MomoCon welcomes professional voice actors, company representatives, and more each year to the convention! Check back here for updates on our guests!
Ana Aesthetic
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Meredith Placko, known around the con circuit as Ana Aesthetic, is a journalist, cosplayer and self proclaimed crazy cat lady. She has been cosplaying since 1999 and has created over 150 costumes for herself and friends, as well as stage and film productions. Meredith has been incredibly lucky to be an invited guest and speaker to conventions across the country, including one of the first official “cosplay guests” of Dragon*Con. Her work has appeared in CosMode, Game Informer, New York Times, MTV, G4, Maxim and Mondo. Meredith is a respected voice in the cosplay community – known as much for award winning costumes as she is for her articles and interviews on cosplay, what it’s like to be a woman in the convention community, and her own personal trials and insights on the hobby. The League of Hot Geeks has dubbed her the “Ambassador of Geek Girls’ Rights.”
When not holed away in her cosplay sweat shop, Meredith works as a freelance reporter and producer. She lives in Atlanta with her five cats, a Beta fish named Sterling Archer and a hipster roommate. You can see more of her cosplay work on her Facebook page. |
Angry Dog Studios
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Angry Dog Studios is a trio of award-winning costumers who are all about the joy of costuming and photography/videography. You can find them online at AngryDogStudios.com or on their Facebook Page. |
Brent Allison |
After a childhood partly “wasted” on Mazinger-Z and Hyakujuu-Ou Go-Lion (Tranzor-Z and Voltron in the U.S.), Brent was unaware that some of his childhood TV diet came from Japan originally. He didn’t pay much attention to anime after that until he arrived at the University of Georgia of to start his Ph.D. in foundations of education. During his first week at UGA, Brent came across a group of students who showed him the anime that he had long forgotten. Falling back in love with anime, he eventually wrote his doctoral dissertation on how anime fans teach other and learn about Japanese culture. Brent has been studying anime fandom and presenting his findings at academic conventions and anime cons ever since.
Brent currently makes his living as an assistant professor at University of North Georgia on a rural branch campus easily walked in two minutes. He also serves on the editorial board of the anime, manga, and video game-oriented academic journal Mechademia as well as on the editorial board of the Journal of Fandom Studies. He’s also faculty advisor of his campus’s anime club Anime Anonymous and loves visiting other anime clubs too. |
Martin Billany
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LittleKuriboh (AKA Martin Billany) is the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged series and the godfather of the abridged age. He has thus far produced no less than 56 episodes, a spinoff, a prequel, a christmas special and two movies, creating a cultural phenomenon in the anime world. In addition to playing nearly every character in his own series, he has made cameos in the Death Note, Naruto, Sonic X, Trinity Blood, Pokemon, Fullmetal Alchemist and Sailor Moon abridged series. With a mission to revitalize interest in the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise and make it more accessible to Joe Public, LittleKuriboh will continue the original abridged series providing us with priceless entertainment for many years to come.All-round nice guy and community fan-favourite, he is also associated with TeamFourStar (the group behind Dragon Ball Z Abridged, for which he also supplies voices) and has made guest appearances on comic-book video review series Atop the Fourth Wall and more recently made a cameo in the 200th episode of The Nostalgia Critic. |
Steve Blum
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With literally hundreds of V/O credits to his name, Steve Blum is best known as the voice of Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop, Wolverine from several incarnations of X-Men (animated movies, games, the Wolverine and the X-Men TV Series, The Super Hero Squad Show, X-Men Anime and more), Orochimaru, Zabuza, and others from Naruto, Green Goblin from the Spectacular Spiderman series, Heatblast, Vilgax and Ghostfreak from Ben 10, Grayson Hunt (Bulletstorm) Grunt (Mass Effect 2 and 3), Tank Dempsey (Call of Duty), Killer Croc from Arkham Asylum, Oghren (DragonAge),Vincent Valentine (Final Fantasy VII), Leeron (Gurren Lagann), Jamie from Megas XLR, Storm Troopers and many others in most of the Star Wars games, Boogoo, Sparky and others from Disney’s Anime – Stitch, The voice of 7-11, dozens of Digimon and a gigantic list of other characters from Anime, Video Games, TV and Film. In 2012, Steve was inducted into the Guinness Book of World records as Most Prolific Voice Actor in Video Games – appearing in almost 300 games!Currently you can catch him as the voice of Tom on Toonami and as the terrifying anti-bender “Amon” on the new hit series Avatar: The Legend of Korra! |
Lee Camara Lee “fev” Camara is a self taught propmaker, sculptor, and illustrator who is based in Georgia. She has been building props and costuming since 2000, and has won numerous awards for her 2D illustration, 3D work, and costuming. Her props have been featured in EGM, Playstation Magazine, Kotaku, and Destructoid.
