#animazement prep

[lunar-eclipse-bunnies]

animazing con is a month away and i'm still getting prepped, if anyone has advice or encouragement pls gimme i feel so underprepared :,]

[topaz4293]

Did some quick Komachi upgrades in prep for Animazement.

[awesomelybadjmusicvideos]

Hey Awesomely Bad fans! We’re prepping for our show at Ret-Con  coming up on the 24th, but we’d like to also take a moment to answer some of our most asked questions and give a small peek before the Awesomely Bad curtain with answering in way too long detail these three questions:

“Can you upload the music videos you show to youtube?”

“Where can I find these music videos?”

“How do you find this stuff!?”

“Can you come to [x] convention?”

Here’s the short answers:

First: No, we will not be uploading any videos ourselves, copyright bots would flag nearly everything if we even attempted to try.

Second: We provide the playlists as a means to try and help people find the artists and songs we share and many can be found officially or unofficially online.

Third: Years of deep diving into the Japanese music scene and recommendations from others.

Fourth: You can usually find us at our home convention of Animazement, but we will always share on our social media pages which events we will be hosting Awesomely Bad at.

Now for the much long involved answer to all of this:

Not much to add to the first point, but copyright strikes on songs are a nuisance to deal with and Japanese entertainment companies are very big on their bots flagging their content when it appears in videos on places like Youtube.

Luckily a lot of labels have been doing better about making their artists' music and even music videos available for streaming online, Sony Music Japan no longer geolocking content a few years ago made a lot of videos available in high quality uploads on youtube. Some suggestions that may help you find certain videos may involve using an online translator and searching for the artists or the song title by its Japanese name. Another helpful thing for finding Japanese music videos is to include “PV” in the search. “PV” is short for “Promotional Video” and is the moniker used in Japan for music videos. Unfortunately this doesn’t mean that every music label has made their artists available and some older music labels, like EMI Japan, got absorbed into another company leaving a lot of older videos in possible rights limbo. Most older official uploads from before 2013 may only be available in lower quality uploads. Also plenty of music artists end up switching to a different music label over their careers as well. This is why you can’t find good uploads of most of the popular Kishidan or DJ Ozma’s videos we show officially online.Plenty of other videos have been uploaded by fans as well, but the video quality of these uploads varies a lot and more than not, the videos are usually poorly encoded video files that aren’t usable for the show. Other times you will find videos in decent quality, but they’ll also be hard encoded with karaoke style subtitles in a variety of languages on the video; this is also unusable for the show.

Believe it or not, there’s a lot more to Awesomely Bad than just downloading videos online and putting them on a screen for you all to enjoy. We also strive to try and find the best quality version of videos to show. Trust us, you would not enjoy 240p potato quality video blown up onto an HD Projector screen. This has led to your Awesomely Bad hosts over the years to acquire official home video releases of various music videos, usually issued on DVD with a CD single or put together with other music videos on DVD. These also can range in price from $20 to $60 before import shipping costs to obtain. And the older the release, the harder it can be to get ahold of, leading to having to use third party service to help obtain auctions or purchases on Japan only markets like Yahoo Auctions Japan. We mention all of this, because we’ve done all of this to bring you the videos you love! The photo here is your main host Kurt’s collection of official releases of various music videos featured in Awesomely Bad over the years. Your other hosts have also helped obtain official videos, and sometimes we have been lucky to have other people who have harder to find DVD quality releases provide us with the videos. In fact, an old Awesomely Bad favorite will now have a new higher quality video for future presentations after it was provided to us recently, so look forward to that!

As for finding Awesomely Bad content, it’s also tougher than you think, your hosts go through deep drives into the Japanese music scene looking for videos, and for every great video we find, there’s easily a half dozen or more videos that aren’t very funny in the way that works for the panel or they only have a short moment or two that’s worth showing; which is what lead us to creating the Badulator for some of those moments. We also do take suggestions as well now and then, but there is a good chance we probably know about it; but sometimes even we get surprised, so you never know.

