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Saturday Con and Zootopia!
10 years ago
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It's faster to get on the Internet through Tigerden -- no shock to anyone who's experienced what furry cons do to hotel Internet connections -- so I'm posting from the hallways of the second floor as I type. (And correcting typos as I go -- these little netbooks are nice, but the accent is on "little".)
I started the day at 7 A.M. Not because I'm a fan of early rising -- I'm not -- but because the Furrywood voice acting workshop was at 8 A.M. and I wanted to have breakfast. (The recording sessions, including a few software-originated bloopers, can be heard at http://www.furrywood.com if you're interested.) Other than the software starting to record when nobody was clicking on it, things went pretty smoothly. (In addition, I got the notes I couldn't take at the previous night's panel on sound recording, scribbled on the back of my script.)
After that, it was off to see Zootopia at the Plano location of Studio Movie Grill. Sadly, I missed Nick Wilde's speech to Chief Bogo -- according to the folks on TVTropes, it's epic -- but otherwise, this movie is an absolutely furry movie. It takes on the issues of species stereotypes, multiple climate zones -- Zootopia has 12 within the city limits -- and the blatant issues of 10% of the population being descended from creatures that used to eat the other 90%. The writing is tight, the casting is perfect, the soundtrack is amazing even without counting Shakira's "Try Everything" (which has one heck of a catchy bassline and a beat anyone can dance to) and every scene is so loaded with extras that even TVTropes hasn't found them all.
Naturally, this led to there being two versions of Nick Wilde in the fursuit parade -- one accurate, one pantsless -- alongside two versions of Rocket Raccoon -- one classic, one movie -- and of course an assortment of Star Wars furs. (Mostly Jedi, of course. I counted one Imperial Foxtrooper, one Imperial Office-fur, and one dark Force-user.)
Motion Capture (another Furrywood panel) isn't until 6:30 P.M., so we'll see what can be done between now and then. Certainly, I don't lack for dinner companions -- Rabbit and Kanren are here from the Transformation Story Archive mailing list TSA-Talk, and we're regularly joined by fellow listmembers Omnifox and Firemane, as well as TFF's own Aloha.
This is so great!
I started the day at 7 A.M. Not because I'm a fan of early rising -- I'm not -- but because the Furrywood voice acting workshop was at 8 A.M. and I wanted to have breakfast. (The recording sessions, including a few software-originated bloopers, can be heard at http://www.furrywood.com if you're interested.) Other than the software starting to record when nobody was clicking on it, things went pretty smoothly. (In addition, I got the notes I couldn't take at the previous night's panel on sound recording, scribbled on the back of my script.)
After that, it was off to see Zootopia at the Plano location of Studio Movie Grill. Sadly, I missed Nick Wilde's speech to Chief Bogo -- according to the folks on TVTropes, it's epic -- but otherwise, this movie is an absolutely furry movie. It takes on the issues of species stereotypes, multiple climate zones -- Zootopia has 12 within the city limits -- and the blatant issues of 10% of the population being descended from creatures that used to eat the other 90%. The writing is tight, the casting is perfect, the soundtrack is amazing even without counting Shakira's "Try Everything" (which has one heck of a catchy bassline and a beat anyone can dance to) and every scene is so loaded with extras that even TVTropes hasn't found them all.
Naturally, this led to there being two versions of Nick Wilde in the fursuit parade -- one accurate, one pantsless -- alongside two versions of Rocket Raccoon -- one classic, one movie -- and of course an assortment of Star Wars furs. (Mostly Jedi, of course. I counted one Imperial Foxtrooper, one Imperial Office-fur, and one dark Force-user.)
Motion Capture (another Furrywood panel) isn't until 6:30 P.M., so we'll see what can be done between now and then. Certainly, I don't lack for dinner companions -- Rabbit and Kanren are here from the Transformation Story Archive mailing list TSA-Talk, and we're regularly joined by fellow listmembers Omnifox and Firemane, as well as TFF's own Aloha.
This is so great!
bentproplrprod
∞bentproplrprod
Sounds Great! Glad you had a good time.
Fulminar
~fulminar
Glad you're having a great time. Say hi to Rabbit and Kanren for me.
wanderwolf
~wanderwolf
OP
Rabbit checks out today, but if I somehow miss him I'll e-mail him. How goes it in the Great White North?
Fulminar
~fulminar
If you don't catch him, no problem. Hopefully everyone had a great time. As for up here, lots of Great and North, but very little White this year, not that I'm complaining. As for me, I'm getting ready for Furnal Equinx next week. I've been looking forward to it for awhile and rooming with MattRat as well.
