felt
Site Materials to keep felt and the white teeth were actually just
standard labels for a for an address at home alone
and I guess you figure how to do that
in terms all getting the
the glasses to stay on the side had once had already covered
a glass is being molded into the right shapes
put the critical me and articulate acetate
strips cut them out around about the right size double sided sticky tape them
onto the inside of the glasses
from behind and the next stage was too then carefully
overlay where you want the eye to be over the dam itself
and imagine our lives as well so the islands themselves were just smaller
than the glasses that were gonna go over the top
the islets themselves will discuss how to the yellow so
at this point being very careful he's just spent all that time cutting those I
fabrics out and putting them into the times and with a double sided sticky
tape the
disorder the loose white material
the irises were painted on
onto the inside all the islets as you'd expect from a real paralyzed
as a bit fiddly doing this cuz you obviously between the yellow fabric
the white simony once you've done that make sure obviously that is in the right
place
and if we stopped it was nice to get a win have a look what it looks like
through the glass is it looks good from that
then so to push down doubles are taking his medicine it's a to
to secure flip them over
and cut a hole in the white I'm
roughly in the same location as the iris if not slightly bigger issue than the
person wearing it can see through the Irish
and see through the glass is the couple's as Papademos
some challenging but because you already made the dome up
it worked OK knee and
we then really just finishing touches to be honest
the yet the actual material was then put over
the the cylinders and so do not talk about him I said
and the arm holes cut out a bit where the armholes incident is being
and also some
velcro was used to allow me had to be secured to the body
without putting up when you walk around in or around
sticky back close good otherwise you could you send crew or superglue
probably be best to be honest redefine the velcro for
with time at once that was on everything aligns
there was very little else to do and so that means pretty much ready partner
hair
and sent to the hair find the best way was to you some
a 46 black card you a paper streamer paper
to the guillotine to make
so to 30 centimetres links book one centimeter
top and point at the entrances ears into it is apparent
and cut-out triangles a light on the guillotine
this foam along its length access am
and then get a circle all yet material
and with a with a craft knife with tonight just poke in about a half a
centimeter
to that point 75 centimetres slits in
this so the material about eight or nine really
the the actual set until about 10 centimetres in
diameter and and the state's opening randomly
spaced and then poke through the
peace these pointy bits card until
to a role in that and you some messages and just chop off
about said it is only about an inch an opportunity for the
the second the news bears' cut a slit and a little bit
folded up so to say that 11 legos 11
there like i said i securing it in place that double sided sticky tape on the
back at
and on any lists yet many quite happy to
so stick it directly to the top of the dome and there you go you gotta million
with hair
hopefully with better go green c3 and
with the head stays on the body the body fits your arms can get out elastic
around the waist band along the bottom the globe it's so that you can still
extreme
and have a good many
said thanks for listening to this instructable video please been helpful
policies if the instructions arbitrage hopefully
the video itself you can freeze-frame and see something say it
if you have any questions hopefully good ones
do email only comment below and I'll try and get back to you
otherwise happy meaning and to pose for photographs
Jess