Hi. Are you a cosplayer, props builder, photographer and/or videographer? Are you interested in submitting your cosplay work so it can be showcased on Kotaku? Nice! Here are some tips to help get you started.
1. Your best point of contact is Luke Plunkett, who is best reached via emailand Twitter. You donât need to introduce yourself and ask if weâd like to see stuff. This is a cosplay website, of course we do. Just send some links to your portfolio/social media page and we can take a look from there!
2. Please donât submit images that feature extensive editing or modification (that is, beyond regular stuff like colour correction). This website is a celebration of the craft of cosplay and the people who capture it, and itâs hard to do that if the background of a photograph is a badly-shopped Star Wars cantina, or youâve got fake fireballs flying out of your hands.
3. Submitting Instagram posts is fine, we can work with that, but if youâve got another format/size, thatâd be preferable. Instagramâs embedded images are quite small, so weâre not able to feature them in higher resolutions like we are other shots.
4. Crediting is important. If youâre a cosplayer, weâd like to know who took the photos. If youâre a photographer, let us know who the cosplayers are in your shots. If itâs absolutely impossible to get that information after the fact (cons can be busy!) we can work around it, but if you knowâor are in a position to knowâitâd be a lot cooler if we could just get that info up front, it makes everyone happier!
And thatâs about it! Thanks for reading this far, and hopefully this helps folks going forwards with what, when and how they should send stuff in.
