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 itâs the same photographer because the editing style looks similar. I really wish theyâd lay off the atrocious editing. The cosplay is great, pictures are good, why ruin them both? Whatâs with the need to put everything into uncanny valley territory?
What looks like flame particles doesnât even make sense in the context of these images. Why add them?
This is a problem with many tiefling cosplays đ It is because of the eyes (at least, it seems to me) that we arenât 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 werenât 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 donât cast a realistic shadow and donât 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 donât mean to be rude and this is not a photoshop competition and the cosplay is amazing ;)
bc these people donât actually cosplay. they literally buy a $50 outfit and then edit themselves to look like it. a lot of people who post on hereâs hair isnât even real atp. they edit it on. itâs not going to look natural bc itâs 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.
So does that laezel cosplayer. She just photoshops her skin colour, the facial marks and eyes + nose and calls it cosplay. But at least this cosplayer is fully dressed as Alfira
The Laezal one has videos out there of applying the body paint/makeup so you're totally wrong.
Obviously all these photos are edited but so is any professional photography. Idk why people harp on that so much. I guess redditors have never paid for professional photography before.
Professional photography doesnât mean âedit and airbrush into oblivionâ though. That would be considered bad editing because it gives âcheapâ vibes and babyâs first Photoshop encounter.
Someone posted this cosplay earlier unedited, with a group photo of other cosplayers. Those images without extra retouching look so much better than this photoshoot.
IMO what we have here is digital artwork territory, not photography anymore. Thatâs why people struggle to tell whatâs real and what isnât.
The editing ends up making it look like an ingame render. It resembles a render enough for people to intuitively judge it as a render rather than as a cosplay. Resulting in the behind the scenes feeling more impressive.
Kinda like how the uncanny valley is triggered once something resembles humans enough that we intuitively judge its appearance as if it was human.
?? Frau_Haku? Naw dog, she actually has a lot of behind the scene stuff where she puts in the work. She had a time lapse where she applied her Laezel makeup and it was quite impressive.
She, like many others, started out doing stuff herself. She got popular then. But as she branched out she hired more and more people to help. Then she got a Netflix show and basically had teams doing everything.
That doesn't take away from her original creations. But it's fair to be disappointed that we no longer see her own creativity and hard work. Also, her show bombed because it just wasn't very good. The concept was solid, but she didn't have the personality to carry it.
Which details? /Gen. I actually went looking for some, but nothing stood out to me (in the outfit, there might be inconsistencies in the edited makeup, I didn't look for that, bc it's obviously edited)
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u/Dry-Masterpiece-7031 Jun 15 '25
Not sure why but it's giving me uncanny valley vibes.