Eorzea's Next Top Model Cycle 4 - Round 2

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Tinsley Tr'uhart // Gosh, I hate assigning first to the same person twice in a row, but this is my favourite shot of the bunch again. The mouse, angle, and cosplay are all perfect. I almost would have gone with a different hairstyle, since she doesn't actually have her hair tied BACK but that's really just nitpicking the details. Great shot again!
Sunny Day // Recognizeable! Good job! I haven't even played .Hack and I could see who it was when I clicked past. Great background, as well, what even is that? Ul'Dah with some effect? Lovely! It definitely screams .Hack to me.
Hopelle Losstoam // A good concept and a recognizable character! (also one of my favourite sailor scouts hehe) The water was a great choice, but I'm not sure about the time of day. A little bit earlier, when the sun is a bright orange and the sunbeams are coming out, would have been nicer I think.
Bruhn Hilda // I'm not all that familiar with BoF3 but after looking the character up, I had to put you higher. The composition is great, and the cosplay is on point. I like the effect you used, but I feel like if you were going to use something that obscured your face like that you would have benefited from zooming in a bit more (though, that would have ruined the composition, so there's that!). Good cosplay though, and the little fence in the background works great to mimic the sort of isometric feel of the BoF games somehow.
Aeon Rakshasa // A great job with what you had! Again, I'm just not sure on the time of day. Could you imagine if you had gotten "tension" as a weather pattern for this shot, given FFIV? Waaah~ As is though, really great and a good use of the bardsong effect!
Nozomi Kei // I'm personally not against back shots, but I feel like, for this round and for this particular cosplay, a more 3/4 view, maybe looking over your shoulder towards the sunset, would have been better. As it stands, the only part of the cosplay we can see is the back of your jacket and one glove, and I feel that makes it look cheap. That said, I love the background you chose, and the shot does have a good feeling of Genesis, so I'm gonna put you somewhere in the middle.
Alexion Skylark // I like it, I haven't read the books but you do look like a nice mix of the art I've seen of the Jaime from the books and the costume design of the Jaime from the show. and I like that you got a friend to come be your sisterlover. The composition, though, is lacking I think.
Stephen Fairbrook // I love your shot and I love the use of minions, the cosplay is spot on, but I feel like cosplaying a character from the game is a bit too "easy" since he's designed with items that are already in the game :< The shot itself is lovely, though.
Epsil Ion // Ramzaaa~ I really wanted to score you higher, I did, I adore Ramza and I've tried to put together a cosplay of him myself, but I feel like there were things that could have been done so much better here. If you were going for early ramza, you would have benefited from a pony-tail and black pants. If you were going for squire ramza, the Odin chest (or even a black chest-piece in general) and silver sabatons would have looked so much better. The location is nice, but the cosplay itself isn't as recognizable as it could have been ;_; sorry.
Katarh Mest // Cosplaying as a minion seems a bit tricky, and I'm just not sure how I feel about this. On one hand you manage to hit the colours decently enough, you're recognizable next to the fat cat minion itself, but I don't feel like you'd be recognizable without it.
Arrelaine Fashonti // Cosplaying as someone dressed up as a maid seems a bit off, but I can't fault you too terribly. The location is nice, the pose is nice, but the shot itself seems really bland. Better lighting, a better angle, maybe even from below so you've got that frightened look to your eyes with the whites showing?
Kaya Solimar // I'm so sorry, I'm just not feeling this cosplay or shot. These last few have been really hard to place but I had to double check google a few times for yours. I like your background, and your pose, but a centered front-on view just isn't doing it for me. I feel like, if you had taken it from above, it would have helped a lot to give that "short" feel for chibi moon. So sorry ;_;

For people having trouble scoring everyone, I usually just go from top down. I do one I love the most and then I find another I love the most of the remaining. In no time flat, I'm at the end with only one picture remaining.

I scored mine based on how recognizable, unique, and accurate the cosplay was, with extra attention paid to how the overall screenshot looked. To me, the cosplay was a theme, but it's still a screenshot contest.