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Official blog for the event and Fan Art Contest / The Great Con-Junction, Los Angeles, November 12th - 13th

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In honor of the 40th anniversary of the movie that started it all, Thra-Athon is proud to promote the Great Con-Junction, the second official Dark Crystal convention and the first one in the US! If you dare, join us in Los Angeles from November 12th to 13th!

The event includes guests from the franchise, workshops, original props and puppets, an after party at the Jim Henson’s Company lot and more. Even a visit at the Creature Shop for top tier tickets!

More information and tickets here!

https://www.thegreatconjunction.com/darkcrystal40

This is the website for the first official The Dark Crystal Convention. Held at Elstree Studios, London.

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AOR Puppeteers attending The Great Con-Junction

Beccy Anderson: Deet, Naia, Juni, Maudra Seethi 

Neil Sterenberg: Rian, SkekOk, Tavra, Maudra Mera, Aughra’s Podling Assistant

Alice Dinnean: Brea, SkekEkt, Maudra Fara, Bobb’N

Warrick Brownlow-Pike: SkekSil, Red-Haired Paladin, Maudra Laesid, Lath’N

Victor Yerrid: Hup, SkekZok, Kylan, Mitjan

Louise Gold: SkekAyuk, Onica, Maudra Argot, Maudra Mayrin, Maudra Ethri (So many Maudras! Maybe because she’s a Maudra) 

Olly Taylor: UrVa, UrGoh, SkekTek, Rek’yr, Elder Cadia

Dave Chapman: Gurjin, Ordon, SkekSo

Helena Smee: Seladon, SkekLach, Mira

Kat Smee: Additional puppeteer on Deet, SkekVar, SkekSil, Aughra, Hup

Nick Kellington: SkekMal’s Creature Performer 

Dan Dewhirst: The Garthim’s Creature performer

Go see all the other Guests here: https://www.thegreatconjunction.com/guests

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Artists & Vendors, The Great Con-Junction needs you

Are you an exhibitor, Vendor or Artist looking to attend The Great Con-Junction: Dark Crystal 40th Anniversary Celebration?

All the informations you need are here:

Vendors & Artists | Great Con-Junction

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The Great Con-Junction Guests

These are the confirmed guests announced for the upcoming Dark Crystal convention in Los Angeles. Stay tuned, more announcements to come! 

More infos and tickets here: https://www.thegreatconjunction.com/darkcrystal40

Lisa Henson - CEO of the Jim Henson Company 

Lisa Maxwell - Voice of Kira 

Victor Yerrid - Puppeteer of Hup, SkekZok and Kylan 

Toby Froud - Designer, Sculptor and Fabricator on Age of Resistance (and occasionally the baby from Labyrinth) 

Cory Godbey - Illustrator on many books of the Dark Crystal franchise, including the J.M. Lee novels

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The Dark Crystal's 40th Anniversary to Be Celebrated by Fans at the Jim Henson Lot

A great gathering is being held in Los Angeles this year for fans of Jim Henson's cult classic!

An article about the upcoming convention!

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Aughra, Rian, Deet and Hup are the puppet guests confirmed at the Great Con-Junction in Los Angeles. The event will celebrate the original movie’s 40th anniversary, but it’s always time to show some love to Age of Resistance!

More infos and tickets here: https://www.thegreatconjunction.com/darkcrystal40

This is the website for the first official The Dark Crystal Convention. Held at Elstree Studios, London.

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Thralloween is tomorrow! Some activities are still available and you will find artists selling their work!

https://www.eventeny.com/events/thalloween-1821/

Thralloween - Eventeny

Dark Crystal & fantasy inspired fun for the festive (Halloween) season. With Celebrity Talks, Trivia, Pumpkin carving Competition, Traders,

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Thralloween is coming ...

Thralloween - Eventeny

A little bit of Dark Crystal inspired fun for the festive (Halloween) season. With Celebrity Talks, Dark Crystal Trivia, Pumpkin carving Co

FYI you can showcase your art and open an online vendor shop for the event for free (only pay a fee on items sold), click on the link to apply 🎃

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Me and @createforthra loved all your entries! But there are more Dark Crystal events to come, prepare your ships!

First @stonegrotweek (September 20th - September 26th) for Deet/Rian fans

Then @drenchgrotweek (October 1rst - October 7th) for Naia/Amri fans

We have no official partnerships with these events, but I look forward to see all your creations!

[vivigthefizzgig]

@createforthra 

Day 1 Creature Feature: Rakkida pups

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@createforthra - Day Seven: A Great Conjunction

Just a little Gelfling, born several generations after AOR. She can trace her lineage to each of the seven clans, and has traits from each one!

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Day 7- the siblings reunite! Does this count? Maybe it would have made more sense with the prompt if it was just Seladon and Brea…

There are no points for guessing who my favourite characters are. Just pretend Tavra didn’t get stabbed to death like five minutes after this happened.

I definitely overestimated my own capabilities by believing I could do something for every day of the week. 5/7 ain’t too bad though. I was originally going to have the sisters split up on their separate paths for the ‘sundered’ prompt and have them come back together for day 7… but I guess that didn’t pan out.

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Thank you so much to everyone who participated in this week’s events! Your fan works were amazing!

We will be checking the tags and blog a few times a week for the rest of September, so feel free to @ us and tag #createforthra on any theme-day works which may not have been finished in time to post this last week!

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@createforthra Day 6 : “There are many paths laid out before us, some good, most bad” late submission!

This is pretty rushed and I may redo it when I’m less busy and stressed. (This is a cropped version, I drew more but I just couldn’t draw everything)

In a perfect world I imagine our heroes being successful in overthrowing the Skeksis and reuniting the UrSkeks. Deet gets healed from the darkening and Stonegrot can begin the happily ever after they deserve. For anyone who read the, Attack on Titan manga, I was inspired by the shards of memory page to show the fragments of a path that led to victory for the Gelfling.

Lol I picture this happy ending being the universe all my favorite wholesome Stonegrot fanfics happened in. I need to go reread them!

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Create For Thra Day 7...THE LAST DAY 😔💔

It has been a wonderful week, thanks to @thra-athon and @createforthra !

@thra-athon @createforthra

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I wanted to draw SkekSard and UrDahr together for quite a while so @createforthra was a great opportunity! It was meant to fit Day 7′s theme of unity but it can work for Day 5′s division too. Depends on how you see it! 

As both are face to face, I wanted to highlight how their overall head shapes are similar. There’s a page on The World of the Dark Crystal that shows how both counterparts were meant to have these similarities…It’s not very respected in the movie/show, but I kinda did it here because it was a cool idea. They are the same being, after all. They are SardDahr the UrSkek! 

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Create for Thra day 7: Embrace Unity. 

A screenshot redraw sketch of the most unity-loving characters in all of Thra.

I enjoyed doing art for this anniversary week, I hope everyone had fun! Thank you to @createforthra for organizing it!