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Category: Creative Team

The creatives who help maintain the Kayelle Allen website, or who are part of the artistic team who portray characters and aspects of stories.

Belyaeva Yuliya - AKA By_Cosphoto

 

Belyaeva Yuliya

Photographer, Cosplayer, Model
Patreon

Instagram - Cosplay

Instagram - Photographer

Twitter

VK

Belyaeva Yuliya is a photographer and cosplayer who created the imagery of Pietas used all over my website. She is known on Instagram as photographer @by_cosphoto, and as cosplayer @by_yulli.

The English variant of her name is Julia.

If you are in Russia and want her to photograph your cosplay, you're in luck. That's her location also! You can find her pricing on VK (the Russian equivalent of Facebook).

 

Nik in the Rain

One of my favorite photos of Nik.

Taken by Belyaeva Yuliya

Nik Nitsvetov is a photographer and award-winning cosplayer who often serves as a cosplay judge at conventions. A gamer and anime fan, he cosplays characters from many popular series. He lives in Russia and is a strong supporter of Russian Cosplay. His personal photography ranges from cosplay to portraits and often includes animals and nature. You will find him online through various social media.

The first weekend in September 2018, Nik portrayed Pietas, the immortal king from the Bringer of Chaos series. The cosplay was performed in a live feed from Russia. To take part in future cosplays, follow Nik on Instagram. Exact date and time of these cosplays will be announced. Images on this page licensed and used with permission.

Nik Nitsvetov as Pietas the immortal king

Nik Nitsvetov as Pietas in the Bringer of Chaos series by Kayelle Allen


Nik as Pietas

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Nik as Viktor
Yuri On Ice

Nik as Soldier 76
Overwatch

Nik as Mario
Super Mario Brothers

Nik in the Rain
Photo by Belyaeva Yuliya

Nik in the Rain Fanart
Commissioned by Kayelle Allen
Art by Jamin Allen

Myamiiyaa is a computer science student and a freelance illustrator on Fiverr. She is focused in character design with anime and manga style. She designed and illustrated characters from The Universe Corps Book 1 - Cadet Margaret McBride by AJ Knox.

 

Beginning in 2020, she created anime versions of Pietas, Dessy, Cyken, and others for science fiction author Kayelle Allen.

Pietas - officer. Art by Myamiiyaa for Kayelle Allen
Pietas

Dessy - officer. Art by Myamiiyaa for Kayelle Allen
Dessy

Cyken - officer. Art by Myamiiyaa for Kayelle Allen
Cyken


 

Pietas, performed by Nik Nitsvetov @nitsvetov

 

Imagine playing dress-up with living dolls! Watching Nik Nitsvetov cosplay Pietas is like that.

Live Action Imagination

He's performed as my immortal king three times now. Will there be a fourth?

Nik said he would always do a cosplay for me, so I might hold him to it.

 

Amazing that we accomplished it this year, given the way 2020 has gone so far!

I won't reveal more images on my blog until after I've sent out previews to my newsletter subscribers. They get to see images I won't be releasing anywhere else.

So, how many do I have? Almost 900 from this photo shoot.

Pietas Cosplay

Nik and Julia are extremely generous and they spent a lot of time getting everything just right. Their friend, Vlad, also helped, and I wanted to give a quick rundown of what each person did to make this cosplay a success.

Julia

Julia stood on a stool to get some shots, and she would hop down, straighten a lock of Nik's hair, step back, straighten it again and then get back up on the stool and snap the picture. She'd turn him left or right just a bit, take a few pictures, and then move him again. She sat on the floor for some images and the angle (a "hero" shot) produces fantastic results. Having seen the images, I can tell you she is effective at getting just the right aspect of Nik's face and body on camera. She knows him well. They've been together many years. You can tell she knows all his best sides, and gets him to show them off.

Vlad

Nik's friend, Vlad, also a cosplayer (and a flatmate to Nik and Julia) live-streamed the cosplay. He also played music for the scene (Rammstein - a fave of mine as well as Nik's), and he narrated the comments. It was interesting to hear my name with a Russian accent. It comes across as "Ki-ell" (long I) versus "kay-elle" and it made me smile every time I heard it. I almost prefer it!

Nik

Watching Nik perform is so amazing that while I was watching live, I forgot to comment most of the time. I did respond with things like Perfect! Which isn't all that helpful, all told. But honestly, I had no need to direct. Nik and I had emailed about 20 times setting up the various aspects of the shoot and getting the props and poses right. I sent him a link to a few examples of poses that I would like and he did it perfectly. There's that word again. Nik doesn't think of himself as "perfect" but to me, there is no better Pietas. When I think of my character, it's Nik as Pietas that I see -- except that he's seven feet tall!

Check the links below to find more authors in this blog hop.

Pick up the first story in the Bringer of Chaos series, Lights Out, free by joining a reader group!
https://kayelleallen.com/reader-groups

Origin of Pietas

Origin of Pietas: Bringer of Chaos #SpaceOpera #SciFi

Forged in Fire

Forged in Fire: Bringer of Chaos #SpaceOpera #SciFi

Lights Out

Lights Out: Bringer of Chaos #SpaceOpera #SciFi


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