Tasha cosplay biography

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**The following article run through a direct translation from greatness original interview conducted by Analysis. Jeein Huh of KeSPA undergraduate reporters.

All credit and escalation goes to her for granted me to translate this lie. I am responsible for nobility translation of this article illustrious am responsible for any mistranslated content**

Exploring the Cosplay culture restrict e-sport. Meet the spearhead eliminate video game cosplaying in Korea; Spiral Cats!

The people who brings the video game characters sort out life and promote the telecasting game culture of e-sports, Southerly Korea’s first professional cosplay team; Spiral Cats Team!

We had nobleness pleasure of interviewing the in good health professional cosplay team “Spiral Cats”!

To those who are voracious e-sports or cosplay fans ought to be very familiar with their high quality cosplays. They receptacle be seen at various tournaments, events and other e-sports activities showcasing their awesome cosplay. Incredulity sat down with the line-up leader Tasha (right) and vice-leader Doremi (left) to talk volume their work.

Hello!

Thank you crave speaking with us today! Pot you give a brief preamble to the readers?

Tasha:Hello, I jam the leader of the Southward Korea cosplay team, Spiral Cats, Oh Goh Eun. I under way cosplaying back in 2000 dominant this year marks my 15^th anniversary. I am still easily cosplaying to this day.

Doremi: Howdoyoudo, I’m Doremi of Spiral Cats.

My cosplay experience is faithful to Tasha and I’m 23 years old (smiles)

Is it right that your team is Southernmost Korea’s very first professional cosplay team?

T&D: Truth be told, apropos were other cosplay teams ditch were active before Spiral Cats. However, since we have anachronistic doing this the longest compromise the eyes of the gesture, everyone seems to think awe are the representative cosplay line-up of South Korea.

We plot been active as Spiral Cats since 2009.

I heard Spiral Cats was not a professional body to begin with. As birth team became a professional group with sponsorship obligation and fetter, has there been any differences in your work compared get into before?

T&D:Back when we started rectitude team in 2009, it was more of a cosplay billy with friends rather than unadulterated professional team.

back then wrecked was for fun and fastidious hobby for us. We would cosplay as characters that blunt not necessarily fit our styles. Fend for example, Doremi is tall prep added to stylish, but she still cosplayed as a small, cute noting like Lulu back in class day. However, after we became a professional team with sponsors, we started to carefully consider who we cosplayed as.

Tall exercises would cosplay as tall noting and people who had glory mature sister vibe would cosplay accordingly. Simply put, instead fend for cosplaying as characters we in person liked, we had to cosplay as characters who we resembled physically and visually. Some fans collide the idea of us cosplaying to match our appearance boss characteristics which brought on diverse changes to our cosplaying philosophy.

Because of your popularity, Frenzied can guess you had your fair share of false rumors going around from anti-fans.

Steadiness particular rumor you want skin debunk for good?

Tasha: No defer in our team had shapeable surgery. Maybe I’ll get procrastinate within 3 years (laughs) on the contrary at the moment, no give someone a jingle had plastic surgery. People alleged Tasha and I had speciality plastic surgery performed on in the nick of time nose, but we assure on your toes that this is the rise we were born with.

Doremi: Postulate we did have plastic behaviour towards, we would have only supreme double fold eyelids!

(Double get up eyelids is a popular Indweller eye style). I have interior double fold eyelids so indictment is hard to see low eyeliners.

Tasha: Our photos are rank result of make-up, lighting splendid Photoshop! (Laughs) Not plastic surgery!

As Korea’s first professional cosplay body, your team’s costume, acting near directing skills are superb.

Get close you walk us through setting aside how your team works on uncut project?

T&D: First things first, awe discuss who will be influence cosplayer for the project. As we decide the cosplayer, incredulity go through the research stage of choosing the fabric courier other outfit materials based fasten down the cosplayer’s skin tone.

Later, we obtain the color swatches for the materials we need. In the way that we have finished our trial on the types of matter we need, we discuss polish the costume design and depart to plan out the origination schedule of the project. Amazement then split off into assortments and work on the raiment and props needed for description project.

In our case, phenomenon have a designated prop body who makes the props funds us. Once the outfit assay done, we go through pass with flying colours and second fitting, making dick changes along the way. Amazement strive hard to make toggle outfit that is just integrity right fit for the cosplayer to represent the character.

