Artist Alley Toast

Hello everyone

This is not an Anime North related event but I just wanted to share this information with you in case anyone in the community is interested in applying for the job. Someone from the Shu Uemura Event being held on Dec. 12, 2009 had contacted Anime North as they are interested in hiring 1 or 2 anime artists.

They are essentially looking for the artist or artists to:

- live in the GTA and can appear at Holt Renfrew Bloor for the event (professional appearance/wardrobe)
- do live sketches in anime style of customers after receiving makeover/lash application (must be relatively fast at sketching caricatures)
- provide 2-4 works prior to event so they can be on display on Dec 12th.

Artist must be comfortable working in front of people/crowds. You will be drawing with an audience.

If you're interested, please send me your e-mail at kouken_sasarai@hotmail.com and a link to your gallery by this coming Friday (as I need to give them a compiled list of artists interested on the job ASAP) and I will forward your e-mail to the individuals incharge of this event. They will in turn contact you directly to give you more detailed information and get the ball rolling.

If you know anyone who is interested outside the community, who draws Japanese Anime/Manga style, and lives in the GTA, please do spread the word to them.

My mini fest report with photos! XD

It was great to see the other artists and get a chance to hang out and talk about what we do and love! Hope everybody had a good time and got home safe and sound. I also have some thoughts about the event this year in my post. If you have photos/stories/feedback, please post them here! :D

I'm so excited!! XDDD *continues to rush madly on doujinshi*

orangisque and I will be there with our original character design artbook, Living in Myth. I'll also have a Star Ocean series doujinshi and (hopefully) a Suikoden I/V doujinshi.

I'm already itching to shop and look at awesome books and art XD;;; Who else is going to be there and what doujinshi/comics will you be selling? :D :D :D

Just a reminder, tables for the Doujinka Festival are out. Details are in www.animenorth.com. I also still have 4 trade tables left for crafters/cosplay people who would like to have a table but don't qualify for Doujinka Fest tables. Just send me a note and I'll give you details. If you're not interested in tables but would like to volunteer to help out, send me a note as well. ^_^.

Next thing is  for hetalia artists out there... I'm running a pet project and that I desperately need help with:

The iammatthewian Project

We're essentially adapting Canada-centric fanworks (concentrating on fancomics right now... if you have one, please feel free to submit! ^_^.) into fandramas. Aside from art, the voice over auditions are still on until tomorrow.  Details on audition sides and references are in the description box.

The iammatthewian Project Open Call Auditions

There are two art related things I need help with right now. The first is a tribute to Remembrance Day so if you have any Canada-centric art commemorating Remembrance Day that you would like to contribute, I would really appreciate it!

The second one is for my contribution in the project. It's an "ask Canada" type of show called "Canada EH!" which really really needs stock art for the characters that appear in it. Mainly Canada (of course) and his Provinces and Territories-tans based on ctcsherry's OC art:

Canada's Provinces and Territories 

For "Canada EH!" the general atmosphere I'd like to establish for the show is mostly line art and sketches Himaruya-san's and ctcsherry style. And by stock art, I mean just the characters having general different facial expressions. Though I do have a special request for the next 2 episodes... if you happen to have Arthur or Matthew talking on the phone with any of the following expressions: surprised, annoyed, totally pissed, uncomfortable, embarrassed or Matthew sitting upside down on a Chesterfield looking like he's discussing something philosophical (okay... he's actually stoned! Blame BC's brownies... ^_^. refer to Thanksgiving Special)

So if you just happen to be bored and want to practice character sketching and need something to practice on plus have a considerable amount of exposure... ^_^.

Also, if you plan to submit, please make sure to let me know how to credit you as well as if you have a website that you want me to link to the video.

Ja!

Ina-chan

 

Hey guys,

Just noticed that the information and registration instructions for the Doujinka Festival are up on the main page.

:D

Hi guys!

I just wanted to give a heads up that Jess is going to be back in Toronto on the weekend and (hopefully) will post the details on the Doujinka Festival by next week. Please keep an eye out in the message boards.

If there's anyone here who is not participating in the Doujinka Festival and is interested in helping out with the dance (mainly with manning the door and being a gopher), please send me a private message! Any help is greatly appreciated!

