What’s better than a Katana? A light up LED Karakuri Katana that also plays sounds! Electronic Arts asked us to bring our favorite weapon from their new game Wild Hearts to life and I’m so excited to finally build the sword of my dreams! Hope you enjoy this little tutorial!  Here you can also find a 3D model for a LED Katana so you can build one yourself! The post We built a LED Katana in 7 days! appeared first on KamuiCosplay ..read more

I always love to work with mobile game developers as many of their games often have amazingly designed heroes. I also always wanted to build a functional bow! So when Empires&Puzzles reached out to us to create something from their game, I took the chance and decided to make Athena’s bow! It not only has a really cool design, it also has LEDs – the perfect match to test my skills! The post We built a light-up bow from Empires & Puzzles! appeared first on KamuiCosplay ..read more

Warner Brothers Games Montreal and Gotham Knights asked us to create the golden Mask for the Voice of the Court. But since creating a prop is only half the fun we though, why not make the full costume and get Benni a nice cosplay photoshoot as well? And that’s what we did! You can check out the full project in our YouTube video! Just like we did for Beidou before we also used the Unreal Engine 5 to create a digital background for our photos. And I think they turned out really good!  – –   The post Benni got a Cosplay from Gotham Knights! appeared first on KamuiCosplay ..read more

Finding good shops and materials for cosplay and crafting can be tricky! To help, here are Svetlana’s top 10 places to shop cosplay materials! It’s all about foam, paints, wigs, fabrics and all kind of different crafting supplies – and even full costumes! Hope this is helpful!     Here are the links to the recommended shops: 1. https://cosplayshop.be/en/ 2. https://www.adafruit.com/ 3. https://arda-wigs.com/ 4. https://wyla.com/pages/cosplay-fabrics 4.1. https://www.fakefurshop.com/ 5. https://www.cosplaysupplies.com/ 6. https://www.luminsworkshop.com/ 7. https://www.poly-props.com ..read more

Our first Shoulder Armor Pattern Collection was a huge hit so we decided to make two more with even more interesting pauldron designs! The first one is now here: The Shoulder Pattern Collection 2 has 5 very interesting and unique designs that will level up your cosplay armor in no time! Just print them out at home, transfer them to foam and glue them together! It’s super easy! This pattern collection includes: Rider Shoulder Goddess Shoulder Bulky Shoulder Spiky Shoulder Double Shoulder The third collection will follow soon! As always just leave us a message or write us an email with more i ..read more

Dremel Germany asked us to create a cool cosplay prop with their rotary tools, so we picked one of our personal favorites: The Majora’s Mask from The Legennd of Zelda! A realistic looking mask was not enough for us though, so we also made it glow in the dark and speak! Watch the video below!    The post We built a speaking Majora’s Mask from The Legend of Zelda! appeared first on KamuiCosplay ..read more

An old rusty stop-sign as an axe? Sure, why not?!  Techland asked us to choose and create our favorite weapon from their upcoming game Dying Light 2: Stay Human, and obviously we chose this beauty! We 3D printed everything in plastic, but with the magic of painting it now looks like the real thing! Watch the video below!   The post We built the Great Axe from Dying Light 2! ? appeared first on KamuiCosplay ..read more

Raid has been asking us about doing a YouTube integration for a while and I’m super happy to tell you that we managed to make a full costume collaboration instead! As you know I LOVE creating costumes and Raid has really well designed heroes! Plus they let me choose my favorite champion to bring to life and I chose the Valkyrie! She is so awesome; a red-head, really shiny armor and lots of cool props! Just right up my alley! We made two videos for her, one for her weapons and one for the rest of her costume! Check them out below! I’ll also add her to my costume portfolio with a few awesome pho ..read more

Helmets are fun to wear and to goof around in! So I made a new pattern collection for you! This one includes these 5 different designs: Kettle Helmet Morion Helmet Crusader Helmet Nordic Helmet Spartan Helmet All of them can be easily scaled to fit any head size and customized to your liking! Just scroll down this page to see an instructional video on how to use the patterns! I recommend using 5mm low-density EVA foam as well as contact cement to create these helmets. The crusader helmet also has two parts that use 2mm. Other materials work as well of course. You can find more instructions ..read more

  Creating costumes and bringing characters to life requires a lot of work and a healthy dose of motivation! I often struggle with this as well! So with this book I want to share my secrets on how to finish huge projects, how to deal with tight schedules and how to turn stress and insecurities into self-confidence and joy. Cosplay, like any other art, is about having fun and expressing yourself. You just have to stay on track to get things done! I hope this guide will help you to find motivation for all your projects and achieve the goals you’ve set for yourself!   For now, this ..read more