I never thought it would be possible, but Radiant Dreamer is now featured on Anime Blips!
It was definitely an interesting experience. The interview questions asked were similar to what has been asked of other featured blogs, but Robyn tailored it more geared towards my specialty in photoshop. 🙂
Robyn was a very pleasant person to work with, and informed me that I was ranked at around 100 out of their 600 tracked sites, which was pretty surprising for me, and very flattering.
It was an honor to be featured on Anime Blips, and also for having the opportunity to be interviewed by Robyn. If you don’t really know about Anime Blips, they’re a feature site similar to an anime version of Digg, with the ability for users to vote up and vote down interesting topics. This makes it very easy and relevant to anime news readers who want to catch the best quality topics voted by other anime fans of similar interest. Do go check it out, and do vote for me too!
The biggest thanks I have to give is only to my readers. You guys are more than just “readers” to me. Being able to connect with you guys through your comments is very important to me. It lets me know what you guys like to see, and your support helps keep me going on a very difficult and niche subject of anime photoshop/compositing. I know that the ones that take the time and effort to comment are my good friends, and I appreciate the feedback.
On another note, I have survived my first day at AFA 09 (thanks for getting me the tickets, Zh3us!), having just landed, and having caught a cold from my wife. I’m still incredibly jetlagged (It’s 6:43am in Vancouver, which means I haven’t slept all night). Hopefully AFA has helped me with adjusting to the time zone difference, and I’ll be back to normal by tomorrow.
I’ve taken over 100 photos at the event, so stay tuned as I sort through the best ones, and make a post about it. With how tired I am, I probably won’t be attending the second day, even though I’ve already paid for it. We’ll see how it goes.
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Congratulations!
I cant wait to see your pictures 😛
thanks! 🙂
i cant make it to both days T_T i hate exam….
what really? Dang! Well, priorities are important, and studying should always be your first priority! Don’t worry, you can live vicariously through others. 🙂
Sugoii!! Omedetou,i feel like your Pics!!
hee hee thanks Jowy! I’ll be sure to post pix of my time here.
Congratulations!! That is quite an achievement!
Also, I can’t wait to see the pictures!
Thanks lostty! ^_^ I’m glad you’re one of my readers. For sure, pix on the way!
Grats on the feature and hope you have lots of fun over there!
Thanks Micchi! I’ll definitely have more fun once I get over this jetlag. =_=; I’m always feeling sleepy during the day, and I can’t sleep at night. So sad…
so it’s your turn to appear on animeblips huh?
Looks like they’re burning through quite a few of my regular reads at quite the pace!!
I joined around the time Q got his blog featured after I sorted out some wierd thing with them linking to my old wordpress blog instead of my current one so I finally bothered to claim it. They probably thought they hooked onto a dead blog with the lack of updates on my old one!!
It must suck to feel ill after making it to AFA but I say just weather it and go to day 2 anyway. You can always recover later!!
from my experience with the London Expo, If you go in zombified due to lack of sleep, you’ll probably meld in even easier, until a fanboy/girl squeels about some plushie or something…
After reading your feature and Q’s, I couldn’t help but need to try myself to see where it goes. It’s pretty cool to be featured. I was interviewed once by Tomopop by a friend, but he doesn’t have a very clear understanding of anime, so his questions were very general and not very relevant. 🙁
Under normal conditions (IE, if an event like this happened at home) then I probably would weather it out and attend day 2. But since I paid through the nose to come to Singapore, I should try to survive it as best as I can. Don’t want to screw up my entire holiday because I over exerted in the first couple of days here.
Yesterday was definitely a wake-up call. I was so overwhelmed with all the people at AFA! It was great! Squealing fanboy/girls and all. Someone dressed as Black Rock Shooter went out of character as she ran up to a BRS T-shirt and squealed “It’s me!! I love me!!!” O_O
Woo congrats on getting featured on AnimeBlips! Great and fun interview! This really is a great blog and your photoshops are always good to look at and commenting on them gives me something to do on the internet.
Sad to hear you caught your wife’s cold and getting jetlag, hope you still have a great time there. I can’t wait to take a look at the pictures you’ve taken at AFA, I always love to see a good and innovative cosplay! (^_^)/
Thanks! Pyauki! It feels so weird calling you that now, since you changed your handle. 🙂
Being able to share to the world my work definitely encourages me to keep at it. I know that OEG would probably call me an attention wh0re like they did to Kodomut, but whatever. 🙂
After I rested, I don’t feel as bad with the coughing. Honestly, I think I’ve been fighting this cold even before the trip started. It just periodically surfaces, when I get weak. 🙁
It’s rather unfortunate that I only had my crappy point and shoot camera. A lot of the photos ended up blurry. Though quality isn’t really that important when it comes to this sort of thing, I guess. The cosplay is definitely a step above many other conventions I’ve seen (especially North American cons). AFA definitely blows AE out of the water in terms of scale, quality, and overall enjoyment. It’s like what a real con should be.
gya feel better o_o! and cute photo of miku cosplayer ^^! Look forward to see the others!
thanks for the kind wishes, Chun! I feel pretty bad for missing out on day 2. 🙁 But hopefully all the cosplay photos I took on day 1 will be sufficient. ^_^
Congrats! 😉
I cant wait to see your photos. 🙂
thanks lylibellule! I’ll try to post them soon. I’m probably gonna post some photos of my time here as well. The last time I was here, I didn’t really experience too much, nor did I take much photos. But it’s been 4 years since I’ve come to Singapore again, so I’m gonna try to experience more this time!
wow that is fantastic! congrats! this is actually the fist time im hearing of Anime Blips, but im aware of Digg and its really nice to know there is an anime version of it. Keep up the great work and i hope you get well soon ^^
heya rockleelotus! Yeah, Anime Blips is pretty cool. Functionally it’s like otaku.fm+ with the digg feature. Do vote up for me! ^_^
I’ve gotten a little better, but the coughing is still there. It’s unfortunate that I missed day2, as it seems like it was also a lot of fun, with some cosplayers from day1 and some new ones as well. And it looks like a lot of comrades got pictures with Danny Choo as well!
Those costumes look super amazing compared to a lot of the ones at Anime North in Toronto! Wish I could have gone to AFA’09, but school is stopping me from going T_T
don’t worry Robostrike. You’re not alone when it comes to local anime conventions. From my understanding, Anime Evolution in Vancouver doesn’t even come close to the caliber of AFA either. Since this is my first ‘con, my friend tells me not to attend AE because I’ll be disappointed.
Congratulations! And you’ve made it in such a short time too!
Sounds like you had a great time attending the first day of AFA! Sorry to hear that you and your wife caught a cold though, especially during a trip. Get well soon, and looking forward to see your photos when you have time! I have no idea what Singapore or AFA is like so I am curious how it is like from your perspective!
Thanks Q! Yeah, AFA was definitely cool. It’s not nearly as big as say, e3, but it was still very nice. It’s great to be back in Singapore as a tourist again. I haven’t been back in such a long time! Will definitely post pix of my experiences. 😀
Gratz on the feature ^^ Sucks about getting sick. It’s that season of the cold in Vancouver. I think I’m catching one again soon… Hopefully not.
Hope you had a good time in your first day at least and try to enjoy the rest of the trip 🙂
Thanks lightningsabre! Yeah, the cold has been getting around something deadly over there. My friend who also came to Singapore managed to catch a cold from his girl, and now we’re gonna spread it around Singapore too! ha ha ha.
LoL I’ve spread my cold all over Boston before, so why not spread the Canadian cold to Singapore too XD
I believe I have! Valiant says he caught a cold while at AFA! lololololololol
How exciting! Congrats!