We’re speaking video video games, journey, and cosplay inspirations on the ultimate leg of our Kamui Cosplay interview sequence!

It takes a inventive, pushed, and passionate artist to make a residing out of a medium like cosplay. But what drives such an artist to create? What influences their work and conjures up them? We’re asking these questions right now with the ultimate a part of our sequence of interview questions with the legendary Kamui Cosplay.

The biggest asset to cosplay is Inspiration. Whether you might be replicating an current character from a present or sport… whether or not you mash up a number of characters and themes… or whether or not you’re taking to creativeness to create one thing really distinctive in an authentic character, there’s something that drives you to construct a cosplay.

Svetlana aka Kamui Cosplay is an internationally acclaimed content material creator, teacherand costume designer from Germany. As a cosplay veteran, she creates costumes already since 2003 and even turned her pastime right into a enterprise. Over the years sheand her husband Benni revealed a protracted working sequence of in style educational books, video tutorials and crafting patterns that influenced an entire technology ofcosplayers. Both like to share their data and expertise with the communityand all the time discover new methods to encourage newcomers and cosplay veterans alike. Their optimistic and useful angle is without doubt one of the many explanation why they’re already adopted by 3.5 million followers from everywhere in the world. Svetlana and Benni are massively in style cosplay company at conventions, get pleasure from to run extremely entertaining workshops, Q&As and crafting panels. At the top of the day although, they only do what they all the time did, construct stuff and assist others.

-Kamui Cosplay Biography

Today we’re chatting with Kamui about what characters, locations, and concepts affect the cosplays she builds. She additionally has some glorious options for cosplayers to observe! We hope you loved this interview sequence. Let us know who else YOU suppose we must always interview!

What are your favourite fandoms? Favorite characters?

I’m principally a gamer and am a fan of Monster Hunter, Horizon, Blizzard Games, and Fallout 4. Since I principally painting my very own avatars in these video games, they’re additionally the inspiration for my very own costumes. However, I additionally actually get pleasure from cosplaying robust feminine characters like Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn or Warrior Princess Xena.

What tasks are you engaged on sooner or later? 

We are working now principally with online game firms and our tasks are underneath NDA till the announcement shortly earlier than a venture begins. So sadly, I’m probably not capable of speak right here about our upcoming costumes.

What do you do together with your time exterior of Cosplay? Any particular expertise or experiences?

I actually get pleasure from touring, spending my time with my corgis Zelda and Midna, enjoying video video games, or hanging out with my associates. Since cosplay is my pastime and my job although, I don’t have that a lot time for loads of different actions.  

What different cosplayers encourage you? Who ought to we function this month?

Please function Kinpatsu Cosplay, Danny McFly Cosplay, Maike Huster, Taryn Cosplay, Cinderys, Calssara, and Willow Creative.

Where Can We Find Your Work Online?

Learn Cosplay with our books & patterns: www.kamuicosplay.com

YouTube – youtube.com/kamuicosplayofficial
Facebook – fb.com/kamuicos
Instagram – instagram.com/kamuicosplay
TikTok: – tiktok.com/@kamuicosplay
Twitter – twitter.com/kamuicosplay
Facebook Community Group – fb.com/teams/kamuicosplaycommunity

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Jennifer aka “Mayhem’s Muse” is the Cosplay Editor for BoLS and manages Ad Sales and Communications. Her cosplay awards embrace the RTX Judge’s Choice Award and Dragon’s Lair Austin’s Cosplay Symposium.
Jennifer has been a Cosplay Guest Judge at RTX, Tacticon and Genghis Con in Colorado. She usually attends conventions to cowl cosplay for BoLS. Her cosplay work has been featured in publications akin to Girls Who Love Monsters, Geek Fuel, and Renaissance Magazine. Jennifer has modeled within the Her Universe Fashion Show, Precision Camera’s yearly Precision Camera University, and has taught a number of workshops for photographers about partnering with cosplayers and artistic muses/fashions.
Jennifer is a lifelong fanatic of retro video video games and loves Dungeons & Dragons, city fantasy, tabletop video games, VR expertise, and historic archery. She has set National Records by USA Archery’s Traditional Division for Asiatic Bows and earned 4th Place within the World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan in 2018 for Women’s Korean Archery. Jennifer is presently finding out for her Masters’s Degree in Organizational Leadership.

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