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Young Link – Legend of Zelda Cosplay

Kali — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:32:49 +0000

Young Link

Name: Link
Series: Legend of Zelda
Debuted: Setsucon 2011
Status: Retired

Dark Sailor Mercury – Cosplay

Kali — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 02:39:01 +0000

Dark Sailor Mercury

Name: Ami Mizuno
Series: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Debuted: Setsucon 2011
Status: Active

Notes

2nd Place Hall Cosplay, Journeyman Division – Setsucon 2011

Toadette

Kali — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:51:51 +0000

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How to Enjoy the Fantastic Trend Set By Costume Play?

Kali — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:37:35 +0000

Sponsored Post

Costume play, which is also called as cosplay for short, is a popular
reality show in today’s era. It’s conducted rather frequently. On big festivals like Halloween and Christmas, there will be more people to join in those shows. Participants are in various ages and vocations. Whatever figure or religious belief you hold, you will find an ideal character to impersonate. There, you will make some big differences and experience something fancy and interesting. With everything frustrating put aside, what cosplay brings to contemporary people is definitely a chance to enjoy their life to the fullest.

Cosplay, a performance art that attracts more and more people to join, always does not have a hard-and-fast rule. Anytime, keeping an eye to the latest trend is must and always contributes a lot to your work and life. Once you did, you would have already recognized the increasing popularity on these fantastic shows. This trend is different, yet exciting. To enjoy it, following steps need your attention. First, get to know some background.

It’s necessary to have a general idea on the cosplay culture. Before developing into a popular performance art, costume play is just a funny entertainment activity that is usually held on weekends and some short holidays. People put on special clothes and make up to create chic or fearsome appearances. Behave like the impersonated role; people do feel like experiencing some virtual trips truly. They are fond of posing for photographing. As long as you know a lot about your favorite role or idol, you will be more confident and better enjoy the show.

Select a role to cosplay. Various cosplay ideas are brought out continuously. It’s impossible to make an accurate count on the amount of roles that can be imitated. Most of time, they are picked out from Japanese anime. Did you still remember the handsome look created by Snow Villiers in Final Fantasy XIII? The charming & sexy style made by Rikku is also the first choice for most cosplay enthusiasts. Naruto aroused a great craze on the debut and succeeded to make its impact last. Roles like Yondaime 4th Hokage, Three Tailed Giant Turtle Yagura, Shippu Konoha Gakuen Den, etc are found on lots of costume plays. The awful yet moving Japanese tale Bleach becomes more impressive after being put on cosplay frequently. Additionally, Code Geass, Death Note, Lucky Star, Sailor Moon, Pokemon, etc are focuses for cosplay organizers and members. In recent years, some famous Hollywood movies are also brought onto costume plays. Avatar, Shrek, Sweeney Todd, Spiderman, etc are definitely favorite roles for cosplay devotees to act.

Keep your figure and religious belief in mind while seeking for the role. It’s true there isn’t fixes rule for you to comply on a costume play. However, while choosing the character, do consider your body shape. Usually, you will look better if acting a role who owns similar build with you. Also, the role’s behavior should not go against with your faith. Thus, always get to know some cosplay culture or the background of the character before hand. Also, do remember to keep in contact and discuss with the show organizer.

Cosplay costumes and cosplay wigs are must purchases for your cosplay looks. Usually, you choose a role to cosplay because of being fond of him/her or interested in his/her style. To complete the same look with that character, purchase a ready-made
costume and wig please. Certainly, you can make them personally. But you must be less experienced than manufacturers. It’ll be a time-consuming and difficult task to make the suit and deal with your hair. Hardly will you do better than professional workers. Thus, buy these elements directly. On the market, lots of cosplay costumes and wigs are displayed. Any role you would like to cosplay; you will find ideal suit and hairstyle for him/her. Just with some sensitivity, you will find classy yet cheaper deals.

Explore resources online. To find cosplay costumes & wigs on lower prices, online dealers offer you better options nowadays. Miccostumes.com is definitely the first choice on most cosplay devotees’ shopping lists. There, free shipping is offered. Hundreds of anime collections are covered. With
classy fabrics and revolutionary sewing technology, those suits will be
comfortable and durable. So far, the team working for miccostumes.com has lived up to most people’s expectations perfectly. All suits are made to be extremely similar with styles in original anime. To be more confident and have more fun on the approaching costume play, you may love to pay a visit there! Finally, put on the suit, wig and go for the show.

My New Favorite Dr. Horrible Shot

Kali — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:05:32 +0000

Taken at AnimeUSA 2008. The one day I decided not to wear Doc, Captain Hammer and a whole group of groupies showed up. >_<*

The 24 Hour Dr. Horrible Costume

Kali — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:49:57 +0000

To answer the question I keep getting: Yes, I do commissions. You can read all about having me make you a costume on my cosplay site.

