/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>shitty panels
Every panel I went to was the bomb-diggity... except for the Disney Meetup, because I ran it and I'm a failure.

>Sifu Kisu's Demonstration Panels
Awesome. Dude was a serious fanboy and as much of a womanizer as I was expecting.

>Scott McNeil Q&A
Awesome. Love this man and loved him calling me beautiful when I left.

>Guest Improv Panel
Goofy as always

>Feather Fanfiction
Despite running stupid late, was sexy as hell.

>Creepypasta Storytime
Only went to see my friend get freaked out, and was satisfied.

Still hoping someone took pics. Can't believe how little there is everywhere.

>>7052420
There's a lot on Tumblr's San Japan tag, if you're willing to do that.

>>7052443
I have nothing against tumblr but fuck if I know how to navigate it. Are the pictures arranged in albums or?

>>7052443
I've been looking through it. It's Dangan Ronpa, AoT, and flower crowns combined into one tag. Not seeing very many Homestucks since I blacklisted it and associated names.

>>7052447
You type the tag into the search bar and you get a bunch of pictures to scroll down.

>>7052460
I don't want to make an account. This website is like the Neal Diamond of the internet.

>>7052473
just do a goggle search for tumblr san Japan pr whatever and the first hit is usually a link to the tag

>>7052247
I really liked the art for the badges this year...

>>7052443
>>7052460
Also been going through it, there really isn't much.

I have some pictures to post!

>>7052635
Wow she's a cute Sakura...except she's missing the red over-dress thing

I love you photo taking anon.

Ahhh finally some pictures, thank you anon. Keep posting if you've got 'em.

I think this was definitely one of the most popular dudes at the con

>>7052645
she had full outfit on for the cosplay contest. My guess is her mom didn't want it to get dirty before she went on stage.

>>7052660
Impressive prop. It is instantly identifiable. It would be a million times cooler if it actually moved.

>>7052666
i'd love to see the full thing

>>7052681
I'm pretty sure it did. It also played music and his kids were cosplaying with him. It was adorable.

>>7052679
Literally just happened to scroll past a pic of it on tumblr.

>>7052690
This costume I don't understand. It was supposed to be from the Iron Giant right?

>>7052693
holy shit that is actually so much cuter than I expected! And the little baby (assuming it's her little sibling) is dressed up as Kero!!

And that's all I've got! This year was painfully boring, like everyone else has been saying.

Did anyone else go to the lolita fashion show? Some of the coords were really good but it was SO boring to watch.

>>7052681
It did, it also played song of storms! I did some lurking through the SJ tag and found some progress pictures he posted: http://hai-its-senpai.tumblr.com/post/58546812815/for-those-of-you-who-were-asking-about-build
and also a time lapse video of him building it
http://youtu.be/4bassVCwuj8

>>7052696
It's the Iron Giant prototype I think? It was really cool, regardless.

>>7052496

All the staff and volunteer badges seemed to have copyrighted characters. I'm not sure how legal that is.

>>7052711
That is awesome. I remember when I was a kid buying a used OoT game and the one file on there had acquired/unlocked everything. I was too young to understand the game so all I did was hang out in the windmill to listen to the Song of Storms and play along on the piano. Seeing an awesome windmill guy music box is so much nostalgia.

Sage for irrelevancy.

>>7052762
You're adorable, sage for more irrelevancy

>>7052690
It won a Judges arward and was called "The Iron Giant"

>>7052297
>Sifu Kisu's Demonstration Panels
That feel when I was the Wang Fire cosplayer at his 2nd panel. Too bad I had to leave early to prep my panel.

>>7052635
I lost my shit when I saw her... hanyaaaaaan.

Bumping because I still want to talk about this con. Any pleasant experiences to share, guys?

>>7053109
I enjoyed taking my friends downtown to all the bars and places I go to on a regular basis that they don't get to see all the time. That was nice. I missed out on a lot of people that I knew were there or that didn't come but that just lead the con to be more about local than the con friends. We made all the parents happy because blues brothers always makes the dads happy. Coincidentally the rather shitty karaoke room had 1 blues brothers song. Had a blast being the most energetic group to go up. Fucking everyone else was a faggot singing nickleback. I couldn't stop laughing.


If you haven't been to the piano bar at patty O'Briens and had a hurricane or 5, you need to.

>>7053109
I had a good time overall, I met lots of cool people and hung out with friends. I didn't make it to any panels which I regret but the dealers room was dissapionting.

