2012 Animation on Display at San Francisco Hotel Kabuki

Cosplay Event

Highschool of the Dead with Crystal Likes, Trevor Scott, and BlizzardTerrak

February 23, 2012

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This past weekend two of our staff photographers: Richard Bui and Rendy Lai attended Animation on Display (AOD) in San Francisco. Held yearly at Hotel Kabuki in the beautiful San Francisco Japantown, AOD is considered a small anime convention in relation to Fanime, Anime-Expo, Comic-Con, and etc., but for what it lacks in size, it makes up for in energy and intensity, and every year it only gets better.

There were a number of great guest speakers such as Neil Kaplan, Ian McConville, Ken Pontact, Stephanie Sheh, Jayson Thiessen, Christina Vee, and Tommy Yune. Animation on Display also has a number of great panels such as Fabric for Cosplay by Bekalou, Cosplay Cosmetology by Captain Li Hellsing, musical performances by the amazing Yukie Dong, and more.

There were so many beautiful cosplays and unfortunately even with two cosplay photographers, we still couldn’t cover everything, but we did manage to get some shots of great costumes.

Photos by Richard:

Highschool of the Dead with Crystal Likes, Trevor Scott, and BlizzardTerrak

Highschool of the Dead with Trevor Scott

Highschool of the Dead with Hikaru-Jan, Crystal Likes, and Trevor Scott

Photos by Rendy:

Highschool of the Dead cosplay with Hikaru-Jan and Crystalikes

Cosplayers: Misster Gloo and Nadia Swan

Card Captor Sakura cosplay by Rachael Masako Ing

Cosplayer: Kat Vu

Cosplayer: Bekalou

Camera(s) used: Nikon D3
Lenses used: Nikon AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Lighting used: Nikon SB-900, Nikon SU-800, Yongnuo RF-603 N3

We have been cosplay photographers for a long time now and decided it was time to give back. So we started this website with one main goal: "To Learn, To Teach". What that means is that people come here to learn tips and techniques and then turn around and teach it back to the next generation.

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