ANIMATE! MIAMI 2014: Full Schedule

1:00pm EST

MEET IAN SINCLAIR

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to sit in a room for an hour while Ian Sinclair talks and answers questions? Well, then this is the panel for you! Come ready to ask questions about food, comic books, voice acting and anime!

Speakers

Ian Sinclair

Friday January 17, 2014 1:00pm - 1:45pm EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

ANIME

2:00pm EST

MEET MONICA RIAL

Q&A with Monica Rial!

Monica Rial has been working in the anime voice over industry for 13 years. As an actress for Funimation Entertainment and ADV Films, Monica has lent her voice to over 250 anime including: Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt (Stocking), Michiko and Hatchin (Michiko), High School of the Dead (Shizuka), Soul Eater (Tsubaki), Air TV (Misuzu), Azumanga Daioh (Nyamo), Baccano! (Chane), Black Butler (Mei Ren), Mass Effect: Paragon Lost (Treeya), Black Cat (Kyoko), Burst Angel (Jo), Chrome Shelled Regios (Felli), Chrono Crusade (Fiore), Claymore (Miria), DN Angel (Towa), D. Gray-man (Lero/Lulu Bell), E.F. a Tale of Memories (Chihiro), Excel Saga (Hyatt), Fairy Tail (Mirajane), Full Metal Panic (Kyoko), Ghost Stories (Momoko), Gunslinger Girl (Angelica), Shinchan (Ai), Hetalia (Flying Mint Bunny/ Belarus), Kurau Phantom Memory (Kurau), Moon Phase (Hazuki), Negima (Konoka/Kazumi/Satsuki), Noir (Kirika), One Piece (Tashigi/Carue/Kuina), Ouran Host Club (Renge), Princess Jellyfish (Mayaya), Rahxephon (Haruka), Sergeant Frog (Momoka), Shuffle! (Asa), Speed Grapher (Kagura), Spiral (Rio), Tsubasa Chronicles (Sakura), Witchblade (Maria) and many more.

Monica can be heard on the Cartoon Network in Deadman Wonderland (Shiro), Casshern Sins (Ringo), Samurai 7 (Shino) and FMA Brotherhood (May Chang). You can also catch her on Nicktoons and the CW as Bulma in Dragonball Z Kai. She’s appeared in several video games including Ms. Splosion Man, Comic jumper, and Borderlands 2. She is also an ADR script adaptor and occasionally a director for Funimation Entertainment. Be sure to come by and say hello!

Speakers

Monica Rial

Friday January 17, 2014 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

ANIME

3:15pm EST

THE DISNEY GAME SHOW

Test your Disney knowledge with Disney geeks just like yourselves; Juliet, Duy, and Romeo. From Disney history, films, and the parks. You might just be able to win a prize.

Speakers

Believe Community

Friday January 17, 2014 3:15pm - 4:15pm EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

GAME SHOWS

4:30pm EST

COSPLAY ETIQUETTE AND SOCIOLOGY

Join this panel hosted by Duy Truong Cosplay, Juliet Audrey Winchester, and Romeo Flynn Winchester where the topics of cosplay will be discussed from reasons of cosplaying to cosplay bullying.

Speakers

Believe Community

Friday January 17, 2014 4:30pm - 5:30pm EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

COSTUMING & COSPLAY

5:45pm EST

VIDEO GAME VOICE ACTING

Join Video Game voice acting professionals, Cassandra Lee Morris, Jamie Marchi, Monica Rial, Ian Sinclair and Joel McDonald for a panel discussion about working in the field, and what makes it different from voice acting for cartoons.

Speakers

Cassandra Lee

Jamie Marchi

Joel McDonald

Monica Rial

Ian Sinclair

Friday January 17, 2014 5:45pm - 6:45pm EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

ANIME

7:00pm EST

GET THAT BOOTY: YO JEFF'S HIP HOP DATING ACADEMY

Yo Jeff is the Hip Hop Dating Coach and author of the Hip Hop Dating Guide.