>>7053109
I was really hoping to get Scott McNeil's autograph on Friday but the line was terrible (like they were already lining up 2 hours before his session) and my friends didn't want to put up with waiting for me so I gave up on the idea. I was pretty disappointed. Then later we were sitting at the tables in the AA and lo-and-behold: Scott came up to our group to tell us he liked our costumes, I nearly died of happiness right there. He was super nice too and I got to chat with him for a bit. Made the con for me.

>>7053139
>If you haven't been to the piano bar at patty O'Briens and had a hurricane or 5, you need to.
I'll have to plan to go next year. Sounds fun.

>>7053206
It's a who comedic routine based on varying tips of the audience. Everyone gets sloshed. Everyone starts competing to get their song played or quote written on the mirror next. It starts at a dollar but pretty soon you have the fat drunk girl waving a 20 around because its her birthday or something. And then he plays Sweet Caroline and everyone in the place belts along. So much fun.

Went searching on Youtube to find the WCS skits and found these!
1st place: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Tupe0_X2I
2nd place/Wild Card: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U97QJbSoRME

>>7053319
Okay so the winner's was super cute. I wish the lighting in the second video had been a bit brighter but their concept was neat. Choreography was a little dull, though I understand you can't really dance vigorously in that outfit.

>>7052693
Lets be honest guys. I'm pretty sure she should have won best in show.

>>7053404
She was the most adorable sweet little girl. Her staff lit up guys, and they made EVERYTHING. She was so proud and I'm really, really glad she won the Youth division.

>>7053319
wooow that second skit was underwhelming.

>>7052833
DUDE! You were awesome!!

>>7053442
Thanks. He caught me so off guard when he started doing the kung fu moves behind me that I spazzed out on it. But Kisu nerding out when he saw me and giving me a high-five just totally made my con.

I hope people post photos from the five minutes we posed as a group because my friends didn't get up to take a single damn photo for me.

Also, 8 hours of glued on facial hair = owws and very little eating.

>>7053437
Holy crap, shared an elevator with them while checking out Sunday morning. Poor Zagato tried so hard not to take out people's eyeballs with that armor.

I would have fucking loved to compete at WCS this year but my cosplaying friends are lazy and/or stage-shy. When I saw the next level of competition was in Washington D.C. instead of NYC I lost interest anyway.

>>7053587
I also wanted to compete this year but by the time I found a partner, we wouldn't have had time to put together the costumes and skit to the best of our ability. What's this about DC? They haven't released the finals location yet, have they?

>dat complaint thread on the forums


Lol.

>>7053617
I thought I had read it, unless it was a previous year. Dunno.

>>7053623
Half the complaints about western panels, bitches don't offer to run panels on Japanese topics. Can't have it if no one supplies it.

>>7053617
no, they have not announced finals, or many other qualifiers. In fact the only other qualifier currently announce is NDK in Colorado

>>7053412

She so should have placed in a normal category if not best in show. The costume was well above most of the other's in the show, light up staff and everything.

>>7053319
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Tupe0_X2I

While I appreciate the idea, nothing is really spectacular about quick changes. That's a normal part of theatre and it took a hell of a lot longer than a normal quick change should if done right. I guess it just doesn't really have a wow factor for me.

>>7053623

SJ staff has a tendency to shift blame onto attendees. Also most of those threads are staff people giving themselves pats on the back.

>>7053623
Only one page of Cosplay feedback and its already been bumped off the front page of the feedback forums?

Shit, they really must have done things right this year.

>>7054390
not really. It started 40 minutes late.

>>7054394

If the biggest complaint is that the show started late I still call that a success. How late did they end?

>>7054080
Basically if you have any trouble, it's your fault. If they mess up, it's your fault for caring. Or they outright refuse to hear about it, just ignore you.

LOL I reported a few incidents with the IATSE. I'll wait and see what happens now. Odds are, my teammates have already done the same on Sunday lol.

>>7054390
From behind the scenes, they did a much much better job than the previous year.

Anyways, my fun experinces this year was getting to learn to controlling rave lights saturday, seeing a badass colonial marine and talking to finding we were battle buddies, forum meetup for 10 nanoseconds for hugs and cheers, helping random people that showed appreciation and gratitude, getting a bag of candy and doing the gay Amuro Rey jump lol, oh and "COOOOOBRAAAAA!!!"

But seriously, where the fuck are pictures? Links? Pic dumps? Anything?

>>7054080
The only thing I've seen "shifting blame onto attendees" is the totally valid point that if they want to see more anime panels they have to submit more anime panels. Guess ill go check out the feedback thread again...

>>7054415
>getting a bag of candy

Did you eat it all yet?

