if you need a dome to make a dome, where did the first dome come from?

I've also used a plastic beach ball from the dollar store and cut it alone the curvature lines. Makes a great pattern as the curves are already in the design!

Thank you so much for this video!! Your instructions are so clear and easy to follow. I wanted to make a faux Tiffany lamp shade out of a wire hanging flower basket and stained glass patterned window cling film and was having a really hard time figuring it out. I don’t think I could have pulled it off without your video.

Ted, you read my mind! How did you know I needed a dome tutorial? It all seems so obvious and simple when you explain it! Oodles of thanks!

This is what makes the internet so great. An expert like you can share knowledge with the world for free. Thank you!

Developing this technique required creative genius. Well done.

Ted thank you so much I have had no luck making the helmet I talked with you about a year or so ago... it's so awesome you made this.. forever grateful

Thank you for this! I'm really working to improve my pattern making skills! And why have I never thought to put the foam mat under the poster board! My pins will stay in so much happier now!! Thanks again!

Ted you are the king props! Thank you so much for your channel, you have inspired me so much and helped me create cosplays I never thought I would ever create. Thank you for teaching us!!

Mind-reader. I wanted to make a 1950's style space helmet. I thought about it a lot and mused as to what to do. Thank you for hauling off and doing it. I am going to order something through Amazon as a sign of gratitude.

A very nice tutorial! I will be using the dome idea to do shoulder armor for my LARPers. Your methods are great for the armor we want to make! Thanks for all your help!

Thank you so much! My 12 year old has to design a Roman helmet with a strict limit of only $10 for a school project. All other online instructions and patterns i’ve seen want at least $8 which would blow the budget.

Looks nice. If you do domes often enough you could just make a jig with two small boards at 90 degrees and a 45 degree line in the middle. Mark on the edge, stick it into the corner where the boards meet, turn your mark so it sits jig line, and mark the other side where it sits on the jig line.

I'm doing costuming in my high school Art class and found wrapping a balloon in plastic wrap and tape also worked (they're not going to get perfect shapes the first time anyway). We didn't cut all the pieces separately, but instead cut darts and left them all connected in the middle. We used a heat gun to round out the center and glued the edges to continue the ball shape.

This is so helpful! I am making a cauldron shaped helmet (or a helmet shaped cauldron) for a play! Thanks so much!

THANKS A MILLION MR SMITH FOR SHARING & CARING STYROFOAM IS THE FUTURE MIKE

Thanks for demonstrating heat forming. There's been times after darting and gluing the pieces together where they've turned out flat and I wondered why. I was relying on the darting alone to reproduce curved surfaces.

I just used a bowl and thank goodness what I was going for has a flat top This method is so helpful!

On your shoulder pattern at the end, your method works great but what I do differently is when I take the pattern and flip it to make the other side,I flip it but put it against the first pattern and "Butterfly" my patterns together to try and get rid of some of the center seam (Preferably no cut line from the most viewed side) Another thing I do is hit the glued edges with my heat gun, when it stops making bubbles it's ready to stick and sticks hard!

Hi Ted you have inspired me so much I am currently building a stormtrooper armour set from GRP Fibreglass so I am simultaneously building another suit from foam keep up the epic work

Awesome! I'll just hop on over to my pile of acrylic domes of my desired sizes for a template.

I'm addicted to your videos! Thank you so much!

Evil Ted Love your video, I'm making a mandalorian helmet and this was exactly what I was looking for.... Thank you!

that's brilliant!

Cooooool. Now I can start planning out R2-D2 and Bender :-)

Explanation is simple to learn.

You're the least Evil Ted I've ever encountered. Thanks for this in 2024.

great video as always, definitely going to be trying this when im back to working on/learning to build with foam

Nice techniques! I'm getting ready to make some Mandalorian armor out of PVC foam board for me and my daughter. I think I'll try this out and see if it works the same for the different material

I needed this for a cosplay idk how it’s gonna turn out

I'm so impressed, I can't wait to try this stuff

Brilliant!! I'm making a costume of Earth and I need a sphere for it. Commander Holly mentioned your technique so I knew where to look

You're the Best Evil Ted!

Fantastic as always, Ted! Your videos are bar none the most helpful out there when it comes to foam fabrication. It would be awesome to see some sort of foundations series for basic shapes like this, I know one of my downfalls with my current project is getting spikes to look good, especially since I need the structure that comes from thicker foam. I'd love to be able to do them in a single wrapped piece but I can never seem to get them to come together cleanly.

Perfect for my new project!!! R2D2 with foam. I only need to rescale the 10" dome pattern to 50% more. JAJAJAJAJA. Thanks for sharing Ted!

thank you for making easy to follow and detailed videos

Put the acrylic bowl upside down,level the new (open )topside,drop a bit of water in it.....there you go:thats the middle,the centerpoint. If can drill a little hole to transfer it to the other side..or hold the dome to the light,so you can see it.