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Her work can be found on www.fevstudios.com, where she also documents the builds of many of her projects. |
Lee Crowe
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Lee Crowe is an accomplished animator and storyboard artist, who has worked with major companies on such classics as The Little Mermaid, Rescuers Down Under, Cool World, Cats Don’t Dance, King of the Hill, and Family Guy.
She was hired by the Art Institute of Atlanta in 2044 and has taught there since, specializing in Animation History, 2D Animation, Storyboarding, 2D Team Production, Character Design, Life Drawing, Acting, and Script Writing. |
Double Rainboom Team |
Zachary Rich, aka Flamingo1986 is the Director of Double Rainboom, an in-progress fan-made episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, with permission from Hasbro. Currently a student at the Savannah College of Art & Design, Zachary is majoring in Animation and minoring in Story-boarding. He’s spent the last year-and-a-half studying MLP and preparing himself to direct and produce Double Rainboom. His ultimate dream is to write and direct his own animated television series. Otherwise he’s a twelve-year-old kid trapped in a man’s body.
Cara Ann Murray is Assistant Director of Double Rainboom, currently studying Flash Animation at the Savannah College of Art & Design. She enjoys producing and assistant directing as well as animating. She aspires to educate and inspire others through her storytelling and animation. |
The Engineer Guy
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The Engineer Guy has been serving the metro-Atlanta area’s materials and make-up needs since 2002. Beginning with a home office with 200 square ft of storage space, they have grown to meet demand with their current location by the Atlanta Airport with Office Space and over 4700 square feet of storage. Supplying everything from WonderFlex and Foss Shape to Carbon Fiber to Make-Up and hosting workshops from their store and conventions, the Engineer Guy team strives to help turn your ideas into reality. You can find their store online at: TheEngineerGuy.com |
Envel Envel has been sewing and creating her cosplay ensembles for 10 years. Bringing her favorite characters to life, making friends, and learning every new skill possible on the way is her favorite pastime. Envel has been competitively cosplaying and winning awards for craftsmanship since 2007 and made her cosplay performance debut in 2012 with her buddy Dust Bunny. Alternating between judging and competing in cosplay competitions around the east coast for the past five years, she’s learned so many new things and met so many new people, it just adds to her excitement of learning even more; she can’t wait to see what the MomoCon attendees bring for 2013!
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You can find her online at Envel’s Cosplay |
Sean Patrick Fannon
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Sean Patrick Fannon is a famous game designer, born in Tennessee, raised in Georgia, and now lives in the Huntsville, Alabama. As his nickname implies, ‘The Big Irish Gamer,’ he is a big guy, a big gamer, and an even bigger in the RPG industry with working for FASA Games, DriveThruRPG, and RealityBlur. With 20+ years of publications, he has written for Magazines (Dragon Magazine, Shadis Magazine, Adventurer’s Club Magazine, and more), Game systems (Shatterzone RPG and Star Wars RPG from West End Games, Source books for Champion RPG from Hero Games, Shards of the Stone:Core from Fuzion, and Shaintar: Immortal Legends setting for Savage Worlds system from Pinnacle Entertainment Group), and written an intro book to fantasy gaming called The Fantasy Roleplaying Gamer’s Bible. For his most recent projects, he has been working on two beta projects, Star Wars RPG by Fantasy Flight Games and Shaintar: Legends Arise at Reality Blur. |
Katie George
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Katie George is a cosplayer from Alabama with 10 years of experience and over 80 costume creations. She holds a BFA from Auburn University in Costume and Makeup Design and has won major cosplay awards at conventions all over the United States. In 2012, she and her cosplay partner won the title of World Cosplay Summit Team USA. They traveled to Japan and competed against 20 other cosplay teams from around the world. Later that year, Katie was invited to Japan once again to participate in an international anime karaoke contest event.
