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2024-06-29 13:46:04

General Pricing Guide for Cosplay Commissions?

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I’m not entirely sure it would take a full 40 hours, but that’s a fair estimate of time I think from research to shipping it out.

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I can see why, for a realistic showpiece or recreation of a more sophisticated costume, this may go into some crazy detail. This is neither the level of detail I'm looking for nor even possible. Anime art tends to be simplified, you can watch every frame of action this character is on screen for and it will never give you these details because it's not drawn by a professional seamstress thinking of how a dress realistically falls and gets put on or how fabrics look and shift under different lighting circumstances. I can tell you immediately, without the need for you to research, that it is a dark green dress that remains that color basically under any normal light variation and is flowy. There is literally no point in trying to figure out seams or zipper lines because the artist has not put that consideration into drawing them or even what fabric the dress would be, in fact people joke about how impossible her dress is given the upper torso is basically vacuum sealed to her body while the lower half flows from her psychic powers. This research would be pointless.

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What you’re missing here is that even if it’s not based on show accuracy, the logistics of seams and closures still need to be “figured out” because the commission crafter still needs to create a real garment with seams that can close and fit you. It still takes time and thought assuming that the pattern for this dress doesn’t already exist- and even if they do modify an existing pattern to better match this dress that can still be its own day or more of work as you draft and perform a test piece. I COULD crank through a premade pattern for a relatively simple dress in a few afternoons, true… but that’s not what a costume commission is. They’re doing draft and fitting adjustments based on your body measurements, if not coming up with a custom pattern whole cloth. (For me even just laying out the finished pattern pieces and cutting the fabric for a bigger piece is usually a full night’s work, if that gives you a starting point to think about.)

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The previous poster said that research would be watching the anime to figure out the properties of the fabric, and how the garment is constructed to make it show accurate. I'm just pointing out that this would be impossible to do for animated shows that do not take any of that into consideration, and have no real-life product that you can assess by watching. That's what I meant. I suppose I should have said "There is literally no point in trying to figure out seams or zipper lines *to be show accurate*" instead.

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