Lastly, we do get asked about presenting at various conventions, especially ones we presented at in the past, if we’ll be at them or come back to. Believe us, we had fun in the past at events like Dragoncon, Sakuracon, and Katsucon; but traveling to so many events throughout the year on your own dime can get pretty expensive and at most we get a discounted or free badge for our work hosting an event. That still leaves hotel, travel, and meal expenses and an increase in the costs of all of these things over the years, plus your hosts are not young 20 somethings anymore either; so we’ve slowed down on many events we appear at. At this point we’re normally guaranteed to be at both Animazement in Raleigh, NC and Otakon in Washington DC. These are the two conventions your main host prioritizes attending and we appreciate both conventions wanting to have Awesomely Bad as an event every year. But we are appearing at a new convention in a few weeks, so there’s always a chance for us to pop up at other shows again too!

Time to wrap this up, and if you’re still reading this far, I hope this helped you have a better understanding of what we do here with this panel and what we strive to achieve with it. Hope to see some Awesomely Bad fans at Ret-Con and whatever other events we go to! Be safe and may Daigo Stardust always shine down glitter on you.

[saphariadragon]

Gonna be going live in a few. Just getting set up and the scans in. :D

[ohwyrmies]

my animazement to-do list:

today: sew "chainmail"

tomorrow: make greaves and bracers, invisible shoes

Monday: dye "chainmail" and hair

Tuesday: make staff, print out more valaslin

Wednesday: attach greaves and bracers to "chainmail," finish loose ends, pack

Thursday: get thee to a convention

[radjinja]

★ INTERSTELLA 5555 ★

 The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem 

Print for Animazement 2017! See you all there ` 7 ` /

[zakziki]

Hhhh

[lovelyinblack77]

Hey guys apologies for silence on my end! Most of May was spent prepping for animazement and galaxycon! Now that that has passed I’m happy to share my most recent card for @owlcrate ‘s Epic Adventures box! 😊😊😊 #illustration #characterdesign #owlcrate #epicadventures #fantasy #fantasyillustration https://www.instagram.com/p/ByV-B1ugCQ7/?igshid=15r803k3y1fd8

[ohlookashinysquirrel]

So, I pretty much feel like a failure so far this souyowrimo (I was doing so well, too), but I had an injured shoulder for half the week and a migraine yesterday, we’ve been shifting desks and teams at work, I’m covering two teams, making sure I have side project work done for the program managers, and I’ve got an Animazement meeting coming up this weekend that I’ve been prepping for.

So, sorry guys. I’m going to pick up today or tomorrow, then try to go back and catch up on the ones I missed. I’ll also go through and do all the reblogs on the souyowrimo blog on (Sunday probably, since I’ll be at meetings all day tomorrow.)

[uncpanda]

Hi there

... so I’ve been getting a few messages and questions asking if I’m okay, and I am!!!! I’m just extremely busy. It’s the end of the school year, which means mandatory state testing for my students, and a lot of extra work and pain all around. Soooo yeah. I’ve also been prepping for animazement which ended today. It was amazing. That combined with car trouble (I recently had to buy a new one) means I hvent had time for writing. It happens this time wvery year. I will be back shortly. That being said, if you want to keep up with me, Darcy, and Barry be sure to check out my new instagram. There will be plenty of cats and plus size cosplay (including my new Robin which will be debuted in the upcoming weeks) Just like here, I’m uncpanda on there too! Hope you’re all well!

[kenzicorinne]

Kenzi Blog: Week of 4/23

Back from Ravencon in Williamsburg and jumping right back into con prep for Tidewater Comicon. Journal after the break...

Conventions

So before going to Ravencon this past week, I was able to make new buttons and button displays for my table (pictured above). They actually did pretty well so I think I’ll be designing a few more before TWCC next month (I say next month, which is technically true, but... it’s only two weeks away 0_0 !!!)

