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| Anime
Conapalooza: Organizers of Anime
Central and other cons joined in this fan community, giving healthy
stats on the surge of attendance throughout the years. |
Slayers Fan Panel: Panelist fans of
this comical series gathered up a hearty crowd while discussing the
constant symbolism, teasers, and foreshadowing in Linna Inverse's wacky
world where technology has slowed with the dependence on magic. |
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| Manga Drawing Workshop with
Takeshi Miyazawa: Expert professional artist Takeshi Miyazawa had a
packed seminar on helping fellow artists to focus on quality character
design and developing skills to liven up lines, tones, and overall body
of a character. Topics included study on eyes and eyebrows,
clothes and wrinkles with shadow effects, dark and light hair
highlights, starting with wireframe bodies and building up towards
shading techniques to give a body more presence, and reviewing 2-point
and 3-point perspectives. |
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| Trading Card Gathering: Held again for
the hungry fans who probably spent too much in the dealers room, it's
not enough to have just a few; you gotta collect more! And when
you come to a convention, for some fans, this was the place to trade
some cards around to get an upper hand towards strengthening your card
collection. |
Lost in the Translation: Popular
Japanese translators (left to right) Neil Nadelman, Dave Fleming, and
Dan Kanemitsu gave insightful views on the hard work behind Japanese
translation efforts. Topics covered learning from popular culture
and historical material, use of military and slang dictionaries, and
essential illustrative dictionaries. |
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| Amy Howard and Brett Weaver:
Inside the Voice Actor Studio: Claustrophobia, ranging temperatures
inside the studios, haunted buffer rooms, long waits for editing; all in
a day's work for the voice actors as Brett Weaver (second left) and Amy
Howard (second right) point out. Difficulties also included
studios that don't use time codes to pull out a more rhythmic and
natural vibe to the spoken dialogue. Mistakes are sometimes made
that cause delays, and it is essential to not let it get you down.
Listening to a director can always help as they have your best voice in
mind to deliver a quality product and can help you to improve.
Brett confessed that he often talks to himself without realizing it, but
it's great practice encouraged by many voice actors. Favorite
anime characters were pointed out: Brett likes Tora from Ushio and
Tora while Amy, of course, has always liked Nova from Starblazers. |
