【COS】Vocaloid Project DIVA f -Science Girl Miku

初音ミク　Hatsune Miku Project DIVA-f
Module: Science Girl (理系少女）

Star Voice Miku @ Aiko Shorin

BB Operator Meiko @ Kaien Yuu

Agitation Miku @ Cili Padi

General Kaito @ Andros Hay

Purple Ageha Miku @ Aiyuki Adelle

Ruby Luka @ Cheryl Lo

Ribbon Girl Miku @ Yuki Christy

Memoria Miku @ Chia Yi

Science Girl Miku @ Maro Ch (me)

Wagamama Kojocho @ Akihiko Michaelis

Yukata Style Miku @ Cappy Phreakyfish

Neko Neko Cape @ Eclair-Nyanko Aiai

Innocent Miku @ Karie

Trade School Rin @ Huko Yee

Graduate Meiko @ Sher Myn

Afterschool Mode Luka @ Chelses Yuan

Honey Whip Miku @ Camille Iora

Melancholy Rin @ Angie Ong

Scissors Rin @ Alma Woo

photo thx Razrig photography

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This is the largest group that I've been working with, and thanks to Angie for organizing and arranging for the shooting. There are more people actually, but due to some circumstances, some are not able to come, including our dear Molly (=3=)//////////// 

But I am glad somehow to be able to work with all Vocaloids~ The group includes a few other photographers like our Lord Mazaki, KC, Blur and also fellow photogs from Singapore, Fariz Asuka and Blurmage. Though I am not familiar with most of them. Hence, didnt get the chance to work with them though.

photo thx Lee Mazaki

The only full body shoot I have from Mazaki =w=. I am happy to have slim legs here/////

It was kinda rush that day, since we booked 4 hours of Karaoke room. The room was awesome. Fits most of the theme there. 

Was planning to do Hachi Hachi version (Tengaku version of Rin), pairing with Molly initially. Since Molly was not able to attend, I changed to Science Girl instead. Mainly, because of the song
"What Do You Mean?" (どういうことなの！？) by Kuchibashi-P. Fits my condition now that time, when I was rushing for my thesis. Check it out in Youtube for the song. Its awesome!

We went to arcade in Timesquare later on after the photoshoot. Apparently, I am outdated..... too old.... i didnt know arcade is still a place where youths hang out... Was in damn big culture shock. I am typical stay-at-home type of girl. My life is consistently, school, anime, mangas, sleep and it goes all around again. Although occassionally, I do overnight sewing and photoshoot outing.. basically it never strayed far from these. To see that most people know what arcade's newest machine, frankly speaking, I was amazed. Especially that dancing machine.. maybe its just me that is not compatible with dancing, but to be able to follow the move of the dancers in the machine, its seems to me its hell lot of practice. I personally still like Jubeat alot, which I have the Iphone version in my phone right now. A new sight for me, maybe sometimes when I am free, might try hang out in arcade for Jubeat, since the big squares is much easier than the iphone size of squares. =w=

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【Tutorial】Simple tutorial for pleated skirt

Its been ages since I last posted something. I've been working for my thesis for the past months, and now finally finished up the 1st draft for it~ 

I have the time finally to fill up what's left out for the past months. 

Now, since I made the pleated skirt for Project Diva F Science Girl Miku, I might as just write a tutorial for this. Pleated skirt is quite commonly in a lot of characters, any highschool uniforms, and quite a range of female characters. The procedure is quite simple, I took around 3 hours to complete the whole skirt. 

How the end product looks like. It would be better if I iron it more thoroughly : )

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~Simple Steps of Making Pleated Skirt~

Step 1: The cloth. 

I use some left-over from my Alice dress. Its around 150cmx 60cm

Step 2:  Cut your cloth

Measurement taken from you waist until middle of the thigh. Mine is around 35cm including allowance for seaming.

The whole lenght for the skirt I used around 150cm(standard width of the cloth, 60 inch) + an extra
85cm, total around 2meters and 35cm.

Step 3: Fold the ends

You can either seam it or I personally prefer to fold it.

Step 4: The pleats.

Each pleat is about 2 inch/5cm thick. Depends on your own preference. I think 4cm would be better....

Pleat and iron at the same time and pin at the top of the cloth to hold it.

Bottom pleat is 1.5cm each sides, as shown in the pic below. 

