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Plaid is proud to work with some amazing gamers and cosplayers! Check out our featured cosplay ambassador!
Pigtails and Powertools is a professional cosplayer and prop maker from Utah. Her work is mainly heavy armor builds with fine detail. She also works for the Evermore Creative Studio making creatures and props for the Evermore Park, and for local films.
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I've been cosplaying for about 8 years and am a PNW native, and creating art since I could walk and and talk. Cosplay is my favorite form of art because it forces me learn new skills and techniques, and bring fantasy to life. The cosplay community is filled with talented creators who love teaching and giving back and I couldn't ask for a better family.
Emily Schmidt, known as Go Big or Go Home Cosplay, is from Atlanta, Georgia. Emily enjoys making armor for strong independent female characters. She has cosplayed characters from Warhammer 40k, World of Warcraft, Mass Effect, and League of Legends. She's also a winner of SyFy’s cosplay competition TV show, Cosplay Melee.
AllieCat Cosplay is a GA based cosplayer with a love of transformation and art. She is most happy when she is creating costumes, meeting new friends and sharing information that is helpful for others.
Atelier Heidi is an award-winning artist and designer based in Seattle, Washington. Best known for her portrayal of Twilight Princess Zelda, Heidi has a fondness for elves and other pointy-eared characters. She specializes in leatherwork and sewing, but her portfolio includes a broad range of textile work, sculpting, and photography. As an active Twitch streamer, she brings whimsical fantasy art and fashion to her online communities.
With a love for crafting, creating costumes quickly became a fun hobby that suddenly grew into full fledged cosplay. Lara Croft was my official first costume, hence the reason for using ""Crofty"" in my name. It's also just been a fun nickname and the gamertag people know me by. Through my YouTube channel, I aim to create cosplays on a budget and share my tutorials with those who wish to make wonderful costumes without breaking the bank.
"I love costumes, and I really like making props. A life long hobby has grown into a YouTube channel where I show people how I like to make props." Odin Abbott has been making costumes and props for over 35 years. Odin started in the pre-internet era, and he learned from books by Tom Savini and Dick Smith, as well as magazines like Cinefex and CineMagic, and honed some skills by building model kits and painting miniatures for tabletop games.
I am a junior high teacher by day, prop maker/YouTuber by night. I make a wide range of things using a wide range of products and techniques. I love being creative and sharing my process with others to get them interested in making.
Beverly of Downen Creative Studios creates quality multimedia content and tutorials focused on providing cosplayers a wider range of learning tools to help them create costumes and props. In addition to screen accurate builds, she created a replica of the Wasp costume from “Ant-Man and the Wasp“ for “Marvel Becoming.” Her tutorials have been published in Cos Culture Magazine and Cohaku, and she has been interviewed multiple times on Adam Savage’s Tested. She is the founder of SheProp! and is the host and producer for the ShePropTalk podcast, and her video series “Cricut for Cosplay”.
I love weathering props—using a brush, I add black or brown paint to creases and edges and smudge it with a paper towel. It adds so much depth and shading to really make props pop. I use this technique on everything from weapons to princess crowns!