Anime North Recap Part 1
AN was really fun this year. Like always I took it slow and just relaxed, first weekend I've had off from work and going back to PTBO.
Thursday night instead of going to the pre-party we stopped in Oshawa, ate at the Outback, and saw Spiderman 3, probably should have seen Pirates. Spiderman was meh, not as good as the last two and not horrible but it was just slow. It could have been much better if it were cut different and 20 min shorter.
Friday we hit the con, my first thing to do was the 2 hour AMV panel with Iceman_F1 and writerz_bloc. The panel went ok, we covered quite a bit but still not as much as we had planned for. Still I think that there were alot of new creators there that learned a bit so I'm happy for that.
After that I just hit the dealers room and went to the AMV comp. The amv comp went good. There was alot of good stuff, I especially recommend Fall_Child and Doki's newest vid's they were by far my fav. My Challenge entry "Big Poppa" (I'll upload soon) lost to Haunters Eye of the Dragon video. I think it was really close and I still got a medal so I'm super happy for that.
Saturday I had the Final Fantasy panel. Surprisingly it was one of the funnest panels I've ever been to. There were 4 of us there and our moderator didn't show up, so we had absolutely no structure to the panel. We recruited a Sqaull from the audience to be the moderator, and that worked out pretty good, alot of time it was just talking about the things we love and hate about the series and making tons of great jokes. The only problem was that it was such a small room. The room itself was packed and tons of people left becuase there just wasn't enough room so I hope they learn for next year.
Thursday night instead of going to the pre-party we stopped in Oshawa, ate at the Outback, and saw Spiderman 3, probably should have seen Pirates. Spiderman was meh, not as good as the last two and not horrible but it was just slow. It could have been much better if it were cut different and 20 min shorter.
Friday we hit the con, my first thing to do was the 2 hour AMV panel with Iceman_F1 and writerz_bloc. The panel went ok, we covered quite a bit but still not as much as we had planned for. Still I think that there were alot of new creators there that learned a bit so I'm happy for that.
After that I just hit the dealers room and went to the AMV comp. The amv comp went good. There was alot of good stuff, I especially recommend Fall_Child and Doki's newest vid's they were by far my fav. My Challenge entry "Big Poppa" (I'll upload soon) lost to Haunters Eye of the Dragon video. I think it was really close and I still got a medal so I'm super happy for that.
Saturday I had the Final Fantasy panel. Surprisingly it was one of the funnest panels I've ever been to. There were 4 of us there and our moderator didn't show up, so we had absolutely no structure to the panel. We recruited a Sqaull from the audience to be the moderator, and that worked out pretty good, alot of time it was just talking about the things we love and hate about the series and making tons of great jokes. The only problem was that it was such a small room. The room itself was packed and tons of people left becuase there just wasn't enough room so I hope they learn for next year.