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Jin Attempts To Explain Cosplay Photography:new: As requested by many of you, I've submitted this guide as a dA news article. Here is the link. I'm happy this proved to be useful for a lot of you guys! It's the least I can do to give a little something back for your appreciation of our work. Thank you!
Introduction
First of all, let me warn you that by the end of this journal entry, you may find yourself sick of my face. (If you aren't already.) I'll be using mostly myself as an example for the things I'm going to discuss, because I'm the only person I can poke fun at without restrictions.
I get asked a lot of questions about these cosplay photos that most of you have come to know me for. Sometimes it's about the techniques we use, requests for tips and advice for other people who want to do something similar. Other times, the comments come from people who aren't familiar with cosplay, but are curious about it and are interested to know more. So I thought of making this li
9,000,000 milestone +I mean this with all my heartSeveral years worth of cheese
Somehow, this silly page has hit 9 million views!
Just to be absolutely clear, I do not think the views make me any better than anyone else. I mean, I'm sure some of those are from people who don't even like me. But I guess my point is that it's crazy to imagine that this page has been opened up that many times, and I can't help wondering where all these hits have come from. And I just feel so grateful that a select few people in those millions have come to be irreplaceable friends to me.
It's been a wild ride with all of you guys through all this time. To me this isn't just a page where I simply showcase my artwork or the cosplay photos my friends and I come up with. This site has opened up so many opportunities for me, and has introduced me to some of the most wonderful people I've met in my life.
It's been a journey, and my interactions with the people here have taught me more than I can express.
Apart from that, one thing I absolutely did not ex
Namikaze/Uzumaki Family Rehearsal PhotoshootPhotobook updates and other things
Please allow me to direct you to this journal entry for other long overdue updates. ^^;
Meeting Regine
Cosplay really does bring people together.
" Two weeks ago somewhere in Boston, a young lady was telling her mom how much she wanted to meet the Tux Team since they were spending a week or two in Manila visiting relatives. The mom replies, " There are about 80 million Filipinos, the chances of you meeting your cosplay idols are ZERO." The little miss figured her mom might be right but was still hopeful. As the days passed in Manila, the young lady didn't know that something wonderful was just around the corner... "
- a small excerpt from Essa's journal entry, which you may read here: http://cyfliq.deviantart.com/journal/19762188/
:postit: :+favlove: Essa's entry is now in my Journal Faves. With DA's new messa
A Happy Holiday Journal EntryThank you

I'm still a bit overwhelmed by the responses to my previous journal entry, but I will do my best to make proper replies to some of you soon. But to everyone — Thank you all for constantly giving me reasons to be grateful. :heart:
Holiday Tomfoolery!
I've got a bit of free time today before another Christmas party so I thought I'd post a holiday journal with miscellaneous moments from the past month or so. Thank you so much to `Miss-It-Girl for extending my subscription so I can keep sharing these photos with you guys! :thanks:
The holiday decor at home was a joy to look at and photograph.
I enjoyed the added details of these swirly twigs that make me think of Tim Burton landscapes.
After all these years, the sight of sparkling lights and shiny Christmas ornaments and even the smell of tinsel and synthetic trees gets me in the mood fo
On misunderstandings about cosplayThis is a topic I've been meaning to talk about for quite a while now. I finally got the motivation to when Sarah ~sorairo-days emailed me to share my thoughts on what cosplay means to me, and what I feel it really means to be a cosplayer despite all the misconceptions about the hobby. It's for this article on Random Nerds, in which Sarah shares her side of it as well.
Over the years, I've witnessed how cosplayers are constantly looked down upon, which makes people apprehensive towards it. It's such a shame because it's a wonderful and rewarding hobby which brings people together. And in general, I am firmly against making anyone feel bad about doing something they want to do.
I am aware that the concept of cosplay might be too much for some individuals, but our intention definitely isn't to get all up in everyone's faces and say everyone should cosplay or whatever.  We just want to promote a
SO MUCH FAGGOT-TREE, EVEN NARUTO CAN'T BELIEVE ITKonoha Gakuen Photoshoot
We loved both the Shippu! Konoha Gakuen Den omake episode and the Michi ending (which we hope to do a proper recreation of when more characters are ready) so we really looked forward to having a shoot based on them. After several days of rainy weather, the sun shone brightly for us that day. I think everyone had fun speculating coming up with situations for that alternate Naruto universe, as well as revisiting our own high school memories.
my submissions


And a new ID!

