The Mystery has been resolved

Have you ever found yourself staring at a photo, completely stumped about who's in it? Yeah, me too.

This has been going on for months, scratching my head over who could be that cosplayer, and I posted a few articles using this picture, hoping someday to find a match in google lens.

Enter the hero of this story, an online gentleman by the name of cliffordpadraig, who had the answer!

With a keen eye he identified the person in the photo as none other than the fabulous Fabibi World cosplay! 

The mystery of the "unkown Cammy Bison cosplayer" photo  was solved, and it was all thanks to this amazing individual.

Online small act of kindness have big impact. 

It not only cleared up my confusion but also reminded me of the power of online communities. 

Here was the picture:

Fabibi, the Chilean cosplay phenomenon, has graced stages at conventions worldwide, dazzling audiences with her diverse costume creations. Cammy White in her various flavor (Classic Cammy, Killer bee Cammy, and Bison Cammy).

Here is the link to clifford's blog: https://blogclif.wordpress.com/

Once again, thank you very much, good Sir!

Upscaling Low-Resolution Images

In the fascinating world of artificial intelligence, one of the most impressive advancements has been the ability to upscale low-resolution images. Gone are the days when blurry or pixelated pictures were doomed to remain forever in their subpar state. 

Thanks to AI-powered algorithms, we now have the means to enhance and upscale the quality of these images, unveiling hidden details and transforming them into visually stunning masterpieces.

Let's take an example with this little picture (source unknown):

In very low quality, google lens cannot even find the source of this photo

And here is new enhanced version of based on this low quality picture

How great is that?

Mr Bison Cammy

This picture does not exist elsewhere, 

Google search will never find any other match for it

This is a doctored photo of Cammy 

A recreated Cammy Bison photo using Artificial Intelligence

Trivia question on Cammy scar on the cheek:

From many sources Vega gave her that scar on her cheek. Vega being so vain, didn't want Cammy to be more beautiful than him, so he scarred her face.

Cosplay and porn - the mix was inevitable

Cosplay glamour

Cosplay is a slippery field it seems, it's basically fans dressing themselves as their idols – the iconic wonder woman, Emma frost, Witchblade, Street fighter Cammy, or any sexy and powerful characters from movies, comics, anime or any sort of fictions...
It has no rules, no professionals (and yet some are getting closer to professionals makeup artist, or movie costumes maker, or actors …) - it used to be a field when the newbie enthusiast could have fun posing pretending to be cammy or black cat – that was back in early 2000s ; now cosplay is evolving and a gap is slowly but surely distancing the early fun type newbie and the self-called "professionals" like Yaya Han, because few are making money out of cosplay...

 

 Cosplay porn

And then on top of this … enter the pornstars … and many of them.
And big shots too, like Tori Black (above) cosplaying "wonder woman" because of parody films  – or "Phoenix Marie" cosplaying "Ms Marvel", or the talented Tanya Tate who clearly is enjoying herself cosplaying a variety of characters like Green Lantern or Emma Frost and is trying to attract (?!) a geek fandom.

It was inevitable, because cosplay is a bridge between fantasy and real life - between the glamour World of Superhero - and the business of porn. Think of the excitement of a male convention prepubescent geek, taking a selfie, having the signature and a little chat with Tanya Tate ... to understand the phenomenon.

But nobody can argue that female superhero costumes weren't the bait for this to happen in the first place.

I mean Siri cosplaying "Power girl" was not an accident.

or Pornstar April O'Neil cosplaying April O'Neil from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

Some say that it's sign of the "end of time" ... we'll see about that.

Phoenix Marie as Ms Marvel
Tori Black as Wonder Woman(NSFW)
Tanya Does San Diego Cosplay - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

Selvaria : sew it!

Selvaria from Valkyria Chronicles was once featured on this blog with the post on the Cerberus Project figurine.

Her full name is : Selvaria Bles and she is a 22 year old Brigadier General War Witch and one of the main antagonists in Valkyria Chronicles & Valkyria Chronicles 3.

This splendid character with silver hair had me stumble upon one of the most breathtaking cosplayer : Crystal Graziano - She really does Selvaria justice.

But then I found her various cosplay version of Cammy and then I really thought Crystal deserved to be featured in the blog. There was too many "serendipity".

Here's a few links to her website and interviews :
www.flickr.com/photos/preciouscosplay/
onpaperwings.deviantart.com/

www.facebook.com/people/Crystal-Graziano/
twitter.com/#!/itsprecioustime

My only regret is that Crystal doesn't have created a youtube account (yet).

But I won't despair : her popularity is going strong by the days, and her last shoot as "Black Widow" with the "Big white Bazooka" is a must-see.

How to put Gif on fire (with Cammy and Morrigan)

From two previous articles: "Street Fighting with Gimp" and "cammy is back" ; Cammy White (as shadowloo "killer bee") was featured to show Gimp's ability to generate animated Gifs.

But to be honest, since there was no background, the gif files were a bit boring - now browsing through deviantart I found this gem - that script creates an animated fire effect ; just what we need to add some magic to a good fight.

And here's the result ... pure delight!

Credit : Sprites used are coming from the "Sprite Database" :

• Morrigan sprites sheet
• Cammy sprites sheet
• Fire Animated script made by Fence-post

Cammy is back, fighting Morrigan Aensland

From a previous article: "Street Fighting with Gimp" ; Cammy White (as shadowloo "killer bee") was featured to show Gimp's ability to generate animated Gifs.

As an experiment, using the same gif and technique, the challenge was to check how hard it would be to replace Mr. Bison by Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers series) - and 1 hour later, here's the result :

Conclusion, that wasn't difficult ... just a matter of being patient and consistent in the process.

Credit : Sprites used are coming from the "Sprite Database"

• Morrigan
• Cammy

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Street Fighting with Gimp

Gimp has some hidden secrets - and among them is the ability to generate animated Gifs - so to give it shot I needed to find a couple of sprites - As a Street Fighter fan I obviously selected Cammy White here and Bison here.

Before even starting the animation a little work is required on both Sprites file : 

1. removing the green color to make it transparent - you need to add an alpha channel on the layer and then using select color / green and remove it - should do the trick. 

2. You also need to proceed to a horizontal rotation of Bison's sprite (otherwise the sprite won't face each other) 

Now it's time for the big fight "Cammy vs Bison" 

From a blank document I started copying and pasting respectively from Cammy Sprites file and Bison sprites file into the new animation layer - when copying make a new layer each time then merge down - so the 2 opponents are on the same layer - the process is quite long and my sequence is 20 layers in total.

The key for a smooth animation is to keep the previous layer visible - so you don't move too far from the previous position. 

Each layer will have his own digit for the animation and in parenthesis the duration (100ms) and the mode (replace). This syntax is for Gimp to understand how to manage each layer.

At the end the whole sprites on top of each other looked like this :

To make the whole animation nice - the first and the 20th frame are identical ; it's an imposed trick because the Gif will loop forever - Now to export the result as a Gif file make sure you select "save as animation"

And here's the result :