Cosplay
So I saw a couple cosplay pictures while looking through the "What do you look like" thread. Anyone else out there a cosplayer, and if so which characters do you cosplay/plan on cosplaying?
General sharing pictures/advice thread go!
Oh, and here's some pictures of my recent costumes:
Sniper from Team Fortress 2
Scout from Team Fortress 2
Haine Rammsteiner from DOGS: Bullets & Carnage
I'm planning on cosplaying Guybrush to PAX 2010 with my buddy Giant Tope as Winslow.
Show me your pics!
General sharing pictures/advice thread go!
Oh, and here's some pictures of my recent costumes:
Sniper from Team Fortress 2
Scout from Team Fortress 2
Haine Rammsteiner from DOGS: Bullets & Carnage
I'm planning on cosplaying Guybrush to PAX 2010 with my buddy Giant Tope as Winslow.
Show me your pics!
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In order:
No costume
Kakashi from Naruto
Huhges from Fullmetal Alchemist (which I don't even watch and was talked into)
Aion from Chrono Crusade
Xehanort's Guardian from Kingdom Hearts
Benitora from Samurai Deeper Kyo
Kazu from .hack
Gai from Naruto
Don Kanonji from Bleach
Paper Mario
A generic Yu-Gi-Oh duelist
BLU Spy from TF2
And Dr. Salvador from Resident Evil 4
And here's what I can find for pictures:
Kakashi
Xehanort's Guardian
Kazu
Gai
Don Kanonji
Paper Mario
The generic duelist was because I was going to cosplay as Kaiba but didn't finish the costume, so I brought the duel disk for a lazy Sunday costume. I plan on trying to do that one next year.
For this year, I plan on going as the BLU Spy from TF2. I've even been practicing with a butterfly knife and plan to use a butterfly trainer to do tricks. My friends will be going as the BLU Sniper, Scout, and a female Medic and a RED Engineer. Right now, my snag with the costume is trying to find blue pinstripe material the right color.
Atrus. Nobody at PAX seemed to recognize (or notice, really) my costume. People thought the book was cool though.
L. I miss that wig.
Sam. I wish I had painted that gun
Yeaaah, my fiancee cosplayed the RED Spy to Sakura Con this year, and she ended up pinstriping her own material to make the suit out of, simply because the Spy colors just don't exist. The cut of his suit is also pretty odd.
P.S. You make an amazing Gai Sensei. Th-those brows.
Also, LuigiHann- Your Atrus is amazing! That book blew me away.
Also, that and Kanonji were from the year of "costumes nobody in their right mind would do". I'm not sure if I'm proud or ashamed that I pulled off Gai so well...
And your costumes were great too, even the third one that I don't recognize!
Oh ho, toupee tape you say? I used liquid latex to attach those sideburns on when I did Sniper this year, and I really don't want to go through that process again for PAX, so perhaps I should look into this toupee tape. Or sock glue, whichever is cheaper I suppose.
Also, yeah, that third one's a bit obscure. But it's from a really good seinen manga, if you're in to that kind of thing. Thanks so much!
I wouldn't know where to begin getting the right clothes.
Usually I start at the thrift store. Well, that is, if it's even feasible to find the character's clothing there. If you have some sewing knowledge then it's mostly about finding patterns that you could alter, or (in my case) making patterns from newspaper.
There are also many eBay stores that sell full costumes, but it's usually better to commission one if you know someone who can sew (for a better fit).
If you tell me which character you're thinking of cosplaying then I can try to make my advice a bit more specific. Cosplaying is a really fun hobby, although very expensive...
Incidentally, I found an original copy of Monkey Island 2 while I was costume shopping at a thrift store that year. Totally complete in the box except for the code wheel.
But anyway, my favorite is Kazu. The top part of the white layer is actually two pieces made of three shirts. Underneath is a sleeveless white shirt with a tank top sewn to the neck and turned into a hood. Over that, I wear what used to be a white button-down shirt with the buttons removed replaced with velcro, and of course the red pattern added. And the skirt is actually from a pattern we had laying around from when my sister needed a poodle skirt in elementary school. Overall, it worked out perfectly and it's one of my favorite costumes.
