Costume Design - Aidan Zipf's Portfolio

This Wendigo inspired creature costume was made for Halloween of 2024. I created the quadrupedal effect with stilts and crutches. The antlers are crafted out of painted cardboard and attached to a hidden baseball cap.

When standing up, the Wendigo costume looks even more terrifying. The various distressed fabrics and painted elements move with the gaunt of the creature to ensure full immersion.

Aidan as a killer clown on stilts, holding an axe.

A costume I designed in my junior year of college for Halloween. My outfit consists entirely of thrifted items, and I made the axe from cardboard, hot glue, and half of a plastic staff, then painted it to look like metal.

Aidan dressed like the folklore creature Slenderman. He is in a black suit and has tenticles coming out of his back. The head and hands are covered in white fabric.

This is my cosplay of the folklore legend, Slender Man. In combination of wearing a stitched together elongated suit, a white mask, gloves, and 2 foot tall stilts, I had so much fun walking the streets of Boston on Halloween Night.

Aidan&amp;amp;amp;#x27;s Glow in the dark monster costume. He is on stilts, has a glow up mask, horns, and neon tubing that is worn similarly to a harness.

A glow in the dark monster creation from my sophomore year in high school.

The backside of Aidan&amp;amp;amp;#x27;s Glow in the dark monster costume. He is on stilts, has zip-tie spikes, horns, and decorated fabric.

You can see the details of the glow in the dark monster costume best from the rear. All of the colored zip-ties, stilts, decorated fabric, and spray painted tubing were done by me, with the help of my family.

Aidan dressed similar to the character Jack Frost from the movie, Rise of the Guardians.

A cosplay of the character Jack Frost from the movie, Rise of the Guardians.

A swamp creature on all fours with creepy unnatural looking limbs.

A swamp-like creature costume I made for Halloween during my freshman year of high school. I am on stilts and crutches, decorated with various fabrics and mossy tangles.

Aidan using stilts and crutches to create the structure for the swamp creature walking on all fours.

A demonstration of how the swamp-like creature costume was made and how it operated by the wearer. My dad and I handmade the stilts for this costume and it was used several times throughout my high school years.

Aidan dressed as a monochrome clown with creepy makeup and intentionally odd proportions.

A cosplay of the Creepy-Pasta character Laughing Jack. This Halloween costume was made of mostly thrifted items layered and sewn together.

Aidan, masked, in a plumber&amp;amp;#x27;s uniform with oversized claw-like hands.

A costume made to resemble an eerie masked killer with extended finger-claws. I painted and dyed the mask for a more dramatic effect.

Aidan dressed as the lumberjack from the board game Candy Land. He is decorated in peppermint and is wielding a candy cane axe.

A costume based upon the lumberjack from the Candy Land board game. This was made for an escape room I created and ran as the Vice President of the board game club. 3/6 teams escaped my room in time!

My Halloween passions started young when I dressed as a mad scientist suffering from a catastrophic explosion achieved by dyes and some coco powder!