Articles
Here on Cosplay Island as we're hoping to bring you the best, most interesting and useful coverage of the UK cosplay scene. If we don't quite manage that we'll probably at least manage a passable approximation.
So here in the articles section we've got written and video reports of all the recent major UK cosplay events. We've also got a selection of tutorials written by some fantastically skilled costume makers.
If you've learned something interesting while working on your latest masterpiece and would like to share it with the community or have some other cosplay related articles you're burning to write contact us and we'll be happy to consider your article for inclusion.
15 Latest Articles
Included below are the 15 latest articles uploaded to the site. Use the tabs above to view the archives of specific article types.
| Type | Title | Author | Added |
|---|---|---|---|
| Report | MinamiCon 14 2008 | nert | 8 weeks 15 hours ago |
| Video | MinamiCon 14 2008 | PerrinAshcroft | 8 weeks 15 hours ago |
| Video | London MCM Expo October 2007 | CosplaySnap | 18 weeks 3 days ago |
| Tutorial | Technique - Cosplay Photography: Think before you shoot | nic0 | 26 weeks 21 hours ago |
| Report | AmeCon 2007 | nert | 26 weeks 21 hours ago |
| Report | London MCM Expo - October 2007 | nert | 26 weeks 21 hours ago |
| Report | Video Games Live 2007 | nert | 26 weeks 21 hours ago |
| Tutorial | Guide - Buying and Working with Wigs | Angelphie | 27 weeks 3 days ago |
| Tutorial | Walkthrough - Making a latex character mask | nert | 36 weeks 2 days ago |
| Tutorial | Walkthrough - Making a fursuit head with a movable jaw | Fatkraken | 36 weeks 2 days ago |
Tutorials
Technique - Cosplay Photography: Think before you shoot
Tutorial by Nic Walker (nic0) posted Wednesday 14th November 2007
by Nic Walker
With the ubiquity of cheap digital cameras today, any given anime convention is awash with people photographing the costumes on display. Traipsing through the aftermath of conventions on forums and photo sharing websites one would be perhaps forgiven for being a little disappointed at the thought that goes into some of the photos on display. They can often be hurriedly composed, one-shot affairs taken more as a record of the event - a reminder of a costume - than an honest effort to record the quality of it.
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Guide - Buying and Working with Wigs
Tutorial by Angela Hacket (Angelphie) posted Sunday 4th November 2007
by Angela Hacket
Wigs are often useful for costumes. They save you from cutting, dying or styling your own hair, allow you to create insane styles, and you can put one on and be ready to go instantly – it only ever needs styling once! Furthermore, you can sew, glue, and do all sorts of things to wigs which aren’t possible with real hair.
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Walkthrough - Making a latex character mask
Tutorial by Jonathan Cullinane (nert) posted Monday 3rd September 2007
by Jonathan Cullinane
I thought I'd throw together this walkthrough of Kimura from Azumanga Dioh, or "The making of a Slackjaw Schoolteacher". This is mostly photos with very little explanation but you should get a pretty good idea of the process that went into making the mask.
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Walkthrough - Making a fursuit head with a movable jaw
Tutorial by Karen Dawson (Fatkraken) posted Monday 3rd September 2007
by Karen Dawson
When I made this head for once I got a pretty good series of progress pictures, especially through the early stages. So what follows is a "How Fatkraken makes a fursuit, with movable jaw" type...thing. There are some missing stages; I don't go into the eyes, or much of the detailing, since that's specific to the suit being made. However for the basic construction, I've not seen other tutorials that are quite like this, so this is a process you can use, abuse and alter as you see fit.
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Reports
MinamiCon 14 2008
Report by Jonathan Cullinane (nert) posted Thursday 20th March 2008
The UK's longest running anime convention returns in full swing for its 14th birthday, the Cosplay Island team decide to investigate whether or not it can pilot mecha yet....
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AmeCon 2007
Report by Jonathan Cullinane (nert) posted Wednesday 14th November 2007
Nert takes a look back at the year's biggest anime convention. What were the cosplay trends? What the hell is Chair-chan? Find out here....
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London MCM Expo - October 2007
Report by Jonathan Cullinane (nert) posted Wednesday 14th November 2007
Two days, thousands of attendees and hundreds of cosplayers, London MCM Expo is one of the biggest UK cosplay events and we were there to find out why....
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Video Games Live 2007
Report by Jonathan Cullinane (nert) posted Wednesday 14th November 2007
The annual live video game music event now includes cosplay, so of course Cosplay Island was in attendance to see what happened....
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Videos
MinamiCon 14 2008
Video posted Thursday 20th March 2008
Video coverage of the MinamiCon masquerade.Watch Video Online | Download Video (41.5 MB)
London MCM Expo October 2007
Video posted Monday 7th January 2008
Mark reports from the expo including interviews with MangaChild, Ashe and Sands and coverage of Saturday's masquerade.Watch Video Online | Download Video (155.6 MB)