The Lost Fabrics (of his cosplay costume) Part 1

The Lost Fabrics (of his cosplay costume) Part 1
Author: AponiJulián - Ivan Hendrick A. Felipe
Publisher: Ivan Hendrick A. Felipe
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2023-09-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 6210610005

This story is about the cosplayer that got his beloved cosplay costume stolen by the mysterious clan that seeking revenge to the world by misusing the BCI (Brain Computer Interface)! The story goes as he attempts to recover his beloved cosplay costume while saving the world at the same time! Does he would succeed on his mission?

Cosplay Fabric FX

Cosplay Fabric FX
Author: Julianna Franchini
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2022-10-25
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1644032384

Elevate your costume-making skills to the next level! Getting exactly the look you want and achieving knock-out special effects can be as simple as weathering or painting on fabric, but strategically damaging or adding paint to your costume can be intimidating - what if you get it wrong?! Many cosplayers are adept at sewing up costumes but have no idea how to add details and effects that help tell a story. Marquise Cubey (Juliana Franchini), a veteran cosplayer and industry expert, demystifies paint, tools, and techniques to help you add fabric painting and weathering to your arsenal of costume effects! Learn how to manipulate paint on fabric and add weathering to your arsenal of costume effects Create special effects like metal, dirt, burns, blood, wear and tear, and rust, plus shading techniques, with detailed how-to instructions Enhance your tiny details and give your props and costumes more dimension than ever

The Costume Making Guide

The Costume Making Guide
Author: Svetlana Quindt
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2016-12-12
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1440345163

Bring your cosplay dreams to life with your own two hands! The Best Cosplay Tutorial Guide Ever! Get ready to impress ordinary mortals with your superhuman costume-making skills. You can do it no matter what your experience level with this, the first full step-by-step technique book on cosplay--with no sewing! Internationally known cosplayer Kamui Cosplay (a.k.a. Svetlana Quindt) shows you how to easily create elaborate costumes and successful props out of items available at your local arts and craft or hardware stores: turn foam into a realistic axe, create a breastplate from scratch and use a glue gun to modify just about anything. You will even learn the best and most accessible techniques for working with specialty cosplay materials such as Worbla! Packed with more than 30 step-by-step demonstrations that teach the skills you need to bring all your favorite characters to life no matter the genre, Kamui Cosplay deconstructs the work that goes into making a complete costume, from the first thought to the final photo. Tutorials cover design planning, fabricating body armor, 3D painting techniques and more. Best of all, you can adapt every lesson to use in all future fandom projects spanning video games, books, anime, movies and even your own original characters! Includes: • How to choose a costume and find good reference art • A short shopping list of necessary materials and tools for beginning cosplayers • Basic safety tips • A beautiful photo gallery featuring inspiring images from other cosplayers • Next steps--how to grow your workshop, take professional photos, participate in contests and join the cosplay community

Creating the Character Costume

Creating the Character Costume
Author: Cheralyn Lambeth
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2016-11-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1317597966

Many beginning and hobbyist costumers believe that professional costume/prop builders have unlimited and specialized resources with which to ply their craft. Actually, the pros create things in much the same way that hobbyists do, working as resourcefully and creatively as possible with a limited budget. Creating the Character Costume dives into these methods to showcase how to achieve expert looks with limited means and lots of creativity. Part One explores tools, materials, and construction methods.

Productive Fandom

Productive Fandom
Author: Nicolle Lamerichs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9789089649386

This book offers a media ethnography of the digital culture, conventions, and urban spaces associated with fandoms, arguing that fandom is an area of productive, creative, and subversive value.

Fake Geek Girls

Fake Geek Girls
Author: Suzanne Scott
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2019-04-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1479838608

Reveals the systematic marginalization of women within pop culture fan communities When Ghostbusters returned to the screen in 2016, some male fans of the original film boycotted the all-female adaptation of the cult classic, turning to Twitter to express their disapproval and making it clear that they considered the film’s “real” fans to be white, straight men. While extreme, these responses are far from unusual, with similar uproars around the female protagonists of the new Star Wars films to full-fledged geek culture wars and harassment campaigns, as exemplified by the #GamerGate controversy that began in 2014. Over the past decade, fan and geek culture has moved from the margins to the mainstream as fans have become tastemakers and promotional partners, with fan art transformed into official merchandise and fan fiction launching new franchises. But this shift has left some people behind. Suzanne Scott points to the ways in which the “men’s rights” movement and antifeminist pushback against “social justice warriors” connect to new mainstream fandom, where female casting in geek-nostalgia reboots is vilified and historically feminized forms of fan engagement—like cosplay and fan fiction—are treated as less worthy than male-dominant expressions of fandom like collection, possession, and cataloguing. While this gender bias harkens back to the origins of fandom itself, Fake Geek Girls contends that the current view of women in fandom as either inauthentic masqueraders or unwelcome interlopers has been tacitly endorsed by Hollywood franchises and the viewer demographics they selectively champion. It offers a view into the inner workings of how digital fan culture converges with old media and its biases in new and novel ways.

From Impressionism to Anime

From Impressionism to Anime
Author: Susan J. Napier
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2007-12-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781403962133

What is it about anime that is so appealing to a transnational fan base? Is the American attraction to anime similar to the popularity of previous fads of Japanese culture, like the Japonisants of fin-de-siecle France enamored of Japanese art and architecture, or the American poets in the fifties and sixties who latched onto haiku? Or is this something new, a product of global culture in which ethnic identities carry less weight? This book explores these issues by taking a look at anime fans and the place they occupy, both in terms of subculture in Japan and America, and in relation to Western perceptions of Japan since the late 1800s.

Steampunk & Cosplay Fashion Design & Illustration

Steampunk & Cosplay Fashion Design & Illustration
Author: Samantha Crossland
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2015-08-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1600584985

Offers tips, tricks, tools, and step-by-step instructions for designing and crafting steampunk fashion.