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RareAcumen: Dec 28, 2012

jmistajay posted:

Is that supposed to be Kuzco from the Emporer's New Groove?

# ? Sep 18, 2017 19:06

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RareAcumen posted:

Is that supposed to be Kuzco from the Emporer's New Groove?

Haha, no, she's Splinter.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 19:24

CzarChasm: Mar 14, 2009; I don't like it when you're watching me eat.

So a kind of etiquette question regarding cosplay at cons. I know most people are coll with "hey, your costume looks great can I get a picture?"

Are there professional photo booths or kiosks set up where they charge for pictures? Part of me feels like there is a good market for taking good quality shots, but do Cons have anything against it?

# ? Sep 18, 2017 19:52

Ferrule: Feb 23, 2007; Yo!

CzarChasm posted:

So a kind of etiquette question regarding cosplay at cons. I know most people are coll with "hey, your costume looks great can I get a picture?"

Are there professional photo booths or kiosks set up where they charge for pictures? Part of me feels like there is a good market for taking good quality shots, but do Cons have anything against it?

Cons have long since monetized it. Go to any fan convention (anime, comics, sci-fi-fi, horror, etc) and there's sure to be "professional" cos-players there as "Guests"�. Like, they have a booth and times for photos and autographs for a nominal fee.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 19:55

Electric_Mud: May 31, 2011; >10 THRUST "ROBO_COX"
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CzarChasm posted:

So a kind of etiquette question regarding cosplay at cons. I know most people are coll with "hey, your costume looks great can I get a picture?"

Are there professional photo booths or kiosks set up where they charge for pictures? Part of me feels like there is a good market for taking good quality shots, but do Cons have anything against it?

Depends on the show but many of them do. I was going to say it's a matter of size but than I remembered that PAX doesn't have one so maybe it's more the type of con with the photorooms being more likely at anime cons than a gaming expo.

E:FB

# ? Sep 18, 2017 20:21

Inexplicable Humblebrag: Sep 20, 2003

robziel posted:

Depends on the show

yeah i was gonna say it's a matter of weighing the pros and cons!!!!!

# ? Sep 18, 2017 20:25

Sit on my Jace: Sep 9, 2016

CzarChasm posted:

So a kind of etiquette question regarding cosplay at cons. I know most people are coll with "hey, your costume looks great can I get a picture?"

Are there professional photo booths or kiosks set up where they charge for pictures? Part of me feels like there is a good market for taking good quality shots, but do Cons have anything against it?

My experience is that there's no shortage of professional cosplay photographers at cons - not on the con floor itself because that's prime real estate, but right outside, at the hotels, or elsewhere in the building there's quite a bit of that going on.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 20:37

CzarChasm: Mar 14, 2009; I don't like it when you're watching me eat.

What I was really thinking was a monetized booth that had a chromakey background that you could change to whatever someone wanted (copyrights excluded) so forest glen, to city rooftop, to medieval castle, to clouds in the sky. Either photo realistic or cartoony or comic book style. Have a little prop stool or box to sit/stand/lay on to simulate flying/hovering. Send people a digital copy for a couple of bucks or send them with a good quality printout for a few bucks more.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 21:52

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

jmistajay posted:

We went to San Japan this year as April O'Neil, Shredder, and Master Splinter:

This Saitama was really into my April, and hurried across the convention floor to get a pic.

That's so cool that Josh Homme's into cosplay.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 22:00

SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL: Feb 21, 2006; Holy Moly! DARKSEID IS!

There are also plenty of skeevy dudes who claim or are actual photographers who are there solely to be perverts. I've yelled more than one out of my booth where we were doing repairs because they were trying to get shots of girls adjusting tights or something.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 22:57

Ferrule: Feb 23, 2007; Yo!

CzarChasm posted:

What I was really thinking was a monetized booth that had a chromakey background that you could change to whatever someone wanted (copyrights excluded) so forest glen, to city rooftop, to medieval castle, to clouds in the sky. Either photo realistic or cartoony or comic book style. Have a little prop stool or box to sit/stand/lay on to simulate flying/hovering. Send people a digital copy for a couple of bucks or send them with a good quality printout for a few bucks more.

http://cincinnaticomicexpo.com/cosplay/

# ? Sep 19, 2017 00:09

Aphrodite: Jun 27, 2006

CzarChasm posted:

What I was really thinking was a monetized booth that had a chromakey background that you could change to whatever someone wanted (copyrights excluded) so forest glen, to city rooftop, to medieval castle, to clouds in the sky. Either photo realistic or cartoony or comic book style. Have a little prop stool or box to sit/stand/lay on to simulate flying/hovering. Send people a digital copy for a couple of bucks or send them with a good quality printout for a few bucks more.

I went to 2 cons this year and both had setups just like that. They were on the show floor like any other vendor, so I assume they just signed up and bought their space.

Aphrodite has a new favorite as of 02:39 on Sep 19, 2017

# ? Sep 19, 2017 02:37

ThatSlacker: May 25, 2004

CzarChasm posted:

What I was really thinking was a monetized booth that had a chromakey background that you could change to whatever someone wanted (copyrights excluded) so forest glen, to city rooftop, to medieval castle, to clouds in the sky. Either photo realistic or cartoony or comic book style. Have a little prop stool or box to sit/stand/lay on to simulate flying/hovering. Send people a digital copy for a couple of bucks or send them with a good quality printout for a few bucks more.

A guy that I used to work with had a rig where he could get a 360 set of photos of a person. He would then use those to produce a full color 3D print of the person. He was looking at making it portable enough to take to cons. After you've spent a few hundred hours making a costume getting a small statue of it wouldn't be outside the bounds of reason.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 02:37

Blackchamber: Jan 25, 2005

ThatSlacker posted:

A guy that I used to work with had a rig where he could get a 360 set of photos of a person. He would then use those to produce a full color 3D print of the person. He was looking at making it portable enough to take to cons. After you've spent a few hundred hours making a costume getting a small statue of it wouldn't be outside the bounds of reason.

