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Cosplay 101
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Echo
, Jul 09 2012 07:16 PM
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Echo
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 07:16 PM
What top tips would you give to a newbie cosplayer?
"We gotta go to the cr*ppy town where I'm a hero!" Wash, Firefly
"There is no charge for awesomeness, or attractiveness!" Po, Kung Fu Panda
"For the next two hours, Rachael is the all-powerful goddess of academia!" - goddess-dom conferred (temporarily) by my uni lecturer.
"Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!" the late, great Kenneth Williams, Carry on Cleo
"There is no charge for awesomeness, or attractiveness!" Po, Kung Fu Panda
"For the next two hours, Rachael is the all-powerful goddess of academia!" - goddess-dom conferred (temporarily) by my uni lecturer.
"Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!" the late, great Kenneth Williams, Carry on Cleo
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Posted 14 July 2012 - 10:24 PM
Interesting question to which Id also love an answer :) Ive made some costumes before but never for a con and the standard is always really high, so I want to make something fantastic haha, hoping to do my first cosplay this october :)
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People I have met so far:
William Shatner, Patric Stewart, Chris Pine, Alice Eve, Zachery Quinto, JJ Abrams, Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, Nana Visitor, Anthony Montgomery, David Tennant, John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Jewel Staite, Tom Baker, Robert Englund, Paul McGann, Ben Browder, John Rhys Davies, Colin Baker, Gareth David-Lloyd, Kai Owen, Karl Urban, Dave Prowse, Kenny Baker, Jake Lloyd, Hugh Quarshie, Billy Dee Williams, Toby Philpott, Garrick Hagon, Heather Langenkamp, Lisa Wilcox, Katherine Isabelle, George Takei, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewelyn, Anna Walton, James Dodd, Martin Klebba, Ian Whyte.
Dream Guests:
Bruce Campbell, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Ron Perlman, Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Matt Smith, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, David Duchovny, Billie Piper, Catherine Tate, Jean Reno, Guillermo Del Toro, Robert Rodriguez, Lea Michele, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alan Rickman, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Leonard Nimoy.
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Posted 11 August 2012 - 01:59 AM
i want to know how to make these beautiful dresses,that's so good ,
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Posted 11 August 2012 - 03:56 PM
I've been sewing and making costumes for years.
I think part of it comes down to experience, and learning about what fabric is right to use. I've tried making dresses in my inexperience with fabric that i didn't know how to work with properly. the result was seems bursting a couple hours after wearing it.
you learn what went wrong, you learn what works, and you develop from there. sometimes making a costume isn't just about making it from scratch. it could be about sourcing bits and bobs from different places such as charity shops, and piecing it together and then adding little bits to finish it off. such as a plain black coat can be very easily made steampunk buy accessorising it with chains, cogs, wheels, compass...
sometimes, it's about taking a concept and thinking how can i make that into a dress? Last year i made myself a gameboy dress. i went to the level of actually printing out a tetris screenshot on t-shirt transfer, and i was pretty pleased with the results. I've a concept in mind at some point to make a dress inspired by a wiimote... cause i'm a weirdo like that XD
There was a fantastic dress (totally should have come in at least 3rd in the masquerade imo) at LFCC where the girl had made from scratch a ballgown which was the Tardis, ok, it wasn't the best sewing job if you looked up close, but it was a fantastic idea, and really well done.
anyway. rambled for a bit now :)
I think part of it comes down to experience, and learning about what fabric is right to use. I've tried making dresses in my inexperience with fabric that i didn't know how to work with properly. the result was seems bursting a couple hours after wearing it.
you learn what went wrong, you learn what works, and you develop from there. sometimes making a costume isn't just about making it from scratch. it could be about sourcing bits and bobs from different places such as charity shops, and piecing it together and then adding little bits to finish it off. such as a plain black coat can be very easily made steampunk buy accessorising it with chains, cogs, wheels, compass...
sometimes, it's about taking a concept and thinking how can i make that into a dress? Last year i made myself a gameboy dress. i went to the level of actually printing out a tetris screenshot on t-shirt transfer, and i was pretty pleased with the results. I've a concept in mind at some point to make a dress inspired by a wiimote... cause i'm a weirdo like that XD
There was a fantastic dress (totally should have come in at least 3rd in the masquerade imo) at LFCC where the girl had made from scratch a ballgown which was the Tardis, ok, it wasn't the best sewing job if you looked up close, but it was a fantastic idea, and really well done.
anyway. rambled for a bit now :)
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Posted 25 August 2012 - 12:48 AM
intrest is the best teacher and come on
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