Comic Con Post
We're now two days away from attending our first ever physical appearance — Atom Toys Studios will be participating in Heroes Comic Con Finland!
Since we received the official confirmation that we were going to be exhibitors at Comic Con, it's been all hands on deck to plan and prepare the best experience we can for our visitors. We requested for a space at the Artist Alley, which covers a wide variety of really cool artists across various trades and styles. While the space will be on a first come, first served basis, each area will consist of a table, chairs, wall space and charging spots for us to get comfortable.
Situated somewhere along Artist Alley, Lane F
Being first-time exhibitors, we did not realise the amount of administrative challenges that goes into planning a nice, spotless and cohesive space to display our collection. We asked around and did our research before narrowing down our equipment needs to: table cloth, signages, business cards, product stocks, grids, S-hooks, blu-tack, scissors, tape, and our trusty iPad.
3 full luggages’ worth of supplies
Now that we've had our base design covered, we needed to figure out how to properly arrange our goods to be easily visible for our visitors. Boxes could keep the pieces safe, but reduce the viewing angles. Tiered racks are useful, but could also take up too much of our precious desk space. We experimented with different display configurations until we finally landed on the final layout.
Sneak Peek of our final layout
We also needed to ramp up production to make sure we had enough stocks for our con run. A lot of discussions also went into how we could interact with the audiences, share the inspiration behind our art pieces and introduce new audiences to the world of Art Toys. To help with the inauguration, we worked on a video that shares our production processes and printed a batch of stickers which we will be offering to new visitors and followers.
We don't exactly know what to expect at the venue, but we've done our best to make it a great experience for anyone who's stopping by. Our artist, Nigel Goh will also be present at the event for any fans or visitors interested to learn more about the design inspirations behind our works, or to ask for an autograph.
For those of you attending Comic Con Finland, make sure you stop by and say hi! We would love to finally meet some of you in person!
We're about to head over to the convention venue now.
See you there.
Sincerely,
Team Atom