kingdom hearts costume selection/ live action movie inspiration.

there is no cosplay area here (which is odd, as conventions are now 50% of the fun of enjoying videogames. it is so obvious that kingdom hearts has so big a audience, that many of the costumes are mass produced in various sizes...), so this will be posted here.the movies section is deemed for confirmed rumors, or trailers. this is neither.


the storyline creator mr. Nomura, was once watching a cosplay costume contest that took place on a stage. in front of thousands. i think it was the san deigo comic con costume contest. he was watching via video feed. whenever a kingdom hearts costume appeared AND got loud applause he was relieved/happy.

the problem with kingdom hearts as a movie is numerous.
1. past "fantastic" live action adaptions have failed- look at streetfighter, dragon-ballz, avatar, or even the most recent dungeons and dragons flick.
2. for some reason the casting was way off. many times a costume at dragoncon would be better than the costume and actor's appearance.


i am attending dragoncon 2012, and was thinking of trying to make a movie level costume of a kingdom hearts character. it would need to be undone before,and striking in appearance. (lol, so many girls go as riku and sora.....) i have noticed that many of the standouts are....heartless. of the two really well done heartless i found, (a soldier, and a shadow) they where surrounded for hours by people taking photographs. not even the poor $5,000 usd darth vader costume got anywhere near so much attention.
but not one "invisable" heartless has been done. not one. i searched the many major cosplay/costume/theater sites. i have a fit body, i am six foot tall while barefoot, and have college training in the plastic arts. i think i can pull off a costume so real, it will make little kids cry.

so khvids people: 1)is the invisable heartless something you would recognize?
2)is anyone else going to dragoncon 2012? all the hotels are sold out.... they sell out 11 months before....


info/inspiration:
www.cosplay.com (this site needs this option)
www.dragoncon.org (the convention)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYDrwujtV2A&feature=relmfu (inspiration. i have nothing to do with the video...sadly)

 

Dude, yeah, go cosplay! =D But what's the invisible heartless? o_o

 

see? just the reaction i dont want. but need to test for. but that name is a bit off, alas it is the offical name. perhaps you might recognize the picture?

http://kingdomhearts.wikia.com/wiki/Invisible

 

AH! I remember that heartless! Know the look, just didn't know it's name. It would just be epic if you could do that.

 

i know hes a mini boss. so far most people know what it is.

ive discovered a 30 second jetpack that costs 45,000... too expensive lol, found a 20 minute jetpack (costs 200,000!!!!) and they went out of business..... so much for flying.

im looking into how to have "darkness smoke" roll of and out of my hands now and again. i think i can vaporize tiny amounts of something and color it somehow.

 

well, the only thing i can think about is dry ice, but that's too dangerous. Portable fog machine?

 

dry ice is only dangerous if it touches your skin....... if i have 4 months and 300 dollars to play with just for the special effect, it wont be dangerous.

at this site,it shows me how to make glowy eyes, and his attempts at smoke/darkness. http://cosplay.com/showthread.php?t=112874

his heartless was this: http://www.cosplay.com/photo/1318950/


but most of those people who made heartless arent hardcore fans, and have gone back to being star wars fans, lol. assuch,they are not there to bounce ideas off of.

 

??? How can you say that most people who cosplay as heartless aren't hardcore fans? o_o I'm very sure a lot of them are fans.

 

alot of people who use a costume are sometimes given said costume to "fit into a group".

or a girlfriend has a "crush" on a certain cartoon character and "forces" her boyfriend to dress as said character.

some people are just attracted to the reaction a certain costume would render.

some people get sick/tired/bored of the same genre,and move on for a time. they want little to nothing to do with said genre for a while.



on a happy note, i think i can steal lessons learned from other people.....the ones making those jet black alien movie costume replicas.....should help in this one.


spreading myself out a bit, it appears everyone does recognize the "invisible" heartless. they seem to call it the "devil-looking one". they just dont recognize the name the game gives them.


if i can just make this costume look like it came from a horror movie instead of a campy game, ill hit my goal.