Allianz is a big player in the financial field and they had a big presence at LPL, a trade show catering to services for financial planners. After trying EVENTtoons out at last year’s convention in San Diego they had the artist back again and the reception was even better! Funny thing about live digital caricature is that word really spreads fast. Since its such a novelty, people talk about it, and interest grows and grows. Financial planners are a personable bunch of folks and what better way to make a personal connection than with live digital caricature? Subjects can look for downloads in the menu bar above. –Doug

Lenny’s Sub chain franchisees gathered in  Atlanta this week and invited EVENTtoons to entertain and spotlight some of the star qualities of their group. Our congenial artist Jeff Mandell  assumed the caricature duties and reports he had a great time. Here are a couple smiling subjects from the conference.

This San Jose wedding reception was held at a beautiful venue located on the top floor of believe-it-or-not, a parking garage. With a lovely congenial crowd, gorgeous weather and lavish views of the city,  a wonderful time was had by all.  The artist stayed busy drawing caricatures for seven hours. The two photos on the right were taken by the amazing Harry Who. Downloads in the menu bar above.

The Soroptimists are in town and the ladies enjoyed a 60’s themed  party at Ruby Skye, San Franciso’s venerable nightclub, where EVENTtoons provided three live digital caricature artists—Jon Casey, Zach Trenholm and myself. We gave the crowd a lot of variety to choose from, with Jon drawing on a Wacom tablet, me on my Modbook, and Zach making his live digital debut on an ipad, drawing with his finger no less! This event is a great example of  what EVENTtoons does best, provide one stop shopping for corporate events. With about three hundred guests there wasn’t much time—not to mention light—to take many photos. The party was only an hour and a half, so the challenge was to draw fast, what with the never ending lineup of eager faces. I got leaner and meaner as the party went on, with the last four or five done in under three minutes each. Subjects can download their caricatures at the downloads link in the menu bar above. Doug Shannon

Bernard Hodes brought the artist to Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay to draw caricatures, and traffic of course, at their booth during this HR hiring conference. This is a very fun crowd, majority female, and I am having a blast! This lovely attendee is holding a print of her cartoon with the my line of subjects in the background admiring her image on the 32″ screen.  Caricatures can be downloaded at the “Downloads” link above.

Digital caricature entertainment for wedding receptions is something your guests will certainly not expect, it didn’t exist a couple years ago. But now it is catching on. In fact Jon Casey and I have ganged up together at two San Francisco weddings in a row this weekend. It is such an original and fresh idea, and a super personal experience, that people really go crazy for it. As you can see above, the caricatures can have a template with the specific details of the event. Subjects from these two weddings can download their caricatures in jpeg form HERE.

Scout Funds employed the artist to bring some cartoon levity to the Morningstar conference in Chicago, where financial planners gather from across the country and the world to hear money seers predict the future,  meet fund managers and sales people face to face and generally whoop it up. Reassuring to know that folks who handle investments can still smile, maybe there will be a future after all. Chicago weather, following the nasty storm that delayed many arrivals, was good as it gets, so it was nice to experience firsthand why midwesterners put up with the winters. Caricature subjects can download their jpegs at the Downloads link in the menu bar above.

This Minnesota-based corporation used live digital caricature to cap off a day of travel, meetings, and meals for a group gathered from all over the country. With Doug drawing in Chicago, EVENTtoons sent the very able Jeff to handle the chore. His smiling subjects can download their cartoon faces here.

A convention of librarians may not sound that exciting but library science covers a lot more ground than it used to. In fact, “search” couldn’t really exist without the scores of smart people who organize and maintain all those huge databases of knowledge accumulated while the rest of us were watching TV. We all hid out at the convention center during the heat of the day and wandered the French quarter by night. Here are a few of  this caricature artist’s favorite subjects.

-Doug

EVENTtoons artist sent Jeff Mandell to New York city to draw live digital caricatures for a company entertaining a small group of clients on board a boat cruising the Hudson for a couple hours. That covers the last big US market EVENTtoons had to reach. From Boston to Miami, San Diego to SF and Hawaii, an EVENTtoons artist has been ther. Hmm come to think of it, we’re missing Seattle. Have to get on that!