>Be from California
>Always wanted to attend a Texas con
>Go to San Antonio two weeks before San Japan because nephew was graduating Air Force BMT
>Go on River Walk and pass by the convention center
>It looks nice

>>7054479
why do you want to go to a TX con anon?

>>7054568
Because fuck you Texas is awesome, that's why!

(not the anon you're replying to)

>>7054080
Yeahhh I'm a theatre person myself and was wincing at how long they took. The skit was cute but... did they even underdress anything? I showed the skit to my roommate and after ten seconds she went, "This quick change is taking too long. I could've had it done by now."

>>7053623
>The only panels that are outright rejected are from people that I will never work with for various reasons

So this jackass will just turn down your panel if he has a personal problem? Good to know

>>7055016

Yeah. It's the reason they are losing quality panelists. Personal bias has been a major issue. If Jay doesn't like you, you don't get panels. Or if you do, he schedules them at the worst times to try to get you to not come back. Paperwork magically goes missing or is completely wrong, even you follow directions completely. He's difficult to work with if you're on his shit list.

>>7055069
Losing quality panelists? Name them then. Looks mostly the same from last year.

>>7052681
I found this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6dKijPE12c

>>7054080
>>7054764

I'm not a theater person, but I've been thinking about doing a skit with a quick change. how does one go about making it truly quick?

>>7055466
It is generally better to take off a layer and put on one or two pieces as needed, shirt, hat etc etc They were taking a bit longer to setup and clear out so they made me go stagehand them lol

>>7055069
> He's difficult to work with if you're on his shit list.

AND will scream, cuss, or totally ignore a question, throw on make a verbal threat to me and keep me from doing my job when he's in the room, screwed us over on getting paid our vouchers too. He has been nothing but a jerk since year one. Difficult is not screaming "go eat a bundle of cocks" at Jay and just shutting up, finish the task and not dropping my badge and splitting lol

>>7054442
Mmm, yeah. Diabeetus. I finished everything but the swedish fish off, I saved them for last. ;)

>>7055516

And he's trying to take over the con by trying to kick others out that are in his way. The only people who think Jay is ok are the ones on his own staff.

You're not the only volunteer/staff person who's getting tired of his shit.

>>7055550
Yeah, but haha, with the union blacklisting them now, it will be very hard for them to get affordable stage companies, rentals, and venues. lol That's the REAL shit list that you don't want to be on.

>>7055567
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL who ever told you this. Nice try anon, nice try.

BTW, there's no unions in the Hyatt or HBG. Try again.

>>7055466
Whatever you're changing into needs to be lighter/closer to the skin than your first outfit. Snaps and Velcro on the top level, generally. If you post pictures of what you're changing from and into, I could give you more specific advice.

>>7055567
Christ, all your bitching. Complain properly to the people who run the con or get over it. I don't know how many cons you've volunteered for, but SJ has some pretty cooperative and mature staff compared to most every other con I've either worked for or attended.

>>7055720

Are you a regular attendee? Because SJ has to be some of the most immature and unorganized set of staff I have ever worked for. People screaming at one another or others crying because staff can't handle stress or anger well and take out on each other or volunteers. Behind the scenes things were pretty messed up.

>>7055466
Snaps, magnets, practice and efficiency. Also luck and someone to assist the one in the costume.

Source: theatrical costume design major

>>7055668
He's not an anon. He's a trip. Are you retarded and can't read anon?


Eh, I had a pretty good time. Yeah, the con was a little uneventful at times but I like the location and it was good seeing friends again. The Sheldon Cooper panel was absolute shit. I like the show but jeezus the panelists couldn't get their shit together.

>>7055821
BBT can barely be a smidge humorous at times, so how the hell could a panel about it do any better?

The panelist(s) who ran that were doing a pile of meh sounding panels. Just check the forums. Just reading her posts and replies made me already expect the worst.

>>7054080
Based on how high Cupcake Cosplay put the stakes on cosplay changes, this felt underwhelming. Cute, but underwhelming. It'd be nice to see skits have costume changes through more creative means.

So this San Japan was basically perfect other than being boring? No pics, no real stories...it's like the con plateaued or something.

Why go to the cosplay competition or bitch about the staff when you can get blitzed on the riverwalk or in southtown?

>>7055987
My partner and I are planning on doing a tearaway dress when we enter WCS next year. We're super pumped about it, since there are a few spin-away dress examples but never any tearaway ones.

>>7056115
>Henshin Ninjas, the most popular cosplay skit ever

You were saying?

>>7056110
Because sometimes you want to run around on stage in front of people and act like an idiot.

