The director of The Hollow Chronicles saw the wounds that I had painted for my character at the Anime Convention 2012, so she asked me if I could come on set for the shooting of Episode 3 to create special effects makeup. The call was 7:30 am, so you can still see the morning fog when I started to work. My makeup room was the trunk of a car. The final effect was pretty gory. Don’t worry. No actors were hurt in the shooting of this film.

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I love to “cosplay.” That’s short for costume playing. I dress up as anime characters and go to huge (100,000 attendees) anime conventions. Last weekend, the Anime Expo 2012 was held at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Here are a few pictures of my friends and I. Check out the bloody wounds that I painted on using face paints.

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