| FanimeCon - Friday - Opening Ceremonies |
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NewTek programmer Allen Hastings was part of the California creative community at Fanime Con, on hand to demonstrate the latest version of his Lightwave software for film production and special effects. |
Artist Adam Warren made his first West Coast anime convention appearance. He said he's planning to follow up his Dirty Pair and Gen X series with a new independently published series this year. |
The Studio Ironcat contingent began with artist (and still aspiring actor Doug Smith, who said "I've turned around a lot of the product that Ironcat has been doing over the years." |
Veteran fan Fred Patten took a moment to recall how he got his first anime video tapes from Japan by trading Star Trek tapes to Japanese fans for anime recordings. |
Then came Steve Bennett of Ironcat, who made the first joke about the rolling electric blackouts that had hit California in previous weeks: "Hopefully the lights won't go out until I get off the stage." |
Hiroshi Aro, the Futaba-Kun Change artist whose works are published by Ironcat, joked that he didn't like leaving his home, but here he was again at a U.S. anime convention. |
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