Remember how earlier this year a group of cosplayers did a thing called Underwatch, where they all — men and women alike — dressed like Overwatch characters in underwear? Many of the same cosplayers tried something similar for Anime Expo, only this time they went in the opposite direction.
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This is Formalwatch, a massive group cosplay project that took a whole bunch of Overwatch characters and dressed them up for a night at the ballroom.
It was inspired by the work of Ein Lee, an artist who last year sketched out what it’d look like if Overwatch‘s cast put down the spandex and body armour for one day and instead got together for a very fancy dinner.
Twenty cosplayers took part, each basing their outfits on Lee’s designs, and they all got together with some photographers at Anime Expo earlier this month for the shoot, which you can view video and images of below.
The photographers are Mineralblu, Elysiam Entertainment and Dave Yang.
Photo by Dave Yang
Photo by Elysiam Entertainment
The cosplayers taking part were:
Torbjorn: Julia Mousey
Mercy: Reagan Kathryn
Pharah: Meevers Desu Cosplay
Junkrat: Kurustein
Mei: Momokun Cosplay
Symmetra: Hane Cosplay 羽
Widowmaker: Jinglebooboo
D.Va: Stella Chuu
Soldier 76: Koreanbarbq
Reaper: 775cosplay
Lucio: Kadu=Out
Reinhardt: Hoku Props
Tracer: Bindi Smalls
Orisia: Akakioga
Zenyatta: Mightysox
Sombra: Lexirobot
Winston: Beau Burns
McCree: 89Styles
Genji: Riku Fantasy Cosplay
Hanzo: Rae Kay Cosplay
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9 responses to “Overwatch Characters Scrub Up Real Good”
No Zarya, so: pass
LOL, there are some great efforts there, but Soldier 76 just looks like ‘generic anime guy #55’.
Shout out to Widowmaker and Pharah!
I dunno. The hair on the Hanzo is pretty good. The worst offender I thought was Reaper, because I couldn’t figure out who he was supposed to be until I looked up the character list and went through the process of elimination
I recognised him from the Blackwatch Reyes skin (although he should have his skull mask presumably).
… wrong thread 😛
Zenyatta in a suit looks like he’s a member of Daft Punk.
Orb it, kill it, heal transcend it.
whitewashed Mei…..
Taint your wagon.
Taint Misbehavin’.