For better look, its recommended to do 2.5cm bottom pleat. Since I would like to save cloth, i used slightly shorted bottom pleat.

Step 5: Join the cloths. 

Just sew the two pieces together. 

Overall lenght I got from the 2m35cm cloth is around 90cm of the whole pleats. 

Step 6: Waist band

Cut two piece of rectangle shape, snips the ends off as shown below.

Measurements: 14cm x waist/2 . 

Sew them together. 

Fold it in half and iron it.

Fold in the ends and iron, to keep the loose ends in.

Step 7: Join the waist band to the pleats.

First, sew a line through the top of the pleats (where the pins are) to fix the pleats.

Insert the pleats in the middle of the waist bands, pin them.

You'll get something like this in the end.

Before sewing it, join the ends of the of the pleats, leaving at least 5cm space. Important, because the hips might not fit in if there is not space left. you can choose to put zips here.  

Any extras of the pleats, just fold and tuck it in at the end of the waist band. Sew the waist band on. Put on a button / buckle. ITS DONE!

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Although I would like to put how it looks like in the real photoshoot... somehow.... I didn't get proper full body shoot....... 

Of course, there are other pleats pattern. You can try to pleat all in the same direction. Just the middle with double pleat and sides are all in opposite directions. 

Next project I am going to do on Tonari no Kaibutsu-san, Shijuki's school uniform. I will do the single side pleat skirt instead. Will upload the progress after I finish it. =w=

【COS】Vocaloid - Musunde Hiraite Rasetsu to Mukuro

『さあさあ　今宵も無礼講
獄卒衆すら巻き込んで
宴の瀬にて成り下がるは
純真無垢故質の悪い
悪虐非道に御座います』

片足無くした猫が笑う
「ソコ行ク御嬢サン遊ビマショ」
首輪に繋がる赤い紐は
片足の代わりになっちゃいない

や　や　や　や　嫌　嫌　嫌

列成す 卒塔婆の群れが歌う
「ソコ行ク御嬢サン踊リマショ」
足元密かに咲いた花は
しかめっ面しては愚痴ってる

腹を見せた 鯉幟(こいのぼり)

孕んだのは 髑髏(されこうべ)

やい　やい　遊びに行こうか
やい　やい　笑えや笑え らい　らい　むすんでひらいて らい　らい　羅刹と骸(むくろ)

一つ二つ三つで　また開いて

五つ六つ七つで　その手を上に

松の樹には首輪で　宙ぶらりんりん

皆皆皆で　結びましょ

ー終わりー

Hatsune Miku @ Maro Ch

Shion Kaito @ Kaien Yuu

photo thx GN S Chen

special thx Molly Eberwein & Fuyu

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Its almost end of March and I haven't been posting anything recently. For the past month, I was busying about thesis thingy, and its not progressing well at all, was kind of stressed-up at the moment. At least one for March today =w=.

Previously I was attracted by one cosplayer photo of this version of Miku, ( I don't really know who that cosplayer was), but her cosplay was so amazing that I searched through the internet immediately to find out about the songs. My instinct told me that this song would fit my taste very much, and I was right about that. By the way, this is way before I started cosplay. Well if compared back with her version, I think mine was not as perfect as hers, it was kind of in rush somehow. Thinking back about past year cosplay, I had done thing with rush and incomplete way. Though there's always beauty in the incomplete way, but I would always think that I could have done better . Like Ryoma's favourite quote " まだまだだね", there's always the space to keep up, and I had much more to learn. 

Although this set I used around 1 year time to complete it, well mostly because I was lazy to start editing it, there's always part that I was not satisfy with, especially when postprocessing wasn't my strong point at all. Thanks to Molly actually, for introducing the Nix color effect plugin for Photoshop, is was such a savior. I tried hard with Lightroom, and found it unreasonable to communicate with. Nix had become a good friend indeed, the real user-friendly type. <--- main motivation for me to start editing it.. A few there was edited by Yuu with Lightroom, and when I tried my part with PS alone, it just didnt work out. I was lucky when Nix got a filter that could gave similar effect as the one Yuu edited, I was saved XDDDDD.

