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good stuff of all the other characters, like the lile Mirabel and the lile Loki." The team worked on set to make sure that all the goats' costumes fit and worked. "I think we had like 12 or 13 people who then were on set that morning to make stuff work. And at one point, Melissa turned to me, she's like, 'Oh, my God, it's a bloodbath,' the goats are pissing and shiing everywhere." OrtMeier adds, "In designing and building these things, we had to know, 'Is it a female goat? Is it a male goat? Where does it pee from? Where does it poop from?' So we had to try and keep things clear." At one point, one of the goats had to go back to their trailer to give birth and had an understudy to replace her, adding to the chaos. "That one was probably the one of the craziest, hardest, cutest jobs we ever did, because the end result was so cute. They were all so adorable. But, man, that was a hard job." Aside from costumes for animals, they make animal costumes for people as well. Recently, OrtMeier and her fabricators were able to work on praying our directive to the goat wranglers was that all of the goats that you're going to be using, we need headshots of them, and we need a side profile of the entire goat with a yardstick up against its haunch, so that we can see how tall this thing is." Once they had all the goats' measurements, they were able to have 3D files of the goats and create goat mannequins. "We milled out of Styrofoam, CNC milled mannequins in different goat sizes so that we could assign goats. Melissa and I were siing in my office here, and we have all the headshots for all the goats, and we are doing a lile casting session for all of the characters that Disney wanted for these goats. We knew what we were going to be building, what the goat size was that we were gonna have to do." The timeline was short but the project was massive with characters from Disney princesses and pirates, Star Wars Storm Troopers and Chewbacca, Marvel superheroes and even The Simpsons. "They all had hard parts that needed to be designed and painted, and then it was just all the so Left: Specialty Costumer and stilt walker, Brett Horn. Right: Brett with team that created the praying mantis for SZA's Grand National Tour. MOTIONPICTUREC O S T U M E R S .O R G 35 "Our specialty is problem solving. I feel it's what makes us unique." —SUZAN ORTMEIER