>>7056134
>rewatched it to check
>she spins out of the skirt and the shirt, while tearaway, is not a dress

It gets a lot closer to tearaway than most things on con stages, I'll give you that. Also I think NotN's Portal skit passed into most popular territory recently?

Hey Smoker, how did crashing redeaddies panel go? Shes is kinda useless so I lol'd when I heard

>>7056209
Was that the dating or feminism one?
>>7056156
But you and I do that already. The world is your stage darling and youre always acting like and idiot <3

>>7056262
dating one

>>7056306
Well, we convinced a gang of hooligans to join us in our debauchery. We then chose to cheer on our friend Seb like any righteous brethren would at a good old fashioned sporting event. So with this crowed getting a little rambunctious, a lack of sound to be heard all the way forced into the back, and with no Seb in sight our chants grew louder until the local task force of power tripping old women came to harass us about harassing others.
We simply wanted to see Seb.
So we continued on. With a growing number of people and decibels. We cheered at the sight of our beloved Based Seb. Many were confused and attempting to stay in character, their disgruntled lack of attention being fed to them was obvious. And the bitter sweet disappointment on their faces was nothing but pure joy for the cult of Seb.

LOOOOOOL got a call, looks like I am owed an apology and earned a chance to explain myself. This changes things with my bitching at the least. Hope they are willing to hear me out. We'll get it all sorted, and figure out a way to provide quality entertainment next year. I may have to humbly eat my words in the end.

>>7056322
Oh please tell me this was on tape or filmed!
That shit bag holds the shitiest panels and this beautiful display must be shared

>>7056393
What is everyone's beef with this girl? I talked with her briefly and she didn't seem that bad. Honestly curious here.

>>7056860
It's just a bunch of butt-mad little boys.

>>7056322
Seb is a try hard dumbass and has been since zero day of San Japan. No idea why you guys would put up with his stupidity.

>oh wait...

Where's scribbles

>>7057345
Hiding.

For those that haven't seen it, the regular cosplay show is up:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKLVrpAw3g8

And the awards announcements:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO9LdoQcwgc

Anyone know how many mami's where there?

I don't know if it was the temp in the room or the length of the show but by the end of cosplay the audience was sitting on there hands for just about every body.

>>7058643
There was one really good one (she was mentioned in the con horror thread), and about 10 mediocre ones, I'd say.

>>7059002
it was too cold to not sit on them, had to preserve the warmth.

>>7059071
I saw several San's at SJ

They were looking at another camera, but I thought they were cute

>>7059061
I was about ready to use my wig as a blanket, it was that cold...

>>7059076
Requesting more lolita pics!!

>>7059002
>>7059061
As one of the contestants near the end, not only was I freezing to death, but it did feel pretty shitty by the end of the show. I thought everyone was bored with the costumes or something.

>>7057125
Go away no one cares about your all girl phoenix wright panel/supernatural/hetalia/Kingdom hearts/ bull shit

>>7056322
Didn't you crash a homestuck panel wearing a horse mask once?

>>7059365
Nice attempt, but I don't go to panels. Care to try again? I think you can do better.

>>7059365
I've crashed homestuck meet ups with a horse mask multiple times back when I was the only horse mask and being wotoken meant something.

>>7059155
Seconding this!!!

>>7059388

That was directed at smoker pleb, learn to chan or fall off a cliff

>>7059976
You quoted my post though, clearly it is you who needs work on their chan skills.

>still using pleb

>>7059986

Dual tags fget, learn to read

>>7059996
I think you might be confused, dual tags or not, you're still wrong; that or your infantile rage is getting the better of you.

>>7057125
Lawl butt-mad

But really though are her panels worth anything though? Some like the Ace Attorney stuff seem kind of cool, interactive almost dinner theater kind of stuff. I most hear people bitch about the horrible ship pushing, unnecessary constant yaoi shit.
As for her she just seems kinda weird and childish, maybe a little stuck up, but nothing worth freaking over. Some people have said she is a passive aggressive elitist who can't back her shit up.

>>7060015

>Says I'm wrong

So you are smoker? Cause that's what this argument is. Tag #2 was for smoker, not you

>>7060019
I have been referring to tag #1 for the entirety of these posts. When I first addressed you we were talking about about panels, so I continued in that vein, you mistook that for me thinking I was reading your post for smoker and reacting to it.
It is you who have no comprehension of what is going on. You're Seb aren't you.

>>7060034
Ha! Fair enough then, aint even mad
Tag 1 wasn't meant to be anything about panels just fandoms, but I see how you could take it that way

Nah Seb is a shitbag, real talk

>>7060045
Okay then.

