/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9107634
>>9107634
Saber Marionette J group.

This would be in the bad cosplay thread by today's standards, but seriously most everyone's cosplays looked like this because nobody knew wtf they were doing. I really miss those days. Everyone was so much more chill.

>>8741875
*crossplayers I mean.

Here's a Saber Marionette J group. I don't think I've seen this cosplayed in eons.

>>8468941
Nah, it wasn't nearly as bad. You could usually avoid them if you wanted to. Don't like it, don't go to the photo websites. You can't go to a con these days without coswhores in your face at times.

Social media and the popularity of conventions and cosplay as the cool hip "geeky" thing to do has entirely changed the scene.

So many people pool together and share great tips and resources that we just didn't have years ago. I also like that I can mention I'm going to a convention or making a costume almost casually these days with genuine interest or excitement from others. On the other hand it's brought in all types of other kinds of people who shit on others, a myriad of creeps (even if con creeps have always been around), and the idea that if you're not a hot chick in a scantilly clad cosplay showing off you're junk you're not worth anyone's time. It seems like everyone is out for e-fame these days.

So it's great as well as annoying at times.

I liked that everyone was around the same skill level. We did have some amazing cosplayers. When I met Yaya back in '02 at babbys first con she was already in the amazing tier. Photoshop was used for adjusting your scanned photos and usually not for shooping yourself into oblivion. Everyone's cosplay photos involved hallway shots. Paid photoshoot sessions weren't a thing.

Also most people that had some internet savvy had a cosplay website. I wasn't a great cosplayer and never have been (but at least good enough to place in master division a number of times) but I had one and it was fun link trading with other cosplayers. If you didn't, you used cosplaylab, ACP, or a little later, coscom. Most people used all of these and in a way it was a great way to network. It wasn't particularly fan or popularity fueled, but more like, hey you cosplay the same series, or hey you go to the same cons, lets be friends and cosplay together!

That tight-knit close sense of community is what I really miss the most.