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AnimeIowa made a gentle, relaxed exit on Sunday with a few quiet panel discussions. Toshi Yoshida of Viz Video started the day by talking to fans about the life of a producer and the process of dubbing anime into English. Then he produced some Ranma 1/2 scripts, passed them out to the audience and invited them to take part in a run-through of the script, radio play style. Had that been in a real recording studio, actors would have been recording lines to the tones of the well-known triple cueing beeps. |
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One of the artistic high points of AnimeIowa was the big paper-mache Pokeball that was broken, pinata-style, on Saturday night. Costumer Linda told a panel how she spent three weeks making the Pokeball, starting with an inflated balloon over which were applied strips of newspaper dipped in flour paste. Then colored tissue was cut into crepe strips and glued to the newspaper base to give the Pokeball pinata its characteristic black, red and white colors. |
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A different sort of art lesson came from artist Robert DeJesus, who instructed fans on the details needed to make an manga-style drawing. The shapes of heads and eyes are the most important parts of manga and anime faces, and DeJesus took the fans through the right ways to create those shapes. There was also talk about the manga artists' secret, the sheets of screentone used to give texture to drawings. |
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Finally, Yoshida was joined by former Studio Ironcat editor Kayt Robarts, and they spoke to fans about how to get into the American branch of the anime and manga industries. As in most walks of life, you need to know the right people to get ahead, they said, so it's best to make contacts with people in the industries (and conventions are good places to make those contacts). The jobs you'll find aren't easy and take lots of work, but they're great fun and let you get paid for something most people might do for free. |
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