Thanks for this! Making a bowsette costume and will be using this to make the back piece! 😊

I did leave a comment on another video, but it's better mentioned here. To mark a straight line over your dome, get yourself a spring steel spine out of a windshield wiper blade. You can clamp one end to your first mark, then bend it all the way over to the other side. Traditional thin ones will flex easier, but the thicker ones from the new frameless 'aero' blades will resist twisting, and give a truer straight line. Just slightly pre-form it first to the same radius as your dome, and you should be able to hold the second end in place with only thumb/finger pressure. Being metal, you can run a knife along it without damaging it and help you cut straighter lines.

informative video, but I was really looking for some way to make a shape without having the shape already. (If I already HAVE a cake, I can just eat it) Extra points for the shopping list though. Always nice to see that.

Right when I needed this tutorial. Thank you!!

Thank you so much man!! I found this very useful

yay !! just downloaded my template!!! will be using the cover page to make tiny Domes lol !!!

Well done sir. Very helpful!

Thank you very much for the detailed and clear explanation

You are doing god's work Ted haha. I'm not super innovative or creative, so having some instruction like this is awesome for my cosplay needs :)

Thank you so much! I'm making an astronaut helmet and I've needed this exact method

Awesome! That looks so good! Well done Ted!

Great video Ted, some very clever tips in there!

7:52 "Topologists hate this guy"

I'm using this to make a comically large spoon. Forget buying one, I'm just gonna make one.

guess whos freehanding a mandalorian helmet tonight! haha great tutorial ted ;)

The background hum around the 9:00 mark sounds like Doc's oversized amp at the beginning of "Back to the Future."

Just discovered your channel and it's brilliant. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I totally forgot about flexible rulers.... There's one right over there too. It was just sitting there looking pretty.

Thank you so much for this tutorial video

Badass dude.... friggin badass...

Im loving this stuff!!!! Thank you!

Thanks I always wondered how to do that.

Foam over a flame works very well also, just in case you don't have a heat gun

Thank you for this tutorial!! regards from Chile!

Thanks im going to use this to make my own custom helmet

Hey Ted. Got plans on making a leg armor tutorial? It would be appreciated!

your the Bob Ross of foam

Thanks for all the tips !!!

Gracias por compartir el tutorial, buenísimo.

Awesome tutorial. Thank you so much for sharring.

Mr. Smith your videos are amazing , and you have rly cool ideas :)

love this, I'll have to use it on my next bobs getting helmet

To mark lines on a curved surface I believe it might come handy a piece of rope

thank you for this great video. How did you end up attaching the 3 inch dome to the wood dowel?

I imagine that I could use this to make a Mandalorian Helmet.

thank you, very helpful.

Hey man, great tutorials! I´m always confused what to buy exactly when it comes to foams and worbla stuff, if you could make like a short video on that, like what thickness are good for what and when you should use this foam or that foam. Look forward to your next tutorial.

I feel like I just watched a physics lecture, lol.

Why dont i just go ahead and hit that subscribe button

So usefull, love it!!!!

Literally what is that dome supposed to be used for? It's huge! I was under the impression it was supposed to be the base of a helmet

This has been a huge help thanks! :D

OMG thx to you my riot helmet is done

I want to be rasazy for halloween so im checking out round head videos

that is brilliant

Great sir...

keep trying this but cant get shape right, am trying to cover bowl in foam but not working

would a blow dryer be hot enough to shape the foam if you don't have a heat gun?

Thanks mr. smith...

I have the dome in my cart. Is it a digital file or will it come in the mail? I didn't see that online. Thanks

Hi Ted, thanks for the great video! Where do you get the half dome and what is the size of the dome? Thank you!

What if I want a bigger dome? like a dome that's half the size of a person's body?

This was great. Thanks.

cool perfect circle

Pls make a vid on how to make a swat riot costume pls!!!

That is so helpful! Thanks!

what about making a specific shape from a picture rather than a physical object? ive already had a crack at making shape nets but found no success

Anyone have any links or advice on how to make a captain America shield shape? I've tried cutting a piece out and gluing it together to get the curved shape, but it's kind of pointed in the middle which I don't want

Hi, I'm a complete newbie to this kind of foam. What kind of glue are you using, are there any alternatives? I don't have a heat gun is there anything else I can use? Thanks

Ok. how can i do a mask? my son want for halloween the friday 13 mask.

what's the size of the paper am i gonna use when im goin to print the patterns? please tell me

Genius!!!! Thank you so much

How can we curve the foam if we don't want to use a heatgun?