>>7060057

>>7060066

>>7060071
Whats San-Japan people beef on Seb?
He used to be a giant tool on cosplay.com back in the day, spouting stupid ignorant shit. More of the same or he actually do shit worth being made over

>>7060077
He and his girlfriend/fiancee/wife/whatever are huge hypocrites and made a huge stink on the San Japan forums last year. And the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that. They are never satisfied with anything that is offered but never volunteer to help or improve the situation. Seb himself bitched to no end about panels and programming one year and then later admitted he wasn't even at the con.

>>7060129
Sounds about right, back on cosplay.com all he would do is bitch about shit that literally had nothing to do with him or had little to no effect on him (people doing the hare hare yukai, no joke). Dude just looks for shit to start shit about and you can't even really call it trolling. He's just dumb

>>7060129
Anon come find me and we'll be bros and hate seb together

>>7060166
Next San Japan anon, we shall sit around, drink and bitch about Seb into the wee hours.

>>7060175
Get the feeling know each other already. This Anon is very curious, but being anon makes that somewhat difficult. Anon-senpai please come notice me

>>7060181
>Get the feeling know each other already.
Not sure what you're getting at fellow anon...

>>7060192
We share some very specific colloquialisms, ones that only fellow anon's i know IRL use.
If your tempted to know if we are acquainted post this stupid pic on your social media. Or not. Mostly curious

>>7060202
...you first...

>>7060208
facebook, tumblr, pick your poision

>>7060213
Facebook then.

>>7060222
done

>>7060231
So, have you guys discovered that you're already friends or what?

>>7060231
Hmmm, nothing yet, and I've refreshed the page several times. Are you on the San Japan forums as well?

>>7060241
yes i am anon. My sn on there is linked to most my other stuff though.

>>7060242
As is mine. Quite the pickle. I'm beginning to think we don't know each other after all though. Oh, did you have a table in the AA this year?

>>7060246
Nope, hmmmm on the SJ forums how many posts do you have?

This is the best game of guess who I have ever played.

>>7060252
In the 3,000's. You?

>>7060261
exactly 17

whats the last topic you posted in?

>>7060264
Okay, I know who you are, your username starts with a "T", correct? Guess we didn't know one another after all.

>>7060272
nope but sure was a fun way to blow a good hour or so. still down for drinks and shit talking though

>>7060278
Not a "T" afterall...damn. I don't think either of us wants to out ourselves so I suppose we'll have to leave it at that. Agreed though, that was fun.

I was pretty impressed this year.
My favorite part was when one of the gogos was doing barrel rolls on the stage and she dislocated her knee.

How did y'all like the rave? We tried to find a nice musical balance, which is hard when you have people walking on stage demanding...
>"Play some Twerking Music"
>"Play some more trance again, I hate electro"

Other than that, cosplay was painfully mediocre this year including my own.

>>7060853
what did you cosplay dj-kun?

>>7060853
You were fucking attractive as Levi.

>>7060288
Now you guys have to meet next year.

>>7060853
W-wasn't paying attention to the music... S-sorry.

>>7060957
Need pics to confirm

>>7060957
>>7061626
Please.

This probably isn't the best thread to ask this in but it's kind of related. How does Anime Matsuri compare to San Japan? If I HAD to choose between either going to one or the other, which one would be the better choice? Never been to Matsuri so I'm wondering if the trip would be worth it.

>>7061626
>>7062082

>>7062089
Matsuri is not worth a long distance trip. It's fun if you're local but DO NOT drive long a long way for it. It's just very boring unless you really love panels or something.

>>7062112

Need better pic if you have it.

>>7062300
Or you can just learn to creep better like the rest of us, anon-kun.

>>7062089
they are very comparable. AM offers a bit more variety in programming. If you have any interest in jfashion or music from Japan pick am. If you want more programming from the community and interweb type of guests go to san Japan. If you go to cons just to party or just to cosplay they are pretty evenly matched, though I would say am has a better history of bringing out cool cosplay guests.

>>7062746

That's like saying San Japan actually tries to get different cosplay guests. They've more or less invited the same groups year after year.

>>7063359

And The Gear Project is STILL involved. Why they think that's a good idea is beyond me.

>>7063470
From a participants pov the show ran smoother. No one yelled at each other at least.

>>7063582

Which is why they couldn't organize their own contestants until the very last second?

I will give the "no one yelled at each other" thing to you though.

>>7060957
step back hes mine

>>7063359
they tend to have people back once, but am has had bill since year 2 or something so both of them have brought back cosplay guests