If you want to cosplay professionally, you have to cobble sources of revenue together, Nigri said.īut while the ways of making money can change, what is constant is that to become a prominent cosplayer you have to be both authentically connected to the community, and good at cultivating a fan base. But there isn't one overarching revenue stream that dwarfs the others. Nigri listed them off: You can sell prints of photos or other merch from an online store, do appearances for video game companies, make costumes or props for others, get ad money from a YouTube channel, utilize Patreon, and so on. There are a variety of ways to make money doing cosplay, though the vast majority of people in the community do it just as a hobby. She was doing promotion for a video game company and dressed as Juliet Starling, the zombie-hunting cheerleader and protagonist of “Lollipop Chainsaw.” She wasn’t going to make it to her shift. At the time she was actually in Japan, where it was well into the night. But after changing back to the Juliet Starling costume, at leftwhich she had worn all Friday with no issueshe was. Nigri said the first time she thought of cosplay as a real business was when she got a call from her job at Trader Joe’s asking if she was still coming in for the 6 a.m. She’s back today ( here is Nigri, as Juliet Starling, at the Lollipop Chainsaw booth.) But Destructoid first reported that she was asked to leave the show floor until she had changed out of that pink outfit at right. Second, in one picture she had a badge with her name on it, so that allowed random people to find her online. First, Nigri wasn’t just dressed as Pikachu, but rather “Sexy Pikachu,” sporting a barely-there outfit that generated quite a bit of buzz.
Nigri expected to have a good time, and said when she got there she looked around and thought, “These are my people.” But she didn’t expect a photo of her at the convention to go viral, flooding her Facebook and Myspace with friend requests from people she’d never met. She decided to give it a go, and dressed as Pikachu from Pokémon. Nigri did a quick Google search of the event and saw that some people dressed up as their favorite characters to attend, she told Business Insider. In 2009, a friend of Nigri's bought her a ticket to attend Comic-Con, the massive convention held every year in San Diego. It often indicates a user profile.įrom the first time Jessica Nigri tried cosplay - the practice of dressing up as a character from movies, video games, or another fictional universe - she seemed destined to be a star. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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