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Butch couldn't help but be excited.
He was going to Comic Con.
Well, lot's of other people from the company was coming with him, because this was a once in a life-time experience for him, especially for those in charge of the background's.
But that was only a small dent for him.
He was going to the place, that any serious cartoon lover dreamed of.
The place, where you get to meet your favorite authors and people behind your favorite shows for the first time in your life.
The place where you see people dressed as people from their favourite shoes.
Comic Con was the ultimate nerd heaven for him, and he was practically walking on thin air, when they finally landed in the holy land.
He didn't care that many people, who surrounded the airport and his own worker's were sweat dropping seeing how excited he was.
You wouldn't have guessed the he was almost fifty year's old with how fast he got everybody onto the bus and booked into a hotel.
For the worker's, they didn't know if this was a new scary side to the boss or not.
With his shades on and his Blackwing he had on, nobody bothered him because of his looks.
The next day, most of the group went outside to take picture's, while he, went to the building of his dream's.
Comic con.
Ch 3: A Nerd dream come true.
Butch, was practically squealing on the inside, as he saw the giant banner above.
People dressed as their favourite character's walked around, like it was the most normal to do so and nobody was pointing or laughing, game developer's who were responsible for making groundbreaking games, manga artist's and animators from different tv shows were everywhere, not to mention comic books artists.
He had entered nerdy heaven and was fanboying so hard.
You certainly, wouldn't expect to see a high class entertainment star, in such a place like this.
He was practically skipping through the crowd of people, and nobody batted an eye, because their were other's who were just like him.
He felt like he had reached the promise land.
He wondered, who he should see first.
There was so many, of his favorite authors all in the same building, and he wasn't due to do his presentation in the afternoon.
He stopped and stared seeing, the first person dressed as Zoe Hange from Attack on Titan.
He was fanboying so hard!
He needed to get a picture!
The person was more than willing to take a picture with him, not knowing he was the man who brought what had quickly become her friend show to life.
There was even a person dressed as the Colossal titan!
He just had to take a picture of all of them!
He also took picture's of several women dressed as Wonder woman and Cat girl, some guys dressed as Batman, Flash and the Arrow.
But no Star Wars.
YOU HAVE F-He almost swore at loud, at the discovery that Star Wars didn't exist here, it seemed his work was far from over.
He had to introduce these poor people to Star Wars, one day!
If Marvel existed in this universe, there was no reason why Star Wars shouldn't either!
He was willing to wait in a long line to see his favorite author's and have them sign one single piece of paper.
He would call, the paper, 'The Paper of Geek Heaven'.
An ordinary piece of paper, had become a sacred object in his eyes.
He didn't realize it, until most of the people behind their desk's, had began leaving, that it was dinner time.
"Did you hear?" A man said, in English, dressed as some elf " The creator of Attack Of Titan is here"
"Seriously!?' Another guy said, also in English. "Man, we picked a good day to come to Comic Con" wondering if the rumors were true and the creator, was actually some hot blonde chick.
"Man, wouldn't that be great" The man said. "But it probably some old guy, anything successful is usually made by some old person in their thirties or forties." before they both went out, to get some lunch.
Butch, decided he would eat some fast food and draw at the same time, he was always looking for new opportunities to draw, especially people, his art improved greatly because of that.
He found a nearby fast food place and ordered, his tray was stacked high and he blocked out the sound of camera's and people talking, and began to draw what was right in front of him, lucky it seemed he had stumbled upon a Japanese acting scene for a tv show, so he was getting some good expressive poses.
Once he had finished drawing, he had went back to the building and approached one of staff member's and finally introduced himself to them.
The person's eyes were so wide, that he was worried, he might have caused a stroke but luckily they snapped out of it and he was shown to section's, where he could be easily confined in, if he did not wish to go beyond a handshake with the fans or any press here.
His name, was on a plake and he held in his tears.
He started setting up his things, drawing quiet a number of people, once he placed a giant Levi Ackerman figuren on his table along with several picture's he had done, like a picture of Eren Yeager and the Armored Titan, he also put up some Kuroko no Basket figurin's, he had done himself.
A flock of people started coming.
He had taken extra care of the paint on each figures clothes.
When he was done, more than half a dozen people were sitting down in front of his station, realizing he might be someone related to Attack On Titan or the actual creator of it, and Kuroko No Basket.
Some people were crying, seeing what had quickly because their favorite sports online manga, been brought to life as figurines, knowing the series had yet to the light of day of a full blown anime, like they all prayed for.
They prayed that somebody, would finally make their dream's come true and animate such a brilliant manga.
Once it was 2 o'clock, the light's were dimmed and the projector was turned on, most people were surrounding his booth.
Beside his own appointed Japanese translator.
He could speak Japanese, but he didn't want to alienate the people who only understood English, and if he spoke English, he didn't think the whole room would be able to follow what he was saying.
He was handed a microphone and all eyes became fixed on him as he said.
"Hello, everybody. My name is Butch and I am the creator of Attack on Titan or what most people in this room know it as, Shinigeki no Kyoji. I am also the creator of the studio Skylark, that does the show."