:icongwahplz:
from Tracy ~13idiotbox

You might see more from us when we're not quite so busy. ^^; Everyone's currently doing a lot in preparation for Lights Out Convention. If you're going, please drop by our table even just to say hi. :D
5th Lights Out: Five Years of Fantasy
September 6, 2008
Ikeda Hall/Balay Kalinaw (next to Ilang-Ilang Residence Hall),
University of the Philippines Diliman Campus,
WHAT TIME IS IT? AAAADVENTURE TIME COSPLAY ...TIMEAdventure Time cosplay at Fantasy Quest 2
A couple of weeks ago, we attended an event called Fantasy Quest 2. (The very first Fantasy Quest was when we cosplayed Harry Potter characters.)
It was a pretty special day for us because four years ago, we had our first shoot and bonding day with Ysabel ~SavingSunlight at the venue, Fernwood Gardens.
We've been really into Adventure Time, so many months ago we decided we'd do AT cosplay, and that Fantasy Quest would be a fun opportunity to do so. :D It feels weird how we had been looking forward to this event for ages, and now it's over!
Picture credits:
:bulletwhite: some were taken by me and my friends using my camera
:bulletwhite: photographer friends on dA :iconjrjs: :iconz3llll: :iconnikocruz: :iconroxwindy:
:bulletwhite: others were from Facebook friends who tagged me
:bulletwhite:
Bleach Casual Photoshoot & omake + THANKS!:target: Last edit! Sorry I'm cramming everything into this one journal entry. Just wanted to keep everything about this shoot in a single post. ^^;
:target: Sorry about the nth edit. I fixed up a lot of the text. It seems my brain wasn't functioning as well as I thought when I first wrote this journal entry. :laughing: (I'm not entirely sure it's performing very well right now also.) Added a few more omake pics - they just deserve to be shared. Oh, and check out our spanking new matching Bleach avatars! Hahaha! Such geeks are we.
Okay, first of all...
Do you have a question for us?
Before anything, please check our Frequently Asked Questions section where I've provided answers to, er, questions that we're frequently asked. :D
Bleach Casual Photoshoot
Saturday was the BEST DAY EVER. Okay, well, every day with these guys are always BEST DAY EVERs.
For a late celebration of my birthday, my friends (known to some of you
SasuNar-, er, NaruHina Photoshoot Outtakes + stuffGeekgasm
Those damned filler arcs are killing the Naruto anime again so I'm thankful for the manga, but...
NEW ENDING SEQUENCE IS KINDA COOL HOLY LORD NARUTO AND SASUKE AS RONIN OKAY GETTING FABRIC TOMORROW
Somebody needs to explain that "please kiss me please kiss me all night" line in the song
Have I mentioned that my childhood dream was to be either a ronin, a ninja or a marine biologist? 2 OUT OF 3, NOT BAD YEAH. I'm such a dolt. We haven't even properly done Shippu! Konoha Gakuen Den as a group yet and here comes something new to work on. But AGH, for the sake of my unfulfilled childhood dreams it must be done! The power of youth compels me!
And yeah, I'm still failing badly at answering comments and notes. I always do my best to put as much thought into my replies when the situation calls for serious answers, so I need a significant amount of time. Recently, I haven't been able to sta
Harry Potter cosplay tomfoolery at Fantasy QuestFantasy Quest 2011
Many, many months ago last July (that's how late this entry is) a cosplay event was held in the most beautiful location that the local cosplay community has ever seen. Fernbrook Gardens — the wedding & events destination which you might recognize from our Kuroshitsuji :pointr: http://behindinfinity.deviantart.com/gallery/29228688 and Harry Potter cosplay photoshoots :pointr: http://behindinfinity.deviantart.com/gallery/31767781
It was around that time that the world was getting ready for the final Harry Potter movie, so my friends and I decided that perhaps it was about time to push through with our plans to cosplay Harry Potter characters. Parts of Fernbrook Gardens also looked like Hogwarts so we figured it would be appropriate. :)
Photos are from my friends, some from albums I was tagged in on Facebook, and some from my own camera.
Here I am with most of my friends that I went to the event with, along with Arnel ~akagii2004 whom we met that day as he was
Tux Team Guide to Posing and Convention EtiquetteMan, I miss the feeling of being able to roll around in bed and sleep for as long as I want. Nowadays, my friends and I haven't been able to experience that even on weekends.
As of now, my brain is too fried to write up a proper journal entry about our volcano GARventure, and one of my usual event reports (as you can see on the right side of my journal) about Cosplay Mania, but I'd like to take this chance to share a part of our lecture of sorts at the Cosmania cosplay workshop last Sunday.
China !snowpeachdrop, Kat ~moonlightflight, El ~rosiael and I were invited to talk about general cosplay planning, like fabric selection, wig styling, cosplay makeup and photography. My friends might post the other parts, but for now here is our silly guide about posing for cosplay photos, and convention etiquette. The actual presentation was actually longer, and with lots more examples, but here is a condensed rundown of what we talked about, fo
Before Cosplay Makeup: Basic Skincare!Before I write about cosplay makeup, I figured I should discuss some skincare basics. I feel it's important to know how to take care of your skin before you start putting gunk on it! This is really very basic so I think those of you with your own regimens already might be bored by it! But here it goes!
I'm not an awesome guru wizard thing, but I'll just share some general concepts and products that work for me. It's different for everybody, but I hope this will be helpful! For your sreference, my skin type is combination: normal to dry with an oily nose. Hahah! Not my T-zone, just my nose!
Recently, my male friends had gotten very interested in makeup for cosplay and asked me for tips on how to go about it. (I think this was fueled by Kaname's visit to our country for Cosplay Mania '12, and they saw how beautiful he looks. :lol:) I decided to ask them about their skincare regimen to figure out what products might work for their skin type.
When I asked what they wash their face w
Mulan & PotC Photoshoot + Clinique PaintingDisney Cosplay Shoot!
These pictures were from June last year I'M SORRYYYYY
First time we wore our our Disney cosplays was for Toycon 2011:

