#ax2021

[highdio]

Stone Ocean panel confirmed for Anime Expo Lite 2021, including ‘something’ special at the very end:

Part 6 trailer premiere???

[jenifern]

Here are the results of my character mashups. I’m really pleased with how it turned out, I really pushed myself and did different styles that aren’t my normal art styles. It was hard to layout all the drawings without making the drawings overlap, but I made sure to have all the drawings are visible.

I’m not too sure why the image quality is so poor😭😭 

[demifiendrsa]

Anime Expo 2020 has officially been cancelled due to the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The next planned event will take place from July 2-5, 2021.

Dear Anime Expo Community,

This is a day my team and I hoped wouldn’t come, but it is with a heavy heart that I am announcing the cancellation of Anime Expo 2020. Our utmost concern is for the health and safety of our amazing Anime Expo community. We understand your disappointment as we are anime fans first and foremost too. As you can imagine, this was one of the most difficult decisions we have had to make in the 29 years of Anime Expo.

With the COVID-19 situation continually changing, as well as more restrictions in place worldwide and in our host city Los Angeles, we can’t in good faith move forward with this year’s event. We know it will affect all of you differently and we did not come to this decision lightly.

For exhibitors, artists, contractors, performers, and more, this impacts you on many levels. Anime Expo is an important source of income as well as inspiration for all of you. We know you have been working tirelessly in preparation for July and we appreciate your dedication to your craft.

For our staff and volunteers, who have been working hard, planning every detail of this year’s event since before AX 2019 ended, we share your sadness – please know we support you every step of the way as we turn our attention to next year, Anime Expo’s 30th anniversary!

For our attendees, AX is a place to see old friends, make new ones, and experience the immersive nature of the larger anime community. We will miss seeing you!

We thank each and every one of you for being a part of a community that makes Anime Expo such a special experience every single year.

Badge holders will have the option to receive a full refund or to have their badges rolled over to AX 2021. As this is a big undertaking, please give us time to get the process solidified and stay tuned for more information in the coming days. Exhibitors and artists can expect to receive information via email sometime next week.

Hotel room reservations booked through ConferenceDirect in the AX official hotel block will be automatically cancelled. If you booked a room outside the AX hotel block, please contact your hotel directly.

It remains our goal to provide fans and industry partners from around the world with a safe space to come together to celebrate and share our love of anime. We are committed to bringing you the best of the best next year as we return to Los Angeles for our 30th anniversary on July 2-5, 2021!

As I have said before, we are in this together. We love and support our community and know Anime Expo is an event like no other. Each summer, Anime Expo allows all of us to connect and share our love of anime and Japanese pop culture.

Be safe, continue to do your part, support your community, and most of all stay well!

We look forward to seeing you at AX 2021!

Ray Chiang CEO The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation

[jenifern]

For my next character mashup, my result was Dexter’s Laboratory and Powerpuff Girls. I could.ve done the character in the PPG style, but I thought that style was done a lot for character mashups, so I decided to turn one of the girls into the style of Dexter’s Laboratory. I chose the character Dee Dee as my character model. I could’ve took another easy route and use Buttercup as the character I would use for my mashup, because she looks the most like Dee Dee, but I thought that would be too easy. So instead I chose Blossom instead. I had a small issue researching my images; there were not a lot of female characters in Dexter’s Laboratory with long straight hair, Luckily I managed to find a few for reference (from the third images.) Action poses were another issue I had finding, because Dee Dee is a very bubbly character that barely gets angry so it was harder to find action poses from her.

[jenifern]

For this animation, I wanted to do another illustrative style and mingle with lip syncing. I wanted to do a bit of environmental animation and animated the volcano to make the animation look livelier. I really like the style as it looks like it could be in a children’s book.

[jenifern]

For this animation. I wanted to create an illustrative style animation. I wanted to not use an outline, but decided to, to help with the lining layer. I really like the painterly style brushes Krita provides for free and used them for the background and the bird itself. I was inspired by short dance animations I saw on TikTok and wanted to make the bird do a little dance as well.

[jenifern]

This is one of my favourite animations by far. I really wanted to push myself for each animation. I wrote a few prompts to see what animation I would do next and chose to create a character drawing out a blade. This is one of my original characters that I created, with the help of an online game for the outfit. I’m really happy with the outcome for this animation. It’s like she’s preparing for battle.

[jenifern]

This is the video I used by MixKit.co to help me create the scene for the animation.