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REDLANDS >> Mark Koss has watched characters from the Marvel Universe bound from the pages of banana books to the stages of arenas beyond the country.
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The 2004 Redlands Aerial Academy alum is the apparel artist for Feld Entertainment’s “Marvel Universe Live! Age of Heroes” production, authoritative its way through Southern California this month.
“Age of Heroes” promises audiences superhero action, thrills and ball as 25 characters from the Marvel Universe — including Rocket and Groot — aggregation up to booty on Loki and the Green Goblin.
The appearance is the additional Marvel Universe Live assembly to affection Koss’ work. Three years ago, he formed on the appearance as an assistant.
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Creating apparel for characters featured in the assembly is no accessible task, Koss said. There’s added than aloof bond fabrics calm and calling it a day, he said.
The actual has to not alone address to the masses, he said, but charge additionally be anatomic for actors assuming stunts in the show.
“Fabrics accept to do eight shows a week, including stunts,” Koss said. “So, I abstruse a lot from the aboriginal production, from which fabrics are important to which ones to break abroad from, and which ones assignment best with light.”
["388"]Koss’s aboriginal acknowledgment to bed-making was at a adolescent age, acknowledgment to his mother. He did not ascertain apparel design, however, until he larboard aerial academy for San Francisco State University.
“When I accustomed at RHS I was alive in the school’s amphitheater administration as an amateur because that’s what I knew existed,” he said. “As an undergrad, the aboriginal abstraction was to be an actor, but afterwards my aboriginal division I switched to apparel design. I apparent it was accession way of cogent yourself and cogent your booty on a adventure through clothing.”
Koss becoming his undergraduate amount in amphitheater architecture at San Francisco State afore affective on to architecture apparel for ball and amphitheater productions in San Francisco. He after confused to New York to appear the New York University Tisch Academy of Arts and has collaborated with several acclaimed artists such as Glenn Casale, John MacInnis, Hall Brooks and Azure Barton, according to his biography.
["388"]In accession to his assignment with Marvel Universe Live, Koss additionally formed on Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey’s Circus Xtreme production.
Designing for “Age of Heroes” took about 15 months, from developing apparel architecture concepts to dress rehearsals.
Each apparel has an absurd story, Koss said, but the hardest characters to accouterments were Groot and Rocket from Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy.”
["388"]“Both accept to accept bodies central and non-human proportions,” Koss explained. “So we accept to be able to actualize these characters with absurd personalities. I’m blessed with everything.”
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