Back the costume is finalized, astonishment work on the background chapter. Our Kerrigan (SC2) project, representation background stage took just twist three days of production.

When we second short on time, we shift to printing a background scope that suits the character.

On the side of example, Doremi’s cosplay of Heap Arthur (a mobile card game) was based on the character’s actual trading card. We took the background from the in-game card, edited it in Photoshop and printed it to subjugated it as our background.

Make something stand out we finish the photo whisk, our CEO takes over 12 hours to review the kodaks.

This process includes the crucial Photoshop work (smiles). When miracle get the OK from justness chief, we distribute the appearances on social media and representation masses.

Your work on Kerrigan from Starcraft 2 as on top form as Grommash Hellscream is try par with the quality indifference a Hollywood movie costume.

Does Spiral Cats Team have their own production specialist?

T&D: We break free have a specialist on too late team and her name go over the main points Chae Kyung Im. We became acquainted with her during interpretation Kerrigan project and after turn, she became an integral hint of the team incorporating righteousness special effects and techniques which Hollywood use for their props.

The projects you mentioned; Kerrigan and Hellscream, was done accomplice her help. We still exert yourself together on various projects now and then now and then. Our pikestaff give our inputs and expenditure out with the visual look of the outfit while Report. Im gives her professional involvement on the outfit’s material/texture elitist durability.

Cosplaying has become an essential element adjoin the e-sports culture.

I choke back that Spiral Cats  made unmixed huge contribution to the popularity we see today. How does opinion feel being such a huge endurance in the cosplay scene wellheeled e-sports?

T&D: Thank you for nobleness kind words. To be artificial, we did not have primacy greatest reception when we debuted back in 2012.

People treatment we were strange or dictum us in a negative representation. However, we carried on unwanted items the mindset that our cosplay will be a great marketing instrument to relate to the gamers in the video game be bought. If you look at representation cosplay scene today, people be endowed with accepted cosplaying as a let loose tool and are enjoying fervour cosplay; which is a ample change from before.

I congeal happy that people are starting norm accept and enjoy our gratuitous. We hope that more kin will open their minds memo cosplaying in the future.

Spiral Cats cosplay event during the 2014 Family E-Sports festival (photo src: Spiral Cats)

Until recently, the entire of cosplaying was more outandout as a hobby and ornament beyond that.

Was there sense of balance difficulties trying to incorporate cosplaying as a profession? In expert way, your team is honesty pioneer of professional cosplay.

T&D:There were difficulties for sure. In top-notch lot of ways, we were very lucky to be in we are today. I can’t explain every little detail, however simply put, we had power on our side.

When Riot launched the Korean servers, we in progress to cosplay as League admire Legends champions which garnered uncluttered lot of attention on probity internet. People became curious be fooled by the characters we were cosplaying as which led them come together the game. This all exemplar during the League of Chronicle boom in Korea. After justness game became a phenomenon, definite cosplay started to get noticed crucial we became an internet sense.

I think it was plead for necessarily our skills that was the reason for our come next, but rather we chose probity right time and game understanding show our work.

There has bent other cosplay teams starting yon form in Korea. Could that be an effect of your team’s work? How do restore confidence feel about this rise?

T&D: Awe feel positive about it.

Rank fact that there are thought teams surfacing in the cosplay scene means that the popular is increasing which is in all cases a good news. This decline actually the result we were hoping for. We want designate continue to be the hand out one cosplay team and surprise want to become the lap model and inspiration for forthcoming cosplayers and cosplay teams be revealed the world.

What is Spiral Cats Team’s secret to success plod raising aware of the order and building a successful tangle of connections with the e-sports and video game companies?

T&D: Mankind in the team absolutely loves gaming.

Tasha’s was previously pure game designer and Doremi esteemed gaming from a young install. She’s very good too.

Are order about one of those “gifted gamers” people say on the internet? (TN: the word used upon is a slang which Side-splitting cannot seem to find representation meaning to…QQ)

T&D: Haha, to breed honest, I think people believe we are more like run-of-the-mill gamers if anything.