The lyrics was adapted from vocaloid wikia ( link below). Mainly I was thinking only about putting pictures on until I got the idea when recapturing the song from Youtube to integrate the lyrics in a few of the pictures to complete them. Well, at least I tried, and with the pictures I have, it could fit in for the 1st phrase of the songs ( that's why its until there). The "Yai" and "1,2,3"part initially was planned to be .gif pic, but it's awkward, hence I changed into this instead, I think its better that a sudden gif in all static pic, might caused heart attack (hahahah =D). and I just remember that woodplank is still at the back of my car.......... normally what do people do with used props anyway?? I always wonder.... I find them a nuisance..... <--- failed cosplayer(?) I am really not that kind that appreciates props .... and I was afraid to start any armor cosplay because I know I will hate the armor after finish event or photoshoot....... T3T

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Source of words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4YiWY_QBBU
Lyrics from: http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/%E7%B5%90%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E9%96%8B%E3%82%A4%E3%83%86%E7%BE%85%E5%88%B9%E3%83%88%E9%AA%B8_(Musunde_Hiraite_Rasetsu_to_Mukuro)

【Sneak Peek】Vocaloid - Musunde Hiraite Rasetsu to Mukuro

Although I would like to emphasize that I am not a big fan of Vocaloid. However,... for unknown reasons, my plans this year, one third of them... seems to be vocaloid.... and I wonder why...

<Musunde Hiraite Rasetsu to Mukuro > fitted my taste of songs quite perfectly, dark and sorrowful. According to the author Hachi, the song is trying to portraits the innocence of children can actually turn destructive and evil and also criticizing the general cold and indifferent attitude of the public. To Yuu and me, the songs seemed to bring out more on prostitution and abortion.

One sneak peek for the moment.

Hatsune Miku @ Maro
Kaito @ Kaien Yuu

photo thx Sam

special thx Fuyu and Molly

Since we decide to take the shoot early in the morning before the sun comes out, all of us sleepover in Yuu's house after celebrating her birthday on 17th night. I forgotten my charger in her house that day, I'll have the photos upload after I get it back : ).

 Rushing props and costume last minutes seems to be a trend for me. I can't recall any none last minute shoot in my history of cosplaying, a sad truth T^T. Things go on quite smoothly except I woke up late because my alarm is not working even with Yuu and Fuyu not sleeping the whole night and we missed the early morning dark thingy. The photos turn out to be good though. Thanks Molly and Fuyu for the help to smoke the place, and pose directing.

The complete post might be coming out quite fast.. because I am not the one doing the editing part.... XDDDDD I realized now that my pace of putting up photos is really slow...... even though I have all the photos with me already. I feel sorry.... especially to Yuu... and Fuyu...and Sam and Mazaki............. I'll tried my best... to .... maybe in a few weeks time........

   

【Sneak Peek】Vocaloid Hatsune Miku Fanart- Cheerful39 by Manbou no Ane

Vocaloid series although is not a anime series or manga, it is still the most wanted cosplay characters. Especially Hatsune Miku, for some reasons Miku seems to be the most popular characters that fancy people the most. Miku Fever started to boom out during these few months especially when Diva Project came out. Although I am not a huge Miku fan but I still like some of the versions. "World is mine" is one of the most, since I loved the song so much~~ =^^= Another Miku that strikes me would be this design "Cheerful39" by Manbou no Ane. I was so in love at first sight with her and it overwhelm against World is mine and I decide to do this instead... >//<

I personally prefer to sew costume myself than sending for tailor as it fits me the most and I can modify according to my own preferences. BUT!!! this time i would say this is TORTURING!!! TAT .. the ruff skirt almost killed me!!! I spent the whole day and night before the shoot to modify and refine the skirt ... in the end.. it still not stiffen enough to the extent of a platter tutu... OTL I had tried my best T^T

For the theme for this shoot "Hatsune Miku All Star Photoshooting"

                             The Sandplay of Singing Dragon Miku @ Quist Chan Yu Yuin       

               Butterfly Miku@ Igloomy Mink 

            Saihate Miku@ Sumire Lee

Tricolor Air Line Miku @ Kizuna Aem

                      Yellow Miku @ Akihiko Michaelis

     Cheerful39 Miku @ Maro (me)

photo thx Lee Mazaki

Cheerful39 by Manbou no Ane 

About the design, short kimono with element of ballet tutu fancy me alot~ the ranging color of red is very inspiring and comfortable =3= The design credited to Manbou no Ane =3= love this so much~