The weekend after, a few of us got together to do a studio shoot because we were just excited, and I wanted to finally try out a pseudo movie poster photo treatment for cosplay photos. It was definitely a challenge. But it made me really happy to show my friends how the final images turned out. :D

Test shot on Miguel ~merkymerx before he wore his Jack wig :lol:
Erving taking a REFLECTION SELF-PORTRAIT FACEBOOK DISPLAY PIC stlye photo halfway through putting on his Shan Yu costume
This is what the setup was for ~merkymerx Miguel's Captain Jack portrait. I edited the rope in. He was actually holding this stick held up by Dom ~Weakman. :lol: I made sure his pose was right, and that all the details were arranged and lit up properly while Erving adjusted the light settings a
We present our first attempt at video!We're venturing (clumsily) into another medium! Video! Here it is!
Killjoys, Make Some Noise!

Click here to watch the video!
I know there's room for much improvement, but we're quite happy with it for our first piece of video work! :D I actually picked up After Effects for the first time just to be able to edit this video — to fix the colors and add the text and lasers and stuff. It was fun!
Happy anniversary, Danger Days! On November 22, 2010 My Chemical Romance introduced the world of the fabulous killjoys. One year later, we're still here singing it to the world in our own way!
Some background info
:note: For those of you who aren't familiar with this usage of the term killjoys — it's based on the My Chemical Romance album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. A description that was given on
Revisiting Naruto cosplay + Road to Ninja Movie!So I've heard of this film for a long while, but never got to watch it for lack of a proper subbed copy/DVD release. (There was that Korean dubbed one that some people watched online, but Naruto has my favorite Japanese voice acting so I didn't want to watch it any other way!)
Sometime last month, some happy news reached our shores — Road to Ninja would be showing at our local cinemas!! I know it's been a while since its first release but I'm glad I waited before resorting to well, less legal ways of watching it! Hahah! Here is a stupid rap I wrote and slapped on a manga panel:
Would Killer Bee be proud of me? HAHAH
Premiere Night!
I had the honor of being invited to the special advanced screening at Director's Club before it hit the cinemas! Major thanks to Ica and Movie Punch for having us over!
I dressed up as Minato (the Fourth Hokage) and Marien dressed up as
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Broken Youth ED Cosplay Photo Sequence!

