The Costume Making Guide: Creating Armor and Props for Cosplay
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The Best Cosplay Tutorial Guide Ever!
Followed by millions of people from all over the world, master armor maker Svetlana Quindt aka “Kamui Cosplay” will help you bring your cosplay dreams to life with your own two hands!
Get ready to impress ordinary mortals with your superhuman costume-making skills. You can do it no matter what your experience level with this, the first full step-by-step technique book on cosplay–with no sewing! Internationally known cosplayer Kamui Cosplay (a.k.a. Svetlana Quindt) shows you how to easily create elaborate costumes and successful props out of items available at your local arts and craft or hardware stores: turn foam into a realistic axe, create a breastplate from scratch and use a glue gun to modify just about anything. You will even learn the best and most accessible techniques for working with specialty cosplay materials such as Worbla!
Packed with more than 30 step-by-step demonstrations that teach the skills you need to bring all your favorite characters to life no matter the genre, Kamui Cosplay deconstructs the work that goes into making a complete costume, from the first thought to the final photo. Tutorials cover design planning, fabricating body armor, 3D painting techniques and more. Best of all, you can adapt every lesson to use in all future fandom projects spanning video games, books, anime, movies and even your own original characters!
Includes:
* How to choose a costume and find good reference art
* A short shopping list of necessary materials and tools for beginning cosplayers
* Basic safety tips
* A beautiful photo gallery featuring inspiring images from other cosplayers
* Next steps–how to grow your workshop, take professional photos, participate in contests and join the cosplay community
Publisher : Penguin Publishing Group; Illustrated edition (December 12, 2016)
Language : English
Paperback : 128 pages
ISBN-10 : 1440345163
ISBN-13 : 978-1440345166
Item Weight : 1.04 pounds
Dimensions : 8.29 x 0.35 x 10.87 inches
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Customers find the book very concise, detailed, and easy to follow. They say it has great beginner information and is informative. Readers also appreciate the great illustrations and useful patterns.
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Corwynte –
Definitely a great buy for a new/beginning cosplayer!
I bought this when I decided to get back into cosplay after a long hiatus. I’d worked with foam before to make armor, but this guide really helped me improve my skills! The step by step directions are useful and the book starts with a list of materials and tools. I have been recommending it to all my friends who mention that they’d like to try cosplay armorcrafting, since it’s a great introduction!
Arissa Adams –
Love it!
I’m giving it as a gift but as a cosplayer myself I think the tutorials and info are super helpful, especially if you’ve never worked with EVA foam or Worbla before.
Natalie –
Great for getting started
This book has very good information for getting started in cosplaying and how to use common cosplay tools. I wish there was a bit more, but the content makes sense for a beginner book.
Glen A. Murie –
is happy with the book
Overall my daughter, who’s getting started with the cosplay hobby, is happy with the book. I’ve read through it, and gotten halfway through a project inspired by one of the projects; a steampunk cyborg arm.The author has an excellent YouTube channel, which provides video on how to do similar things, so why buy the book? Because it’s a lot easier to follow instructions in a book as you work through a project at a work bench rather than fiddling with video playback on a notebook or tablet computer, or try to work from memory. Additionally, her channel is excellent, so it feels good to support the artist.There is a lot of emphasis on using Worbla, which is very expensive, but that’s not the reason I knocked off a star. I was hoping for more general guidelines and instructions on how to do a type of prop, rather than walkthroughs of doing specific props. It would have been nice for there to be side notes with additional guidelines and tips along the lines of ‘If you want to make an X it’s a good idea to do Y’ and on how to adapt the projects in the book to other projects. There ARE guidelines like that, but I wanted more of that sort of thing, even if it meant putting one less project walk through in the book.For example, it would have been helpful for more guidelines and warnings on how to create templates from plastic wrap and duck tape without wasting time and getting stuff wrong on the first few attempts, like how my flabby arm would be compressed, and result in all the pieces being too small!
Tati –
One of the best books im going to own now..
I got this book from library. I’ve read half of it and thought my life would not be full without this book. I ordered it on Amazon and I am absolutely in love.Beautiful work shown.Step by step detailed explainations of full creation process with good quality photos. Detailed description of tools and materials used.I cant recommend it enough. Just WOW.I am a happy owner now.If you are thinking of buying it stop thinking and get it. You won’t regret. I promise.
Melissa Draper –
Great ideas and instructions, made something within hours!
My 12 yo child found this so helpful that she made up the armband on the front cover the same night she received the book. Great explanations, illustrations, and information on where to obtain materials. Super fun ideas for kids and grownups to cosplay or just to bring to life your own hero creations.
Troy Anderson –
Making It Easy
The guide is a great way to explore and covers step by step process to make it easy to understand. If your crafty and have the necessary materials, or need to obtain, they go over what is needed to create, make and finish off the pieces you want.
Jessica Murray redhead, gamer, Humanitarian, creator of beautiful things –
really helpful, good instructions and list of materials also how to use tools and such
Incredibly well put together, very concise and filled with useful information, also great pictures! I’ve been making costumes/ cosplay for decades but never tried foam or worbla armor or weaponry, this book is so helpful, so are her videos.Thank you Svetlana for sharing your knowledge!!
Elisa Berni –
Davvero molto ben fatto. Complimenti all’autrice.
Felipe Prochmann –
Meia boca. Nada extraordinario. E a maioria dos itens pra construir as coisas nao tem no brasil. Inutil entao. Parece mais uma revista que compra no caixa do supermercado que um livro.
ALM –
Lo compré ya que unos amigos fanáticos del cosplay quieren hacer su boda cosplay, y todos los presentes debemos ir disfrazados. Como yo no se mucho de la creación del cosplay y me ha llamado algo la atención, en especial las armas, decidà comprarlo para ayudarme a crear mi atuendo para la boda. Cuenado se lo mostré a mis amigos cosplayeros, quedaron encantados y ellos se compraron uno más. Realmente nos ha resultado útil.
Audrey E. –
Un livre bien illustré et clair quand on connaît un peu d’anglais
Mondschatten111 –
The guide is thicker than I thought, I really like it. Every step is perfect explained, and even websites are in there to buy the diffrent products. Even if you don’t understand one step you still can go on her YouTube channel and look how she make the costumes. So I’m really happy with the guide.Die Anleitung ist dicker als ich erwartet habe, ich mag es wirklich sie wirklich sehr. Jeder Schritt ist perfekt erklärt, und sogar Websites sind aufgelistet um die verschiedenen Produkte zu kaufen. Auch wenn man einen Schritt nicht versteht, kann man auf ihrem YouTube-Kanal nachsehen, wie sie die Cosplays herstellt. Ich bin also sehr zufrieden mit der Anleitung.