Jordan Bartlett Animation: Supanova 2008

Well that's it, its done, Supanova Pop Culture Expo has come and gone and once again it made for an interesting time. This year my friends and i had the pleasure of attending talks by Japanese anime voice actors (Colleen Clickenbeard and Monica Rial), we were also fortunate enough to sit up the front at talks by Michael Winslow (the sound effects guy from the 'Police Academy' movies), David Harris (who played Cochise in 1979 classic 'The Warriors') and Lou Ferrigno (the original Incredible Hulk and former Mr Universe bodybuilding champ).

On top of the very interesting talks there were alot of other silly things to do to keep us busy throughout the day, there were lots of nerdy people in costumes of animated characters as well as some wannabe pro wrestlers that couldn't act in pain for peanuts as well as my personal favourite the videogame character drawing contest. Now although it sounds rather official in name, its more of a bit of fun where everyone who wants to have a go from all agegroups can sit down and have a bash at designing a videogame character. At the end of the day the winners are drawn and in previous years prizes and freebies were awarded to the lucky (and skillful) fella who claimed the prize.. that was in previous years, in 2006 i won on one of the days and i got all sorts of free videogames and stuff but this year it was handled a little differently. the judges just announced all the pics that they liked (including my own) and those people were called into another room (away from their friends and were given an impromptu half an hour talk on the animation process to add even more salt to the wound the talk was given by an old uni mate who i studied with.. not quite the what i had in mind. But i still get bragging rights enough to keep me cheerful till next year.. :)

So here is the pic i did in sketch form and some rough coloring in i did this morning. I was only able to get a photo of the drawing as they kept the sketch. The idea sort of evolved as i drew it but i was mainly trying to avoid the customary anime girls with big guns.. so i settled on a Rabbit Assassin from Space. go figure!