Guests
Hot Diggedy Demon
White Dove Creations
Hot Diggedy Demon (aka Max Gilardi) is a cartoonist/writer/comedian/filmmaker who has the world's most important job: Making cartoons for the internet. His works include Jerry, Wacky Game Jokes 4 Kidz, and the PONY.MOV series, all of which have accumulated massive following and have amassed over 35 million views!
White Dove Creations (aka Sherry Bourlon) is a professional plusher, who has been making MLP plushies for the past year. Her work can frequently be seen on Equestria Daily, and her high-quality plushies are sought-after by many (including Lauren Faust herself)!
Her works can be viewed on her DeviantArt page.
Eric Ridenour
Draw Ponies
Neil Wacaster, a.k.a. Drawponies, is a professional artist and YouTuber. He has done voice acting for Pony In a Box Productions' series Dr. Whooves Adventures, and will be playing Herpy in the upcoming show Daring Do Adventures. His drawing livestream is every Saturday from 2-5 pm CST at http://www.livestream.com/drawponies.
SleepyChibiTobi is the cohost for the streams and keeps everything entertaining.
You can out check out Neil's artwork at drawponies.deviantart.com
Eric Ridenour is an independent film and animation student who's recently been making a name for himself as the Writer, Director, and Producer behind the Brony community's most ambitious project: Journey of the Spark, a fan-animated feature film based on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. At PON3 Con, Eric will be presenting a panel to talk about his film and other tidbits about the project, his views on the Brony fanbase, and his advice to any and all upcoming filmmakers. Beyond his film, Eric has been seen writing stories, audio dramas, and parodies based on the Friendship is Magic universe. Currently, he can be heard as a frequent member of the Nebraska-local podcast BroNEcast.
Laugh Track
Jackle App
Jackle App is a 20 year old electronic musician from North Carolina. He's spent at least 12 years playing and writing music, but only recently has he started producing electronic music. His work can be found on his youtube and bandcamp.
Laugh Track is the local podcast host of BroNEcast and will be bringing his staff along with him. He takes on taboo subjects of the fandom and finds laughter in them.
Derpy Grooves
Braeburned
DerpyGrooves is a popular brony musician and Internet personality. He was born in Seattle but currently resides in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.A., where he is active in the local Brony community. In March of 2011, he released his first album, Don't Even Trip. A second album and an acoustic EP are both in the works. He is a super cute pegasus pony that loves everyone.You can find his blog onTumblr .
He's not the charming cowboy stallion from Appleloosa, but he sure can draw him! Braeburned is an artist who specializes in digital drawings and designs; he's been drawing ponies and attending conventions for over a year. You can find some of his work on his DeviantArt page!
RawrCharlieRawr
Razorjack
Razor Jack is one of the founding members of Bronies for Good, as well as the webmaster of their website. He is also an amateur beard grower and a professional procrastinator.
Rawrcharlierawr (or RCR for short) is a 19 year old artist from Arkansas. She has been drawing all her life, but really thanks MLP:FIM for giving her something to focus her skills on. She's been drawing My Little Pony characters since June of 2012.
Kenket
Sophie Cabra
Tess Garman, aka Kenket, is a professional illustrator and graphic novelist. She began her career in crayons at the age of two, and has since moved onto various other mediums, which largely consists of acrylic paint, and coffee. She has been known to hum MLP:FiM songs while she paints, and dreams of the day the Wonderbolts need help with "all that extra cider."
Spain Fischer, aka SophieCabra, is a professional cartoonist, costume maker, and storyboard artist, as well as a longtime fan of MLP:FiM. She's built and preformed as a variety of well-known show characters, and illustrated many pony comics from her soda can littered cloud in Foalando, Foalrida.
Together, amidst a flurry of coffee and soda, they manage to create traditionally painted works
depicting the ponies that we all know and love.
Their collaborative works can be found on SophieCabra’s gallery.
Fredd Gorham
Toxic Mario
Fredd is a commercial artist who is a good friend to PON3 Con and a host of other regional conventions. Fredd’s art can be found in comics, games, websites, corporate stuffs, personal collections and so much more! He is also the founder of the Krypton Art Jam, which meets every 3rd Saturday at Krypton Comics in Omaha
Known for his light-humored comics as well as filly art, Toxic-Mario will be joining us at Pon3con. Starting in May 2011, he has quickly become a well known artist in the fandom. You can follow him on his DeviantArt, Twitter, and Facebook pages.
Mogul Dash
Seventh Element
Mogul Dash is a 21 year old electronic music producer who's main focus is making a range of music styles. Making sure his listeners get a bit of everything from smooth ambient soundscapes, to fast paced experimental tracks. Having only one year of musical experience, and knowing nothing about music theory hasn't stopped this producer from gaining a foothold in the community. He has amased 1,000 YouTube subscribers, and has been featured on numerous sites like EQD, all in the course of a year. He has a passion for music, a love for his followers, and a dedication to the community. Check him out on YouTube!
Seventh Element is an electronic musician hailing from central Illinois. He came onto the brony music scene in early 2012. He is known for his diversity in producing, jumping from genre to genre and sometimes in-between. He produces any manner of dubstep, drums and bass, house, chillout/downtempo, ambient, breakcore, and notably, a touch of 80′s styled synthwave. Although he has been composing music for 5 years, he found that composing pony related music was a total blast. His work can be found on his facebook, his Sound Cloud, his Twitter, and his Tumblr.
Zachary Holcomb
J. Nez
Zachary Holcomb is a prominent community vector artist. He is a Beta tester for the free experimental vectoring software Ponyscape, a Co-Founder of one of the largest Pony art groups on DeviantArt (#Friendship-Is-Magic), and lead Vector Artist for the full length animated film; Journey of the Spark. While at Pon3, Zachary will be sitting on the Journey of the Spark panel and presenting 'Vectors and More'. His work can be found here.
J. Nez is an acoustic musician from Colorado. He has been drumming for 8 years, and is currently gigging and producing with a local Denver area band! Thanks to his great mentors, he is comfortable drumming, singing, and mixing many different styles of music. With a light heart, and a critical ear, he strives to put on a good performance every time! You can find his personal blog on Tumblr!
Amelie Belcher
Sam Miller
Amelie is a professional Manga artists and has been collecting My Little Ponies since 1982. At one point her collection contained over 160 ponies (not counting duplicates). Amelie still collects My Little Ponies and loves to share the knowledge of G1 with all her new Brony brothers and Pegasisters.
Sam Miller is doctoral student of Communication from the University of North Dakota. He is researching the Brony community and media representations within My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Sam will be presenting a panel about his past and current research projects.
Rob "Vash" Lewis
Rob is a well known costumer and con entertainer across the Midwest. Since first attending Sugoicon in 2005, Rob has been dedicating his time and effort to bringing Master class costumes and well loved entertainment to the many conventions he attends. Not only is Rob dedicated to providing quality entertainment to the attendees of the conventions he frequents, but he also teaches survival skills on his favorite genre – zombies. As a laboratory professional, Rob gives insight to the pathological side of the undead, educating the masses for the future.