#SDCC: The 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International Masquerade – UPDATED
The 36th annual Comic-Con Masquerade, sponsored by HBO’s True Blood, happened last night with 36 entries and 126 performers scheduled to entertain and awe thousands of convention goers. The Masquerade has been a runway for all the best costumes the Con has to offer.
To participate in the contest, the costumes must be original, and participants are required to send photos of themselves creating their costumes. Costumes that have been entered in previous SDCC Masquerades or have won in previous contests are not allowed– which means that means audiences get something new to be dazzled by every year.
Since there is no theme, costumes can depict characters from movies, comics, video games, anime… anything the creator wishes. There’s no telling what to expect, which is part of what makes the Masquerade so exciting. Coordinator Martin Jaquish and other staffers look forward to the contest every year, and are eager to see what people can come up with.
This year, entries included “12 Signs of the Zodiac”, Mothra girls, and a mashup between the hit show Glee and Marvel’s X-Men, titled Mutant Directions.
We’ll have more photos and video up over the next few days as decent copies become available, along with the final results of the judging.
Updated 9:45 7/25: Videos from the Masquerade are slowly being posted online. Here are the “Best in Show” winners, the Vegas Villains.
Be sure to check out these performances, too. There were some great sketches this year!
Wow the mouth moves! How cool is that?
Nice, exciting choreography!
Always a fan of what people can put together. The picture of the Sister of Battle is very impressive.
Always a fan of what people can put together. The picture of the Sister of Battle is very impressive.
I was one of the masquerade photographers but it seems I’m the only one who’s posting anything! See my Flickr sets and check them out.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scotman/sets/72157624613393978/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scotman/sets/7215762460…6445066/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scotman/sets/72157624599687836/
I was one of the masquerade photographers but it seems I'm the only one who's posting anything! See my Flickr sets and check them out. http://www.flickr.com/photos/scotman/sets/7215762…http://www.flickr.com/photos/scotman/sets/7215762…http://www.flickr.com/photos/scotman/sets/7215762…