TFA Cosplay

I am the king of procrastination! Fear my ability to put off to tomorrow what I can do today! Failing that, check out what I did a couple months ago at Anime Expo 2010 and Club 2 The Maxx, a competing one day event to Anime Expo.

Despite the initial prediction of looming disaster, I have to admit, this Anime Expo was quite fun, though I doubt it would have been as fun without the Club 2 The Maxx event. It’s something to consider that maybe there needs to be a few competing events during a convention; meaning the convention and someone putting on something else similar right next to it, so if the party is going bad in one, you can bail to the other. It may work out better in the long run, but regardless it certainly did this year. Still, go ahead and check it out, maybe you’ll come to the same conclusion.

I’ve also updated the ACEN 2010 report to include the location to the entertaining AMV “The Cyrus Virus” which was the AMV that perked me up at the end of the convention after suffering from serious burnout.

Because I am the biggest slacker of all time, it’s taken me this long to note that Beacon has uploaded his 2010 San Diego Comic Con photos to TFA Cosplay; check ‘em out, they’re quite something.

Also, due to the fact it’s going to take me some further time to deal with the ACEN Masquerade issues, not to mention the Anime Expo Masquerade issues, I’m going out of order and making the Fanime 2010 Masquerade available which is, as has been for a few years, hosted by Nyaa Torrents.

Hopefully in a few days I’ll have the Anime Expo article written and gotten something concrete on the ACEN video. Enjoy!

Someone had the bright idea to release a kick ass Transformers game and a Dragon Quest game recently.  I must find these people and both thank them profusely and beat them to death, because I have work to do, damnit!

On the subject of work, I’ve finally processed the nearly 400 pics I took for Anime Expo 2010.  You can either click on the link up top or just click right here if you want.  And now I have to go and see about so much much more…oh Lord what did I do to deserve this?  Oh, right, I volunteered.

So, back from Anime Expo and finally got some information on one of the most screwed up technical problems I’ve ever seen in video editing software of any sort. Simple little problems like…oh…I dunno…ADDING A WATERMARK?! Anyway, after going through several solutions which plain flat out just don’t work (not working on linux…gee, that sounds familiar) I find myself back at Avidemux using a plugin designed to work with wine, avisynth. A powerful scripting tool to be sure, but being a scripting tool with a hacked in plugin solution, getting the right verbage down for certain plugins is…harrowing to say the least.

Regardless, I’ve got it. So, without further ado, here’s the Anime Central 2010 Fashion Show torrent as recorded by yours truly, and hosted by Nyaa Torrents. Now all I have to do is figure out how I’m going to deal with this Maquerade video. I’ve got an in with another person who filmed most of the Yoshiki thing in the middle. I only hope we all have enough to hack together the whole thing.

Could it be? Am I sick? Have I ceased procrastination? Hell if I know, but in any event, the Fanime 2010 Report is up for viewing.

As in all the previous years, this one was a great convention, though I may have over-scheduled myself a bit. Probably wasn’t the best of ideas with the lingering traces of the stuff I was suffering from at ACEN still in my system. Thankfully they’d opened up a Safeway supermarket right near the convention which was a great place for food, drugs, and other essentials which reduced so many of the problems we usually have to far more manageable levels…and then we fill up our time at the convention with other things to do, heh. But why am I telling you here? Click up on that link and check out all the fun stuff I saw and took part in.

Wow, I’m getting faster. Maybe I can get the Fanime report out sometime soon too? In any event, here’s the Anime Central 2010 Writeup at Dragons Anime that I’ve been planning to get done for awhile now.

As it was in the past two years, I’ve got nothing but good things to say about the convention. If you’re ever looking for a good time, this is the place to go (though maybe they should think about adding a day), I guarantee, so I hope I did the experience justice. But don’t just take my word for it, click on that link up there and check out my full thoughts on it which includes some news items for those looking for the videos from this year’s convention.

Doug Nelson, also known as Mayhem, has posted his Fanime pics on TFA Cosplay. You can get to them by clicking on the link to the gallery up top or just click here. This was also a very good year for picture taking as he was allowed back stage of the Masquerade to take some composed shots of the cosplayers with a quality you don’t often get to see. You’ll find those pics in the first item which is a sub album for the Masquerade photos.

As always, if you see your pic and you want a larger and/or raw version of it, send me a message and I’ll make it available. Enjoy!

And after some serious toil, I have the Fanime 2010 pics up for viewing. To get to them you can either click up on the top bar or just click right here.

As always, if you see your pic and want a larger or unedited RAW version, just send me an email and let me know. Have fun one and all, it was a fun year, as you’ll see when you check them out!

As I sit here listening to Kung Fu Fighting by Fun Thomas and Carl Douglas, all the while wondering what the Hell I’m thinking going to conventions back to back like I do with ACEN and Fanime, I’ve managed to complete the processing and uploading of the pics from Anime Central 2010, which you can find by clicking on the tab up top or just clicking right here to go directly to it.

This year was somewhat odd in that I didn’t attend too many gatherings, and the ones I did, with a couple of exceptions, I didn’t stay long at. This had more to do with the increased (though not unwelcome) responsibilities I had as a member of the press this year for ACEN, but I’ll get to that more in my report. In Anime Conji I was able to play a bit with my new lens, but here at ACEN, I think I really put it through its paces and I am very pleased with some of the gems I managed to acquire.

As always, if you’re a cosplayer that sees their pic and wants the bigger unedited and/or RAW versions (in Nikon Electronic Format or .NEF if you prefer) don’t hesitate to email me, and I will make it available. And to any and all, I hope you enjoy the photos as much as I did taking them.

And for the final Anime Conji 2010 bit of video I’ve taken, that would be the video for the entire Masquerade which you can get here on Dragon’s Anime.

It was a decent first year, all things considered. Very small, and quite short, but again, to be expected, though there were some true gems there as far as cosplay went. Some of you might recognize the MC, and for those that do, yes, that’s exactly who you think it is. The half time show with Steam Powered Giraffes was more entertaining than I thought it would be as well, so I’d say stick around for that. All in all, an auspicious start, I look forward to continuing improvement in the upcoming years.