Youth Create is an after school creative technology program for young people aged 12-18 held at Five Dock Library. Discover and explore the activities that young people have been engaging with over the course of the program.

Cosplay Chaos

Have you ever wanted to dip your toe into the wonderful world of cosplay and not sure where to start? Have you made cosplay before but you’re ready to up your game with 3D modelling? Have you ever just really wanted to be a wizard? Then join us for Youth Create as we use 3D modelling to bring your costumes to life.

Cosplay Planning Activity Sheet

Useful resources

  • Tailoring and Historical Sewing

    If your cosplay is fantasy or historical these videos can help

    Click here 

  • Instructables

    A selection of awesome cosplay projects made by the Instructables community

    Click here 

  • Makezine cosplay tutorials

    Check out these great tutorials from Makezine

    Click here 

  • Kinpatsu Cosplay

    A selection of useful cosplay tutorials

    Click here 

  • Cosplay Tutorials

    A great selection of cosplay tutorials

    Click here 

  • Cosplay Tutorial - LED Basics

    Learn the basics of putting LEDs in your cosplay

    Click here 

  • Putting electronics in cosplay

    A collection of tutorials showing you how to put electronics in your cosplay

    Click here 

  • Cosplay Central

    A selection of cosplay news and tutorials

    Click here 

3D Modeling

Introduction to Fusion 360

Fusion 360 to Blender

Introduction to Blender

Other 3D modeling tutorials

  • First steps | 3D Modeling with Blender for Cosplay

    Get started with Blender to make your cosplay pop!

    Watch it here 

  • 3D Printing Props and Costumes

    A great selection of 3D modeling tutorials for creating cosplay props

    Click here 

Online Game Making

Over five weeks in February and March 2021 we have been learning how to make online games by coding them in JavaScript using a framework called P5.js. Everyone coded their own games including adding images and sounds. It was a lot of fun to spend time together being creative and learning new skills, and fascinating to see how everyone's different interests made for very different games!

Check out some of the games the participants made below. You can play them here, or click on the title to play them in their own window and view the code.

Game by Sienna, age 13

Description: Get the person to jump over the rocks.

Credits: music is Market Day by RandomMind www.chosic.com

Cat Runner by Thomas, age 14

Description: You’re a smiling cat and you have to jump over the puppy labradors in the way so you don't get annoyed by the dogs.

Pong inspired game

Google T-rex inspired game

Mouse speed game

We used public domain game assets (images and sounds) from Kenney: kenney.nl