5 points for looks!

[aimeekitty]

gee! I guess we must not be that hideous. :>

Just in case you don't recall, just last week, some gremlin on Cosplay.com had this to say about us in our Rose of Versailles costumes (the same ones that we just one "Most Beautiful" in at Comic-Con):
"Speaking as someone who was raised in Japan, I thought that the RoV group surely had the greatest costumes among all the contestants, but at the same time, the models in the costumes looked absolutely the worst. I would have given them 50 pts out of 100 --- 45 pts for costumes and only 5 pts for the models. I would have given other contestants higher scores. I'm sorry, but that's what I felt. Why? We Japanese people are used to seeing ugly faces, but we're not used to seeing OBESITY. Obese girls are so rare that they are severely RIDICULED in Japan."

so, for a moment, please let me be petty and immature.

NYA NYA NYA NYA
=^_^=...

more seriously though, this award really means a lot to me. Comic-con is one of the main cons that I regularly go to where people really "bring it". I'm always really excited to see all the gorgeous costumes that people come up with, so to get a good award at Comic-Con means a lot to me. Even more so though, this particular group and costumes were really really dear to my heart, so to get an award with them, just means all the more to me. I know that "we" have gotten awards at comic-con before, but I was a cog in a big group for those (which was the way I wanted it to be), while this was a very personal emotional effort to me, so I guess it means a lot more. I'm really grateful to my all my girls that we did this group together not just for Comic-Con but for Fanime with beloved Char and Anime Expo, and I'm so glad that we were able to do it this one last time with a positive result. I know I've said it before, but again, I'm also eternally grateful to all my friends for help on my costume, including A.J., Annie and Judy. I really could not have made it on my own. Congrats to all the winners at Comic-Con this year, there was some AMAZING costumes, and everyone deserved the great awards that they got.

also, the last thing I saw at the con, was an accidental walk by the "Corpse Bride" booth. I'd previously thought that the large display was just a diarama, static statues. However,... it was NOT.
IT WAS ACTUAL PUPPETS FROM THE MOVIE.
there was one of the animators there, and Crisso, Derek and I talked to him for a while. They are completely flexible, fully jointed (with face joints) little foam (the clothes were mostly foam, with armatures inside) and silicon puppets. I just about died it was so amazing. There are NO VISIBLE JOINTS on the puppets. There is a small hole in the brides ear cannal for instance... he stuck a little metal control into it and turned it slightly, and she SMILED. just like a real person, the flexible silicon of her face stretched and squashed into a nymphlike little smile. It was AMAZING. I still can't get over it. Apparently when you turn the little control, it turns little tiny gears inside the puppet's face, to make their mouths open, or to smile or frown. There are also additional "control panels" that you can press manually in the puppet's face... and the eyebrows, for example, are completely maleable (and stay where you put them....!!!)
I WANT ONE SO BAD. O_O (which is tragically, almost impossible)

Comments

[rotem.livejournal.com]

Congrats! That's really great. ^^