I like Samus. She's like the Liam Neeson of space. She doesn't have much to say.
She's just like, "I'm gonna kill you all. You're gonna be dead. You're gonna be dead."
"You're gonna be dead. It's gonna be fine."
Hi I'm Hendo Art and I'm here hanging out with HyperX, and today I'm turning into Samus from Metroid.
I got started working at a gaming company and then made a bunch of friends
that were super nerds, and they were like, "You should try cosplay!"
I was like, "I don't know if I'm cool enough…" and they're like, "Try it, you're gonna get addicted."
And so I tried it in 2015 at a convention called Anime Los Angeles and loved it.
Playing games definitely influences my cosplay choices.
You fall in love with the character that you play as.
Soldier: 76 was the first Overwatch character that I played.
So that was the first Overwatch character that I cosplayed, too.
Oooh, if I had no time or budget limitation I would definitely do the Iron Giant.
It's my favorite movie ever and it's enormous and he's a big sweetheart.
I would love to make a giant robot like that.
Spider-Gwen is one of my favorites because I get to climb on whatever I want.
Wonder Woman’s really cool because you just feel pretty epic.
And then sometimes it's fun to be something silly, like I was Duffman my first year at San Diego Comic-Con,
and it's kind of fun to just hip thrust. "Duffman is thrusting the direction of the problem!"
Especially after making this build I really love working with LEDs now.
Stuff’s just cooler when it lights up and you get to feel kind of like a mad scientist with like the helping hand
holding all the wires, you're soldering and there's smoke… Science!
I think one of the best tools to have that I sometimes forget about is just having a reference.
For Samus, I bought a little, tiny reference figure.
It was only like 20 bucks, but then you get to kind of hold it and look at it from every angle.
Life's just way easier when you have a little reference to look at, for sure.
Probably the most important game in my childhood was Super Smash Brothers.
My mom, my dad, my sister, and I all played.
That's definitely like, one of my first exposures to Samus, too.
My sister playing as Samus and just dropping bombs on me, non-stop.
But, I'm blue Kirby. I'm the best. So...
- Oh, see, here's the thing. - 1986.
1986?
Is that right? Oh my god!
Can I just named Metroid Prime 1 through 3, Metroid Super, Other M is the one that everyone hated.
Oh, I don't know how old Samus is. Is she hopefully 27?
25! Oh, I'm too old to be Samus. Noooo!
I chose Samus because she's one of the coolest female video game characters EVER!
So I made the entire suit from scratch, mostly out of foam for the basic shape
and even did some of the details myself like casting gems, cutting acrylic, and wiring the lights.
I really enjoyed especially learning how to light everything myself.
It was kind of challenging to figure out how to make the suit all connect and have different power sources.
The hand was one of the hardest parts, since I can't really have a wire
coming all the way up to my chest plate.
So it has just a little self-contained light and it took me a long time to figure it out.
The helmet is definitely my favorite part. But I didn't get it right on the first try.
I actually had to make the pattern twice, and then I had to assemble it twice to actually get the shape
completely the way that I wanted.
The chest piece and the pauldrons, I feel like, are Samus’ most iconic armor parts,
and they were definitely the most difficult, too.
Each pauldron has 45 individual LEDs that I had to solder together.
Another really fun thing to make was the arm cannon.
I had to kind of decide if I wanted it to shoot out balls or if I wanted it to light up.
I'm not really skilled enough yet to know how to do both, but maybe that'll happen one day.
But I just chose for it to light up.
Now for the best part! I get to suit up!
And that's about it for Samus!
I've had a ton of fun here at the HyperX studio.
Be sure to check out all the other Behind the Cosplay videos, and we'll see you next time!