FOR WARNING: some questions may sound somewhat pathetic, emo, self conscious, or whatever you would like to call it. I just wrote for two hours straight non-stop as the sun preceded to hide behind the neighboring apartment building so these pathetic whoa-is-me questions were bound to appear but I think they stand for something more. They are deep constructive questions to make a person better, especially when seen in front of them, though at the time the questions may seem whiny and insignificant. Continue reading, maybe you’ll find a question that’s always haunted you?

the questions begin:

Can someone’s personal passion cause him or her to become so consumed by it, that they pay attention to nothing going on emotionally or physically around them within their life? What is considered a person’s passion? Is it their habits? Their love for a significant other? Their love for friendship? Their creative talents? Their work? Do these aspects or the singular idea of what passion is, make someone feel alone or make them feel very important and self-satisfying? Can just focusing on a certain aspect in life save a person from those less enjoyable emotions that a human experiences? Emotions such as loneliness, sadness, worry, fear, jealousy and doubt. Can just learning to control one part of a person’s life or focus on their choice of “passion” make that person “emotionally unbreakable”? What is “emotionally unbreakable”? It’s to not feel what society considers as fail emotions [loneliness, fear, jealousy, etc.] that destroy a person mentally as well as their personal relationships with others. Can a person live though life with only positive emotions? Can a person ignore these fail emotions? Do these emotions cause a person to be weak? Are these a sign of weaknesses? Or does the true weakness come from not accepting these emotions? Is it wrong or right to hide from one’s emotions? Isn’t it true that everyone hides from them at one time to another through their lives? What if someone blocks all emotions? Can this hinder or help a person through life? As human beings do we need to feel jealousy, hurt, love, fear? Or do these hinder us in doing what society thinks best of us, such as work and making a living? Does making a family worth the pain? The loss, love, joy, unconditional loving; should a person feel these emotions? Does one need relationships to survive?  What constitutes a relationship? A work collaboration? Physical Attraction? Personality likeness? Family relation? Hobby similarities? Friendship? Can someone place relationships in such bland terms? Why do humans need these connections with one another? Is it from one of the fail emotions such as the fear of being alone? When does a person figure out they are alone? What makes a person feel “loneliness”? Is it the lack of said relationships? Is it their choice in personal exile from the world? Is this “loneliness” a result when a person chooses to block all emotions? Or is it when one gets caught up within their “passion”? What makes someone realize they are at this point?  Is it when one asks for help or comfort and none is given? Is it when they loose trust in other human beings? Can the mistrust come from the act of another human being putting them down? Being used? Taunted? Teased? Why do people do such acts to another person? Does it give the person a temporary high, in which they feel utterly superior? How can the one being teased change? As in gain confidence and in the other way how does the bully become more humble? What is confidence? How does one govern their confidence? Does confidence stem from self-esteem? What is self-esteem? Is it a person’s idea and opinion of their natural beauty? Is it how they speak in front of a group? What is, if any, similarity between confidence and self-esteem? When such things are figured out how can the teased or the bullied fix it? Do these acts of being the “weakling” and the “bully” come from fear? The fear of being alone in the world? Does the bullies’ temporary high save them from the blackness? Does the teased ever experience happiness and escape the blackness? Is this why people have a hard time finding beauty in life?  What is beauty? Physical attractiveness? Natural? Nature? The Unknown? An Idea? An Inspiration? What is it to be inspired? Is it an idea? A thing? A person? An item? An emotion? A love? An act? What is it to act? Is it a negative term or a positive term? Is acting a type of lying? But aren’t some types of lying acceptable? When is it acceptable? When is acting and lying considered “Fake”? Should people put on a face to save the ones they love? Should someone sacrifice that for an idea such as love? What is love? Is love even worth it or is it just I nicer term for lust? What if someone has never experienced this idea or emotion called “love”? Are they considered weird? Incompetent? Incapable of sharing or trusting another person? Should they lie about experiencing love? Again is this a face people must put on to seem normal? Or should they put on a face to save themselves? Focus on nothing else but saving their own skin? Not caring about others when asked for their assistance to help? Doing what’s best for them at the time? These people never sacrificing anything for another only until it helps them personally? Is this what selfish is? Protecting ones personal assets in life? But isn’t this what we are told by society to do? Protect one’s self because there is no one in this world you can trust? Is this what society has come to, a superficial world that is based around self-preservation? Only going for the handsome person to become romantic with? Only going for the Education or Jobs that will have what society says will give a pleasant and lucrative future? Care about nothing but items and money? People just focusing on himself or herself and leaving anyone who would like a “partner in crime” in the dust and throwing what a relationship is projected in storybooks out the window? Not paying attention to simple gestures such as a friendship hug, small peck on the check, or a laugh to try and brighten something about the day? What about the other spectrum? Why do so many people feel they need to control? Why can’t people choose to follow their dreams? Why do so many people in the world today get forced into doing what others think is best for them? Doesn’t the person themselves know what they want, and if they don’t know at that present moment they will in do time with life experiences? Why do people need to know what they will do the rest of their lives by the age of seventeen? Isn’t at this age most young adults never been out of their local cities? They know nothing of what the real world is? What is considered the real world? Has society masked its true face? Are relationships for now on destroyed? Can nothing stop this plague? What has this society come to when it makes unconditional love a myth and legend that a person can never find except within old tails and books? Why can’t we find what we call honest people in the world anymore? Have they all died out? Or is the human being never meant to be trusted? Because of this, should we as people stay self-sufficient as society tells us to be? To deal with the loneliness because of how skewed personal relationships between people have become? Is this a fear? Does this all stem from the fail emotions of the human psyche? What drives people? Their will to live? Their will to survive? Their will to have happiness within their life? What is it? What keeps people today going? Is it the questions they ask themselves everyday? Is it the questions you, yourself ask? Can any of these questions be answered? Can they happen? Will they happen? If they happen what can stem from them? Good? Bad? Fear? Love? Jealousy? Will we ever truly know? Is it the actions of people and not emotions that change? “Do actions speak louder than words?” if so, how? Can one action truly change a person? Or is this just a fallacy? When someone does a mistake, will they really not do it again? What if a person never really learns? Him or Her do said action and are forgiven, but then said action happens months later and yet they are still forgiven? Can or will they do this again? Is this learning? Or are they just blinded by aspects of their life? Are they blinded by their “passion”? Emotions? Relations? What is it that causes people to do things? Do they do them in a time of need? Want? Fear? Protection? Will these questions ever end? No.