Thu Nov 27, 2008, 5:27 PM
NARUTO LIVE ACTION?!

Well, our attempt at it anyway. :lol:

We loved the sixth Shippuuden ending animation, and this is what happened. These shots are better viewed in sequence so I decided to keep them all in this journal entry, as opposed to spamming you guys by submitting each shot individually into my gallery.

That certainly was a challenge. You might notice the use of the diffusion filter in some shots. I usually prefer photos crisp and clear, but we wanted to capture the feel of the video as much as we possibly could. I'll make a follow-up post or something with other shots from the shoot, as well as outtakes.

We know our take isn't perfect, but we did our best to work with what we had. :) We had to compromise some scenes. That stone relic is missing, but come on - it's not exactly easy to come by those things! Haha!


Reference Video

If you're not familiar with the Broken Youth ending, I suggest you check out this video because the following photo series might not make any sense otherwise. As for making videos... Well, not right now. Maybe someday, when we have the skills. :D



6th Shippuuden Ending: Broken Youth

An interpretation by your friendly neighborhood Tuxedo Team.


[opening riffs]








iijiina riyuu issai


yursusu jakuhai
resukyuutai mo yondeoita


dakara...


please kiss me


please kiss me


ALL NIIIIIIIGHT
(from Jin: Don't look at me like that! Those are the actual lyrics!)


datenshi no mahou ka koakuma no chachina itazura
tsumaranakunacchua mae ni


soore de houre
bouringbooru ibutsu na sonazi daro


shouchi no suke
kowaresoude...


docchirakatta


kanjou de


kirihirake yo
kowaresou de






Oh YEAHHHHHHH...










kowaseni bokura no shouri


[fade out]


Broken Youth Live Action!

WHOA YOU GUYS. ~Xaiyu made a video with our the photos! Thank you so much from all of us! (Aw, now I wish we had could have pushed through with drawing the wanted posters! Haha!) We salute you! THANK YOUUUUUUU!

This inspires us even more to someday film actual videos.


The ending flashes were particularly well done! Thank you, Jenny!

Cosplayers:
:iconbehindinfinity: myself as Naruto
:iconmerkymerx: Miguel as Sasuke

:camera: Photography Team:
Kat :iconmoonlightflight: (who shot almost all the photos for this sequence)
Tracy :icon13idiotbox:
Rayson :iconsinag-araw:
Kiks :iconkiksology:
:pointr: stock from [link]

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Mood: Wow! ~11Uehara11 Sep 3, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
haha,i have see the video...it's VERY COOL!!!
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~kkbeatles May 12, 2012
Woah you look JUST LIKE Naruto!!!! And Sasuke too!! I love the photography and the lighting is so great and professional.
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Mood: Wow! ~FruityMood Feb 19, 2012  Hobbyist Artist
you guys are professionals!
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~KarasuHebun Dec 29, 2011  Hobbyist Photographer
aww removed videos sad panda i shall be for the rest of the night great pics tho and costumes! ^_^
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~Hisake-umii Oct 14, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
wow! you are looking amazing! no fairz! i wanna be a good cosplayer like you! :sniff:
But you did an awesum job there ^..^

Love,
Hisake
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~Ookiitaruto Oct 8, 2011  Hobbyist
LOVE IT!!!!! <3333333
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Mood: Love ~TerasBad Aug 28, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
so cool *sigh* i love how you did sasuke's hair, i would've thought that would've been the hardest things to do
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~PinkSakura1o1 Aug 27, 2011  Student Artist
And ur eyes r so blue!!
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~PinkSakura1o1 Aug 27, 2011  Student Artist
Wowzers!! U got everything so perfectly the same!! So cool!! :D
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~AzhaliUsagi Aug 14, 2011
I love you as Naruto!
Awesome!!! :la:
This is just amazing!
*dies*
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