Also on something completely random and off-topic... I kinda need help for another project. I'm looking for voice actors, artists, fanfic writers, etc... for a personal project of mine. I'm doing a Hetalia fan webdrama project using fanfics, fanarts, etc. that focus on Canada and are converting them into webdramas. (Canada needs more air time, dammit! ^_^.)

The audition sides for interested voice actors are here:

Voice Acting Alliance Forum

And please post your auditions here:

The iammmatthewian Project

If you would like your Matthew-centric art and fanfics featured please send me a private message.

I'd appreciate spreading the word as well!

Thanks guys!

illintent and I received an e-mail of an artist, namely Ichigo-oh, who is looking to share a table at FanExpo (aka CN Anime). In our case, we are not able to help out Ichigo-oh as we are already teaming up with maiji and orangisque at the event.

So, if anyone out there is interested in sharing their table with Ichigo-oh (she will be paying for her share), please post here. I have sent the link to this journal entry to her so she can watch it!

Her deviant Art: http://ichigo-oh.deviantart.com/
(Her stuff's really pretty & cute!)

Thanks!

Hey all! It's been so quiet in this forum. Just wanted to give people not on the AN mailing list a heads up on the upcoming Doujinka Festival!

http://www.animenorth.com/main/

The 2nd Annual Anime North Doujinka Festival

and

The AN-JCCC Halloween Dance 2009

Saturday, October 31, 2009

3:00 PM - Doujinka Festival and selected programming
7:00 PM - Halloween Dance

Regular admission - $10
JCCC and AN2009 members - $ 8

Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
6 Garamond Court, Toronto, ON M3C 1Z5

Visit www.animenorth.com and the official AN message board for updates on programming details and Doujinka Festival artist registration.

For those who don't know, the Doujinka Festival was basically like an artist alley event that encouraged original comics and doujinshi. It was somewhat quiet last year (not surprising since it was the first time) but still very awesome, with lots of fun activities and surprisingly (?) pretty good attendance. Now being combined with the Halloween Dance should mean even more people! I'm definitely excited about it both as an artist and as a shopaholic shiny-stuff-hoarding squirrel art and comics appreciater XD

I know a bunch of you had wanted to go to this workshop at AnimeNorth by the folks at The Heroes of the World, but were unable to. I was able to go and had taken notes, which I will now share with you! Hopefully it's somewhat helpful. I know some of it is obvious and I'm sure a lot of you are doing most of this already, but still could be useful, right? In anycase, there were no slides so I was just jotting things down as it went.

They talked about making a business plan and here are the things to consider:

Product
What do you have to offer? What can you sell to your target demographic?

Think of the long term.
Where do you want to see your business in 5 years?
( The Business Plan )

For those who may not know, the Crafter's Corner coordinator has posted the general guidelines for registration, which will be opening this Friday March 13th. ^^

http://teahouseofthemaplemoon.yuku.com/topic/2086

The AN website itself has not yet been updated, but there's also a Q&A thread here:

http://teahouseofthemaplemoon.yuku.com/topic/2087

To those applying, good luck!!

Just an FYI to everyone planning to get a table for this year's Anime North Comic Market (formerly Artist's Alley)...

Registration for tables for 2009 will begin Friday, March 6th at 8pm EST and stay open until Friday, March 13, 2009 8pm EST.

More information, including registration procedures, has been posted here on Anime North's website.

Good luck to everyone!

Just letting all you artistes know that AN pre-reg is now available (the new site design is quite spiffy!)

http://www.animenorth.com/

There is also an outline of all the new changes to the AA. Those of you who were at the Doujinka Festival last August will remember the open floor discussion that took place.

http://teahouseofthemaplemoon.yuku.com/topic/1941/t/Artist-Alley-Changes-for-2009-at-First-Glance.html

And a reminder that AA toast is in no way an official outlet for AN or AN AA info, if you have any questions and need definitive responses you'll need to contact the staff through their info on the official sites (through the two links above).

Hello Everyone,

I'm just posting something here that's not Anime North related, but it might be a possible job opportunity for one of you.