In an odd sort of way as I kept writing in this continuous question format, I found that this is never ending. One topic leads to another, which leads to another, but once you go so far one way, I started back at the beginning making similar questions. But I looked closer to my repetitive nature. It wasn’t so much repetitive as was another take on the subject. This new take took me down another path that I didn’t see the first time, which lead to a whole set of new questions.

When surrounded by couples, the really hard thing, is when you become the conversation of the hour and how/why your still single. I know it’s not meant to be mean or meant to make me feel down. Your friends and family only want you to be happy, and truly want you to have what they have, and that’s unconditional love. But when they ask questions like “Are you ever going to have a boyfriend? Why do you scare them away? (obviously not on purpose) Why are you so picky?’ shit like that. It’s hard not to look at yourself and think, whats wrong with me? Especially if you’re a girl; which i am, you over analyze everything. I think to myself when asked these interrogation questions, do i talk to much, am i annoying in another way, im i too shy, do i have some random quirks, and the big question: am i ugly? I’m a casual dresser. I wear a little make-up, Jeans, T-shirt, Converse. Then as i wear my usual garb, i think of what guys have told me in the past, why not dress up and blah blah blah. Well from when i was little, i was taught someone should like you for who you are and not care how you dress. They should love you for you and not the superficial stuff. But hey, lets face it, that’s really never the case. It’s always looks first, or at least my experience with the other sex it seems that way. It’s funny guys like to hang out with me but never want to date me. I’ve gotten the line “your just to cool to date” “your like a sister” “i just don’t see you that way, your one of the guys” or my favorite ” i thought you were a lesbian”. Which to a girl who is straight is like getting shot with a machine gun. You feel…. do any guys think i’m attractive? My favorite though is when friends try to set you up on blind dates…. why do people think that’s going to help? Maybe some people swear by them and they’ve met their special someone that way, but for me, every blind date ive got set up with (usually without my knowledge, cause i’ll say no) has been one awkward mess after another. Sure your friends are trying to help, but they should know you’re not a huge fan of the “hey ive never heard of you before do you want to go to a movie and dinner?” Personally, every time i’ve gone on a blind date it seemed forced, and that’s not how you should feel with someone. You should WANT to go to the movie and dinner with them.

