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| OmegaDog
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|  "FansView: My cosplay costume at Nan Desu Kan"
, posted Tue 24 Sep 06:39
Whew... man, what a con. It was a small anime convention of about 1500 people, but it was awesome regardless and quite memorable; I'm very thankful for it.
Anyway, the photographer for A Fan's View was able to take a few pics of the cosplay costume I was able to complete for Nan Desu Kan, a two-footed rendition of Tiger from Tecmo's Monster Rancher series (or, as known in Japan, Ryger from Tecmo's Monster Farm series). [If you're unfamiliar, it's essentially a blue-and-white wolf with horns and a mane.] Some rough spots can definitely be told; for instance, the face does have symmetry issues. However, given my limited experience building costumes and the little amount of time I was able to give myself to build the costume, along with the complexity of the costume itself, I'm actually pretty happy with the way the costume turned out. The costume didn't win any costume contest awards, as the competition was pretty tough with some creative entries (although, I'm surprised an awesome Gundam Deathscythe mecha costume didn't even place...). Regardless, though, a whole lot of con-goers and staff enjoyed the costume -- I got stopped often for photo ops and the occasional hug. (For the older folks, I just did a quick one-arm macho-kinda hug so as to not get too out of character -- but for little kids, I just gave 'em a full-fledged hug.) There was even one toddler who wanted me to pose so she could draw the character in her little book (so cuuute...! ... heh heh -- sorry. I love kids. ;] ).
Also from staff, I won a few Hall Costume awards. They're little more than small buttons with little SD anime characters, but still cool looking. ;)
Anyway, here are the pics from A Fan's View. The costume definitely does have faults, and I do need to work on my poses -- but, still, it's experience building, I suppose.
http://www.fansview.com/2002/nandesukan/nd21b.html
http://www.fansview.com/2002/nandesukan/nd21b0005.html
(The Manga Spawn in one of the photos took several awards. The Fan's View person -- who seems to be a professional photographer -- had us pose in the same photo.)
(Heh -- it looks like he's about to impale me... ;] )
http://www.fansview.com/2002/nandesukan/nd21d0003.html
[By the way -- the costume body is all foam padding. I'm actually really thin. ;) ]
Overall, it was a great con. A lot of cool panels, a lot of cool people, cool games (Neo Geo machine, CPS2 machine, and a 4-player TMNT machine all on free-play -- even if TMNT isn't from Japan -- plus all different sorts of machines hooked up). Also -- I won a small round-robin tournament of FF:MOTW, and I ended up getting a Golden Joystick award (a small cool-looking trophy shaped like a joystick), plus some Initial D remote control cars as my prize. (Heh -- and, I should note that sometimes, I came to the video game room in full costume and played DDR. The folks in the video game room -- a sizeable number -- seemed to love it. ;] )
Whew, though -- Monday, it was back to my academics, and now that I may actually have free time soon, sometime soon I'll actually begin playing KOF 2000 and Ikaruga, which I've had for a few weeks. ;)
I'll see if, later, one of my hallmates can take some higher-res photos -- I'd promised the folks on my wing of the dorm hall that I'd show the costume to them, since I was always locked up in my room working on the costume (and since I'm pretty good friends with my hallmates). ;) One of my hallmates has a digital camera -- so he may take pics. That's if there's time... I'll post 'em later if there's the opportunity.
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| OmegaDog
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|  "Re(2):FansView: My cosplay costume at Nan Des"
, posted Tue 24 Sep 18:36
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Wow, nice going, that's impressive work. How much does that costume weigh? For all I know it could be rather light but that thing looks like it would be hard to wear for long stretches of time.
I really don't know how much exactly, but I can say the costume does weigh a good amount, at least when I was carrying it by hand. But it's really not noticeable one I'm inside the costume, as the weight of the costume is distributed throughout the whole body. The structure of the head itself is made from some craft foam and closed-cell foam, which is pretty light material.
And actually, the costume was quite comfortable. Besides the fact that I have a high heat tolerance (I even sleep in the summer with heavy covers), the costume is pretty well ventilated despite being head-to-toe in foam; any breeze that came through instantly cooled me. I wore the costume for several hours each day -- I think the most amount of time I wore the complete costume without taking it off was for six hours on Saturday night (during the costume contest). [ I would only wear the costume for as long as folks were interested in it -- but as it turned out, there always seemed to be folks who were interested, right to the end of the con on Sunday evening. I'd say I spent more of the con in costume than without, and there were always folks asking for photos and whatnot. Heh heh -- not that I really minded. ;) ]
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At one time 1500 people was a large anime convention. Its too bad that some conventions are so bloated now.  
Hmm... maybe the size was part of the reason why people enjoyed this so much. Also, though -- I don't have much else to compare it with but still, in my opinion, this con is really well executed.
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| OmegaDog
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| "Cosplay project page up: more info, images" , posted Sat 28 Sep 15:27
Whew... I've been working on this page all morning and all day to this point. This is mainly a page about my cosplay costume project, but it includes info on the game & animation series, as well as the character, for those interested. (Plus, info is there on how I got started on the project in the first place.)
cosplay / Tiger from Tecmo's Monster Rancher
Any problems, incorrect statements, etc. that you see, or suggestions that you want to make, let me know here. Thanks! :)
(... man, now to eat something today...)
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