Katie has also had a hand in coordinating, judging, and MCing multiple cosplay events across the Southeast, and is thrilled to be judging this year’s Northeast World Cosplay Summit Qualifier at Katsucon 2013. Katie loves that cosplay has given her so many opportunities to visit new places and meet new people, and hopes to have even more exciting experiences in the future. Most of all, Katie loves the passion of the cosplay community, and being a part of it is what keeps her going late at night when the con is two days away and her costume is less than half finished! You can find her online at Katie Cosplays. |
Jennifer Hale
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Jennifer Hale is perhaps most recently known as the voice of the female version of Commander Shepard in the video game series Mass Effect, noted for her nomination for “Best Performance by a Human Female” award at the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards (Mass Effect 2).She also voiced the undercover spy Sam, her mother Gabby, the rival, Mandy and Mandy’s mother, Phoebe in the cartoon series Totally Spies. She voiced Bastila Shan in the award-winning Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and returned for a brief appearance in the sequel, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II The Sith Lords. She later voiced the female version of Jaden Korr in Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. In the new BioWare MMOPRG Star Wars: The Old Republic Hale voiced the Republic Trooper Female as well as the recurring NPC Jedi Grand Master Satele Shan. Hale also voiced Bastila Shan in cameo role during the game’s Jedi Consular storyline. Hale interpreted the voices of Fall-From-Grace and Deionarra in the computer-role-playing-game Planescape: Torment. She is also known as the “voice” of Samus Aran in all three games in the Metroid Prime trilogy, providing grunts and screams as the player moves and takes damage. Hale is also known for playing several voices in the Metal Gear series (Naomi Hunter in Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and Emma Emmerich in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty). Hale was also the voice of Jean Grey in Wolverine and the X-Men and Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds as well as a small role in Swat Kats. She also voiced British mercenary Jennifer Mui in Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction and Mercenaries 2: World in Flames. In 2003, Hale voiced Mrs. Little in the short-lived Stuart Little: The Animated Series. In 2011 she was the voice of Carol Danvers, AKA: Ms. Marvel on Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Most recently, Jennifer provided the voice for the protaganist companion of the main player character in Diablo III, Leah. |
Yaya Han
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Yaya Han is a costume designer, model and cosplay entertainer with 13years of experience. After discovering cosplay at her first con over adecade ago, she quickly absorbed the heart and soul of costume design and creation. To this day Yaya has made 200 (and counting) costumes in the genres of anime/manga, comic books, video games, sci-fi and of course from her own original designs. Her intricate and lavish creations have won many awards and acclaim world wide, and Yaya has been featured in a myriad of magazines, websites, and television programming. Commercially, Yaya’s visage has been drawn, painted and sculpted by a number of noted professional artists and she enjoys modeling and collaborating with photographers and artists. Additionally, Yaya has taught a multitude of panels on costume craftsmanship, presentation, makeup, wigs and more; and judged as well as hosted countless costume contests and performed in front of many peers and fans alike on stage. Over the past several years, Yaya has traveled to a long roster of conventions and events within the USA as well as internationally to Italy, Mexico, Canada, United Kingdom, Scotland, Japan, Costa Rica, Australia and New Zealand, Germany and Brazil as a Guest of Honor. Yaya is a strong advocate of preserving cosplay as an art form and encourages and mentors new cosplayers to improve their craftsmanship constantly. Yaya will be hosting the Momocon costume contest, conducting multiple panels and signing her 2013 calendar and other merchandise at her dealer hall booth. For more information, visit YayaHan.com. |
Catherine Jones
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Catherine Jones is an award winning seamstress and the owner of GSTQ Fashions. She studied theatrical costuming at Emory University, and has a professional background in drag costuming, bridal wear, and car upholstery. Catherine has translated those skills into making literally hundreds of beautiful cosplay pieces for her customers, both nationally and internationally since 2008. Her work has been seen on College Humor, Cosmode Magazine, and Kotaku Online. You can find her online at GodSaveTheQueenFashions.com. |