I know my ideals of relationships are skewed like no tomorrow for the simple fact that i am very scenical towards guys. Not to mention some girls and how they talk about relationships. For instance, the saying “love at first sight” which some girls live by i, personally, think is total bullshit lol. That is called LUST and nothing more. Then those girls respond to me with “your just bitter cause you don’t have anyone!”. Eh maybe i am, but i’ve had a few men hurt me bad in the past, in ways they don’t even know. But that’s how you learn. You experience the bad side of relationships(which I’ve had too many) and it makes the right one, when it comes, absolutely wonderful. So thanks for reading this vent session and since you’ve made it to here I’d like to end in a positive note. I will say this, i have one girly relationship saying that i live by and hope it’s true and that is “Mr. Right is out there, you just haven’t found him yet”.

it has always put my mind at ease and always will.

i just love the sound when it hits the roof and how refreshing the cool drops are when they hit your face. Then all the wonderful smells of the trees and crystal clean air.

i love it so much.

i wish it rained more in southern california.

I initially had just a meeting with Peter, the Coordinator of the Support services and Advising to help me with my present schedule problems and concerns, but i left with many epiphanies of my life. Peter explained to me what ADD was… which i really was never told, and what happens with a person with ADD. That the mind of someone with ADD constantly looks for patterns. Visually, harmonically, and just logic and behavior of others. Whats interesting about this aspect is the person with ADD has no idea their brain does this. They may notice little quirks and “habits” they tend to do but they will never understand the patterns. This is the main reason i don’t sleep. He mentioned that my mind will continuously do this even when im trying to rest. The way someone with ADD gets away from these patterns, which he showed me in his office, are with the nature sound machines. It was crazy. The sound of falling rain was putting me at ease the moment he turned it on, and he explained it’s because natural sounds like waves crashing and rain falling don’t have a pattern. The ADD mind gets so frustrated that it can’t find a pattern within it that the ADD “forgets” to keep the mind tense hence the ease and eventually sleep. He explained certain sounds will make me want to fall asleep and others to study too because they’ll affect me differently. He showed me my reflection and instantly i could see the difference in my eyes and how relaxed they were. i was amazed.

The reason i felt like a lab rat was after peter relaxed my mind fully on my school problems he asked if i would like to talk to a few of his other advisers. His reasoning were that some of the things i was explaining to him were possibly to do with some other learning disabilities. So i was able to talk to two other men about the possibilities and i took some tests and answered some questions. In the end, which I’m still going to take an elaborate psych test in the future to make sure, but i have a sensitivity to light which is causing me to have dyslexia and problems with reading that i have had my whole life. Why this affects reading is all books have black lettering on stark white paper, with sometimes a nice little sheen gloss to make the page protected. The sensitivity to light makes the white over power the black and make the words and letters “out of focus” when comprehended. But this has nothing to do with sight, i have 20/15 vision. Dave explained to me that think of your eyes as cameras. When a person is light-sensitive it’s like looking through a camera that’s facing a light or the sun. Sure the camera’s in focus and the picture should be clear but with the extra light, the film, is “over exposed” and glares appear in the photos. Well same things happens with your eyes. The photo of the words become distorted so what i saw isn’t what my mind comprehended, which in turn led to me having to read pages over at least 6 times before “getting them”. As well, i may have a depth perception problem, which also stems from the light sensitivity. Depending on the lights in a room, i can possibly see things warped or distorted, causing me to “cut the corner” and hit my hip or arm. The sensitivity inadvertently makes others and i to be or seem clumsy. They explained to me that florescent lights bug the crap out of light-sensitive people. They can see the pulsing of the florescent light when most people can’t. This causes from headaches to warped depth. I for one, am one of those “sensitive” people. Since i was little in softball at night games i’d have to wear sunglasses or a hat because the florescent lights bugged me so much. Of course at the time i just thought that was normal for someone with light eyes, not an actual learning disability. In a few weeks i will take the true psych tests, ones that last for a few days and hours, and the light tests(which will determine a color of glasses ill have to wear while reading so i don’t get headaches or get bugged by florescent lights).

But in all the experience was so relieving. To finally know what I’ve had to live with and how now, with my medication and help from wonderful people, i can have a normal academic and personal life. I will be finally, after 21 years, on a level playing field with everyone else in the world who doesn’t have any disabilities. Which that alone makes me the happiest person alive at this moment. I can finally live without being trapped in my head of the constant ADD patterns which i never knew about until a few days ago.

