/cos/ - Cosplay / Conventions

>>1589
>The reason why she was the best though is she never stopped for pictures or to talk, she always kept walking no matter how you tried to get her attention, and always looked down.
Yeah, for me it seems that not many people understand that cosplaying involves getting into character, not just wearing the clothes.
It always puts me off when I see cosplayers posing in cliched ways and expecting it to be okay when it's completely off character

>>1591
yeah, the dissonance between character and cosplayer expectations can be frustrating in both directions.

When I wore Madotsuki at comiccon a few years back, I overheard a few guys walking away from me and complaining that I had my eyes open. Something along the lines of "The REAL Mado would have her eyes closed!"
I'm not sure if they meant in photos, which is reasonable, or that I had them open while I was walking around, which would be ridiculous.
I had forgotten that I probably should have eyes closed during photos, so after hearing that comment, I kept my eyes closed whenever someone asked for a photo for the rest of the day. And guess what? Literally everyone said "Oh, I'm sorry, your eyes were closed, let me take it again."

Another time was when I cosplayed Stocking Anarchy at the anime club's Halloween party. There was a costume contest where we were supposed to walk out like it was a runway. I thought it would be funny to instead just keep going until I reached the snack table at the back of the room and grab some cupcakes. The real Stocking wouldn't give a crap about posing, she would just want to grab some sweets!
yeah…nobody got it. The club president was shouting "No, little one, you're going the wrong way! You're supposed to walk over here!"


Sometimes staying in character can confuse people…

>>1592
>I had forgotten that I probably should have eyes closed during photos, so after hearing that comment, I kept my eyes closed whenever someone asked for a photo for the rest of the day. And guess what? Literally everyone said "Oh, I'm sorry, your eyes were closed, let me take it again."
Sounds like they didn't really know who Mado is.

>yeah…nobody got it. The club president was shouting "No, little one, you're going the wrong way! You're supposed to walk over here!"
>Sometimes staying in character can confuse people…
More like they're fucking ignorant of how the character behaves, which reinforces what I said. People believe cosplaying is wearing clothes and posing, which it fucking isn't, so they skip all the personality traits because "OH LOOK I JUST GOT THE CLOTHES SO ITS OKAY TO POSE AS A SLUT EVEN IF THIS CHARACTER IS INTROVERT LOL". If I see a Rei doing a fucking duckface, I will want to hit her hard in the face, no matter how well done the clothes are. That isn't cosplaying, that's bullshit closer to modeling with certain clothes than anything at all.

Honestly, I enjoy the teigeki shows a fucking lot even when the characters aren't well represented by their 3D counterparts (Real actors are smaller/bigger than the 2D versions, for example) because they manage to convey their character's personalities perfectly.

>>1591
>>1592

not necessarily
in like a masquerade or contest yes but like, if you're just walking around the con it's kind of… awkward
the only people who have tried to speak to me IC have been… bad vibes
i'm absolutely down if it's the right kind of situation or if they just make in-character jokes (all the piss jokes as hana. aaaaall of them) but otherwise i'm there to see people and get wrecked and shamelessly dress like a tard for a few days

also booger that stocking story is so freaking cute oh my god okay done

>>1602
oh man good point, cosplayers acting in character for characters that are mean or obnoxious is really annoying. The whole WACKY DEADPOOL COSPLAYER thing at conventions got old so fast.
There was a slenderman at that comiccon (it was 2012 so that was a relevant thing back then) that maintained a really cool balance between acting and having fun. he moved really slow and stiff and never talked, but someone with a boombox started a spontaneous dance party. Slenderman was just kind of standing in the middle of it awkwardly (both funny and in character) during Gangnam style (AGAIN, it was 2012)
I went up to him and said COME ON, SLENDERMAN, YOU CAN DANCE! ITS EASY! and I danced next to him, and he just watched for a while, and then started doing the dance veeeerrrryyy sloooowwwlly. For the rest of the songs, he did awkward slow stiff versions of all of the dances. Minimal amount of movement. Tint tiny dance.
a little bit like this but slower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvmIByrcwAQ
slow stiff awkward slenderman dancing to caramelldansen was very interesting to watch.
Like yeah, dancing is very far out of Slenderman's character. But he never spoke or made a sound, and he moved like the character. While still being silly and having fun!

this might have been him but I'm not sure, there was like 3 slendermen that year

the shirt still looks really good tho

PS super cute leggings

>>1179

thanks!
they're over-the-knee socks on tights, in fact. as soon as i saw them, my mind screamed "yume nikki!!!!"

Minu nägu kui browsen uboachani ja näen Madotsuki cosplay'd JAFFily

I love seeing new cosplay posts in here, beautiful work on the sweater <3

Just realized that this isn't a new post but I've just never seen it yet ^^' still, love it though

That looks pretty cool.
I hate cons and it's not like I could even participate but good luck. Remember to hit retards in the head and scream "FREE SOFTWARE!".

Uroqt

I fucking wish

Very nice!

I hope you have fun.

SO MUCH BEAUTY ARCHIEVED!

holy shit

I think I saw your uboa at Sakuracon in 2014!

>>670
I was just thinking the same thing.
>>666
Those costumes are magnificent!
I haven't played Yume Nikki in a long while, but those look really good to me.

>>669
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>>667
These pics are just awesome. I like the style you always have in your pictures, like it's almost a screencap of a movie. They're always so enjoyable to look at.

>>670
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>>688

Thank you so much! We've really just been getting lucky with running into folks at cons that like our costumes enough to take some great shots to send our way. We don't know any photographers personally.

We're planning on doing a kind of mixed group next and there are a couple things I'm not sure about, so… !

Aoshiru. Picture very related. It will be at a very small event and I'll be wearing him for both days, probably. I could do a basic version for one of them, but I'd love to do the make-up for a more injured/scarred version. What do you guys think?

Oreko. I'm not sure what kind of texture her fins should have. Organic? Or mechanical like the rest of her helmet?

Lastly, Tako Otoko. We have a pretty good idea of what do do for his tentacles EXCEPT what we're going to make the suction cups out of.

>>666
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>>667
Holy mother of god that is fucking amazing. All my love.

>>424
I know this may be very old but i really am wanting to cosplay as Kaibutsu. Is it possible to personally contact the cosplay maker of that character? ^^;

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post when you're done! chaser cosplays are the best

no nice way to say this but uh, you're really overweight.

>>1195
Why the hell would you even say that at all????

>>1196
Why shouldn't someone mention something like that?

>>1198
I'm having a hard time believing that you sincerely asked that question. Really, you should know this by the time you're old enough to post on this board.

To actually answer your question I am going to redirect you to yahoo answers because I believe that is an appropriate place to get answers to questions of that quality.

https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110807015839AAVVG0g

>>1161
Flat mado is best mado

Now this is cool and original. Love it.

(Such a good cosplay and people are discussing the cosplayer's figure. OH COME ON. She's a pixel sprite, it could be anything.)

the irony of people trying to shame a person's appearance while they are cosplaying a character who probably went though similar issues

I love medamaude, nice job.

>>1165
theeeere it is

this is really cool though. what'd you make it out of?
and a little odd detail but i really like your boots

Wow that cosplay is awesome, great job!

This should really be in /cos/. Moved.

>>1154
thank you so much!!

>>1155
shoot, sorry about that!

ebay