First off, don’t be an idiot like me and decide to make the costume at the last possible second. While I ordered the boots, gloves and goggles a few weeks before, I didn’t actually decide to make the costume for the convention I was going until the day before.

So…

Notes

- I’m all rumpled because I walked through Hannah to get to the con. I was never so happy to be wearing those boots.
- I still need to swap out my gloves, but I’ll get to that later.
- The wig is eating my head, but it was the only blonde wig I had on hand and the rain/wind didn’t do much for it either.
- I need to rip out the pocket and put in a new one with a proper Caduceus.
- I need to take up the hem by an inch or so and tighten the collar a bit.
- I need to properly finish my seams. Right now they’re kinda crap, but no one was flipping my hems.

Step One – I remember that there is a Villains’ Ball at this convention and decide to go for the costume after all. Fortunately I had bought the pattern (Simplicity 5386) and some decent cotton twill at Wal-Mart the week before. My accessories STILL haven’t arrived, but since I’m wearing the costume for fun, I can deal with a few pieces not-so-accurate picked up at the local hardware store.

To alter the pattern, I pinned the back yolk and back piece on the fabric fold to create a solid back piece. (Remember to account ~1″ for the seam allowances that you no longer need)

For the front, the pattern has 2 pieces for each side. I simply put together the two pieces (Again, if you use this pattern, remember to adjust your pattern for the now uneeded seam allowances) on the fold to produce the top panel (this was the only part I lined, so I needed 2 of the top panel). The under panel the front side piece plus a little extra so it went all the way to the neck line.

I ended up removing almost 3′ from the bottom of the pattern and the silly thing was still too long when completed. Then again, I’m tiny.

The neck, I just made a little longer to allow for the alight wrap and followed the pattern for the sleeves as is. The only thing I added was the little gathering belt in the back.

Step Two – Just as I sit down at my machine after pinning, the valet service slips a package slip under my door. I run down and my boots are here, hurray!

The sewing was fairly easy, but I took a short-cut on the sleeves in the interest of time. Instead of setting the sleeves in properly, I sewed the shoulder seems of the front and pack together. Then, instead of sewing up the side seams and the seam in the sleeve, I pinned the unfinished sleeve in and did that seam. Then I did the bottom sleeve seam and the side seam of the coat as one long seam. (If you have no idea WTF I’m talking about, you can read the technique here) Much easier than doing it the right way and no one ever notices unless you’re being judged on craftmanship.

Because I was rushing, I also didn’t do my button holes. I have an automatic buttonhole stitch on my sewing machine, but it takes forever to get the settings right. Instead I put in regular sew-in velcro and sewed the buttons over the top of the fabric. Honestly, no one noticed, but I’ll probably do it right before my next convention.

At this point, it was 2pm and I got another package slip, which I knew had to be the gloves and goggles. Unfortunately I couldn’t get it until after 4:30 because the valet was closed, so I decided to head out the local Wal-Mart for some paint for the goggles.

Step Three While at Wal-Mart I decided I needed a ray gun or the Wonderflonium case. I couldn’t find a good case, so I grabbed a nerf dart gun with the intention of spraying it silver.

I managed to spray paint the gun (while dodging apartment security), then picked up my packages. The goggles were the standard green PVC, but the asshole eBay seller had switched out the gloves for these hideous grey things. With no time to get new gloves, I attempted to spray paint them white, which failed miserably because a) they were fabric-ish and b) it was windy as all hell (Hannah was coming, after all).

I knew I couldn’t spray the goggles, so I took them back up to my apartment, popped out the plastic bits and sanded the body down with fine grit. Then I did them with a thick coat of matte Mod Podge. While waiting for it to dry, I sanded the logo off of my boots. The goggles then got a coat of grey acrylic paint and a coat of gunmetal silver. While that dried, I cut out my coat pocket, pinned it and then puff painted on my Caduceus.

When the goggles were good and dry, I went over them with aluminum colored acrylic with a very coarse, stiff brush. While that dried, I prepared my buttons for the extra vent and glued them on.

Then came the wig of doom. It was a mullet, but it was the only thing I had. So I grabbed my razor and just started hacking away.

At this point it was pretty late, so I just finished up my coat sleeves and did the back details.

To do the pleats in the back, I took another little shortcut. I ironed, then stay-stiched the pleats in and then sewed the belt to the back of the coat with the buttons already attached. Again, no one will notice unless they’re staring at your butt really hard.

I crashed at 10PM because I knew I had some work to do in the morning.