I’m ready for the world, and the world better be ready for the new Ashley; who is finally comfortable in her own skin.

they have helped me understand what it is to have ADD and how to get through life/school with it.

me: naw, its cause the human mind thinks uggs are like slippers and it turns everyone with them on into lazy zombies that want cups of hot cocoa in front of a fire

i’m ready for my adventure!

“Humor is just another defense against the universe.”

“Tell me about the electricity now, what happened?

- Oh. Nothing. I was bored. I took my axe and chopped down a utility pole. It didn’t take but two minutes.”

me: “Hi I’m Hailey McRumster”

father: “Wine is just a fruit juice”

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

healy’s motto:”Here’s to those who wish us well, those who don’t can go to hell”

me: “Jip up my Zacket”

me: “I’m mentally Decapitated”

caitlin: “hey hey hey hitler gives vegetarian painters that want to kill everyone in the world a bad name. i’m president of the vegetarian painters that want to kill everyone in the world association (also known as VPTWTKEITWA) & we revoked his membership.”

vince: “Ok first I would take you and sit you in a chair. Then I would get some rope. Then a blind fold. Then tie your hands to the chair and blind you with the blind fold so you can’t see what I’m going to grab…..(you can see where I’m going with this I’m sure.) Then I’d put some music on in the back ground. And turn up the country music on full blast and you’d be stuck in the chair with nowhere to go!

me: NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

“Cockroach… Cockroach… Cockroach… OH SHIT!”

court: “oh man… hotness overload today! i can’t even take it anymore! i think my brain is over heating… flames… flames… and it just hurts and.. and flames….”

“ash-uh-ley”

“I didn’t know ashley had 3 syllables”

“It does now”

“dork a-s-h-l-e-y dork

or (since dictionaries somtimes have two spellings)

dork e-l-i-s-e dork “

*lights turn off*

father: “Son of a Bitch!”

sara: “Uncle Pat don’t you mean son of a nutcraker?”

father: “No i mean SON OF A BITCH!”

Why is the Rum Gone!

caitlin: “Hailey McRumster YOU are why the rum is gone.”

matt: “and thanks for making me smile, asshole”

devon: “what’s going on? it sounds like there’s 5 people in your room”

me: “nope its just me and lorraine, we do voices”

me: “hop, jip, skump”

lorraine: “You don’t squint right”

elise: “Do you have a bobby pin ashley?”

me: “No, but there was one in the Dining Hall Yesterday”

lorraine: “what a nice bunny”

dee: “LOOK AT THAT BUNNY!

lorraine: “why does he have a hatchet?”

“You are such a Fuckass!

-Did you just call me a fuckass? You can go suck a Fuck!

Oh, please, tell me Elizabeth, how exactly does one suck a fuck?! ”

sharkie the stufed shark [aka lorraine]: “get off me crazy woman! touch me one more time, see what happens. thats what i thought. leave me be. im jus chillin.”

me: *groan in fear*

me: “i just realized i’m having a conversation with a stuffed shark, yep i’m SO the normal one.”

me: “I JUST WANT IT TO STOP, AND GET BETTER!”

caitlin: “well if you stop, how WILL you get better? It’s a logical question and explination”

me: “i love you caitlin”

me: “woah… it was spanish but it sounded german!”

lorraine: “Rrrrruff Rrrruff COMIDA!”

me: “hitler dogs!”

“What Freud said about the Irish is: We’re the only people who are impervious to psychoanalysis.”

lorraine: im popping open my hamper!

me: YOUR POOPING OVER YOUR HAMSTER!!! WHAT!

mother: turn on the light and look at it sideways

nicole: that’s what she said!!!

matt: t

matt: oops..

me: and crumpets?

matt: LMFAO that was great

matt: Pwned Bitch! i love swim

me: naps are awesome.

matt: waking up 2 minutes ago is fun too

me: fuck you

matt: LMAO. Now get your charger!

nicole: damn i nailed that one give me a fucking hammer!

me: stop playing with your yo-yo and help me kill tyler!

