TCC January 2011

TCC = Tetsuko Cosplay Calendar

After a month's absence from TCCing, I figured the first calendar for 2011 ought to be something special. So choosing the right character was important.

Looking back over the various comments readers and fans have left about who they'd like to see Tetsuko as, I saw one theme recur: The Giantess. And what iconic image represents that theme the best? Why, of course, the famous poster for the 1958 movie Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.

Here, then, is Tetsuko as Nancy Archer, as portrayed by Allison Hayes.

You've probably noticed that Tetsuko doesn't have the same expression on her face that Nancy does in the poster… poor Tet-chan, she wouldn't make a very good actress. I just couldn't get her to do a good "mean" face (she has to be "provoked" into the right mood, and that I didn't want to risk). She wound up more worried about the poor people panicking and crashing their cars…

(I totally cheated on the background: trying to recreate the roadway and the surrounding cityscape was taking much too much time, so I just copied and pasted the road from the poster illustration into the pic, patching up the places where Tetsuko's figure didn't quite match where Nancy's was.

(Also, I have no idea who owns the copyright on Attack of the 50-Foot Woman.)

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