The Escapist S Final Fantasy Cosplay Gallery

We here at The Escapist have noticed that whenever we do cosplay galleries from the conventions we attend, you guys really enjoy them. So, given that our issue this week is all about the JRPG, we thought we’d ask our readers to send in their outfits of costumes from the most widely known JRPG long-running series out there. And you certainly did. Seen here are a bunch of the pictures you all sent in, as well as some of the pictures we’ve snapped ourselves at shows like TGS 2010 and PAX 2010. Enjoy, and thanks to everyone who sent the pictures in! (Notice: While most of them are perfectly reasonable in size, some of these pictures are very large, and may take a while to load.) Isadora, a German cosplayer who has been making and wearing costumes for five years, and her boyfriend pose here as Lulu and Auron from Final Fantasy X. “I probably spent more than 60 hours on each costume,” she notes, and the photographs were taken by Katharina Mayer. The toughest part? Getting the duster sewn together correctly and hemmed. She credits Regina Mcleod with makeup. Shadow’s helmet and armored belt were handmade over two months, as were the scarves – which took almost an hour to properly tie when putting the costume on. “The costume was made by me using faux leather,” she writes. “I used a pants sewing pattern that I altered into shorts as everything else was created from scratch. The boots were painted using acrylic ink.” “It’s more comfortable to wear than it looks,” writes Lizzie who wore the suit at Ayacon ’09 in the UK, “though it’s got a very restricted field of vision so I do walk into alot of stuff.” Carving polystyrene is “a lot harder than you’d think,” she writes, meaning that the head was the hardest part of the outfit – but she had some help with a friend who designs costumes for the stage.