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Post by edelric on Mar 2, 2009 15:26:50 GMT 10
Lady's and gentleman its official Ballarat will have its first cosplay comp on July 4th at the university of Ballarat. the judges are so far RAY from vagabond, and ROWAN our vary own halo cosplayer, the third judge is yet to be announced. and any further info i have will be posted on this thread. so get you cosplays together and get ready for a good time  |
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Post by p0rtalman on Mar 3, 2009 9:00:59 GMT 10
Here's some tips for anyone starting a cosplay for this, or any other competition: 1. Purchased cosplays generally don't win against a hand made costume of the same caliber. That does not mean you have to make everything, not having made accessories like a naruto head band or a ring the character wears is fine. 2. When your making your costume you can tell how much effort has gone into it. So put the extra effort in, spend the extra $20 to get the nicer fabric, it shows in the end. 3. Props do wonders for a cosplay. If your character has a gun or sword make it! Even if you don't use it in your skit, if the judges know you put the effort into the characters signature gun or throwing knife, it will win you points. 4. Artistic license is good. The characters we cosplay are animated (well, most of them are). So a lot of their costume it open to artistic interpretation. So just because some other people made the costume one way, doesn't mean you have to do it the same way. 5. Its all in the details. If your character has something inscribed on the bottom of their shoes, put it on the bottom of your shoe!! Skits: Short and sweet is better. There's nothing worse than a skit that gets boring. Just because there's a max time limit for skits does NOT mean you have to use all that time. My skit for the madman national comp is 20 seconds. Since this is the first cosplay comp ill be judging i asked a friend of mine for some advice. He's been a judge for the WCS, the madman national comp and heaps of other competitions. The first piece of advice he gave me was: Be an *profanity*, find every little mistake. So watch out. ;D (It's okay, ill be nice, but ill still be looking for every little mistake in your cosplays  |
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Post by edelric on Mar 5, 2009 21:48:13 GMT 10
be nice cos i know i'm not perfect, also on the note of brought cosplays, i have seen some awful ones and some fantastic ones. and just a tip cosplay characters ur comfortable as, it makes the costume sit better on u as a cosplayer. for example if any one has seen kyo kara moah i cosplayed gunter von chrest hes well lets say "as gay as gay can be" so i had fun running around as him and being a space cadet, the character sat well with my personalty as well, completly nuts. it also shows if ur comfortable in what ur wearing and last just relax  |
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Post by p0rtalman on Mar 6, 2009 12:10:46 GMT 10
True, there are some fantastic purchased cosplays out there.
We need to work out some kind of scoring system, ill ask my friend Zerebin (the judge i was talking about) what is normally the layout used in comps.
I would imagine its somthing like:
Costume- out of 10
performance- out of 5 or 10
how fathful they are to the character- out of 5 or 10.
Thoughts?
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Post by edelric on Mar 7, 2009 14:05:33 GMT 10
well on the supernova weekend i'm getting together with a friend whos helped orgnise cosplay comps b4 and gettong tips. she'll also be my co-host
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Post by p0rtalman on Mar 7, 2009 22:54:55 GMT 10
Cool. The Hosts are the MC's right?
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Post by edelric on Mar 10, 2009 8:07:21 GMT 10
yep thats right
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Post by RAVE420 on Mar 10, 2009 11:53:03 GMT 10
how are you going to do entry stuff? just let people rock up and go infront of everyone? or will there be a system to it?
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Post by edelric on Mar 14, 2009 15:39:43 GMT 10
there will be a system thats still being sorted and pre reg would be better then just showing up and expecting to be it, but that said there will be some time set aside for on the day entrys
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Post by RAVE420 on Mar 16, 2009 15:47:04 GMT 10
sounds like a good idea, it would be great to have some extra people coming and giving it a go
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Post by edelric on Mar 18, 2009 18:44:55 GMT 10
just posted an invite to our humble comp for melbourne cosplayers on the manifest web site, this should b fun
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Post by p0rtalman on Mar 18, 2009 19:15:12 GMT 10
You should post if on the supanova and animania forums too, might want to ask permission on the supanova forums first though.
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Post by edelric on Mar 20, 2009 13:32:13 GMT 10
yeah got in truble for not asking the manifst people about posting it on their forum  |
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Post by p0rtalman on Mar 20, 2009 21:45:34 GMT 10
yeah i saw that, perhaps if you ask them really, really nicely they might even put it up on the front page of their site, in the little blog type update thing...
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Post by edelric on Mar 25, 2009 16:20:46 GMT 10
good ider i think i will
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