INTRODUCTION TO COSPLAY
Saturday, April 9, 2016 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
UCI Student Center
SEWING TECHNIQUES
The sewing panel. Where we, the cosplayers, teach you, the novices, the basics of sewing so you can be one step closer to making, altering or fixing your own cosplays!
PANELISTS
Yukina Midori is an amateur cosplayer, singer, and writer from the Bay Area. She has been cosplaying for 8 years. Yukina is currently working on costumes for herself and some of her friends for an Akatsuki no Yona group that she will be a part of for Anime Expo 2016. Some of her cosplays include Lirin (Saiyuki), Meiling Li (Cardcaptor Sakura), and Kiki (Kiki's Delivery Service).
Sara is a cosplayer from Southern California who has been cosplaying for four years. She the student director of UCI’s Cal Animage Epsilon Masquerade and made the Sophie (Howl's Moving Castle) cosplay that’s on some of the flyers you may have seen. She enjoys making skirts and dresses of all styles and lengths, whether they be for her daily life or cosplay purposes. Sara's first cosplay was Homura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) and Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro), Ririchiyo (InuXBoku SS) and Fumo Ibuki (Clannad).
NAext is an amateur and hobbyist cosplayer who is also an artist, writer, and game designer from Southern California. She has been creating her cosplays from scratch/old clothes for about four years now but has been sewing and crafting for several on-off years prior. NAext is currently working on her first crossplay Namazuo Toushirou from Touken Ranbu with her group of friends for Saniwa Summit and Anime Expo 2016. Her cosplays include Lenalee Lee (D.Gray-Man), Edna (Tales of Zesteria), and Elizabeth Midford (Kuroshitsuji).