I like it when unexpected things happened to my favor. They’re mostly little things but never failed to brighten my day. Last week I attended Norwescon. It was a smallest con I’ve ever attended, only 3500 of attendance, set in the hotel. The best [...]]]>

I like it when unexpected things happened to my favor. They’re mostly little things but never failed to brighten my day. Last week I attended Norwescon. It was a smallest con I’ve ever attended, only 3500 of attendance, set in the hotel. The best thing about the con was that a lot of attendees dressed up in awesome costumes, not necessarily just cosplay but general period and steampunk stuff, a lot of pirates and knights from various era. I spent most of my time walking around with @bicyclefish, attending panels, one of the panel is introduction to Armor, ran by Dameon Willich. I spent the time in the panel sketching him because he was wearing an awesome armor. Afterward, I showed it to him and found out he had worked with DC and Wizard of The Coast. He gave me a signed artist’s proof card (the back is blank) and gave me encouragement I much needed.

(on a side note, when you bump into someone in Seattle, good chance that they work or had worked for Microsoft, Boeing, Wizard of the Coast or a few other game studios)

Another awesome unexpected thing was that I got my Guild Wars 2 artbook (which I got for free from PAX ’09) signed by A LOT of people from Arenanet, thanks to Horia Dociu.

And thus end the awesome April for me, until next month!

I felt like a zombie right now; having slept only 4 hours the previous night. But it was worth it, PAX was great!

The first thing you’ll get to do at any convention is, of course, queuing.

I felt like a zombie right now; having slept only 4 hours the previous night. But it was worth it, PAX was great!

The first thing you’ll get to do at any convention is, of course, queuing.

The line for official swags was loooooong, wrapped around outside theconvention center. But fortunately the weather was great, no sweat!

I didn’t take many photo of the Exhibit Hall tho, too busy gawking.

The swags!

The bestest swag of all at PAX, imo, is the FREE Guildwars 2 Artbook. Signed by the artists. It was hardcover, 120+ pages of really high quality artworks. I couldn’t believe they are giving this away for free.

This book alone worths attending PAX for.