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Personal Gallery - Award-Winning Anime Replicas
These costumes in particular were entered into masquerade competition and won awards. I still compete, but not
as often, primarily sticking to International-level competition such as CostumeCon. More often you can find me judging - or directing! See me in action at Costume-Con 34 in Madison, WI!
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The King
Shirogane No Ou |
My goal with this costume was to find a manga-only character design and re-create it solely in black, white, and grayscale, as if it came straight off the manga page.
I found the Shirogane No Ou manga and loved it immediately, and decided to go with King, because of his luxurious style of dress and the fluffy wolf pelt, Fenrir, who sits on his shoulder. It was a very complicated costume to make in three main parts:
the gray tunic with overlapping tails, the black coat with armored cuffs, and the mantle with furry trim. Of course, I also hand-made the shirt, pants, boots, and Fenrir as well.
Costume highlights:
- all pieces are natural fibers: wool, linen, and cotton, except for the fur
- additonal details are a combination of pieced sewing, embroidery, and plastic work
- Fenrir is mostly faux fur (3 different piles) but his muzzle and paws are silk velvet
Awards:
- Workmanship Award "Best Fit and Finish," Archon 2012
- Best Anime, Archon 2012
- Workmanship Medal, Honorable Mention, CONvergence 2012
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Haruka (Traditional)
Tactics |
Two friends and I put together a group for a masquerade competition, and decided that these characters' traditional Japanese outfits would be more impressive than their other versions. This was my first foray into wings - they are fully feathered front-to-back, and feature a spring-loaded elbow joint so I can draw them in to pass through doorways and curtains, and then let go and have them spring open. The only purchased item in the costume is the geta sandals.
Costume highlights:
- sash is fully pieced - no appliqué, no paint, no visible stitches
- kimono are modified to include a train and bell/drop sleeves instead of square
Awards:
- Best Ensemble for "Black Tengu", Archon 2008
- Best Anime, Archon 2008
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Magician of Black Chaos
Yu-Gi-Oh |
The monsters of Yu-Gi-Oh (anime and card game) can be very complicated, very beautiful, and very challenging. I don't know what possessed me to do MBC, but he is a fantastic monster and once I got started, I knew he could really be something. Six straight weeks of work brought him to life.
Costume highlights:
- Bodysuit is real stretch pleather, in two parts connected only by the waist ring
- 86 gold studs in three sizes, 20 D-rings, and 2 functional buckles went into the straps
- Hat is made from Rigidwrap (plaster), newspaper, and two kinds of air-drying clay
- Staff really lights up! 3 LED lights wired inside plastic orb
Awards:
- Best in Class, Journeyman - CONvergence 07
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Shuuhei Hisagi
Academy Student
Bleach |
The men's shinigami academy uniform is more...well, uniform than the officers' shihakusho. Like the black shihakusho, I went with linen for the shitagi and matching hakama, but picked an opaque white bottomweight to give the kosode some drape and make sure that the shitagi wasn't glaringly visible through the white. I love this uniform, it's so comfortable and I have less makeup to apply.
Costume highlights:
- stripes on sleeves are appliquéd, made from the same linen as shitagi
- hakama feature modesty panels as seen in one episode reference
Awards:
- Hall Costume Ribbon at CostumeCon 28, 2010
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Legendary Hero Yugi
Yu-Gi-Oh |
I am proud to claim that I am the first, and possibly only, person to ever complete and show this version of Yugi, from a 3-episode arc involving an RPG. The armor was difficult to make, but I love it to pieces.
Costume highlights:
- Armor is sintra plastic, sanded and painted with Krylon
- Gloves and boot covers are a poly suede custom-dye sublimated at my workplace
- Duel disk is all wood, most pieces found as-is at Hobby Lobby, with a sintra arm guard
Awards:
- Workmanship Medal, CONvergence 05
- Best In Show, FilmCon 05
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Yugi (Duelist Kingdom)
Yu-Gi-Oh |
This version of Yugi has special meaning for me because it was the Yugi costume that most caught my fancy. I'm quite proud of it as this is definitely one costume I put my heart and soul into.
For more information on the wig and gloves, see the Props listing below.
Costume highlights:
- School jacket is fully lined, with accurate sleeve straps and collar detail
- "Bondage vest" is nylon, buckles are found items but I had to make the belt tips
Awards:
- Hall Cosplay Medal at AnimeIowa 2004
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Genjo Sanzo
Gensomaden Saiyuki |
It took me a couple of years to stop being lazy and complete this costume. At first I went around without the armor and scripture, the robe down off my shoulders, but it is complete now. The wig also needed a couple of rounds before it came out right.
Costume highlights:
- Rakusu (bamboo armor) is only plastic, hand-painted to look like bamboo
- Maten scripture is fabric paint on muslin - the characters are from an actual Buddhist sutra
- Full-length kimono-style robe is a buttery-soft microfiber fabric
Awards:
- Hall Costume ribbon at CostumeCon 25, 2007
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Dende
Dragonball Z |
To fulfill my ambitions of becoming a Namek, I chose Dende, the young guardian of Earth and keeper of the Dragonballs,
knowing that I could easily pass for him in his adolescent size.
This costume is fairly simple--a white robe with attached cowl (which I designed), a maroon vest and dark blue
cotton pants. The challenge in this costume lay in the prosthetics and theatrical makeup.
Costume highlights:
- Namek muscle-shirt worn underneath the robe
- Lycra shirt dye-sublimated with the precise colors and muscle patterns as seen on screen
- Image was designed from scratch in Illustrator and dropped in the correct Pantone colors from screencaptures
- Designed to go up my neck and included gloves (eliminating the need for makeup too far down my neck or on my hands)
- Green bald cap and ears are latex, which I learned how to paint through The Monster Lab
- Antennae sculpted from Crayola Model Magic
Awards:
- Second place, anime contest at DragonCon 2003
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