Sifu Kisu
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Sifu Kisu is a master in the Chinese martial arts focusing on the style of Northern Shaolin Kung Fu. Throughout his life he has worked as an Executive Protection Specialist, stunt man, and martial arts coordinator in the entertainment field for many years. He is most famously known for being the chief martial arts director and consultant for the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender and Avatar: The Legend of Korra. From his lifelong experience in martial arts, he created the bending styles seen in the series and linked them to styles of Chinese martial arts. He is also responsible for the motion capture on Kung Fu Panda, and has worked in the Sentai genre on such shows as VR Troopers and Big Bad Beetleborgs. His work on Legend of Korra continues in the upcoming season, and while at the convention he will be offering a seminar on a Northern Shaolin form used in the Avatar series. |
Eloy Lasanta
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Eloy Lasanta is a game designer, writer, publisher, and gamer from Tampa, FL and owner of Third Eye Games (thirdeyegames.net). With his innovative systems, DGS (Dynamic Gaming System) and Pip System, he has produced 4 game settings (so far): Apocalypse Prevention, inc., Wu Xing: The Ninja Crusade, Part-Time Gods, and Mermaid Adventures. And if interested in game design yourself, check out Rolling 20s, Eloy’s podcast hosted on his blog (eloythesaint.com), where he and other game designers talk about their unique game systems and go about it. |
Monika Lee
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Monika Lee’s love of anime/manga, pop culture and games led her to the cosplay community at age 13. She has competed in numerous craftsmanship contests winning several Best in Shows and other various awards. An avid gamer, Monika spends most of her time playing video games, making costumes from video games and recently worked at E3 2012 for Hyperkin. When she’s not cosplaying, Monika is a 2nd year student at the Georgia Institute of Technology majoring in Industrial Design. She was recently invited to Japan for an international cosplay event and her work has been featured on GamesRadar, Kotaku, IGN, and Game Informer.
Monika has been attending Momocon since 2007 and can’t wait to come back! Check out more of her work on her Facebook Page. |
Lindze
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Lindze Merritt has been cosplaying for 14 years and currently works full time as a professional makeup artist and stylist at Pixelette Studios, where she does makeup transformations for pinup, boudoir, high fashion, and professional photography clients. Find her work on Pixelettepinups.com and Lindze.com
Lindze Studied fashion design in Atlanta and has won numerous awards for her cosplay as well as being featured in magazines such as Spin, PlayStation Magazine, Good Housekeeping, and Creative Loafing. |
Manda Bear
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Amanda is a a self-taught seamstress and fabricator from the Midwest. Since 2004, she has taken several major and minor awards; she began judging in 2010. Her costumes have been featured in Playstation Magazine and COSMODE. Now, as an Atlanta area resident, Amanda is employed by God Save the Queen Fashions and Volpin Props. You can find more of her work on her Facebook Page. |
Sketch MacQuinor
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Sketch is an Atlanta-based artist, animator, and idea man that tries a little of everything involving acting, improv, costuming, puppets, or flash animation. He has been co-lead animator for the show Squidbillies since its pre-production to fund his geek-gasimic lifestyle of Ren Fests, comedy writing, webcomic experimentation, children’s book writing, and happy marriage-ing. He has been diagnosed with boogie fever and has six to eight months before the rhythm is going to get him. His first book, Hearts and Crafts, is being independently published. His weekly webcomics can be found on his site. |
Mark Meer
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Mark Meer is best known for his work on the Mass Effect trilogy, voicing the male version of the player character Commander Shepard, the Vorcha, Blasto the Hannar Spectre, the Biotic God Niftu Cal, and more. He also appears in many other Bioware games, including the Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights series, Jade Empire, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Awakening, and Dragon Age II. Most recently, he returned to the Forgotten Realms for the Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition from Overhaul Games, playing a number of roles including new NPC monk Rasaad yn Bashir and the Lord of the Black Pits, Baeloth the Entertainer. In his native Canada, Mark is a writer and performer on CBC Radio’s national sketch comedy program The Irrelevant Show, APTN’s CAUTION: May Contain Nuts (often featured on Dragon*ConTV), and Superchannel’s Tiny Plastic Men. He is a core member of both the Canadian Comedy Award-winning improvised soap opera Die-Nasty and the world-renowned improv company Rapid Fire Theatre (sister company of Atlanta’s own Dad’s Garage Theatre!). Mark is always delighted by the opportunity to write about himself in the third person. |
