Award-winning Sydney cosplayer Cinohrui (@cinohrui) joins Div in the CREWcasts studio dressed as Sciel from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, hand-built scythe included. Cinohrui has been cosplaying in Australia since her first SMASH! in 2008 and now judges the competitions she used to enter.
In this episode: how a build goes from 500 screenshots to a Gantt chart, why Australian cosplayers are the scrappiest in the world, the Zhuque Mercy and Kubo builds she is proudest of, the Alhaitham that never got finished, what judging taught her about her own craft, foam work versus sewing versus makeup, what a costume really costs, the dream armour build, a Bombo Quarry shoot she will not forget, her cat Toffee's contribution to every costume, comfort games, and practical advice for anyone starting cosplay for the first time: just do it.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:41 Today's cosplay: Sciel from Expedition 33
01:15 How it started: SMASH! 2008
02:23 Japan, and keeping cosplay a hobby
04:09 From design to build: research, materials, Gantt charts
06:34 Influences and top three cosplayers
09:37 The Australian cosplay scene
12:44 Favourite builds and the hardest ones
17:12 The mirror moment, and why Mercy matters
19:59 Good cosplay, great cosplay, and judging
24:22 Foam, sewing, makeup, budgets and dream builds
28:56 Best and worst memories, advice for beginners
33:19 Toffee, three loves and three gripes
38:22 Comfort games
39:12 Assassin's Creed and what's next
41:19 Outro
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CREWcasts is a streaming, creator and artist podcast from Sydney, produced by Skdiv.Studios, a Syd & Hyd based software and studio company.
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