Step Four
First thing, I put the goggles back together and gave it a little glue to keep the edge from sliping.

Then I sewed on my pocket, double checked the fit of my coat, and then got into the rest of my clothes.

As a last step, I decided to make some Dr. Horrible campaign buttons, because I didn’t have enough work to do that morning. At least the other people enjoyed them.

And that’s the story of my somewhat accurate, 24 hour costume.

(x-posted at my fansite, and my Cosplay Site)

My Inner Ten-Year-Old Is Squee-ing

Kali — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:05:27 +0000

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Medic – Team Fortress 2 Cosplay

Kali — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:53:10 +0000

You can view my full Otakon 2008 coverage over at the cosplay site.

Medic

Name: Medic
Series: Team Fortress 2
Debuted: Otakon 2008
Status: Active

Notes

The coat is just the muslin for the final coat which will be made out of a heavier wool. I just figured that I didn’t want to die of heat exhaustion in the Baltimore heat.

The Engineer with me is Diastelo.

Meet the Scout – Team Fortress 2 Cosplay

Kali — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:22:51 +0000

Team Fortress 2 Scout Cosplay/Costume. (If you are looking for the “Meet the Scout” video post, head on over here

This is such a ghetto-tastic costume, but I love it. It’s basically my Team Fortress 2 costume placeholder until I get the Medic and Engineer finished. Here’s the rundown for those who want to make it for themselves:

Katsucon 2008

Kali — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:45:47 +0000

So… Katsucon 2008.
I went solo. Because Maura’s car caught on fire.
This is me:

What are you looking at, knuckleheads?

Anyway…

Friday
Friday I headed over about 3 o’clock because I had finally finished repainting my stupid whiffle bat. (I had to go to 5 stores to find a freakin’ whiffle bat. Everything else was those stupid wussy foam bats. C’mon, I want some sting when I bonk people.)

First things first, I checked out the Artist Alley. To me, it was kind of boring because there was still a lack of fun crafty things, thanks to Katsu’s stupid rules. I don’t want yet another print of someone’s fanart, kthxbye. However, the hall o’ webcomics was much more entertaining, and seeing as it was still early, no crowds (yay!) I chilled for a bit with several artists and discovered that quite a few of them were teaming up for an epic Team Fortress 2 group at Otakon. w00t!

The arcade portion of the video game room was neat, with lots of old school cabinets. The console portion was made of fail. I was not impressed with the Halo boxes (can play that at home, thanks) and the array of games wasn’t all that interesting. I can sit at my own apartment and play Portal, that’s not what I paid for a $50 badge to do.

There was very little I wanted to see in the way of anime, either. Most of it was rather mainstream and I had pictures to take.

I’d first like to point out that Katsu is not a good con for pictures. The lighting sucks and if you don’t have a decent flood flash, you’re screwed. I have a rinky-dink Powershot. Good little camera, but it didn’t fair well with the horrible yellow lighting. Also, tiny hallways are tiny. You couldn’t really stop in them for a shot, so you had to head for one of the horribly placed photoareas.

Of course none of this stopped me from coming home with over 150 pictures, and that’s just from two days.

On one of my many laps around the con, I ran into the rest of BLU team.

Notice I look scared, as well I should be. To make a long story short, I ran into them later that night and we hit the hotel bar, where I did my best impression of a Demoman. I will not be doing this again.

Saturday
I was supposed to be part of a Sailormoon group. Unfortunately, I got stuck on the Metro for an hour.
At least they still looked good.

Well, now I had the rest of the day to myself to take pictures. Yay! But first I staggered into the Cosplay Plus panel because I met the ladies running it the night before. It was interesting, I just wish more of the target audience had attended.

After lots more picture taking, I ended up at the Geek Comedy Tour 3000. I had actually seen them before at T-Mode, but they were just as funny this time around. If you spot them near you, go see them!

Lots more picture taking ensued, and then the massive Phoenix Wright shoot showed up.
There’s more of them, but I couldn’t cram them in the picture! I was going to follow the shoot outside, but got distracted.

Finally, Mike spotted me around 7pm. He’d been looking for me all day (he should have just followed the people screaming “MEDIC!” after me.) We grabbed some grub and then wandered into the video game room again, but weren’t impressed. Shortly thereafter, I gave up on Katsucon and staggered home.

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I didn’t do Sunday, because I was tired. >_< Next year I think I am only going to do Saturday unless I get an Artist Alley table. While I had fun, it was nothing to do with the programming of the convention and everything to do with the people I met there. $50 was way to much money for attending 1 panel and 1 main event.

Anyway, here’s the entirety of my pictures. BewareofNinja.com