*while playing Mario Smash Bros.*

matt: tyler come here i wanna try something

tyler: your gunna try to kill me

matt: no its merely a scientific experiment, i want to figure out what this move does.

matt: ok, hold up…

*matt does wrong move* *matt kills tyler*

tyler: What The Fuck Man!

matt: shit i didn’t mean to do that move!

me/matt: *die of laughter*

tyler: dude that was cold.

me: ok so now can you help me kill him with out you playing with your bat and yo-yo?

matt: no!

tyler: haha your partner sucks ash im sorry *all laugh*

Where’s my chicken sandwich? FUCK YOU BITCH!

father: Anything that bleeds for a whole week and still survives, is fucking scary!

matt: Haha i can talk shit about you and you can’t talk back!

me: *grabs phone types “jerk!”

*sends it and as i send* matt: and don’t bother texting it either i wont answer

me: *texts* “Fuck!”

matt: HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA i knew you’d say that!

“What do you want? I know what I want, cause I’m holding it in my hands.”

“Tell a women the truth without words, kind of a signal u send out, the women just picks it up.

-And what’s the truth?

That kissing her would be the end of life, as I knew it”

matt: DIE ALREADY!!!

me: nope

matt: Ex-fucking-actly

me: It can eat your face!!!

matt: Simply grand, lovely thinking ash!

me: Happy to help

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here’s a taste at who was there, and to think this was the first year, can’t wait to see what next years CTN Animation Expo will bring:

Artist Exhibitors and Demonstrators in Alphabetical Order:

Due to the nature of our industry the  availability of our VIP Talent  is always subject to their schedules.

Kei Acedera | Animation Artist | Imaginism Studios
Lubomir Arsov – Animation Artist | Independent
Ben Balistreri – Character Designer | Dreamworks
John Banh – Animation Artist | Fox TV
Damon Bard – Independent Sculptor | Dreamworks, Laika, Sony, PDI, ILM
Mitchell Bernal – Toy Designer | Skelanimals
Saud Boksmati - Viz Dev Artist | Independent Designer
Stefan Bucher – Independent Designer | Creator of 100 Monsters
Bobby Chiu – Art Director Studio Owner | Imaginism Studios
Mark Christiansen – Animation Artist | Independent Artist
David Colman – Character Designer | Sony, Disney, Warner Bros
Michael Daly – Animation Artist | Independent
Donnachada Daly – Animator | Dreamworks Animation
Andreas Deja – Supervising Animator | Disney
Peter de Sève – Legendary Illustrator | New Yorker Magazine, Blue Sky Studios, Disney
Craig Elliott – Designer | Independent Designer
Thom Enriquez – Legendary Story Artist | Disney, Dreamworks
Kevin Eslinger – Concept Artist | Independent Illustrator
Lauren Faust & Craig McCracken – Animators | Independent
Sean Galloway & Ryan Benjamin – Character Designers
Girls Drawin’ Girls – Animation Artists
Frank Hanson – Animation Artist | Independent Artist
Liana Hee – Animation Artist | Independent Artist
Francisco Herrera – Character Designer | Warner Bros
Ryan Hungerford – Graphic Artist | Independent Designer
Robin Joseph – Independent Designer | House Of Cool, Blue Sky, Laika, Illumination, Sony Pictures
Brad Kesten – Voice Talent | Charlie Brown
Stephanie Laberis – Animation Artist | Independent
Robert Lence – Story Artist | Disney, BlueSky
Brittney Lee – Character and Concept Designer | Independent Designer
Davy Liu – Independent Art Director | Disney, Warner Bros, Lucas Film, ILM
Jose Lopez – Character Designer
John Loter – Designer | Disney
Rik Maki – Character Designer and Teacher | Disney, Laika, Blue Sky
Leo Matsuda – Story Artist
Mark McDonnell – Character and Environment Designer | Disney
Fabian Molina – Character Designer
Derek Monster – Character and Creature Designer | Pixar
Scott Morse – Character Designer | Pixar
David O’Keefe – Sculptor | Independent
Justin Orr – Animation Artist
Gabriele Pennacchioli – Animator | Dreamworks
Phil Phillipson – Designer | Disney and co-creator of the brilliant graphic novel God the Dyslexic Dog
Ruben Procopio – Independent Sculptor | Disney, Masked Avenger Studios
Bill Presing – Character Designer | Pixar
Bill Robinson – Animation Artist
Lou Romano – Production Designer | Laika
Humberto Ramos – Toy Designer
Leigh Rens – 3D Digital Artist
Harald Seiperman – Independent Character Designer | Disney
Scott Shaw – Cartoonist
Stephen Silver - Independent Character Designer | Disney, Warner Bros, Sony, Fox
Beth Sleven – Character Designer
James Stapp – Digital Artist | Atomic Monkey
Olivier Tossan – Visual Development Artist | Independent Designer
Ken Turner – Independent Designer | 9 Story Entertainment, Cookie Jar Entertainment
Marshall Vandruff – Illustration and Animation Artist | MAD Magazine, Warner Bros, Nickelodeon, Gnomon
Valerio Ventura – Independent Designer | Disney, Cartoon Network
Glenn Vilppu – Master Figure Instructor | Disney, Cal Arts, Art Center
Joe Weatherly – Artist and Teacher | Dreamworks, Universal Studios
The Write Brothers – Story Consultants
Scott Wright – Animator | Dreamworks
Dean Yeagle – Independent Cartoonist