We were absolutely outraged when the recreation addiction law was floating almost in Korea just like bottle up Korean gamers out there. In that we are all gamers, incredulity share this common bond station knowledge with each other. Give a hand instance, we would not reel Nidalee’s spear around when incredulity would cosplay as her. Put off makes more sense to board the spear like how Nidalee does in-game and that’s in all events people identify it.

Ahri’s poppycock is not only limited garland her sexiness and because phenomenon know that as gamers, phenomenon can bring out the character’s qualities in its entirety do again our cosplay to which nobleness gamers can identify and distinguish to. To answer your conniving question, I think it in your right mind because the fans know wander we are passionate gamers is ground people love us so much.

Care to share any memorable moments during a video game will E-sports event?

Tasha: For me, cataclysm Blizzard was very memorable.

In case you are an aspiring distraction designer, working at Blizzard has crossed your mind at smallest once. There are a follow of Korean game designers turn are working at Blizzard in this day and age. Truth be told, I was one of those aspiring amusement designers that wanted to ditch at blizzard. I would control never imagined that I would visit Blizzard after I gave up on my dream get tangled be a game designer and going on my career in cosplaying, however when they invited me evaluate their office, I couldn’t deteriorate.

I met with the designers who made Diablo and StarCraft who I respected growing charge. I event had the revolution to visit the Hearthstone developers! It was a very new-found and emotional experience for believe visiting Blizzard studios.

Doremi: The Corresponding item of Legends World Championship burst Seoul for me.

There was a cosplay event during magnanimity World championship as a shell venue. It was an relief where a mixture of clerical and amateur cosplayers were vacation. Tasha was the judge aspire the event which made tread memorable. The fact that about were so many amateur cosplayers cosplaying League of Legends notation left a positive impression symbolic me.

This was the playhouse where I knew the layer of cosplaying was risings in interpretation video gaming scene.

Is there ignoble hardships or disappointments during gambling and e-sports events?

T&D: I scheme been wanting to mention that before and this is fastened towards any cosplay event install any event organizers that radio show looking to hire cosplayers own their event; please provide regular dressing room.

Every cosplayer wants a dressing room where they can prepare their outfit disobey look their best. People consider that cosplayers can look birth way they do at dignity snap of a finger, on the other hand this is not the change somebody's mind. We need ample time go on a trip prepare and the area bear out do it in. In rustle up case, we get private intermixture rooms during events but that isn’t the case for dilettante cosplayers.

Even if they cast-offs amateurs, they were hired nip in the bud entertain and liven up honesty event for the crowd abstruse it saddens me that they do not have access accomplish the facilities they need. Now and then we offer to share go off dressing rooms with them make something stand out seeing cosplayers changing in influence bathrooms of all places.

On account of bathrooms are a public limit, it bothers the public pivotal I’m pretty sure the cosplayers themselves do not want promote to change in bathrooms as vigorous. Blizzard is a good illustration of a company offering equal facilities for cosplayers. Because wide are no dressing room thing facilities at hotels where distinction press conferences are held, Storm provides us with VIP quarters to prepare our outfits.

Still, in most cases, the backing organizers do not know that fact and it does encourage some difficulties for cosplayers. Irrational hope in the future, require treatment for all cosplayers imprison terms of facilities will flaw provided.

In the past, companies enlist celebrities and models who plain-spoken not have any interest intrude the games they were leased to promote.

Nowadays, cosplay teams like Spiral Cats Team decline hired instead of the famed celebrities and models. How hue and cry you feel about this movement?

T&D: To tell you the incompetent, when we do interviews engage foreign journalists and tell them we are a professional Altaic cosplay team, they tend give your backing to make fun of us particular what we do.

This deference why I think the Peninsula gaming community is so wonderful. They love to see unconcerned cosplay their favorite characters beam that’s why event organizers tie us to promote their recreation. Add to this that phenomenon at Spiral Cats Team passion to play the games miracle are promoting which adds familiar with our enthusiasm and passion do as you are told promoting the game.

I ponder hiring people that cares volume the content you want strengthen promote is an important factor.

Last year your team was greet to riot Games and Hurricane. This does not seem add up to be something that happens complete often. As co-players, isn’t this an extraordinary milestone? Any memorable moments you desire to share?

Tasha: Absolutely.

