My 2nd day of Comic Con! Today, my volunteer job was at on-site registration. What I did there was hand out the goodie bags and event guides to newly registered people walking into the convention. Three hours and 15 minutes of standing mostly in one place. It was still a pretty easy job, but not as easy as my first job. Tomorrow I’m assigned to another job at programming, so that might involve less standing.
I still haven’t bought anything. I haven’t seen anything that I really gotta have. Maybe if they had some Naruto items, I’d buy some, but I don’t think they’ll have any Naruto stuff until the anime comes out here or the manga gets more popular.
I still haven’t even taken ANY pictures. 🙁 I haven’t really seen any great cosplayers and I don’t wanna take pictures of people I don’t know. 😛 I saw a couple of Naruto cosplayers… one girl as Sakura who doesn’t even remotely look like her… you don’t even know it’s supposed to be Sakura unless you know her clothes… she didn’t even have the pink hair. I’ve seen a few Sasukes, but still, it’s only the clothes that look like him. 😛 I saw one guy as a Rain Ninja… his was pretty cool. I mean because he was a generic rain dude and not anyone specific. That’s definitely the way to go. 😀 The best ones I’ve seen are of people dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean. Those are just awesome. One guy even had the Jack Sparrow walk. 🙂 Two thumbs up for all the Jacks I’ve seen. 😀
The only reason I went today was so I could go to the seminar on how to get into the video game industry. It was pretty much stuff I already knew from reading websites like Sloperama and Ed Magnin’s website. If you’ve got the talent, you’ve got better chances. It’s pretty much just as hard to get into as any other entertainment industry job out there. But Alex (Alex Jimenez was the speaker) did say that once you’re in, you can’t get out. 😛
I ended up going to part of Cartoon Network’s presentation for their new, upcoming shows. Meh, the one I that was being presented while I was in there didn’t really impress me that much. It was called Juniper Lee or something, and it’s coming sometime in February 2005 or something. I think one of the characters in it is a ripped off a character from Naruto. There was a dog in it that looked a lot like Pakkun, but without the forehead protector and shirt. The way this dog was described was very similar to Pakkun’s personality… except that the dog has a Scottish accent.
Then after that, I went into room 1A because I wanted to get a good seat for when the video games program started. Well, it turns out, the thing before the video games lecture was a Star Wars trivia thing. But I sat down in the room anyway. I don’t think I would’ve been able to answer any of those trivia questions that were being asked. I’d probably have to watch every Star Wars movie about a million times. 😛 It was kind of interesting though, I guess.
It was a good thing I stayed for the Star Wars thing because when the video games session started, that place was filled to capacity quickly. They even had to turn people away. Wow… the Star Wars thing didn’t even fill up the place, but this one conference on video games did. Alex was totally blown away by how many people wanted to get into this program… I was too. Good thing I got there way early. 😀 But as I said earlier, it was still pretty much similar to everything I’ve read on the internet, but it was nice to actually hear someone speak in person about it… even though Alex is one of those guys who got his job by pure luck since a friend of his friend recommended him to Capcom because he was a big Dungeons & Dragons freak and they wanted to make a video game out of it. Sure, now, it’s a lot different since you need to show that you have the skills. There’s definitely a lot of competition out there, so in order to really get your foot in the door, it’s good to have contacts.
I went home after the conference, but that was a great way to end the day. From volunteering in the programming department on my first day, I heard the lecture that they gave the staff on procedures and such… they keep track of attendance and how many people leave the room during a program and stuff like that. That way they know which programs to keep for next year and which ones to not do anymore. So I hope they do another video games program next year, one that’s longer than an hour and in a bigger room because that place was SRO (standing room only) and hardly anybody left. 🙂
I hope I remember to get my picture taken with the Smallville cast or at least go to the Smallville program that they’re gonna have and take pictures. Too bad they don’t list which cast members are going to be there, so I don’t really know what to expect. I hope it’s good though!