Recently, AN was contacted by a studio looking for an Anime Artists who can assist them with character development for a TV series for kids ages 7-10. The style of anime they're looking for is the type that needs to appeal to both girls and boys. It will have a strong magic component to the story, so they need the style to be a little on the "softer side" and it must incorporate fantasy/magical elements that give it an "Otherworld" feel and a martial art aspect.

They mentioned that compensation would depend on the artist they choose and have an agreement with. The artist they choose may have future involvement in the project if it goes well, like developing scenery and locations, but for now they just need someone to help develop characters with.

Some of the artists they seem to be looking at style wise is similar to are works by "Kurot", KL-chan, Hiruka00, and Boram Ham. They also require for this artist to be in the Toronto Area. So if you're interested, e-mail me immediately at kouken_sasarai@hotmail.com and I will forward your information to the individuals who requested this from us so you can talk to them about the details directly.

Maybe some of you know about this individual already. Nobody's written about it yet, so I thought I would.
A certain artist who's attended Anime North's AA, but not a member here, has gained a bad reputation at artist alleys across the United States and online for multiple reasons, mainly one that bothers me as a AA goer. What they've done is buy up multiple tables at conventions, four (possibly five?) tables at Anime Expo, and fourteen - yes, 14 tables at Otakon last year. The artist and their partner employed family and friends to sign up for AA and each pretend to be the artist in attempt to fool staff, and also offered other artists $200 to buy their tables. Buyers aren't happy either, finding same prints signed by different people claiming to be the artist. Now I know what you're thinking- our staff are smart cookies and table-buying isn't going to get by them. But right now, there's nothing preventing 10 individuals from signing up for AA and having an artist sign 10 consent forms. While you'd think 10 tables is a bit of a stretch- this artist and their team have gone all over the US and are getting banned from cons from pulling this kind of stuff, and are getting more and more recognised by people who aren't impressed with them. With Anime North many months ahead of us, I'd encourage you to send Jess a suggestion (please be mature) that the rules be updated if this bothers you too. This has nothing to do with personal style. Everyone remembers how fast AA got booked up last year. Changing the rules to say one artist can only have one or two tables, and/or sign a consent form for only one or two tables ensures that more artists get a chance in 2009. (And boy, are other artists at Otakon are pissed! :/ )

Hey guys,

If you don't mind spreading this around, it'll be much appreciated!

http://www.animenorth.com/hallo.php

Regina Simon
AN Liaisons Director

Someone on the AN forum is looking for the artist who did this drawing:
http://www.riraito-designs.net/IMG_4223.JPG

If it's you, or if you know who did it, here's the thread on the official AN forum:
http://teahouseofthemaplemoon.yuku.com/topic/1884/t/Looking-for-AA-artist.html

For those who didn't attend, have a youtube video:



For those who did attend, DISCUSS!!!

(Apologies to Skewerly who I kept call Maiji all day, I blame my 3 hours of sleep.)

Hi! Is anyone else selling comics/doujinshi or going to the Anime North 2008 Doujin Festival at the JCCC? It's in five days. (I still have to run around and get last minute prints.)

If you're selling doujinshi/comics, what are you selling?

Oh! And I'll be selling Two Ouran High School Host Club Doujinshi, One Gurren Lagann Smut Doujinshi (ID please! XD) and one Original Doujin, possibly some prints (all made my me, obviously). If I can finish it, I'm selling one more. Maybe...

I will also be selling several copies of a Valkyrie Profile Anthology with the pairing Lezard and Leneth by trecomics and friends (hoping that the release forms arrive soom) and an original comic called Yokai Dash by candidkage.

Hello, everyone!

We now have more information about the Doujinka Festival (also available on the website)! For those who would like to attend, these are the new information~

Date: August 16, 2008

Hours of Operation: 11am - 8pm

General admission: $10 CDN or $8 with an Anime North 2008 Badge or a JCCC Membership.

Location: Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
8 Garamond Court
Toronto, ON M3C 1Z5

Artists and Dealers may refer to the official poster for more specific information. Policy for the Artists can be found here. (Please read it carefully. A signed policy will be required from the participating artists and must be brought along to the event.)

Also, note that the Event Coordinator can be reached at kouken_sasarai@hotmail.com instead of the email address mentioned below.



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