Panels and Speakers ….Schedule
Formats 20 minutes and 45 min after which time the group retreats to the “Shop Talk” lounge to carry on the conversation and Q+A.

1 + 3 + 5 = The  Making of 9

• Moderator | Aaron Simpson – Producer
  • Jeff Bell – VFX Supervisor
  • Jinko Gotoh – Producer
  • Joe Ksander – Director of Animation
  • Robert StPierre – Co-Production Designer
  • Christophe Vacher – Art Director
  • Fred Warter – Co-Production Designer

An Animation Career Snapshot – Sponsored by Animation Mentor

• Moderator | Tenny Chonin – Gallery Owner | Independent
  • Jed Diffendefer – Animator | Independent
  • Eric Goldberg – Supervising Animator | Disney
  • Ethan Hurd – Animator | Sony Image Works
  • Kira, Lehtomaki – Animator |
  • Sean Sexton – Animator | Dreamworks
  • Chris Williams – Animation Supervisor | Sony Pictures
    

Anatomy of a Hit Animated Series: The Decision Makers

• Moderator Ramin Zahed | Editor of Animation Magazine
  • Swampy Marsh – Executive Producer | Disney XD and Disney Channel
  • Jamie Mitchell – Executive Producer and Director | Disney Channel
  • Dan Povenmire -  Executive Producer | Disney Channel
  • Ford Riley – Executive Producer | Disney Channel

Bringing Characters to Life in Disney Theme Parks | Audio Animatronics and Interactive

• An unmoderated discussion.
  • Diane Binford – Imagineering Artist | Walt Disney Imagineering
  • Joe Lanzisero – Senior VP | Walt Disney Imagineering
  • Akhil Madhani – Imagineering Artist | Walt Disney Imagineering
  • Ethan Reed – Imigineering Artist | Walt Disney Imagineering
  • TBA – Walt Disney Interactive
    

Color Scripting: The Art Directors from Pixar, Disney, Sony

• Moderator Charles Solomon | Animation Critic for the LA Times and Author
  • Andy Gaskill - Art Director | Disney, Sony Image Works
  • Dave Goetz – Art Director | Disney
  • Dice Tsutsumi – Art Director | Pixar
  • Lou Romano – Art Director | Laika
    

Comedy Wanted: Drawn or Alive: The Gag Guys

• Moderator | Yvette Kaplan – Producer, Director, Writer | Blue Sky, Fox, Film Roman, MTV
  • Tommy Blancha – American Comedy Writer | Adult Swims “Metalocalypse”
  • Kristofer Brown – Writer | MTV, Cartoon Network
  • Tom Gammill – Comedy Writer | MTV
  • Sam Johnson – Comedy Writer | MTV
  • Chris Marcil – Comededy Writer | MTV

Crafting The Short Pitch

• Pilar Alessandra – Script Consultant | On The Page

Directing Animation vs Live Action

• Rob Minkoff – Director of Lion King and Stuart Little

Designing from a Distance: The Artists that Do It

• Francisco Herrera – Character Designer Mexico City | Warner Bros
• Harald Seiperman – Independent Character Designer | Disney

Developing the Animated Comedy Feature

• Steve Kaplan -  Comedian | Comedy Writer From Animation to Live Action

From Designs to Toys

• Mitchell Bernal – Toy Designer | Skelanimals
  

From Pixie Dust to Pixels

• Moderator | Henk Dawson – Digital Illustrator and Podcast Owner D3D

From Production to Academia
How I sell the Pitch

• Guy Vasilovich – Producer Director | Moonscoop Productions

How I Design Productions

• Kathy Altieri – Production Designer | Dreamworks

The Power of Improv

• Ezra Weiss – Improvisational Actor and Director of the School of Improv at Bang Comedy Theatre Los Angeles

