Many gamers for several nights in a row did not break away from the presentations of E3, and in St. Petersburg, meanwhile, this weekend, the annual festival "Starkon-2018" was held. How did things last year, you can see here, and I will share with you fresh impressions.
What is "Starkon"? Many call it cosplay festival, the concept of “multifandamy” popular in this environment, but, by its own and rather correct definition, “Starcon” is a festival dedicated to science, astronautics, and science fiction and fantasy in all their manifestations.
Visitors were invited not only to observe the defile of cosplayers and look at thematic stands dedicated to games, films or series, but also to attend performances of famous people, listen to scientific lectures and even watch several films in the cinema hall. The festival program is quite dense and may interest people of different ages and hobbies.
In the cinema "Expoforum" a special show of the film was held "Search" Three months before the official premiere. It was personally introduced by the director Timur Bekmambetov. Director Svyatoslav Podgayevsky demonstrated shots from the movie soon "Mermaid: Lake of the Dead" , And the studio Main Road Post – video from the filming of a new fantastic blockbuster "Hares of the Galaxy". In addition, a competition of short films was held within the framework of the festival, and at the end of the second day, visitors could see the film "Prepare the first player" In 3D.
The guests of the festival were met by the real R2D2, as part of the conference "Parsec" Visitors could listen to the performances of astronauts and scientists (the seats of the lecture hall were filled!). And, of course, visitors to the festival could see the performances of famous people, streamers and bloggers, this time “Starkon” was visited even by Leonid Yakubovich.
Visitors who come to Starkon annually, noted that the number and activity of stands and participants this year was slightly lower than in the past, but this time the festival had to be squeezed out of the World Cup, and the neighborhood in time With E3 he impresses his mark. By the way, last summer, a threat of closing hung over Starcon for a number of reasons. This festival is not held under the cozy wing of a large company, but by the Geekers team, the reason for creating (and the main activity) of which was Starkon himself.
As for the cosplay contest, it was as spectacular as always. Under the terms, only participants with costumes who did not demonstrate to other Russian festivals could go to the final, so it is on Starkon that many will bring new products for the first time. And the high demands of the competition and the jury for detail and accuracy of costumes are affected. This time, all the contestants applying for the main prizes were even obliged to prepare and publish an article telling about work on the costume in advance.
This time the jury was invited by cosplayers and crafts by Alexei Travkin and Grigory Ayrapetyan Aka Alfakot, last year winner. Jonathan Straikere from Miami, known for his workshop reincarnations, also joined the jury team.
The participants of the competition had to try hard to surprise the jury and the audience – even literally stand on their heads. Two hundred people passed the total strict selection. Almost eight hundred were accredited outside the competition or were included in the teams of thematic stands. Total almost a thousand costumes and images!
There were twenty-five nominations in total, including such an unusual as fitness-scene. But the main prizes equal in importance and value were four.
The best suit with personal craft was recognized as a cosplay of General Grivus from Yaroslav Rochnyak AKA Rouch. The award for the best costume with studio craft was earned by Polina Vishnevskaya with her impressive image of Saint Celestina from the universe Warhammer 40k.
The pair cosplay for the second part was recognized as the https://jokabet-gb-casino.co.uk/ best personal sewing "Witcher" from TOPH & Sertenus, and the reward for the best studio sewing went to Trinity for the image of Koshchei immortal from "Fairy Tales of Old Rus'". I remind you that on the pages of all winners you can find articles with all the details of creating their images.
But there were many other amazing costumes. Personally, I saw my soul cosplay on the angel of the solar explosion from Magic: The Gathering From Daria Sannikova, extremely successfully falling into the type of Kratos Vitaliy Moroz and a team in the "Tales of Old Rus'", except for the victorious Koshchei, including armored beauties and a woman-yaga with a real hut on real legs.
And it was especially unexpected and pleasant to meet a girl in the same suit as mine: Ilona Book and I, by pure chance, came to Starcon in the form of RED from the game Transistor. Когда на одном фестивале встречаются несколько Йеннифэр или Цири, это никого не удивляет. But Red is a fairly rare character. Alas, while there is a joint photo only on the phone – but, taking this opportunity, I convey hello to Ilona!
Such a bright and friendly atmosphere was on the past "Starcon". A year later – in the same place!
For the pictures used in the article, I separately thank the photographers: Evgeny Kent, Katya Aibazova, Vyacheslav Voronova, Sergey Titov, Vladimir Nikolaev, Vladislav Dubrovin, Alexander Matseralnik, Mikhail Dodakin, Ivan Berlov, Oleg Kovilina, Lyubov Shcherbak, Alexandra Pedchenko, Elizabeth Chechevitsa, Elizabeth Konstantin Familyov, Alexei Kuznetsov, Karolina Aleksin, Sergey Igorevich, Hotori Raino, Margarita Veshvin and Alexander Aspid.
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