The Yo Jeff Dating Academy is a dating series of meetings that teaches people firsthand how to meet people. Participants will not only learn the theories and concepts of good dating but they will have opportunity to practice the techniques during the event. Yo Jeff will conduct the training workshops then meet with participants again and coach them through their any challenges they may have had trying to connect with people.

This is a workshop designed to empower participants with the skills and resources they need to be able to meet the people they are attracted to. They will learn what to say to people that like, where to find people to date and how to get the person’s interest.

Friday January 17, 2014 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

ENTERTAINMENT MISC.

10:00pm EST

THE CELESTIAL GALA: A MAGICAL GIRLS & BOYS DANCE

The Celestial Gala is a place for all magical girls and boys, princes and princesses, fairies, pixies, angels and demons, mermaids and mermen, elves, unicorns, warlocks, banshees, gnomes, imps, dragons, goblins, ghouls, sorcerors and sorceresses.

You are invited to come in cosplay as your favorite magical character, or in formal wear for The Celestial Gala.

There will be music, dancing, photo stations, a Celestial Prince and Princess Contest and more!

Friday January 17, 2014 10:00pm - Saturday January 18, 2014 12:00am EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

COSTUMING & COSPLAY

12:15am EST

DR. HORRIBLE'S SING-A-LONG BLOG : LIVE SHADOW CAST

Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog, Joss Whedon's internet web series cult classic, gets brought to life before your very eyes! Pineapple-Shaped Lamps performs their trademark shadow cast, complete with all the songs, dance, and audience participation. Think you've got what it takes to be in the Evil League of Evil? Show them what you've got in our Dr. Horrible Costume Contest! They've got a PhD in Horribleness, and the Doctor is in.

Speakers

PINEAPPLE SHAPED LAMPS

Saturday January 18, 2014 12:15am - 2:00am EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT

10:00am EST

COSTUME COMPETITION PRE-JUDGING SESSION #1

Pre-Judging for the costume competition. This is the first session and is open to contestants who have registered in advance of the show or at the show on Friday at Booth #1009. Register early, so you don't have to miss out on any fun at the show.

Saturday January 18, 2014 10:00am - 12:00pm EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

COSTUMING & COSPLAY

12:15pm EST

TAKING COSPLAY TO THE COMMUNITY

How to do more than Convention Cosplaying/Cosplay for the community. Believe Community Inc. Non for Profit is an organization that brings costume play to the next level by visiting hospitals, working with abused children, and help raise money for causes. Come learn about who we are, what we do, and how you can be apart of it.

Speakers

Believe Community

Saturday January 18, 2014 12:15pm - 1:15pm EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

COSTUMING & COSPLAY

1:30pm EST

WIG STYLING 101 W/ SUSHI MONSTER

A tutorial on wig styling with cosplay guest "Sushi Monster". Not only is she a veteran cosplayer, but she is also a certified hair dresser with insane skills when it comes to working on hair, real or fake! Come learn how to style wigs from a master.

Speakers

Sushi Monster

Saturday January 18, 2014 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

COSTUMING & COSPLAY

3:00pm EST

COSTUME COMPETITION PRE-JUDGING SESSION #2

Pre-Judging for the costume competition. This is the second session and is open to contestants who have registered in advance of the show or at the show on Friday at Booth #1009. Register early, so you don't have to miss out on any fun at the show.

Saturday January 18, 2014 3:00pm - 5:00pm EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

COSTUMING & COSPLAY

6:00pm EST

OURAN HOST CLUB ENTERTAINMENT

Ouran Host Club Entertainment is hosted by Duy Truong Cosplay and co. There will be many fun activities including dares and a Q&A session with the panelists posing as the Ouran Host Club.

