Singapore Toys Games and Comics Convention 2010! (Day 2)

Hi guys!! The Singapore Toys Games and Comics Convention have officially ended last weekend. It was a schedule packed weekend with 2 major events clashing each other.

Very pretty Loveless cosplay! Love the makeup!
Edit: Oh shit, how did I mixed them up?! They are cosplaying as Tokino and Konoe from Lamento. Thanks to Rika for telling!

As some of you might know, I was one of the Singapore representative for the Animax iPresent competition. So I didn’t really have the time and mood to do my own cosplays for Saturday.
Alright, I lied. I was just too lazy to cosplay (hey don’t judge me okay xD!) on Saturday. I didn’t even had time to enter the event hall so I don’t have much to say about the event. And because I have so little to say, I shall make up for it with better (photoshopped) photographs!

 

Sandplay of the Dragon team

Kamen Rider?

 

Okay, someone enlighten me. They had pokemon balls o.o

Edit: According to Sarah they are Pokemon Fisherman!

 

 

Gundam 00!

 

Hoshi and Xrystal as “Love is War” Kagamine Rin & Len.

With Yuanie and Sakurazaki who were both in the Vocaloid group!
Censored my face away because I was giving a crazy wry smile. Don’t wanna scar nobody with that pic o.o

Valerie as Kaito, hoshi as Rin, Noshuu and Meiko and yuanie as…….one of the new Vocaloid babe! ENLIGHTEN ME SOMEONE! I’m too lazy to google even @_@

Edit: Yuanie was cosplaying as Miki ^^;

 

Xrystal as Len

The full team!
Sakana as miku, Aya as Megu, Sera as Gakupod…….the rest you guys should know :D

Edit: People are commenting the more specific title is "Love is War: Eager Love Revenge group" ?

with my AFARCC partner and most annoying cosplayer partner ever; Zephyus. Big ass camwhore pic because she bribed me with $100!

 

with my lovely darling, Ototsuki/Inuran !

big ass photo of Raistlin and his pretteh boobies :D

Raistline cosplaying as Sanosuke Harada from Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan

 

Aya cosplaying as Megpoid, Love is War version!

 

Lennethxvii as the Red Queen

 

Banditying as the Cheshire cat! Steampunk version!

Cvy as the White rabbit

Peilin as the adorable Alice!

 

Jesuke and Ash as the twins! Tweedledee and Tweedledum

 

Verse-Reiyu as the Caterpillar (?), Xioaobai as the hare and……. someone enlighten me again T_T

Edit: Tsuyin as the Doormouse! Thanks to min for pointing out!

 

“Off with the head!”
Awesome rifle prop by jorlene!

And what do you mean it’s not fair the Alice-in-Wonderland steampunk team has nicer pictures?! I have no idea where you got that impression from!

I forgot who Ko (pretty girl who looks like an asian courtesan) was cosplaying as T_T

Edit: Ko was cosplaying as the Duchess! 

and I am forever amazed by how different I look in different pictures=_=

 

 

 

Firefox! i wonder if it was the same guy from SOYB….

 

 

Alright, ending my Photo pimps from Saturday here! Sunday’s event and iPresent competition report to come soon I hope! And oh yes, lovely giveaways!

Not satisfied with the photographs here? Check out the links below for more cosplay photo showcase =)

• http://blog.sgcafe.com/2010/12/stgcc-2010-solo-cosplay-competition/
• http://www.clubsnap.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=813259
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/teohyc/sets/72157625444696249/with/5249036373/
• http://blog.sgcafe.com/2010/12/stgcc-2010-mega-cosplay-coverage/

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Moonlit Mireille

In "Moonlit tea party", which is eleventh anime episode of Noir Mireille is wearing white men’s shirt. How convenient! I just happened to have one in my closet! Months ago I found a perfect tea cup from flea market and started to wonder if I should scrape together the tea party outfit. And yesterday I did. It's not much of a cosplay, but a nice snack in this current costume silence. I could have chosen a better occasion for the photoshoot, which pretty much contained me, camera, tripod and a cup of tee about 5 AM. Creativity doesn't ask for the time or the place!


With the shoot, I got an opportunity to see how the styled wig looked with contacts, fake lashes and make-up. The wig is years old, bought from Estonia. It's rather good quality, thick and easy to work with. Tangles fall from the wig with ease or then I just have the patience to comb wigs properly these days. The photos came up nice, even if the lighting was dim and I used my new camera first time with tripod and timing. But the atmosphere mediates. I really tried not to make it sleazy. Well... bed room sets are always sleazy!

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Cosplay Competition (Single) Part 1 STGCC 2010

A bit of preview of STGCC! kindly filmed, edited and uploaded by Xiongba!

