/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

[Xenos No.7844021]

Thinking of doing something crazy and horrifying for Halloween.

It involves one of those kigurumi masks.

Anyone had any experience? Any way to make one affordable that looks decent? Maybe just a fabric mask over a plain one?

[Xenos No.7844022]

This plain reflective mask seems to be a good idea to put under it, unless I somehow sculpt a solid animu mask with plastic.

[Xenos No.7844025]

Kinda horrified to even try these things. Worried some people take it too serious. Haven't really crossplayed before. Dunno if I wanna spend all this effort for a joke costume, but I got a con to go to just before Halloween and this idea I can't get outta my head.

[Anonymous No.7844116]

>>7844021
I think /well done/ kigurumi masks are cute

[Anonymous No.7844121]

>>7844116
kigurumi masks are creepy as fuck

[Anonymous No.7844140]

This one it's cute

[Anonymous No.7844174]

>>7844021
what the fuck is with everyone calling these kigurumi masks? they have nothing to do with kigurumi

[Anonymous No.7844187]

>>7844174
Because they are kigurumi masks. Kigurumi is the japanese name for people in mascot costumes.

[Anonymous No.7844193]

They are extremely expensive and hard to make. Unless you are really skilled at sculpting and using FRP, you have no chance of making anything that looks decent within a month. If you are just aiming for creepy, I am a fan of just using a black or white zentai suit to go along with whatever character you are cosplaying to give a faceless look. It is a similar concept, but without all the hard work/money.

[Anonymous No.7844194]

>>7844174
>all this new

[Anonymous No.7844203]

There is some Taobao shop that sells quality ones but they are still not cheap.
http://raigeki.taobao.com/?spm=2013.1.1000126.2.GMLR6m

[Anonymous No.7844289]

Way too expensive for a dumb halloween gag.

[Anonymous No.7844447]

>>7844025
>kill me

[Anonymous No.7844458]

I guarantee if you wear that for Halloween you will scare the piss out of people. I'm used to seeing them at cons and they STILL freak me the fuck out.
But yeah, really expensive if you just want it for a Halloween prank. If you're looking to wear this to a con as well and maybe pick up this kind of cosplaying as a hobby...it's probably worth it?

[Anonymous No.7844496]

>>7844025
hey your trying to play out a fantasy. this isn't just some odd idea out of nowhere you want to try

[Anonymous No.7845754]

>>7844021

One of these cosplayers (one in the pic) walked by me at anime north.

"She" was one of the tallest and most frightening things there besides the 7 foot tall Ezio cosplayer.

[Anonymous No.7846019]

>>7845754
>7 foot tall Ezio
I'd love to see whoever this is do a height accurate version of Super Shredder from the second TMNT movie. If I were as tall as Kevin Nash, i'd do it in an instant. Seems like it'd take a lot of craftsmanship tho.

[Anonymous No.7846022]

>>7846019

I thought he was on stilts until I saw he was wearing socks and sneakers.

[Anonymous No.7848752]

>>7844025
Lmao to think I'd find Sky Williams in a picture like this

[Anonymous No.7849214]

>>7844140
Whoa, that's actually the first one I've seen that's cute. Any more like this? It looks really cool.

[Anonymous No.7849637]

>>7849214

That's the official showfloor Miku from Sega.

[Anonymous No.7849641]

>>7849637
It only looks cute because it doesn't suffer from the issues all the kigs I've seen do - their heads (masks) are usually 1.5x the normal human size, this one looks like it belongs on a person though

[Anonymous No.7849645]

>>7849641

Honestly, that's usually the ones westerners have. Like this shit >>7844025

The overall quality among Japanese hobbyists has risen dramatically over recent years. Gaijins are still playing catch up.

[Anonymous No.7849800]

[Anonymous No.7849892]

>>7844187
>>7844194
shit really? and which kawaii idoru-chan told you this? Kigurumi literally means a 'plushie that you wear', none of this mask shit. there is a separate term for this which i can't remember at the moment but it has absolutely shit all to do with kigurumi.

[Anonymous No.7849904]

>>7849892
Are you trying to troll or are you just stupid?

Kigurumi is the term for mascot costume, subsets of this being animegao and fursuits as well.

[Anonymous No.7849934]

>>7849645
The average japanese kig mask doesn't look any different tho, the good ones are usually by makers who have been into it since over a decade.

[Anonymous No.7849961]

>>7844174
go back to your pajamas, kiddo

[Anonymous No.7849989]

>>7849934
are kigurumi masks really that hard to design? they have anime features, so they shouldn't be that complicated (not saying that they are easy to make, but I'm pretty sure you could master it in way less than 10 years)

[Anonymous No.7849994]

>This thread

[Anonymous No.7849996]

>>7849892
>implying kigurumis aren't just onesies

[Anonymous No.7850006]

>>7849892

Maybe you should go tell all these kigurumi hobbyists that they are in fact not actually doing kigurumi.