イベントレポ : AniMaCo 2012

Today's entry finally features my last cosplay event of 2012: AniMaCo in Berlin. Once this is finished, I'll move on to two more entries about more recent events from 2013.

 

I am a regular at AniMaCo. The convention hall (part theatre, part school) is pretty ugly, but the nearby park has some pretty spots. Plus, AniMaCo is easily one of the most cosplayer-friendly cons I've ever attended: They have big changing booths and also maps that show good locations for photo shoots. They also have a different theme each time. As 2012 the world was supposedly facing it's bitter end according to the Mayan calendar, last year's theme was "concalypse". And truly, when I arrived on Friday and saw the hall was almost completely hidden behind huge scaffolds (ongoing construction work), it looked quite apocalyptic, indeed.
AniMaCo also had one of the most epic con promotional trailers, I've ever seen:

Concerning my costume lineup: There wasn't much time between Connichi, our Idolm@ster shoot and AniMaCo. Additionally, I was still in the final stages of writing my thesis, so I had originally decided not to sew any new costumes for this con.

HOWEVER. When I was watching some episodes of Adventure Time, my sister jokingly said we would make an awesome Finn and Fionna. The idea stuck and you can see the results below.

Friday

Frog Queen (Original Design) As usual, Friday was old-costume-day. I decided to re-wear my Frog Queen costume, as I had only worn it once at Connichi and because I knew there's a pretty lake close to the con site. The day was pretty short and cold, but my sister took a few very pretty shots of my costume. Sadly, she couldn't wear her princess costume, because she felt so tired that day. For more information on this costume, please read my WIP post. Pictures below taken by my sister, edited by me.

Saturday

Fionna the Human (Adventure Time) Thanks to my sister sewing the backpacks (out of felt), all I had left to do was sewing the hats, shirts and Finn's pants - I already had a fitting skirt in my closet. I guess I could've purchased fitting shirts, too, but it seemed so much easier to simply sew them myself, since I had found a nice 4-way stretch fabric earlier. I also love how our hats came out. I used a very helpful pattern I found at Instructables. I only had to do some minor adjustments (like the general size of the hats or Fionna’s ears), but apart from that, the tutorial saved me a lot of time. A note on our swords: Due to our time restraint I didn't prepare any props, but Andy, who wanted to take our pictures, kind of insisted on swords. So what did we do? We went to the nearby shopping mall, bought little wooden signs, coloured duct tape and  plastic gemstones and created these beauties in about 5mins. They're worth a whole 1€ each! Ehem. Well, considering what we managed to fabricate out of such ridiculously cheap items in such a short amount of time, I'm actually quite fond of them! For more information on this costume, please read my WIP post on tumblr. Myself as Fionna, Patalord as Finn 1st picture below taken by my Maddi, edited by me. 2nd row pictures taken by Andy-K.

   

Sunday

Azusa Miura (The Idolm@ster) On Sunday, our Idolm@ster group had a reunion. Not all of the girls could make it though, so we were "only" 11 girls instead of 13. I had fixed some minor things, but I was still not really happy with it. I like my shoe covers, though! It was my first time sewing such things and I think they look very close to the original. I am quite pleased with the silhouette of my skirt, as well. It's mostly the wig (centre parting...) I don't like on me and the proportions look a bit strange, too. But I was so happy to see my girls again! Acorea, who had coordinated our whole group, also took some pretty solo shots of each member. For our full cast, please read my report on our photoshoot. WIP pictures here. 1st row pictures below taken acophoto 2nd row picture taken by Diesel.

We also had shot a video with Diesel that day, which was a lot of fun, too: 

(Don't be fooled by the sunny weather. It was bitterly cold that day!) 

Like many years before, AniMaCo was a nice way to end the cosplay season.

The weather was rainy on Friday and Saturday and freezing on Sunday, but I had the chance to chat with wonderful people and to see beautiful cosplays. I'm already looking foward to next AniMaCo (which will be in 2014, as it's taking turns with Mega Manga Con each year)!