Marianne Miller
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Marianne Miller very rarely stops talking, so when she realized that she could make money off of it, she immediately leapt at the chance to do so. Of course, just talking wasn’t enough to get work in the voiceover industry, so after many years in theatre (both musical and otherwise), Marianne got her first role in Fullmetal Alchemist and the Conquerer of Shamballa. Since then she has also received work as Kyosuke in Madoka Magica, Leta, Tula and Lido in Dragon Age: Warden’s fall, Yuuno Scrya in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (and Lyrical Nanoha A’s), Yuuta in Squid Girl, Anwar in Avalon code, as well as many others. One of her biggest projects coming out is a CGI adaptation of The Snow Queen, being released in theaters this Christmas–she voices Kai, the male lead. |
Ponies Anthology
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Dr. Dinosaur, ZephyrStar, and inthesto are just a few of the many talented videos editors that created PONIES the Anthology 1 & 2. With nearly 3 million views on Youtube, the PONIES Anthologies have become a hit sensation on the internet and at conventions across the country. With a run time of nearly 2 hours, the PONIES Anthology is a collection of short music videos, skits and parodies that combines the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic series with various audio sources to in order to keep you laughing and entertained from start to finish. |
Razorfly Studios & Polymer Armory
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Razorfly Studios is a prop and custom electronics developer located in NC and was started by Mark Zoran a native of Joliet, IL. Mark has been developing props for almost 10 years, such props include items from Star Wars, Ghostbusters,Fallout, Star Trek, Jurassic Park, and the like. Mark is currently restoring his 1983 DeLorean and is working on converting it to the BTTF Time Machine. Mark takes custom requests for props and costumes.
Polymer Armory Eric from Polymer Armory is based in Western North Carolina, where he has been into cosplay since way back when it was just called “costuming”. Eric’s love of sci-fi movies along with costumes and armor was started at the age of 4 when he first saw Star Wars on the big screen at a drive-in in South Florida, and solidified while watching old sci-fi and Godzilla movies on Saturday afternoons. As with most passions it started off small and turned into a “psychosis”, but there are worse things he could be doing… With an “eye for detail” he has won several costume contests at Atlanta area Cons including Best of Show at AWA several years back, has been making the Republic Commando’s for the 501st Legion, along with many other molding/casting, and vacuum forming projects. |
Riddle
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Riddle was born and raised in Canada. Introduced to gaming and anime at an early age, it was only a matter of time before she would find a unique way to express her fandom: cosplay. Each costume presents its own set of challenges, requiring her to learn new skills like translation, sculpting, molding, casting and of course, sewing. What started out as a hobby, has now led to many unique opportunities such as getting to work various films and commercials. She is also the creator of Cosplay for a Cause, A charity cosplay calendar, which donated 100% of the proceeds to the Japanese Red Cross tsunami disaster relief.
When she isn’t working on her costumes, she is in her kitchen trying to create a “super solider serum filled” doughnut, or talking to her robot therapist about video games. You can find her online at Riddle’s Messy Wardrobe |
Sifu Manny RodriguezSifu Rodriguez has dedicated his life to learning, perfecting and teaching an expansive range of martial arts. He is best known for his mastery in Kung Fu, Tai Chi Chuan and Southern Praying Mantis, as well as his position as technical adviser for the creation of Toph Bei Fong, the blind earth bender in Nickelodeon’s animated series, Avatar: The Last Airbender. Sifu Rodriguez has also earned a 4th degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do; 2nd degree black belt in Judo; 2nd degree black belt in Shito Ryu Karate; 1st degree black belt in Hakuryo Ju Jitsu; 3rd degree black belt in Shuai Chiao as well as mastering White Eye Brow and Butterfly Hand. Throughout his lifelong career in the martial arts, he has won numerous top competitions and awards in The United States National Chinese Martial Arts Competition, which hosts participants from over 40 countries.
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