Last night during San Diego Comic-Con a few hundred creators, fans and supporters gathered at the Bristol Hotel for the Celebrate the Web event to see and experience the latest and greatest content the world wide web has to offer. Those in attendance also got to be involved in panel discussions, moderated by our good pal Sam Proof, with some of the web’s top creators who offered their insight into making content today for the web, the tools of the trade and some of the pitfalls.
In the interest of full disclosure I need to say now that The Flickcast was a proud sponsor of the event along with our partners at Tube Filter and Blip.tv. However, that didn’t stop me from being very impressed with many of the sci-fi, dramatic and comedy programs who’s footage we saw last night.
Some of the creators at the event who showed footage or trailers from their projects included Shawna Trpcic from Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, Melanie Merkosky from Continuum, Kelly Parks from Universal Dead, Christopher Preksta and Curt Wootton from The Mercury Men and The Bui Brothers from Pryce.
In addition, creators such as Paula Rhodes and Craig Frank from A Good Night’s Quest, Matt Sloan and Aaron Yonda from Chad Vader, Rudy Jahchan from A Comicbook Orange, Adam Chambers of I Heart Vampires and David Nett and Stephanie Thorpe of Gold: Night of the Zombie King were also in attendance.
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