Hyper Japan Cosplay Judges Announced!
Friday 24 – Sunday 26 July 2012
Brompton Hall, Earls Court, London
HYPER JAPAN's carnival of cosplay is almost here - and there's just a week left to for the WCS) and European Cosplay Gathering (ECG) contests - so enter now to be a part of it and maybe even win a trip to Paris or Japan!
Cosplay judges for the Saturday of HYPER JAPAN have also been announced - double World Cosplay Summit champions Mauricio and Mônica Somenzari will professional prop makers John Bekkensten and Adelaïde Filippe from Bekkhans Studio!
Mauricio And Mônica Somenzari
Hailing from Brazil, Mônica and Mauricio are the only team to have become double WCS Grand Champions – winning first in 2006 with their cosplayers say they can't wait to visit London - the "Mecca" of fashion - and meet British cosplayers!
BekkHans Studio
Founded by John Bekkensten (Norway) and Bruce Hansing (UK), BekkHans studio have been providing props, concept art and set design for the movie and entertainment industry for the last 13 years. Founder John Bekkensten will be appearing at HYPER JAPAN together with concept artist Adelaïde Filippe.
In addition to providing concept art for Bekkhan's projects with Marvel (Iron Man) and Paramount (Transformers), Adelaïde is also a cosplayer of 7 years, and was part of the judging for the 2011 European Cosplay Gathering Final and French WCS Preliminary.
For more information on all the cosplay competitions at HYPER JAPAN, please visit the www.facebook.com/hyperjapancosplay
For further details on Cosplay at HYPER JAPAN please Emily Bastian on cosplay@hyperjapan.co.uk
For all other HYPER JAPAN / EAT JAPAN enquiries, please Mary Moreton on [email protected]
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