Behind the scenes
Diablo III – Beta test
Blizzard were kind enough to finally decide to release Diablo III in May this year, May 15 to be exact, which also happens to be my birthday. That meant I would be getting myself a sweet birthday present, but also that we needed to get going with our costumes if we intended to have them ready for the midnight release. The release event ended up more of a beta test for the costumes than actually debuting finished costumes. It was actually rather nice to see what worked and what didn’t, and until the real photoshoot later this summer I’ll have both minor and major details to work on. But here’s a sneak peek on what’s to come, photos from the evening at Webhallen. [Show as...
Read MoreA Long and Winding Road
I was 19 when I got my first real job. I started out part-timing it as a bookstore clerk, and felt like I was the luckiest girl on the planet, surrounded all day by fantasy literature and comics. My nerdy disposition was no secret – I was into most things geeky at an early stage: friends listened to boy-bands and I was in love with The Beatles (ultimate boy-band gone rock band – come on!). Classmates got chewed out in school for being to rowdy – I was repeatedly told off for bringing my own books into the classroom and not paying attention to the lessons. In middle-school, I spent weekend mornings eating breakfast infront of the TV, either watching...
Read MoreThe roaring 20′s
Why: I’m a retro gamer at heart, and when I started this project I thought it would be fun to pay tribute to all the great games that so many miss out on today. I also saw it as a chance to showcase all the awesome game heroines that I love, but people seem to forget. People always say that there aren’t any cool heroines in games, I beg to differ. Sure, there are far more male protagonists in games than females, but most of the male heroes are carbon copies of each other (the brown hair and stubble model…) with not much of an interesting personality. Female heroes tend to be much more interesting. This will be the first of many upcoming retro mash-up...
Read MoreAlice, what have you not done?!
These are the behind the scenes photos of our Alice shoot. The pictures of Sanchez as Alice sitting on a bed are from when we first tried out the costume, so the costume wasn’t fully finished. Why: Sanchez and I are co-workers, and for several years our job has sent us to work at a Japanese pop culture convention, and we’ve made it a tradition to always dress up for these occasions. We usually aim to do a group cosplay, but being a bit too optimistic when it comes to time and workload tend to disrupt our plans. This year was no exception. The plan was for Sanchez to dress up as Alice and me as Sam from Gray Matter, but it ended up being just Sanchez as an almost...
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