Speakers

Believe Community

Saturday January 18, 2014 6:00pm - 7:30pm EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

ANIME ENTERTAINMENT

7:45pm EST

MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATRE 3000: TIME OF THE APES

Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Mystery Science Theater 3000 with Dr. Clayton Forrester, the Mad Scientist responsible for many if the experiments, for a 15-minute "Ask the Mad" Q&A and spend the rest of the time watching the Japanese film "Time of the Apes" riffed by the iconic stars.

Saturday January 18, 2014 7:45pm - 9:45pm EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

ENTERTAINMENT

9:45pm EST

REVENGE OF THE NERD COMICS "COMEDY SHOW" (FEATURING LISA CORRAO)

Comedian Lisa Corrao is your host, bringing you a showcase of these unique comics, chosen for their smart, creative material... they also happen to be nerds! Embrace your inner nerd and laugh with us (not at us) at "The Revenge of the Nerd Comics!" Comedy Show!

Speakers

Lisa Corrao

Saturday January 18, 2014 9:45pm - 11:45pm EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT

11:59pm EST

DJ ANIMATED DANCE PARTY

DJ Animated hosts a Top 40 / Hip Hop Dance Party. MACC 2 BALLROOM

Saturday January 18, 2014 11:59pm - Sunday January 19, 2014 2:00am EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

ENTERTAINMENT

11:30am EST

DISNEY DREAM PORTRAITS

You might have seen these photographs on the Disney blog, internet sites, and spread around by Disney cast members and fans. Come check out photographer Duy Truong and his Disney Dream Portraits as he talks about th making of each photograph. He can also help you with your Disney cosplays or photography methods.

Speakers

Believe Community

Sunday January 19, 2014 11:30am - 12:30pm EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

ENTERTAINMENT

1:00pm EST

THE HISTORY OF CROSSOVER ANIMATION

It's East VS West and this panel is all about The History of Crossover Animation! Anime and USAnimation have had an interesting relationship over the years, with many series starting as USAnimation, only to the end up as Anime and vice versa. This retrospective panel will have tons of video clips to show how things have progressed over the years.

Sunday January 19, 2014 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

ANIMATION

2:30pm EST

SUPERCON COBRA COMMANDER PRESENTS: FSCW MST3K - G.I. JOE THE ANIMATED MOVIE

Join FSCW's very own Supercon Cobra Commander for a special MST3K style presentation of the original G.I. Joe Animated movie! You've never seen it like this before!

Speakers

Supercon Cobra Commander

Sunday January 19, 2014 2:30pm - 4:15pm EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

ANIMATION ENTERTAINMENT WRESTLING

4:30pm EST

MEET THE ANIMATE! MIAMI COVER GIRLS

Meet the cosplayers and photographers who made our STREET FIGHTER photo program guide covers happen. They will be there to discuss the process from concept to finished project. How the costumes were put together, how the location was chosen, the problems they had to overcome, how the images were put together and finally how the cover was created.

Speakers

Sushi Monster

Sunday January 19, 2014 4:30pm - 5:30pm EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

COSTUMING & COSPLAY

5:45pm EST

COSPLAY GUEST ROUNDTABLE

ONE LAST BIG COSPLAY PANEL! Join most of our cosplay guests, such as Heather 1337, Harley's Love Shack, Danny Cozplay, Megan "Starbuxx" Coffey, Veron, ZipperTan and more for a fun, informative discussion about their experiences cosplaying, taking part in photo shoots, modeling, appearing as convention guests, on social media, and more!

Speakers

7:15pm EST

RAVESTUCK! THE HOMESTUCK RAVE

RAVESTUCK! The Homestuck Rave. What more do we have to say?

Sunday January 19, 2014 7:15pm - 9:30pm EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

ENTERTAINMENT

10:30pm EST

FSCW AFTER PARTY

The infamous FSCW after party is back! Join the stars of Florida Super Championship for the AFTER PARTY!!!!

Sunday January 19, 2014 10:30pm - 1:00am EST
MACC 2 BALLROOM Miami Airport Convention Center

ENTERTAINMENT MISC. WRESTLING