Cosplayer: Rich and Bronwyn Ellis

Character: Al and Ed

Photographer:

Description:

Alphonse - this was my first cosplay and first foray into working with foam after watching an Evil Ted Smith video on how to make a helmet. This is what got me hooked on making cosplay, Made out of floor mats, Barge cement, sealed with Balloon Latex and painted with Automotive and Acrylic paint. Shoes started out as a pair of Crocks. Patterns made by trial and error but typically started by wrapping myself in Saran and Duct tape to get the basic shapes and contours. I later added red LEDs to the eyes.

Edward - Bronwyn did all the pattern making and sewing herself on the upper body. The artificial hand was made with Worbla. I think the pants are just a basic pair of black pants. I think the shoes came from AMI Clubwear and she painted the soles red. The wig was from Arda.

Cosplayer: Snowsong Cosplay

Character: Maria

Photographer: Cosplay in America and Destinee Gibson

Description: All pieces patterned by hand (no commercial patterns) by hand draping for fabric and duct tape patterns for armor. Fabrics: suedecloth, natural silk, synthetic brocade, with upholstery cord attached by hand using invisible couching stitch. Armor and lance prop made from craft foam, resin, hand mixed metallic paint, with hot glue and googly eyes details. Wig styled from scratch by stubbing a skin top wig and adding weft strips. Dress uses corset lacing style closure. Armor attaches using magnet snaps and hooks. Lance disassembles in 2 pieces for travel. Boots are fully mobile and collapsible.

Cosplayer: Whisper Dragon Cosplay

Character: Arkham Knight Batman Beyond

Photographer: Selena Perez

Description: It is 3D printed on my Lulzbot Taz 5 and Taz 6 using Colorfabb's Ngen filament. File is from DoD, and took a whole month to edit, slice and adjust everything to be ready to print. It took over 800hrs of non stop printing on both printers. Another 3 months was spent assembling, sanding, painting adding LED's, and making the fabric/leather pieces.

Cosplayer: OSL cosplay

Character: Jack Rutherford

Photographer: CourteX Studios

Description: The aesthetic of the cosplay was what big drew to me. It involved a lot of attention to detail and an extremely detailed character at that. The sword was a mix of fiberglass and resin coated pink insolation foam. The details of the sword were made with PVC , copper wires coved with thin strips of craft foam with a coat of platidip for texture on them. the sword was painted with two silver tones with some black highlights. The jacket had a lot of elements involved to put together and was one of the most complicated pieces. I had to make decorations for the arms and back and other details with EVA foam so a great deal of dremeling and refining was needed. I used lot of pleather and light leather for the shoulder details and also made many leather straps. The suit was not too hard but had a lot of extra additions as well. I made them with EVA foam and worbla. The more numerous ones were casted and glued on and I also made some for the jacket as well. The wig was a lot of work to style but a found a tutorial that showed me a good way to make the hairline on a none lace front facing wig. I used green ink mixed with rubbing alcohol to dye the highlights. Minus the shoes with some small additions the only other item that required a lot of time was the jack’s mask. I had to do a lot of dremeling and was made with PVC, dryer hose’s and red and blue wire for the Filter and hose. Many coats of paint were done to get the right effect as well. The whole project took just shy of a 6 and a half weeks to make and 2 weeks each dedicated to the Sword and jacket

Cosplayer: Kyle Varney

Character: Alarak

Photographer: Kyung Yun Park

Description:Alarak was created to debut and participate at Blizzcon and their cosplay contest. He was created over a period of a year to with the help of a few family members during the last month or two to complete him before Blizzcon. He is fabricated using EVA foam coated in Flexbond that has been smoothed and coated in plastidip. The only thing that is not foam is his face piece which was sculpted and casted in a plastic and his gems which were formed using clear worbla.

Cosplayer: Drizzy Designs

Character: Maleficent

Photographer: LensPaperScissors

Description: This Maleficent build has been one of my dream cosplay's ever since I saw the movie. Its complete with fully animatronic wings that extend up to 13 feet from tip to tip and hand sculpted horns. The frame of the wings is made of hand cut aluminum and each large feather was hand made. The wings are controlled by 2 linear actuators that are wired into a 2 radio circuit board. They open and close with the touch of a button from a keyfob. The feather "sleeves" are made of real goose feathers and turkey feathers. The horns where hand sculpted by me in NSP medium Chavant clay. I then molded them in silicone and cast them in resin. The dress is made from bed sheets that were hand dyed using tea and coffee and then weathered with and airbrush.

Cosplayer: Yokaze Cosplay

Costume: Zhengji

Photographer: Chiseled Light Photography

Description:

I made the dress by embroidering chiffon with the black and metallic gold thread. All of the silk was white and I dyed everything iridescent ombre using 4 different dye baths. It is lined with black satin and has muslin with boning and bra pads sewn in for structure. The silk was then attached after adding the Phoenix, which I embroidered in pieces and put together like a giant patch. The ruffles were chiffon sewn in half and then made to frill out, then sewn between the silk and inner dress structure. Trim was made from fabric folded to create own bias tape. The trim around the chest was blue satin, white satin, and gold satin appliqued using steam-a-seam and then carefully stitched to hold. This was difficult because of the bra padding as you can't really use a sewing machine nor can you iron that flat.

The jacket was the most difficult piece to make. The dye job had to match the dress and I also had to guess on the color for the sleeve to match the lower sleeve section. This was embroidered and multi hooped which has to be the worst time consuming thing on the planet. Once that was complete I lined the whole thing with white jersey fabric using steam-a-seam and then spent hours lining up the already embroidered sleeves to do the scales. I then cut out the jacket pieces and surged them together. The round floofy sleeve pieces were hemmed using a serger with a roll hem and then serged onto the jacket. There is the solid upper piece and two silk organza pieces to make up the sleeve. The collar was embroidered and added to finish it off.

Shoes were stripped black leather which was painstakingly redyed purple and gold and then sealed with leather gloss. The feathers were arranged using hot glue and stay on the dress via safety pins or hair clips. Jewelry was made from black worbla and painted with gold leaf. Gloves and nylons are bought.