Getting Stupid With Light at Ikkicon 2019

The team of Make Them Awesome put on their Light Painting and Cosplay Photography panel at Ikkicon 2019. People asked some great questions and had a lot of fun with us!

New Site Addition: And Everything Else

For a while now we've been trying to think of a way to share some smaller bits and pieces related to cosplay and photography. We understood that to post more often on blogs it would get us to show up with higher rankings on search engines. But we really wanted to keep our front page focused on our photo sets and longer articles. To add these into the mix of everything else we felt would dilute what we're initially trying to communicate to visitors. While some of the other subjects could potentially turn into larger articles worthy for the front page we knew that most likely would not happen very often. So how should we go about this?

We decided to add a new secondary blog to the site: And Everything Else. The title pretty much describes the whole idea in the first place. Posts here will be more frequent than our front page though also like our front page we're not going to set a rigorous schedule for it. If we have something that we think our audience will be interested in we'll share it. We kinda hate forced posting schedules as we do feel it feeds into low content quality and repetitious subject matter. This will allow us to share more on the site but still keep most of the focus on what we're all about: trying to create good work and showing others they are capable of doing it as well.

And Everything Else

A First Time For Everything: Running A Cosplay Photo Booth

Rob discusses how the team had a new experience: running a cosplay photo booth at Anime on Ice. He talks about how the group got involved (almost by accident), the setup, and how the shooting went.

Cutesy Fun Sanrio Time!

Cutesy Fun Sanrio Time!

Mermaid Child is great at finding items that we end up building a photo project around. This time it involves some My Melody and Cinnamoroll lingerie sets that were available from Sanrio!

When The Sun Is Down I Feel Alive

When The Sun Is Down I Feel Alive

It’s common for us to build a project around one item we randomly find. But this set would also end up being very personal. Rob Swackhamer and Mermaid Child discuss how this goth themed swimsuit photo shoot came about… and just what it meant to the both of them.

Realizing What You've Learned

Realizing What You've Learned

Rob Swackhamer re-visited the very first photoshoot he did with Allybelle as Azura from Fire Emblem: Fates. And he discusses what he had learned in that time since then.

Weaving Together The Threads Of History

Weaving Together The Threads Of History

The Make Them Awesome team recently did a new photo set with some characters from the Fate/Grand Order universe. There was a lot of things we had planned out for this set… but we also had to deal with a bunch of unforeseen circumstances as well.