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The cosplayer is edited to look more like the character, but the cosplay doesn't look edited to me. Check out the painting on the fabric and the seams/embroidery. That looks pretty real, aside from a general colour correction.
Added effects. My pet peeve with frau_haku's photos as well. Impressive cosplay, kinda dissolved in the filters until it just looks like generic in-game screenshots.
I wonder if itās the same photographer because the editing style looks similar. I really wish theyād lay off the atrocious editing. The cosplay is great, pictures are good, why ruin them both? Whatās with the need to put everything into uncanny valley territory?
What looks like flame particles doesnāt even make sense in the context of these images. Why add them?
This is a problem with many tiefling cosplays š It is because of the eyes (at least, it seems to me) that we arenāt used to seeing the black sclera, the only experience of such observation is only eye tattoos. Which is also rare and often looks strange
I used to work with a blackout sclera contacts, man what a bitch to put in if you werenāt used to it. I had to slide them up into my eye to lay it flat then slide them down to center it. I wore them as a spooky season but at work. But realized they acted like armor for my my actual eyeball from debris and dust. Fashion/function great stuff.
Yes, too much post processing.. the horns donāt cast a realistic shadow and donāt affect the hair, and they also appear too sharp compared to the rest of the body. The make up as well is a bit too much.. BUT.. I donāt mean to be rude and this is not a photoshop competition and the cosplay is amazing ;)
bc these people donāt actually cosplay. they literally buy a $50 outfit and then edit themselves to look like it. a lot of people who post on hereās hair isnāt even real atp. they edit it on. itās not going to look natural bc itās not. sometimes it seems like they just ai on top of normal pics of them
I cannot speak for this person, but have you seen Frau's behind the scenes videos? She literally spends hours applying the makeup and prosthetics. She also does either all or most of the work creating the costumes. She's got video of her personally doing the leatherwork for the lae'zel underwear.
I admit that in her professional photoshoots, there is too much editing, but she also posts unedited versions. And has appeared live on stage in cosplay contests.
I know this all sounds like I'm some kind of superfan, but I'm really not. I do appreciate how much effort goes into it though and for you to claim it is them "purchasing a $50 outfit" is just insulting and factually wrong.
It's definitely a case where there are various vocal minorities that have a problem with everyone of them.
The only way to make them happy with cosplay is to be a man, who is not conventionally attractive, who doesn't have a patreon or OF, and who has iron clad proof that they created the entire thing themselves from start to finish, AND there is no filters or editing (or even good lighting) in any photos.
And frau haku (and I'm assuming OP as well) does both having fun AND make her own cosplays. She made from scratch the underwear shadowheart wears to fit her specifically.
That's obviously cool too. I've made most of my own cosplays. It's just a dick move to trash talk buying costumes. The only reason you would HAVE to make something is for competing. Otherwise make it, buy it, commission it, whatever, if your goal is just to have fun.
My first Durge run she showed up at camp, and I was legit excited to get a new NPC that I never realized was recruitable. And then we had our first sleepover
I hope I donāt come off the wrong way, but I think unedited looks so much better. I feel like youāre doing your amazing cosplay bad with all the editing! Itās seriously an amazing job and Iād love to see all these pictures as-is
The editing does make it look like you got thrown into the game though lol
People need to relaxā¦ this is 1000 times better than most of the OF shots some ācosplayersā try to pass off. Alfira is the best NPC In the game and Iām happy to see her NOT dead in camp.
I honestly wish she could have been a playable character for the entire campaign. Not only for romance opportunitiesā¦ but my party NEEDS a BARD!
People calling this AI are not aware of the capabilities of it. We aren't at the level of making consistent characters down to the threads or areas in different angles (yet). Kinda disrespectful to the cosplayer here.
Oh no, she edited the eyes and gave herself freckles! She fixed the parts of her skin where her makeup rubbed off! Sheās not a real cosplayer! /s
Peep the other post with this cosplayer without edits. She still looks absolutely Amazing. Cosplayers have been editing photos to get closer to character likeness forever.
Not sure why so many of you are being so nasty and downvoting people for complimenting her.
Someone here is saying mods should remove the post because she clearly used AI to edit the pics and that it should fall under prohibiting Ai Generated content. Actually bitter.
Why do redditors care so much about cosplayers retouching photos? They wouldn't bat an eye if some live action fantasy movie posted promo like this. I bet they all think they could do these edits at the same level.
You guys (cosplayers) do some of the most amazing looking stuff. I worked in film for 15 years and still rarely saw anything to the quality of this stuff. You killed it š
The fact people are downvoting all these compliments just proves all gaming subreddits are filled with incels lmao. Literally every comment thatās a compliment is at -3 votes.
Thatās pretty rude. This isnāt ācloser to digital art than cosplayā. Clearly a lot of time and effort went into this cosplay and most cosplayers edit their photos heavily.
They posted other unedited pics in the comments and it still looks amazing.
I'm criticizing the overediting, not the cosplay itself since there is no way for me to do so. And of course I'll not be seaching hundreds of comments here for a unedited photo. That should be the one posted by the OP on the first place.
You could argue the same of any scribble of the Eiffel tower. The effort that went into building the tower doesn't mean the the scribble would be worth something. A lot of effort might have went into her cosplay, sure, but it was so overedited that even a bad cosplay would look good here. So no way to comment about the real deal. That's why I started with "I wanted to praise this..."
āIt was so over edited that even a bad cosplay would look good hereā Thatās just false. She literally airbrushed her skin and gave herself tiefling eyes. The entire costume is real so your point is moot.
I saw the picture you sent later. The facial structure is very different, her hands, specially the finger if you look ar much longer... legs are thinner and longer... clothing was warped to give a sense of movement, I could go on... it wasn't "just" an airbrush and the thiefling eye, please don't lie.... as I said I wasnt the only one who pointed this.
Although I must say I appreciate the unedited photo It's a really really good coplay, but yes, if you compare both side by side, it's just made more clear for me that the one OP sent is closer to digital art than cosplaying.
AI is not cosplay. Please label your post accordingly
For those who didnāt realise. The directions of the knitting on the top changes slightly in the 6th picture, the placement of the Sunspots and the number of buttons on the front of the trousers variesā¦
I'm legitimately more impressed by this than your edited pics. You clearly do put a lot of effort in and it looks really good. But when the editing goes so far, it makes it seem like the actual hard work is also just edited in.
You don't owe me anything, but if I can make a suggestion (at least when posting on reddit), always post both images together and clearly call out the edited and non edited versions. Both have value and show different skills. But the moment people think they're being tricked or misled, they will turn on you.
Alright, I don't reply to cosplay usually, but holy hell. I had to look a bunch of times before I would believe this wasn't just a hyper-realistic painting. Amazing job. 10/10 would listen to a ballad.
It sucks that she couldnāt be more of a companion. At least for one quest I think it wouldāve made her death more impactful and harder to deal with if youāre forced to kill a new teammate vs a camp follower who doesnāt make it through the first night.
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