This is a video of the Singles Cosplay held yesterday at the Singapore Toys Games and Comics Convention.

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What makes a Cosplay Photo popular?

I know I shouldn't be blogging about this as it is such a flammable topic, again. But in sight of the many Cosplay photo competition that have been popping up. All these competition just begs the question:

exactly what makes a cosplay photo POPULAR? 

 

 

Cosplay quality, photography, costume etcs aside. Let's focus on POPULARITY.

What do YOU think makes a cosplay photo popular? What makes a single picture stands out from the competition? Why do you think the winner of such competitions won/deserved to win?

feedback surveys

To be honest, I feel that smaller scale competition (most Cosplay competitions are small. Big scale would be stuffs on TV like American Idol etc).are very much waivered by the popularity of the cosplayer. And of course, their ability to garner their help to vote.

 Konata wonders why …

And even though I’m unwilling to say this… but I too feel that the looks of the subject is a determining factor 70% of the time. Let’s admit it, we all love eye candy. That’s why high profiled celebrities get paid so much. Because people like us are willing to shell out money to see/watch them. Or at the very least, pay attention to them or any publication/promotional medium they appear on. And that pulling factor in them is what outshines ‘normal people’.

Kyoko wants to be famous too… but for strange reasons

Of course, voting is not the most accurate/fair way of judging but it sure is the best and easiest way to garner attention to your event or organisation. And I guess it’s also more interactive for the participants =)

What do you feel about competitions that are based on a voting system? Comment and let me knowwwwwwwwwwwwww!

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Height issues

The six years elementary school lasts here in Finland were horrible for one of the tallest girls in the class. For lunch the class had to line up; short ones first, tall ones last. Sometimes the best bread had already run out when we tall girls got there. The boys were midgets compared to you. You couldn’t ask anyone to dance the slow songs in the disco and you really couldn’t have a crush, because it would have looked ridiculous if you walked hand in hand.

How I view my height today is quite the opposite. I'm comfortable of how tall I am. Me over fifteen years ago didn’t appreciate it, now I kind of love it. Still it took long time to change the way of thinking about a thing you really just need to accept at some point. With cosplay we take in consideration my and Yoki’s height when we choose characters. Usually it comes along rather naturally, we don’t over think it. As a duo we try to respect the height differences, even if we don’t match the heights exactly. Few of our planned cosplays we have dropped unnoticed because of differences were really off. These have been pairs, in which I would have cosplayed a character who is significantly shorter than Yoki’s.

I personally think that I would look really silly, if I even tried to cosplay some cute, little moe character, especially if the character is perceived as a cute, little moe. Some characters have such a strong image, that fighting against it seems futile for me. As an opposite example I must bring up Samara, who is a little girl killed at young age. Still I had no problem cosplaying her, because next to her scary looks the height simply didn’t matter that much. The height usually comes along, if it’s a descriptive feature of the character, like in cases of Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist or Allen Walker from D.Gray-man.

In animation and comics, preferably in Japanese ones height usually connects to age and gender. Tall characters are typically male or/and adults. This has probably caused us to crossplay a lot; I’m 174cm or 5.7 feet and Yoki is almost 169cm or about 5.5 feet. Only recently we have found female characters that we can cosplay and feel comfortable in with our bodies. There are strong ladies with a real body out there, sisters.

It doesn’t bother me to see two meter tall Luffy or short Kakashi. We don’t follow the characters sheets slavishly and twit others for not following them. But I must admit, that height issues gets to me sometimes. This happens when I see a great, accurate cosplay. I admiringly slide my eyes from nicely styled wig down to hand embroidered jacket, ribbon decorated velvet pants and BOOM! Dominatrix platform shoes! Like wee-tee-ef! Height is not that important that it should ruin a great ensemble. The illusion is more likely to break because of unsuitable shoes than ten missing cents. Again I call for proportions and self-esteem whether you are missing or having too many centimeters.

You can wear any color on your hair you like or change your eyes with a flip of the fingers. But one thing you can’t subtly change is your height. If I were to add any height for a character I would do it if I can hide the what ever I’m going to use to lift me higher. This would work great with long hems or capes. Or use heeled shoes which would resemble the characters footwear or fit the period of time or the spirit of the series. Photography offers many ways to fool the eye. With cropping, angles or taking the composition with many characters in consideration you can do miracles. If the feet doesn’t show pretty much anything can be used, like a stool to fake height.

So yeah, for a person who really doesn’t think about height, thinks about it awful lot. Doing accurate is a lot of fun. Still there are many things about cosplay you can stress out next to height, which really is something that you can’t do much about… other than stress of course. Height is a perspective thing to say the least.

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