So yeah, I absolutely agree with the thrift store method of costume assembly.
You were the sniper? Awesome cosplay! I worship you.
I keep saying I'll cosplay, but I'm not a great actress and I'm always worried I'll look nothing like the characters I cosplay. Also, males are hard to cosplay when you've got big breasts. I bought a... I forget the nae, a shirt that compresses the breasts, that I found on a FtM site. Well, not only did that hurt a lot, but even when being careful about how I wore it, placed everything under it, etc, I still looked like I was a D cup or something.
I guess I might be able to cosplay fat men :P Or gender-bender versions.
If you mean me, my tongue's not nearly that long :P
Quina's an awesome character though. In the French version it's a female, by the way.
I'm partial to Auron, though my arms are only half his size.
Well, they had to change all the dialogue since they needed to translate it all
Lines that are specifically about Quina's ambiguous gender were probably changed into other comments. Quina is weird enough that there is no shortage of that.
It would have been pretty hard to keep it genderless, at any rate, since adjectives take gender in French, meaning that if you say "I'm happy" (or, I guess Quina would say "I happy" lol), "happy" isn't the same word if you're male or female.
I guess one way they could have done it is to have Quina change gender constantly when talking, using female and male words equally. Then it would have been confusing and one could wonder about his/her gender, I guess.
A fake tongue shouldn't be much of a problem. Convincingly eating whole frogs might, though.
Wouldn't that count as cannibalism for me?
I'm sure chocolate frogs could be arranged
But how would you imitate the medic's accent????
Also Quina from FFIX, while I don't think it was outright stated, I thought it was heavily implied that she was Female. Although for the most part they didn't know her gender so it was (s)he.
Thanks!
Oh man I want a compression shirt, I've always used ACE bandages.
I have seen women who were F cups become pretty flat through binding, so I'm pretty sure anyone can do it (unless it just hurts too much). You might try the compression shirt with two double-wide ACE bandages on top (pinned to the shirt if necessary). Or, you know, just cosplay girl characters!
Also, Katsuro, you could just pull your hair back and tuck it into your coat. Alternatively, you could get one of his unlockable hats and tuck your hair up into it (hairnets and tons of bobby pins would help).
I think what I really needed was someone to help me lol. I was doing it all alone and sometimes that's just not possible.
But I've never actually cosplayed (only planned to), so I think I'd have more confidence starting with someone I feel I can pull off. So, probably a female I guess. Also, I think I'd need to be part of a group for motivation, and because it just sounds like much more fun to be cosplaying together
It's still possible to bind. (see kibs's post) Just don't do anything requiring side binding, because you'll die.
By "side biding", to you mean the side of my breasts or something else?
Because making my torso flat is super easy in itself, but then I can't lower my arms anymore
Great Sam!
And that book looks really cool ... but it just seems to be empty except that picture.
Suro: you can wear a wig. just be medic. plz.
... actually an audio clip of you saying "hello frauleins" is satisfactory as well.
An example to illustrate the point.
I've also used this technique for some other costumes, including Nick from L4D2. Please heed my advice and tape the shirt to your chest if it's a windy day outside.
Could there be a trick of some sort, like wearing a flesh-coloured shirt, for when only a small amount of skin shows?
The closest I have done to cosplaying is dressing as Ryu (Street Fighter) for a halloween party.
As for me, I've yet to do anything Telltale related- I had to cosplay for a previous job I had a few years ago but really haven't done much aside from some kimono commissions since. I started a Tales Guybrush cosplay, but them I left my sewing machine behind when I moved to Japan. I hand-sewed one Persona 4 cosplay since, but that was a pain in the butt. When I move back to the United States after I finish college I'm planning on finishing the Guybrush costume and hope to make my first mascot-style cosplay- Max.
oh yeah here it is.
Thanks. Somebody can lock this one.