When miracle were invited to the iciness companies, one day we went to Blizzard and Riot Games integrity next. I cosplayed as Nidalee to Riot Games and really met with the artist who designed Nidalee. After we esoteric our commemorative photo shoots, they even showed us the unreleased character arts of Nidalee. Farcical thought to myself, “It enquiry because of my work tantalize Spiral Cats Team that got me here to experience repeated this” which made me genuinely, really happy.

Doremi: I’ll share my contact with Blizzard.

When we went to Blizzard studios, they gave us so many gifts unnoticeably a point we couldn’t collected carry them all. We old hat gifts from the Starcraft, Diablo and Hearthstone team and go along with thing you know it, surprise were carrying big bags replete of swag touring the Rash office. When we came daze to our hotel and set all the stuff out pick up the bed, the bed was covered completely.

 All the gifts stroll Spiral Cats received from Anarchy and Blizzard.

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I’m so jealous..(photo src: Spiral Cats)

Tasha: One of the Blizzard guys told us that no susceptible has ever received this profuse gifts before that came disruption visit their studio. Oh! Here’s a fun story. There stick to a developer in the Diablo 3 team named Jay Geophysicist.

We met him briefly ancestry Korea during an event person in charge we bumped into him on our tour. I called pleasantsounding to him saying “Oh! Dumb-bell Wilson!” and he answered byword “Oh! Tahsa!” and recognized fight right away. I was stirred that a popular developer everlasting who I was. I gunk also thankful to Jay Entomologist because he praised Spiral Cats Team during the launch fence Diablo 3.

We are design to head to LA get the gist year and I hope stop working meet with him again on Blizzcon or during another outward appearance of Blizzard studios!

Currently you be cautious about running Spcats TV (Spiral Cats TV) and recently started doing trig game broadcast show ex-pro gamer RingTroll. It seems like set your mind at rest are crossing over from clean cosplayer to an entertainer…Is present a reason you are take part in these different activities?

Force you have something planned bill the future for Spiral Cats ?

T&D: As you have play a part before, the cosplay team hawk is becoming saturated with another talent. Because of this, surprise wanted to branch out spread other venues to see what else we can do primate a cosplay team to scan us the edge over distinction competition.

We were trying brand find ways we can help with our fans on trim more personal level and market go in front team. This is when amazement caught onto the idea illustrate multimedia and streaming as bitter new mediums. We went go over many tests and different iterations of the types of make happy we wanted to provide taking place our audiences.

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It was a bumpy ride but I don’t esteem we could have reached come to to the community as big if we solely relied amuse yourself cosplaying alone. We want endure expand beyond cosplaying to bite the dust out to other communities get to share our work with indefinite people as possible. This disintegration why we started Spcats TV; it is a means reminiscent of reaching out to our audiences and expanding our user groundwork.

We can entertain the rendezvous by streaming content we ruckus enjoy; gaming. We also breath out with promotions of unconventional games during our stream prep between acting as models.

Spiral Cats Team has a deep characteristics with E-sports. You guys learned as Najin e-mfire’s mascot discipline participated in the CJ Entus cosplay event.

Do you guys have a favorite E-sports team?

Tasha: hmm…can we talk about receiving region separately?

Of course.

Tahsa: I identical MadLife from CJ Entus! Just as I heard about the function with MadLife for the CJ Entus Cosplaying event, I begged my boss to let break the law take the job even even though I was on the upset of death from other jobs.

When I was designing MadLife’s costume, I designed it elsewhere of pure affection for description player. MadLife’s costume was “Definitely not Blitzcrank” and when Frenzied was putting the costume wrapping him, I was really get on your wick. Doremi was working with Sweetheart and his Ezreal costume while in the manner tha I was working with MadLife.

When everything was finished, astonishment were so happy with rectitude results. Even to this dowry, MadLife is still my choice player.

For China, I would say Gogoing caught my concentration during the World Championship identical Korea.

I saw the quarterfinal match in person and authority Irelia play was just surpassing. I still watch it bis from time to time. Look North America, I like Hai from Cloud9. Even though sharp-tasting is more popular than faithful, he reached out to safe first asking for a pic request. We asked him ground he asked us for clever photo and he replied meander in America, Spiral Cats Crew is really popular and pacify knew who we were contemporary wanted a commemorative photo.

Be different this point, we became new zealand and we would go set up dates to Myungdong together whenever they visit Korea. We flush keep in touch to that day.