Indy Filmmakers

• Raul Garcia – Director | Independent Feature Filmmaker
  
• Phil Nibbelink – Director | Independent Feature Filmmaker
  

Indy Studio Owners

• Tony Bancroft – Studio Owner | Disney, Exodus Filmgroup. Toonacious Studios
• Bobby Chiu – Studio Owner | Imaginism Studios
• Chris Hamilton – Studio Owner | Oddbott Studios
• Darrel Van Citters – Studio Owner | Renegade Animation

Make It Talk! The Illusion of Speech

• Steve Meltzer – Puppeteer | Puppetolio

Managing Creative Talent

• Steve Hickner – Producer | Dreamworks

Marketing for Right Brainers

• Lee Silber – Teaching business lessons that last a lifetime for the creative thinker.

Meet the Work and Influence of Ronald Searle

• Moderator | Matt Jones – Personal Acquaintance of Mr. Searle and Senior Story Artist | Aardman Animation Studio
  • Manny Hernandez – Animation Student | Cal Arts
  • John Musker – Director | Disney

Production Design Panel

• Peter Clarke – Production Designer
• Fred Cline – Production Designer | Independent

Spotlight Focus Interviews

• Peter de Sève – Legendary Illustrator | New Yorker Magazine, Blue Sky Studios, Disney
• Andy Gaskill - Art Director | Disney, Sony Image Works
• Dave Master – A Learning Activist | ACME Animation
• Mike Mignola – American Comic Artist | Creator of Hellboy
• Marcelo Vignali – Character Designer | Sony Image Works
  

Sup of the Day: Digital Supervisors

• Moderator | Bill Kroyer – Director | Rhythm and Hues, Disney
  • Karl Herbst – Digital Supervisor | Sony Pictures
  • Robert Lurye – Digital Supervisor | Dreamworks Animation
    

The Power of Mime

• Lorin Eric Salm – Character Movement | Disney, Dreamworks, Sony, Rhythm & Hues

The Broad-appeal of Animation

• Tina Price – Animation Pioneer | Disney, Owner of the Creative Talent Network
• Sue Nichols – Animation Designer | Disney
• Kathy Zielinski – Animator | Disney, Dreamworks

The Evolution of the Filmmaker

• Aubry Mintz – Associate Professor CSULB and Animator from ILM.
  • Joaquin Baldwin – Animator | Independent from Paraguay
  • Jessica Forer – Animation Filmmaker| Dreamworks
  • Melissa Graziano – Animator | 3rd year MFA Animation UCLA
  • Erick Oh – Animator |
  • Sheila Sofian – Independent Filmmaker | Dean of Animation USC
  • John Vener – Animator | Blur

The Great  “D” – vide

• Moderator | Dave Burgess - Animation Supervisor | Dreamworks Animation
  • Line Andersen – Supervising Animator | Dreamworks
  • Randy Cartwright – Animator, Story Artist | Disney
  • John Hill – Animator | Independent
  • Pierre Perifel – Animator | Dreamworks
  • Kristof Serrand -  Animator | Dreamworks
    

The History of the Maquette

• Kent Melton – Legendary Sculptor | Disney, Dreamworks
• Ruben Procopio – Master Sculptor | Disney, Masked Avenger Studios

The Pioneers – Those Who Paved the Way

• Moderator | Jerry Beck – Animation Historian and Writer
  • Don Bluth and Gary Goldman – Director and Producer | Don Bluth Studios

The Studio has no Walls – Exploring the Virtual Production Model

• Moderator | Frank Gladstone – Producer / Instructor | Dreamworks, Disney
  • Richard Chuang – Studio Owner | PDI, Dreamworks, Cloud Pic
  • Max Howard – Animation Executive | Disney, Exodus Film Group, Warner Bros
  • Uri Shinar – Virtual Studio Owner | CEO Aniboom

The Annex: Florida
The World of Appeal

• Ed Gombert – Legendary Story Artist | Dreamworks, Disney

They Got it All But I Did it All – How to protect what you do.

