London Expo report

[firnheledien]

I left my camera charger in Malaysia, which explains the lack of photos. Most of these are from starstray and her friends.

I was pleasantly surprised at the volume of stuff we sold. Everyone who came by our booth were very chatty and friendly. Quite different from the more reserved CF crowd (where I had such a bad experience selling prints way back in 2004

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[futomimii]

Eee your friend cosplayed Luke from Professah Layton! :D And yes, that Yukari is pretty... love her dress ;^;

Whoah you are one lucky girl, that sig is like to die for lol

Though overall how was the con? As in the atmosphere and the crowd and how supportive/receptive they are to doujinkas and their stuff? I'm pretty curious to know since I've only ever been to cons back here and as you know, CF is the only one with doujins pretty much. There has never been that much doujin emphasis in Singapore too, imho (judging from AFA/Cosfest).

I really miss doing doujins or making prints :( Been reading about people going to cons and getting ready for cons, ahhh I miss that nostalgic feeling! Gotta pick up the confidence to sell stuff again someday.

[firnheledien]

Yup, she has more pics at her blog. :) There were a few Profs too

[futomimii]

Aights, will go look it up. ;D

[firnheledien]

Haha, I just watched the gameplay vids and read the novelization for AssCreed 2. :D It's cheating but I really suck at RT action games. T_T

The pros and amateurs are seated sometimes beside/opposite each other. We had a guy opposite us with a published comic book. OTL. We did get a Brazilian comic artist come and look at our work. He was quite shocked that we were only students. I guess we should all move to Brazil! 8D

I actually meant that CF felt more like an art bazaar full of starving artists. >_< Expo had people selling cat ears and things like that.

The hall this year was huge. Think maybe double of the AXN Anime fest way back in the day.

I just feel that CF production values have really gone up. No more stapled doujins, which is both good and bad. Everything is all about marketing, which is where I'm not too good at.

[dmjewelle]

AAAAAAA YOUR FRIEND COSPLAYED AN ADORABLE LUKE!! TELL HER WE <3 HER SO MUCH!!

[firnheledien]

OKAY! :3

[piratelicker]

they want to see their favourite characters acting cool

I guess I'm one of the few who don't fall into that category. Idk, I'm terribly hard to please when it comes to artbooks/prints... it boils down to the price and whether I like it. The problem with CF is not many actually draw my fave fandoms (with the exception of Hetalia), my interests are very niche mostly (I don't play alla them popular games but datings sims lol) and I'd buy prints if I like it. If anyone did a very pretty print of One Piece I'd plonk my money down faster than lightning lol

How was the response to the your game prints btw?

[firnheledien]

My stuff was really hard to sell off. Most people just looked at the FF7 piece and just moved on. And I guess I priced it quite high?

I hardly buy anything at CF for that same reason too.

[piratelicker]

aik? I thought at least the game prints would be easier to sell since games have a wider audience...

anyway, if you were to make an artbook I'd definately buy it lol

I lower my standards when it comes to doujins, since I prefer to buy doujins more than merch i.e badges and bookmarks. Sadly more ppl at CF are selling merch since it's easier to make :(

[firnheledien]

I'll probably make an artbook but just one for my own records. I tend to draw everything really small so I'd have to churn out a whole load of things especially for it. OTL

Yea, I think it was more to do with the fact that my stuff isn't really cool enough. OTL

My standards for doujins are really high. I can't stand lame stories.

[ultra_butterfly]

Cool report and pictures! IMO the mindset of people who buy prints might be that they use them to decorate their walls/room and so they buy pretty prints instead of kuso ones. I don't buy prints a lot but when I do it's usually of pretty art, hahaha.

[firnheledien]

Thanks. Well, my prints were kuso pretty ones. T^T Maybe it's because I just hoard all my prints in a folder.

[starstray]

hehehehehehe that dorky smile on Ezio's VA's face

[firnheledien]

I think he was like "Crap, I feel so short!" He's really quite tiny. :3