Ravencon itself was awesome! My neighbors were great and I met a lot of cool authors and artists there! Plus, received a bunch of awesome commissions! (pictured at top)

Folk Knight

Last week... wasn’t kind to Folk Knight T_T. I was planning on posting a new WIP video to YouTube with speedpaints of both Troy’s bedroom background and the school exterior background only... I wanted to start over on the school. CAUSE THAT’S THE INSANITY I LIKE IN MY HOUSE. Ugh, I do this all the time. I’ll start something, sink a couple hours into it... and suddenly realize it’s not working for me -_-; 

Anyway, I start over on the school, I’m set back a day. Then, my computer starts blue screening... GREAT! I’m behind another day. As time kept pressing on (as it just loves to do haha) I realized I wouldn’t be finishing the school time lapse vid before Ravencon and I needed to focus on my con prep (this is also why I didn’t get to making a journal last week -_-;). But I’m glad I did! That’s something I feel I need to work on, recognizing when to let something go and move on, especially if I have the option to come back to it later.

Well, here’s what I did on the first version of the school:

and here’s the second version WIP:

There are a few reasons why I decided to start over and make changes and I’ll address them in the next WIP video when I post that. 

Next Week

Cooooooon Preeeeeep. Seriously, though, TWCC and Animazement are going to come up super fast so I’ll be spending most of my time getting ready for those. Apart from that, I have some commission work I need to do and it would be awesome if I could get that new video done!

But first. Con Prep.

[gay-bueno]

Only a few weeks left until Animazement! Almost finished with my NCR solider cosplay and have gathered up some of the potential props for the upcoming pre-con photoshoot. Some of the props shown have been made by some incredibly talented artists (see links below):

Fallout New Vegas: Pulse Gun from Wortman Wares

NCR Money, Vault Tech G.O.A.T. Test and Grognak the Barbarian Comic from Wasteland Exports

NCR 1st Recon Patch and NCR Ranger Patches from CPPatches

Mentats Tins, Sunset Sarsaparilla Tin, Nuka Cola and Sunset Sarsaparilla Bottle Caps and The Amazing Tales Comic Journals from VaultWorkshop

 Prepping for a photoshoot next weekend and two business trips before the con. Very excited to finally bring one of my Fallout fan characters to life. Feel free to say hi if you see me at Animazement!

[sara-wawa]

BACK FROM ANIMAZEMENT! i had explosive fun with @radjinja we nearly died a few times but that’s okay haha (we expected it). Helping as table assistant for her was eye opening oHo! also too much fun! i got sick from all the fun so now i’m just.. rotting at work rn haha

SOME PHOTOS OF SPOILS FROM ANIMAZMENT and some doodles haha (featuring Jinja’s Viktor drawn by Shavostars). MET OLD AND NEW FRIENDS! screamed a tonne about daft punk, star wars and overwatch. i’m forever blessed to have made the friends i did and to be reunited with old friends -prayer hands- HOPEFULLY WILL HAVE MY OWN TABLE NEXT YEAR! BUT TILL THEN! IT’S FULL SPEED AHEAD WITH OTAKON PREP! -sweats-

all goodies are brought to you by amazing artists that’ll take me forever to tag but just know i love all of you u3u <3

[saphariadragon]

Yer probably getting tired of these but I got art to do.

[annetti-spaghetti]

Popping in real quick to let you guys know I'll be closing the shop tonight so I can focus on prepping for Animazement! I'll be permanently removing memo pads from my shop. If you've been eyeing anything, now's a great time to snag it! 🌈🎁✨I'm scrambling to get ready. 😖I'll be in the artist alley at Table L-12, so feel free to stop by and say hi! ✨🌷 . . . #animazement #animazement2017 #artistalley

[radjinja]

I’m getting ready for Animazement with a few new things like these galaxy space NYATRONS/// (hopefully theyre be here by then;;;) Theyre going to be acrylic pins made with glitter epoxy!

★you can also preorder some here in my shop! LIMITED QTY AVAILABLE★

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