a.k.a. Silvermoon Art

COSPLAY COMPETITION JUDGE

SilverMoon Art is a Michigan based artist and Master Level cosplayer with a deep-seated love for fantasy. They have participated in a wide array of costuming competitions both as a contestant and a judge. They specialize in texture painting, prop building, and really enjoy working on detail work to make their cosplays come to life. Learning new skills, such as chainmail, leatherwork, hairdressing, and SFX makeup, to give more realism to a cosplay is one of SilverMoon’s favorite parts of being a cosplayer.

SilverMoon Art has won awards for craftsmanship and performance, most notably for their Jareth the Goblin King from Labyrinth and Link from Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. Along with these characters, SilverMoon Art is best known for their Geralt of Rivia from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt as well as the Netflix version, Death from Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, Howl from Howl’s Moving Castle, and InuYasha.

COSPLAY COMPETITION HOST

As a Halloween baby, AMHCosplays has had a lifelong passion for costuming. She made the jump to cosplaying in high school with a homemade Star Trek uniform and hasn’t looked back. Today, four different Star Trek uniforms are among the more than 160 active cosplays she wears for cons, photo shoots, community events, and charity. AMHCosplays has won awards for both performance and craftsmanship and, while she enjoys creating her own cosplays, she also loves the challenge of thrifting the components needed to build a cosplay. As the founder of the Cosplay Over 40 community, AMHCosplays strongly believes that cosplay is for everyone and that age is just a number. She can’t wait to see all the awesome cosplayers attending LTUX this April!

COSPLAY COMPETITION JUDGE

When Shockolate Energy was little she saw shows such as Saint Seiya, Sailor Moon, Card Captors, and Digimon, just to name a few. She loved how they dressed and always wanted to fight for justice. In the next coming years, she started reading manga and wanted to dress as anime characters.

Shockolate started cosplaying in 2009 and hasn't looked back since. Shockolate is a plus size cosplayer, a firm believer, an advocate for cosplay equality, as well as spreading positive vibes throughout the community. She has also started a project called #cosplaycompliment that encourages cosplayers to feel awesome in cosplay.

Shockolate has been to over 50+ conventions and has done over 60 different cosplays over the years and has learned how to use patterns, sewing, crafting, and prop making with the power of coupons to her advantage! One of the main focuses Shockolate has been implementing over the past couple of years is “giving back to the community that gave to her” when she started cosplaying. By doing so she has given away tools and taught essential things that many up-and-coming cosplayers need to start cosplaying!

COSPLAY COMPETITON JUDGE

Kira Elric, is a long time cosplayer of 18 years having started cosplay back in 2005! It's a life's passion at this point and Kira loves to not just create the costumes for the characters he loves but also teach others the process of doing so. Kira has won multiple awards for his craftsmanship and performances, including two best of show awards. Kira adores the challenge of bringing the characters he adores to life but he also loves the way he can reach people who love them too. Cosplay is a community experience to him and he loves to joke and play around in character with the people around him if only because of the way they laugh and smile when he does. Cosplay hasn't just changed his life but he's used it to change others as well. Through cosplay he's made so many friends and connections and he cannot wait to see all of you at LTUX in April.

VOICE ACTING PANELIST

Sara Secora, an award nominated voice actor with a decade of voice acting experience. She’s been featured in hundreds of roles across video games, animated TV series and movies, commercials, trailers, narration, and more—all from my broadcast quality home studio. Sara is represented by Atlas Talent in Los Angeles and New York, Stars The Agency in San Francisco, and by Celia Siegel Management.

She’s a disability advocate who strongly encourages remote accessibility for disabled voice actors, works as a casting director and voice director for video games and animation, provides voice coaching services, and published the book The Anywhere Voice Actor.

Notable video games include Genshin Impact, Elder Scrolls Online, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, Fallout 76, Warframe, Dragon Ball: The Breakers, Cuphead: TDLC, Final Fantasy BE: WOTV, Transformers: Tactical Arena, Smite. Notable animation clients include Netflix, Crunchyroll, Mattel, Rainbow SpA, Wizart, Fantawild, Soyuzmultfilm. Notable commercial clients include the brand voice of Metro by TMobile, and Facebook, Crunch Gym, Conn’s Home Plus, Hilton Inn.

VOICE ACTING PANELIST

ALAINA WIS has worked on dozens of video gaming titles at the indie, mobile, AA and AAA levels, from Payday 2 to Mobile Legends: Bang Bang to Choo-Choo Charles. She was recently nominated for Outstanding Character in a Video Game at the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences Awards for her work as Evelyn in Oxenfree II: Lost Signals. She is working on multiple AAA and indie projects now in development, and completes all of her work remotely from her home studio in the Chicago area.

Alaina has a background in musical theatre, having earned her BFA from The University of the Arts. She worked as a vocalist for The Walt Disney Company in Hong Kong for two years, and spent several years working in regional theaters in the Chicago area. She also administrates a Discord channel for voice actors of all levels, The Scrappy VO Collective, whose goal is to make education accessible through community building and skill sharing.

CONTENT CREATOR

Christina June is content creator, streamer, and cosplayer. She has been creating videos online on YouTube since 2011. She’s a brand Ambassador for Elgato, a partner with Freshen Up Energy, Gamer Advantage, & Govee. She also has her own energy drink flavor with Freshen Up Energy called, “Sparkle Shock” based on her love for glitter, shiny Pokemon, and sparkly Pokemon cardboard. Most of her video and live stream content centers around Nintendo and Pokemon.

Visit https://www.facebook.com/ChristinaJuneee to learn more about her!