The Steps to Success

Stage 1: Artwork

This is the first step in bringing your character costumes to life! CIC provides our clients with a free designing service providing artwork of your design in character costume form.

Stage 2: Prototype Development

This is where CIC gains its’ leading edge over the competition. Our production team develops your mascot using the approved artwork as reference. This gives you, the customer, the opportunity to make any adjustments necessary in the initial stages of the project. Once you are satisfied with the prototype costume, the production team prepares patterns of the design.

Stage 3: Mold Development

At CIC, we have created the most advanced method of producing multiple character costumes using state-of-the-art technology and the highest quality materials. To insure that the approved prototype costume is properly duplicated, our designers create a mold of the head shape. This mold acts as a guarantee that your “brand image” is accurately represented.

Stage 4: Thermoforming

Using the newest and most efficient equipment in the
industry, CIC can produce multiple shapes of your design, guaranteeing consistency. The head shapes are produced using the lightest, most durable close cell foam materials. The production time lines are greatly reduced when comparing them to traditional production methods.

Stage 5: Finishing

The costumes now come together with the finishing process that takes place with all components. The custom ordered fabric for your project is used in the covering stages of the head and the completion of the body, feet, and other component items.

Stage 6: Quality Control

Each costume goes through rigorous testing to insure that it meets the CIC standard. Our Quality Control department checks each component thoroughly for workmanship defects and tries on each costume to insure performer comfort.

Stage 7: Shipping

Lucky 7….the costumes are shipped to the specific locations of your choice. CIC uses the most efficient and cost effective methods of handling the shipment of costumes anywhere in the world!