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I always thought part of the fun of that costume WAS that the dress is hideous. XD It's FF cosplay though - if it were me and I had that particular issue, I'd revamp it to add lots of interesting detail and patterned fabric and beadwork and such, and say I Amano-ized it. Even if Amano didn't ever actually illustrate a particular character/outfit, it can be fun to play what-if, experimenting with an artist's style. (I've already had to do this when the rest of my group was doing Amano versions of player characters, and then there was one character who had no official artwork whatsoever, just a little 16-bit sprite... There was no way she'd have looked right in a flat, plain, simple dress next to the rest of us.)

Amano-izing is actually one of the best excuses for revamping that dress :)
Thanks! I feel like now I have some sort of justification to play around with it.

I'm thinking of maybe trying to play around with the cut - keeping the silhouette, but going for a more Victorian type of style instead of the actual design's plain cut.

Go for it! That would seriously be an awesome thing to see at a con. I actually sort of wish I was doing it now. (Make the hair white and finer, weave ribbons into the braids, drape with beaded strands... yeah, I'd have fun with that.)

(stopped being anon; there wasn't really any big principle behind it)

Hmm... I'm a bit afraid that changing the hair color like that might make him not really recognizable. I mean, I'd make the sword, which is like HAI CLOUD HERE, but maybe a paler platinum would work better?

I guess I'll have to do a study of Amano's designs and see what to go with... adding random details is one thing, but they gotta be the *right* random details, you know?
At the same time, dang... I thought this would be the *easy* cosplay XD
after my last one, I wanted something relatively cheap and not a big deal! and here you ruined it

XD Sorry? These days my cosplays are almost all designed to push my limits...

There actually is Amano artwork of Cloud, so I would go off that as a basis for the hair, since the hair for WM Cloud is just his usual hair with pigtails and a tiara. And Amano's tiaras... ohohoho. But yeah, recognizability is a factor. I tend to go all out, myself... but the nice thing about Amano-izing FF cosplay is that no two people's costumes will necessarily look alike. (There's a pic of me with two other Amano Celeses at Katsucon, and two Amano Lockes. Doing a chorus line kick. XD None of the costumes are alike - and there actually IS Amano artwork of all of them!) You can go as far or as not-far as you want, and it'll be awesome.

It also occurred to me, you know how you can get three different "levels" of dresses through the minigames? Well, the polygon model always looks the same no matter which dress and accessories you get. So technically, you could make the dress non-ugly by just tinkering with the style but keeping the same color scheme and so on, and say that you got the GOOD dress. ;)

No, I get you, I usually choose crazy stuff to cosplay (even though I don't actually have that much experience. My first cosplay was Angel Sanctuary's Lucifer >_>). Sadly, expense *is* an issue...

I would probably do a more "standard" Cloud wig, because I'm afraid that if I didn't, it would just look like I don't know how to style a Cloud wig.

I guess there would be two factors - one, is adding details, because Amano loves little colorful details to stuff. Like you said, beads, ribbons and whatnot. But I would also try to cut the dress differently, and maybe play a bit with the shades of the fabric (because horrible purple+red is... special).
Haha, good point about the model! "what, you couldn't tell from the pixels that this is what the dress actually looks like?" XD

(by the way, your Kain costume is really amazing! I tried gessoing craft foam for Lucifer, and just applying+sanding took me fifty million hours, and tons of gesso. I'm trying to find faster techniques >_>)

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