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 Cosplay Workshop: Cosplay is not taking over
the world, but it's certainly gaining fast and wide popularity within the arts and crafts
hobbyists communities. Always a challenging medium, experienced veterans of the
cosplaying community gave detailed examples of their works, discussing topics such as
cost-efficient use of foam and fabrics, web resources, learning to plan ahead when desiring
to debut at an upcoming anime convention, being professional and courteous to other
cosplayers, use of various art supplies during the convention, and preparing the costume for
the convention. For the experienced attendees, topics of artistic use involved various
examples of imitation fabrics, glues, proper paints to use, mixing of heavy and light
fabrics, knowing when to shop for the best deals, abiding by the rules to stay out of the
Masquerade when using bought costumes, checking out the best prices from various online
anime costume shops, always checking rules on weapons policies, and checking the Renaissance
Faires for possible inspiration and resources.
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Voice Acting Workshop: Crispin Freeman,
Tiffany Grant, and Hilary Haag presented topics about the voice acting environment with
such subjects like favorite characters, paying attention to timecodes and scripts, use of
various foreign accents, bringing up facts like groupwork in Japan versus individual work in
America to save costs, starting out with minor roles like screaming or computer voices,
character analysis for proper voice attention for the fans, and lack of agents for most of
the voice actors. Fans also got a chance to come to the front and try out their own
voice skills with characters from an upcoming release Kare Kano with helpful voice direction
from Crispin Freeman.
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Fan Fiction: Veteran fanfiction writers gave a great panel
to a packed audience on topics involving how to get started and sustaining the vibrant
styles and personalities within the fanfiction communities. Highlights pointed out the
growing fanbase for yaoi, yuri, and crossovers, revenge fictions, how to give good feedback,
taking criticism as a positive feedback model, knowing where to imrprove your stories,
getting the word out on your new stories, and the great 9/11 response as fanfiction writers
came out with stories about anime and manga characters showing their support for the
firefighters and NYPD.
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Music Video Technical Workshop: Getting back to basics was
an essential element in the AMV process as veteran AMV contestants talked about issues on
video timing, frequency settings, proper capturing of footage, heavy computer equipment
costs and software maintenance, good examples of splicing and editing, uses of
next-generation digital media for submissions, use of MPEG4 for internet distribution, media
cleaners, standard use of Adobe Premiere, uses of layers and transitions, web resources,
being picky on the audio quality, and small debates about Macs vs. PCs.
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Additional
panels, discussions, and workshops held throughout the weekend included: Synch-Point
Industry Panel, Media Blasters Industry Panel, Manga Entertainment Industry Panel, Bandai
Entertainment Industry Panel, Cel Trading Post, Aspiring Voice Actors Extravaganza,
Collecting Shitajiki, An Evening Wasted with Scott Frazier, Publishing Manga in America,
Pioneer Entertainment Industry Panel, Anime on DVD, Guest Panels for Brad Swaile, Melissa
Williamson, Toshiro Kawamoto, and Ken Akamatsu, Right Stuf International Industry Panel,
Music Video Panel for Advanced Users, Robert DeJesus and Studio Capsule, Slayers Fan Panel,
Evangelion Fan Panel, Bad Bad Anime, Can Otaku Make it in the Anime Industry?, Tetsuya Aoki
and Plex, Hidenori Matsubara Guest Panel, Otakumentary, Megatokyo Revealed, Viz
Communications Industry Panel, Central Park Media Industry Panel, Inuyasha Fan Panel, Fan
Subtitling Workshop, Mukashi Mukashi: Once Upon a Time, Traditional Garments for Cosplay,
Works of Watase Yuu Fan Panel, Inking Workshop, and Make Mine Manga 2: "Big Eyes are
not Enough: Making Manga Style Your Own".
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