• Glenn Litwak – Entertainment Lawyer| Founding Member of Litwak & Havkin

Thumbnailing for 3D Animation

• Jason Ryan – 3D Animator | Dreamworks

Visual Components in Filmmaking

• Bruce Block – Producer / Author | Consultant

What Are They Looking For? The Recruiters

• Moderator Lisa Kay Founder of Greenlight Jobs
  • Kim Mackey – Recruiter | Dreamworks Animation
  • Josilin Torrano – Recruiter | Nickelodeon

What’s the Secret of “The Secret of the Kells” – Meet the Makers

• Moderated by Charles Solomon | Animation Critic for the LA Times and Author
  • Tomm Moore – Director | The Cartoon Saloon
  • Paul Young – Producer | The Cartoon Saloon

What is Creativity?

• Dave Zaboski – Artist and Teacher | UCLA, USC, Art Center, Disney, Sony

Who’s Who in the Animation Pipeline

• Angela Lepito – Educational Out Reach | Dreamworks Animation

Work for What? – A Look @ Work for Hire!

• Ellen Mersereau – Entertainment Lawyer | Independent

Zero’s and Ones The Pioneers of Digital Animation

• Moderator Tom Sito – Animation Professor and Writer
  • Tad Gielow – Digital Animation Professional | Sony Pictures Imageworks

Special Events

Breakfast with the Pros
CTN-X@night
Raffles
Raising the Bar Recruiting
Speed Talent
Spotlight Signings
Talent Screenings
VIP Reception

Non-Artist Exhibitors

Aniboom – Online Animation Company
Animation Magazine – Media
ASIFA – Animation Organization
Breakpoint Books – Book Seller
Cal Arts – School
Corel – Leading Digital Paint Software Supplier
Craft Animations – Animation Software
CRE – Computer Rental Equipment
DigiCel – Digital Cell Animation Software
Dreamworks Animation
Gnomon – School
Los Angeles Figurative Art Academy LAAFA – School
Maxon Computers
The Mighty Nomad Gallery
Nickelodeon
Nucleus Gallery – Offering quality art, art-related goods, and artist lectures.
Maxon Computers
Mobile Motion – Motion Capture Software
Phil Davis Books and Treasures
Radar Cartoons
Renegade Studios
Santa Monica College
Stuart NG – Animation and Illustration Book Seller and Collector
The Write Brothers
ToonBoom – Leading Animation Software Supplier
USC
Wacom – Leading Digital Tablet Supplier
Women in Animation – Organization
Woodbury University – University

Studios / Recruiters

Digital Domain
Dreamworks Animation Studios
Exodus Filmgroup
Fringe Talent
Gentle Giant
Imaginism Studios
Nickelodeon
Pixar Animation
Renegade Animation
Rhythm and Hues
Sony Pictures Animation
Walt Disney Animation

*[number of times seen]

(keep in mind this is both if they opened for another band, not just headlining)

LET THE LIST BEGIN:

AFI**

The Academy is*

Against Me!*

Anberlin*

Azusa*

Bad Religion**

Billy Talent*

Black Eyed Peas*

Boys Like Girls*

The Bravery*

Brand New **

Bleeding Through*

Cartel*

Dashboard Confessional*

A Day to Remember*

Death Cab for Cutie*

Deftones*

Dropkick Murphys*

Fall of Troy*

Finch*

Flogging Molly*

Flowbot*

Handsome Devil*

HelloGoodBye*

HIM****

Deer Hunter*

Incubus*

Interpol*

Jack’s Mannequin*

Jimmy Eat World*

Josh Ritter*

The Killers*

Korn*

Less Than Jake*

Limp Bizkit*

Linkin Park****

A Love Ends Suicide*

Ludo*

Matchbook Romance**

Matchbox Twenty*

Metallica***

Mon Frere*

My Chemical Romance*

New Found Glory*

Nude*

The Offspring*

OK Go*

Over It*

P.O.D.*

Panic! At the Disco*

Plain White T’s*

Program The Dead*

Protest the Hero*

Queens Of The Stone Age*

Quietdrive*

The Raconteurs*

Rancid*

Red Hot Chili Peppers*

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus*

Rise Against****

Rob Zombie*

Scars on Broadway*

Senses Fail**

Shiny Toy Guns*

Silversun Pickups*

Snow Patrol*

Social Distortion*

Something Corparate*

The Subways*

Sum 41*

Taking Back Sunday**

Thrice***

Thursday**

Tiger Army *

Trapt*

U2*

Unwritten Law*

The Used*

30 Seconds to Mars*

+44*

ill add more as more come and i remember bands haha