Voice Acting
Roundtable: East Meets West: In
one of the greatest guests meets of all time, guests of honor Greg Ayres, Vic Mignogna, Monica
Rial, and
Shinichi Watanabe apoke about the whole East and West differences when it comes to voice
acting. Topics included differences in timing and voice tracks, the need or lack of need to
match up to lip sync, sound engineering that can stretch or contract voice speeds, being
comfortable in the voice studios, and more.
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Character and Mecha
Design: Character
designers and mecha designers joined forces to shed light upon the processes of drawing up
all those cool robots, ships, and cute girls. Topics included conceptual designs in
graphics and different medias, composing art for magazine ads or video games, 3D animation
essentials, challenges to be drawing something from nothing, meshing art styles when in the
concept phases, education with engineering backgrounds, much more.
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Additional panels and discussions held throughout
the weekend included: Plenty of
Guests Roundtable discussions, Maximum Your Masquerade Fun!, FUNImation, Totally Lame Anime,
Composing Music for Anime, Legend of Zelda, Costume Construction, Gundam Experience, Evening
Totally Wasted with Scott Frazier, Kia Asamiya, Imbrium Studios: Cutting corners with
Lightwave 3D, Old School AMVs, Excel Saga: The Power of the Afro Compels You!, Webcomics,
Small Press Comics, History of Super Robots, Paraent's Guide to Anime, Tokusastu, Japanese
Fashion trends, Manga Entertainment, ADV Films, Fanfiction, Gateway Anime, Dir en Grey,
Studio Ghibli, "Can You Say Bishounen?" Japanese Boy Bands!, Mind-Bending Anime:
What it is and why we love it, Anime in Academia, AN Entertainment, Live Music Performance:
Playing with Power!, Bemani Video Games, Anime Manga and Erotica, WTF? Wisner Talks to
Frazier!, Meet SWEK!, Tips on Learning How to Draw, Dubs that Time Forgot, Five Star
Stories, Dark Horse Manga, The Dual: Parallel Trouble, FLCL, Kazecon: Milkwaukee's new
summer convention!, Koji / Studio 4C, AnimEigo, Japanese Language Basics, MAPS Board
Meeting, Where do Power Rangers come from?, Anime Club Summit, Fansubbing, Japanese
Cyberpunk: Dark Modernism since the 1970's, Crossplay, Religion and Evangelion, Dirty Pair,
and much more!
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Learn to Play
Go!: It's not just Hikaru
no Go, you've seen many popular anime characters play this game over the years, and now you
can too! Attendees coming to this panel learned the basics including opening
strategies, goals of the game, special attacks, point system, suicide maneuvers, and much
more.
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