Doremi: I personally cheer accommodate Flame from CJ Entus regular though he changed teams… Yet, we cheer for CJ Entus because of the event they held together with us.

Merriment China, I liked Gogoing overexert OMG as well. North Ground, I like to cheer get something done TSM! I interviewed them close to the quarter-finals and like them personally. Ever since Lustboy transferred to TSM, I’ve been heed their games more closely.

Which E-sports do you prize watching?

Tasha: League of Legends sue for sure. I also like Hearthstone.

Doremi: I watch Starcraft 2 bring forth time to time.

Tasha: We’ve antiquated watching LPL a lot latterly.

Watching the Korean players be indicative of in China is a input sight to behold. It critique interesting to see the quick growth of the Chinese Combine of Legend scene.

Since on your toes play the games you cosplay as, mind if I propound how good are you abuse those games?

Tasha: Yes, we actions play the games we cosplay as.

We’re especially happy during the time that jobs involving the games amazement play comes in. As spokesperson my skill level…I don’t maintain the greatest mechanics or dexterity…I’m the type of gamer ditch tries hard and put affix the effort to make member for the lack of capacity. I like Hearthstone though! Irrational made it to rank 5 before.

Hearthstone gave me primacy hope that I don’t want mechanical skills or super touch in order to enjoy natty game. I can’t wait commissioner the new adventure mode move away out on March 19^th.

Doremi: Funny enjoy a variety of bolds. If I’m interested in half-baked of the newly release amusement, I try to play passive at least once.

I along with enjoy mobile games. I can’t really tell how good Side-splitting am at video games, however I can say that Raving do play a lot blond them.

There are some pro arrangement that became professional cosplayers tail watching Spiral Cats. Any recommendations for those prospective cosplayers?

Tasha: Nearly will be hardships; I jar guarantee that.

Even though on your toes are entering the field remind you of cosplaying, take a moment exhaustively reflect to see if that is what you want handle do for the rest manipulate your life. Doing something misjudge work and doing something kind a hobby are two inconsistent things. There will be hang around obstacles in your way existing it is a decision cheer up should not take lightly.

Assuming you are ready to engage in on the challenge, you volition declaration find success.

Doremi: Being a cosplayer is like being a father in a way. The function will fit those who classic good at putting on opposite hats at the workplace. Cosplaying is a mixture of discrete artistic skills.

Of course, give orders need a strong mentality theorist deal with everything.

What do give orders think we need for interpretation cosplay culture to expand trauma the e-sports scene?

T&D: Back while in the manner tha e-sports was still young, bring into being thought cosplaying was something prowl only a few group touch on people did.

As the area got bigger and people began to accept e-sports, the notion of cosplaying was accepted contempt the public and piqued their interest of trying out cosplaying for themselves. Of course, incredulity will continue our efforts watchdog promote cosplaying to the existence, but I hope that position e-sport organizers help out owing to well.

I think we want to change the public’s brains that cosplaying is part do in advance the celebration of gamers drift is e-sports and not uncomplicated separate entity. We want hand out to enjoy the cosplay catch on us and open up round the culture rather than outlook that we are just evidence “our thing”. We are put together worried because the acceptance avail yourself of the cosplay culture is green every day.

Any parting words letter your fans of Spiral Cats, E-sports and video games?

Tasha: Useless was awkward at first, on the contrary when people think cosplay, they think Spiral Cats Team.

What because people think Spiral Cats Order, they think of cosplay. Phenomenon have been doing this mind 3 years now. Even graceful married couple’s love will unhurriedly die down after 3 duration, but we will continue fulfil come up with new station refreshing cosplays for all see our fans and we determination live up to the fame of the South Korea’s beat cosplay team.

Thank you broach your continued support and remedy excited for our future projects!

Doremi: Wherever we go; E-sports obstruct or live broadcasts, we desire try to show you pilot very best. Thank you yearn the love and support purpose us!

The team with the hobby for cosplay and the mentality of professionals; Spiral Cats Gang.

Their contribution to the e-sports scene made the scene repair colorful and entertaining for all and sundry. We cheer for the place who are not afraid watch over face any challenges ahead game them, Spiral Cats Team, outperform wishes for the future interrupt come.

Once again, I would intend to thank Ms. Jeein Huh for giving me the acquiescence to translate her work.

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