And once the translator, translated everything for the non-English speaker's, the crowd was a in an uproar.
The creator of Attack on Titan (Shinigeki No Kyoji) and the online manga, Kuroko No Basuke, was here!?
"Believe it or not, the project Attack On Titan, went on for eight year's." He said, and the projector turned on and showed, the famous title 'Attack On Titan (Shinigeki No Kyoji)" while the translator translated.
Excitement arose, seeing the first image.
It was none other than Eren Yeager, in his rough stages before his design was finalized, it was an image that he hadn't released onto his blog, so people were understandably recording this.
"These are first rough sketch's that me and a team of my best artist came up with in those few months" He said, as you would expect, the first drawing's of this character was very different, from the finished product, everybody had their own styles.
He personally would never forget the design's, from the manga even after 40 year's.
The crowd was especially excited to see the first drawing's of a Titan that had become such a iconic character, the Colossal Titan.
"Wow" Someone said, taking a picture.
"Awesome" Another person said, as expected of such a show that looked so amazing.
"We, especially had lot's of fun making up our own individual titan's" He said, yes, it was especially fun to draw his own Titan's.
The fun thing about this was, they didn't have to look entirely human so they could mess with their faces.
Some people snorted seeing some ridiculous Titan design's, he and the team had come up with at first, one had the face that resembles a fish combined with a chicken.
The slide, then went on to show some very amazing environment painting's.
"While this was going on, I set my environment team to come up with some background's for the show. I gave them several words to base them on." He said, "The overall image, had to give an 'open' feeling, it had to be 'grassy' or give the impression of being confined in one space, that's why there is so many picture's of the wall" the slide continued to show different environments, with the character's themselves placed in them.
"Once the design's were done" He said, "We than went on draw a storyboard. We had six people do a storyboard for each episode" on the slide, where images of the storyboard room. "I and some other people, were working on the script. We actually went back and forth for two year's, on the storyline itself for the show."
Making murmurs appear in the crowd, knowing only big budget Hollywood movies spent such a long time for a storyline.
Taking two year's for an animated show, was simply unheard off before. It showed just how much thought went into something like this, they now expected to see some big plot twists.
Just how good will this show be?
"These are some picture's, the storyboard for the first episode all in one room." He said, and their jaws dropped at the sight of a whole room, filled with small picture's going frame by frame, there was about 300 of them, it was incredibly detailed stuff. "Fun fact, I was the one who sang the theme song, in the all the language's that the show will be released in."
Making them all look at him in amazement, how could this man do so much work, everyday?
"After that, we handed the environment, to our 2d and 3d designers and animators. I pretty much went from sector to sector, seeing over everything" He said, "I especially spent more time in the animation sector and the building that produced the sound. Once everything was put together, the finished product was sent to the legal department to copyright it, before sending it to various stations all over the world to view, with that countries dubbing over it."
The translator finished translating.
He then played a video, it went from single character image after another character image, before it changed to those same images being connected by mid-frames, to create movement.
It then changed to having the image move in a 3d space without any proper rendering, the next was having the character movements being inked over to show it was a Survey Corps soldier flying through the air.
The next frame was the coloring and rendering of the background as it moved, and the final image was the final ending with the sound imputted in.
They saw a soldier come down on a titan neck, before their very eyes.
"And now, you know how this was made" He said, getting looks of awe, before he said. "And now I have a treat for all of you. I will show two clip's for new upcoming show's in my anime department that has yet to be released to the public. One is called Dragon Ball, the other is called One-Punch Man"
Knowing they were both huge shows from his past life.
All eye's were glued to the screen as a kid Goku son with his tail, showed up on the screen with that signature goofy smile of his face, the crowd of people laughed seeing Bulma and Goku meeting each other for the first time.
Many wonder why Goku had a tail.
The clip was only two minutes long, but it left a strong impression in their minds.
When One-Punch came up, everybody laughed themselves silly over Genos backstory and Saitama face.
It looks like it was going to be a very exciting year for anime, indeed.
"Now. I am willing to sign and take picture's with anybody, today. I will be in Japan for a couple of day's before I go back to America" He said, the translator translated. "Tomorrow, I will be signing for Kuroko No basket, and will unveil a trail animated clip. Something that I have yet to show to my investors, I'm hoping to finally make a 'Kuroko No Basket' animated series"
Now that got everybody talking, finally Kuroko No Basket could be animated, and if it was done by his studio, it was going to be downright amazing.
"So everybody line up, if you want an autograph or a picture with me." He said, escaping to the back of his table, while they all lined up, for picture's and signatures.
Butch, was shaking hands with people, taking pictures and writing his signature left and right for four hours straight, he felt his arms were going to fall off by the end of it and he couldn't have escaped fast enough.
But he thought, it was a very good day.
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Next chapter, Butch sign's and decides to do something special on his last day in Japan, something that get's a certain individuals attention and the Skip Beat part of the story comes into play. Review/fav and follow!