RE: The Madman Cosplay National Final
Nov. 10th, 2011 11:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rallamajoopI'll get to writing a proper post about it when I've caught up on a little more sleep, but for now I will share this much:
Guys, the Madman finals are not only the biggest cosplay event we have ever entered, they are the biggest cosplay competition held anywhere in the country short of the World Cosplay Summit, and the standard among our fellow competitors absolutely lived up to that, and did I mention the grand prize to this thing includes a trip for two to Japan? It's just so ridiculously flattering even to have placed in this thing, let alone won.
It's been a hell of a rollercoaster job getting everything done over the last few months, but that's a story for that longer post. In the meantime have a link to the video of the whole event here (sound doesn't work for the first five minutes but is fine after that; we're on second last), and a couple of photos.
This would have to be my favourite solo pic of my Waka costume we got over the weekend. Making those wings to go poing at the pull of a string and getting the flutesabre to work collectively accounted for about 80% of the work in this thing.
And yes, I really was wearing these shoes - though for obvious reasons, I didn't put them on until after we'd finished our skit.
Finally, I would be remiss not to share a pic of the real winner of the 2011 Madman Final, her adorable fluffyness puppet-Amaterasu. (There were a couple of humans standing behind her on stage some of the time, but they weren't important.)
More can be found over on Lisa's Devart as we get around to uploading them.
Guys, the Madman finals are not only the biggest cosplay event we have ever entered, they are the biggest cosplay competition held anywhere in the country short of the World Cosplay Summit, and the standard among our fellow competitors absolutely lived up to that, and did I mention the grand prize to this thing includes a trip for two to Japan? It's just so ridiculously flattering even to have placed in this thing, let alone won.
It's been a hell of a rollercoaster job getting everything done over the last few months, but that's a story for that longer post. In the meantime have a link to the video of the whole event here (sound doesn't work for the first five minutes but is fine after that; we're on second last), and a couple of photos.
This would have to be my favourite solo pic of my Waka costume we got over the weekend. Making those wings to go poing at the pull of a string and getting the flutesabre to work collectively accounted for about 80% of the work in this thing.
And yes, I really was wearing these shoes - though for obvious reasons, I didn't put them on until after we'd finished our skit.
Finally, I would be remiss not to share a pic of the real winner of the 2011 Madman Final, her adorable fluffyness puppet-Amaterasu. (There were a couple of humans standing behind her on stage some of the time, but they weren't important.)
More can be found over on Lisa's Devart as we get around to uploading them.