I've seen this at Seattle comiccon exactly twice, once in the main dealer's room and once in artist alley and nobody was doing it.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 02:41

The Repo Man: Jul 31, 2013; I Remember...

Blackchamber posted:

I've seen this at Seattle comiccon exactly twice, once in the main dealer's room and once in artist alley and nobody was doing it.

I've seen it in the Youmacon and Metrocon dealer rooms. I think the issue is that the models they make are incredibly low resolution, and kinda cruddy. Like, even by fast 3-d printing standards they are bad.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 04:15

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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:

There are also plenty of skeevy dudes who claim or are actual photographers who are there solely to be perverts. I've yelled more than one out of my booth where we were doing repairs because they were trying to get shots of girls adjusting tights or something.

A friend of mine calls these people "Art Fucks", a term that describes both what they are and what they are hoping to accomplish.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 04:34

ThatSlacker: May 25, 2004

The Repo Man posted:

I've seen it in the Youmacon and Metrocon dealer rooms. I think the issue is that the models they make are incredibly low resolution, and kinda cruddy. Like, even by fast 3-d printing standards they are bad.

That was his hook. He was using a resin printer which can do overhangs and really fine detail. If you've seen the figures that come out of figureprints.com that's roughly what his printer could do.

Of course I think that was also the downfall of the process. Resin is much more expensive than regular filament, he was doing touch up work on the models after the scanning process, and prints took multiple hours to produce. The results were incredible but it ended up being fairly spendy.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 04:45

Snowglobe of Doom: Mar 30, 2012; sucks to be right

jmistajay posted:

We went to San Japan this year as April O'Neil, Shredder, and Master Splinter:

Haaa this is great.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 12:19

fritz: Jul 26, 2003

RareAcumen posted:

Plus, Fred's always driving so I always assumed everyone beside Scooby's in their 20's or something.

There didn't used to be the restrictions on young drivers like they have nowadays, once you got that license you could drive anywhere at any time with whomever was willing to get in the car with you.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 16:30

Crab Dad: Dec 28, 2002; behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB

I'd bury Shaggy if I ever caught him driving my teen daughters around in a shaggin-waggon.

Never sure what Fred's angle was.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 19:20

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LingcodKilla posted:

I'd bury Shaggy if I ever caught him driving my teen daughters around in a shaggin-waggon.

Never sure what Fred's angle was.

Fred was into running off somewhere with Daphne and fuckin' while the rest of the gang did the actual work solving whatever mystery was up.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 19:49

Atmus: Mar 8, 2002

LingcodKilla posted:

I'd bury Shaggy if I ever caught him driving my teen daughters around in a shaggin-waggon.

Never sure what Fred's angle was.

Fred seemed like the type that probably had a really good future ahead of him, so letting your daughter try to trap him probably wasn't as unacceptable as letting her hang around with that goddamn unwashed stoner.

# ? Sep 19, 2017 20:16

davidspackage: May 16, 2007; Nap Ghost

I hate my daughter's boyfriend. Every time they're over he gets all the bread and salami and shuffles it around like a deck of cards and then makes a preposterously tall sandwich out of it but the most, the MOST infuriating thing about it is that goddamned olive on a toothpick he puts on top

# ? Sep 19, 2017 20:32

corn in the bible: Jun 5, 2004; Oh no oh god it's all true!

davidspackage posted:

I hate my daughter's boyfriend. Every time they're over he gets all the bread and salami and shuffles it around like a deck of cards and then makes a preposterously tall sandwich out of it but the most, the MOST infuriating thing about it is that goddamned olive on a toothpick he puts on top

And he claims his dog owns a mansion, like, that's weird right?

E:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGhmZommc4s

# ? Sep 19, 2017 20:35

Joey Freshwater: Jun 20, 2004; Always playing with my meat; Grimey Drawer

corn in the bible posted:

And he claims his dog owns a mansion, like, that's weird right?

E:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGhmZommc4s

fuckin lol at that first comment

# ? Sep 19, 2017 20:37

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

davidspackage posted:

I hate my daughter's boyfriend. Every time they're over he gets all the bread and salami and shuffles it around like a deck of cards and then makes a preposterously tall sandwich out of it but the most, the MOST infuriating thing about it is that goddamned olive on a toothpick he puts on top

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QybfoEmyeJk

# ? Sep 19, 2017 21:11

El Estrago Bonito: Dec 17, 2010; Scout Finch Bitch

Look, it was established that all of this strangeness was caused by an ancient lovecraftian entity living underneath their town. Also then Harlan Ellison recruited them to solve mysteries of time and space at Miskatonic University because he exists in all parallel timelines at once:
No that's not fanfiction, that's real poo poo that happened in an actual Scooby Doo show for children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ-8cn7LGoQ

# ? Sep 19, 2017 22:22

Samizdata: May 14, 2007

El Estrago Bonito posted:

Look, it was established that all of this strangeness was caused by an ancient lovecraftian entity living underneath their town. Also then Harlan Ellison recruited them to solve mysteries of time and space at Miskatonic University because he exists in all parallel timelines at once:
No that's not fanfiction, that's real poo poo that happened in an actual Scooby Doo show for children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ-8cn7LGoQ

It's all a lie. I have a Bachelor's in Medieval Metaphysics from Miskatonic, and I've never heard of the chappie in relation to the old school.

BTW, GO PODS!

Seriously, what is the name of that tissue of lies so I might watch it and witness the misrepresentation of the place that opened my eyes to the REAL world?

# ? Sep 20, 2017 04:27