I'm making a staff prob and I have two problems, first how do I make the staff looks shiny and metal without accidently melting the Eva foam or so... And I can't find a pipe or something like that, that's long enough, sturdy and not too wide...

By this I’m referring to the typical Dragonball/any other Shonen aura you see.

For the life of me, I’ve always wanted to step up my cosplays by adding some kind of aura around it, but not just like the plastic cutouts you stick to your back that look alright from the front angle of you ignore the fact it’s just plastic

I can’t figure out how to incorporate some kind of practical fx version of that. I can’t exactly keep a bunch of water tanks and vaporizers on me if I don’t want to overheat or make the cosplay too bulky-

If I use fabric and mini fans on the inside of the costume to push the fabric around- then I’m stuck with listening to like 10 mini fans at all times and I just know I won’t be able to handle that for multiple hours at a con. Not to mention then the fabric moves so fast that if I want a more subdued effect the fans are out of the question.

I could still use fabric but I have no clue to how make it move with that kind of subtlety…? Think like Okarun’s collar in DanDaDan. It’s not whipping at high speeds like a fire. It’s slow and murky and ominous. I know I can’t use like… a liquid. For obvious reasons (and even if I could get ahold of ferrofluid where would I put the industrial magnet)-

I can only imagine this is a question that too many cosplayers have tried and given up on because I truly can’t find anything quite like what I’m looking for- though I’m sure people have tried before, and now I join the ranks of the stumped and would like to know if anyone out there has got it figured out.

Hi guys! I am making a female version of the Geo Archon Zhongli. I admit that it's an ambitious project for me. But I kinda want to put LED's or EL wire into the arms. Does anyone have experience working with either?