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My Secret Identity
🕑 Added 2018-11-15 02:28:23 +0000 UTC Sorry been so quiet! The last two weeks I moved from being on set, to being in the shop to building a specialty suit for a show. It was pretty intense though, the last week I was only getting 3-4 hours sleep a night to make the tight deadline but happy with how it turned out. I can't tell you anything about it but when it does come out it I'll make sure to tell you! Now I'm out of the shop and back on Set!I guess for those of you who don't know... (I just assume everyone does now). While Cosplay is a full time job for me, its not my full time job. I juggle cosplay with working in the Film & TV world. Since Georgia got the film incentives, the last couple years, I've been working fairly steady as a specialty costumer on Marvel films. Though I have done regular costuming as well, but specialty is my first love. Now I don't WORK for Marvel, for instance when they started shooting Infinity War, a company who made some of the key pieces, Legacy Effects, hired me to work as part of a small team to dress the actors in those pieces. Or on other productions I am hired as a Local union worker to work in the costume department, either doing regular costuming or specialty (Since I have experience with that)
You can see my current IMDB credits here
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4143805/
So that is pretty much the ONLY reason I have cancelled a couple conventions that last couple years because my supervisor wasn't able to give me the time off... which I always feel terrible about. Moving forward I will probably try to coordinate coming to a con on Sat/Sun, this way I won't have to take a day off and can still make it to a con.
While I'm not the best at all the skills, its because of cosplay I got these jobs and have been able to learn more with each project, be it in a shop or on set. I am a big advocate of promoting using cosplay as a stepping stone towards another job. I know when I'm 65, I wouldn't want to be wearing a thong in high heel at a convention table, relying on sales to pay for my life.. I'm sure you wouldn't want to buy prints of a 70+ year old cosplayer.. unless I cosplaying Granny Goodness. I'm all for people cosplaying for as long as they want and who they want, RIDE THE WAVE.. but always have a backup plan :)
Anyways I have an early call time.. 5AM! So I gotta be up at 3:30 am to get ready and have time to drive :)
Thank you everyone who has ordered prints!
