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Irvine Cosplay picnic/gathering 2008 photos are up, here (14 pages). This event was well organized by ALA Chair, Hazel Chaz with other other ALA members. I was Pip, no photos of me will be found though since I was behind the camera 95% of the time.
Now to contact all those I took pictures of…
All Comic-Con 2008 Photos are up and can be found here.
Here are some which turned out ok. 
Unfortunately, not many of my photos turned out well. I had several problems this year with photography. My costume did not like the large flash (hat brim), my new camera bag (Lowepro Slingshot 200 AW) hurt my back when walking, and I was using a new flash unit, my first experience with an external flash.
San Diego Comic Con Day 0 photo’s are up. I didn’t take as many pictures due to my costume, the quality of the photos are not as good as AX08’s. But I am happy with many of them and gained a lot of experience with my new Canon 580ex-II flash with $0 dollar ‘A Better Bounce Card‘ (usually reversed).
I had a great time at San Diego Comic Con this year, met up with a few good friends and met some fun people.
All AX08 photo’s are up and have been up for awhile (too lazy to post). I’m only posting now so that I can post an update about my Comic Con photos.
Pictures for Day 1 of Anime Expo 2008 are up including a mini photoshoot with the lovely Ai (as Rursus).
Pictures from Anime Expo 2008 Day 0 are up. I wanted to put something up although I have much more work ahead of me.
It’s been two three days already since AX08 and I still have to adjust Day 1 - 4 pictures in Lightroom 2.0 beta before posting.
I had a blast at AX this year. Truely, the most fun I have during the year is AX.  The Shuttle system worked well, I did not have to stay in line for any longer then an hour for anything, and I met/photographed many people and friends from the Net. I’ll post more later but for now, here is the link to my AX Gallery.
How I cut, sand, and paint your Acrylic (Plexiglas) project.
Unlike most guides you’ll find on the internet, I used a Dremal rotary tool to cut and sand my acrylic. Many say that using a rotary tool will melt the sheet and to use a razor or specialty razor blade for acrylic but this not the case for my project.
SDCC Seras Victoria Figure Photo Shoot
Pictures I took of the lovely Seras Victoria figure from the Hellsing manga and OVA (Ultimate), San Diego Comic Con edition. This is the second Seras Victoria photo shoot I’ve done, the first one was with the production black/burgundy figure and can be found here.
This is a limited edition, SDCC 2005 figure has become quite hard to find due to its low production run. The silver/white metallic looks great in sunlight.
Above is the NextGen gallery, which I am trying out. Click here for the Coppermine Gallery.
Here is a font that looks much like the Serial Experiments Lain font used in the series logo. It is known as loveletter.
Source: Chiaki J. Konaka’s web site (which uses this font). He is also the scenario writer and story editor of “serial experiments lain”.
I am going to use this font often…
The goal of this guide is to teach one how to create an Anime Music Video, not including the actual timing and editing of the footage itself that can found on YouTube or in the editors documents. This will help with the most difficult part of AMV creation, prepping video and audio for editing then exporting and encoding the completed Anime Music Video.
Throughout this guide I reference ErMaC and AbsoluteDestiny’s guides to all things audio and video version 3 (aka READFAG). What I wrote here is more-or-less an extremely simplified version of that text with ease in mind. The depth of their guide is excessive for easily bewildered beginners to the AMV creation hobby.
So, this is how you make a high video/audio quality AMV in 2008.
Continue reading ‘How to create a modern Anime Music Video (2008).’
