Started the day early today, tried to crash the LOST panel but the line was so long I decided to cruise the exhibit floor again.
FYI, there was a steampunk meet-up today so there were a ton of folk in awesome costumes.
Note to all, if you want to wear a costume to Comic-Con and do so with style, go steampunk.
I then jumped into a line thinking “30 minutes would be enough time to get into a ballroom for a FUTURAMA panel. Um, no. I missed that entire panel and most of the SIMPSONS panel that followed.
Undeterred, I lined up extra early for my “Writing for TV” panel which meant I sat through “A Spotlight on Seth” and they didn’t mean Rogan or McFarlane. This guys, this illustrator… wow. He projected a PowerPoint highlighting works from his sketch book and then proceeded to tell twelve seemingly unrelated autobiographical stories. It was like a mini episode of THIS AMERICAN LIFE. My attention was rapt. This artist has a new fan.
The “Writing for TV” panel was just what I expected (I’ve been to hundreds of these by now) but the funniest moment came when the writers started heckling a woman in a military costume and then she said, “this isn’t a costume, it’s my uniform.” How quickly they tripped over themselves to thank her for her service (FYI, she was a communications liaison).
After that I wandered towards Hall H (I heard someone call it “Hall Hell”) expecting a 5 hours wait to hear Kevin Smith talk.
Imagine my delight when I walked in without any wait. I was bummed that Kevin didn’t show any clips of his upcoming movie but the crowd loved him anyway.
After that it was time for a steak dinner and then back to the After Effects grind (gotta take 2k stills, do a basic gamma correction, animate them along their X, Y and Z axis to give the illusion of a hand-held camera and then crop, adjust & resize them for a 1920 x 1080, 29.97 HDTV timeline).
(Ugh)
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