CTN expo

I found out about CTN animation Expo a little late, but I decided to go check it out anyways. I heard that it’s a relatively new convention. I finally got to meet Glenn Vilpuu. He is such a kind man. When I was taking oil painting class in college, my teacher was such a big fan of his. He would always tell me that I should look at Vilpuu’s art. I love that teacher. He really loves what he does, and it showed. Since he was such a big Vilpuu’s fan, I’ve always wanted to meet Vilpuu in person. He told me that there are so many famous artists at the show. It’s too bad I can’t recognize anyone :(. There were also a lot of students everywhere.
I met someone from Canada and from England. They were here for portfolio reviews. Disney booth had a very long line for that. I didn’t see Nickelodeon there which I thought was rather odd. The studio is right down the street from the con. There were a lot of panels going on. I went to Chris Sander’s How to Train Your Dragon one. They were funny. It was mainly about the storyline. The lines for the panels are super long, so I didn’t really go to too many. I sat in the overflow room to watch some of them on the screen though.

I got to talk to many artists. Armand from Sony pictures was especially sweet. He had a lot of nice things to say about my works which made me very happy. I was glad that he was able to see my though process for many of them. Not too many people actually notices little things like that. I also got to play with the Cintiq for about an hour. I think I’m still more of an Intuos person, but it was still fun to play around with the Cintiq for a bit.