Matt Forsythe
- Grew up in London
- "Fun Factory" working on Adventure Time
- Works with Penn (who made The Marvellous Adventures of Flapjack)
- eatpoo forum - where artists critiqued your work

- 2002 travel blog
   - Ojingogo comic (influenced by living in Korea)
   - Jinchalo book; Andy Rostano got in touch about Adventure Time for a test after seeing this.

- Producd Good monsters
   - Asked to move to LA

Adventure Time is a story board written show. Came from Flapjack and Spongebob. This means that the writers also make the visuals.

- Kent Osbourne, Penn Ward, Somvilay, Nick Jennings

- After storyboards are finished (which takes about 5 weeks) an animatic is created.

- Breakdown meetings to work out animation sections usually take about 5 hours.

- 150-300 designs for each episode. The Regular Show only has about 40 designs.

- Redesigned Jake for season 5

- All designs are sent over to Korea to be animated for final episode

Cameron Stewart
- Storyboard artist on Men In Black
   - Worked in LA
   - Scriptboard written show (the script is written before the visuals are created, so the visuals are created to work with the written script)

- San Diego comicon
- Got work drawing for Scooby Doo
- Worked on Cat Woman

- Sea Guy Comic
  -  3 part series

- The Other Side Comic
   - Vietnam war
   - Travelled around meeting war veterans for inspiration for the book

- The Manhattan Guardian

- Batman & Robin
   - English version; The Knight & The Squire
   - Every panel leads onto the next to create an animated flow.

- Batman Incorporation
   - English Girl's School
   - Teachers based on Madonna and Katy Perry

- Sin Titulo
   - Personal graphic novel
   - Worked on Sundays on the comic
   - Stripped down aesthetic and limited colour palette
   - Always same 8 panels in the same layout
   - Influenced by David Lynch and Haruki Anokami

- BPRD Hell on Earth
   - Different aesthetic. Realistic but rough

- Fight Club 2 artist
   - Took a chapter from the novel and adapted into comic as proof of concept for the job
   - Temporarily moved to Portland
   - Set 10 years after original story
   - 10 issue series

Babs Tarr
- Painter when joining Art School
- Majored in illustration
- Moved to San Francisco
   - 2011 game artist
   - Zombie cowboy game
   - Game was never finished as start up closed

- Sailor Moon, anime influences

- Hasbro jobs
   - Toy designs

Bat Girl
- Relatable to current youth
- Cameron works on layouts and Babs adds detail to them and makes them more Batgirly with fashion and hairstyles

11.10.14

(picture I took of the entrance to the lecture theatre)

Neubau Vienna (1989-1995)
 - Influenced by and worked with the Letraset Catalogue (1991)

Neubau moved to Berlin (2001)
 - Created Neubau Welt (2005) : an illustration catalogue.


Neubau Modul 2039 Grids & Patterns (2005-2007)
 - After publishing the second book, they held an exhibition called Neubauism



Neubauism (2008)
 - Exhibition in Berlin.
 - Gauze walls were suspended with a projector showing images of their grids and patterns through gauze to create further patterns.



Neubau Forst (2009-2014)
 - 20 designers, 60 months, 39,000+ hours.
 - 684 Trees & Tree Modules.


The Making of Neubau Forst:

How do you pick a tree in a city full of trees?
 - They created a grid system out of each letter of NEUBAU and used the anchor points as a GPS location finder for each tree across Berlin.


Neubau Tree ABC was created by Marius Hanf.
 - An instruction manual for creating Neubau Forst

Photos of the trees were made up of more than 20 photos merged together.
 - Took 7 months to take photos of some of the trees
 - Some trees that were photographed had been cut down on the next visit

How do you vectorise trees?
 - image, grid, expand, mask (test), outline, inline
 - Could take up to 3 months to create a single tree vector!

Joseph Beuys - 7000 trees project.
 - Helped Neubau access the information that they needed for each tree, for example the species of the tree that they used.


Typeface used in the publication is one that has been produced by Stefan Gandl called Neubau International
 - based on Akzidenz Grotesk.

At the end we were encouraged to ask questions in order to win a free book for best question.
I asked: Do you plan to produce further tree catalogues or do you have different plans for the future?

To which they responded:
No more trees, we've had enough of trees!

I didn't win, unfortunately.

I received the following email from Dapper Signs (a signpainting studio in Bristol who I'm interested in getting in contact with for possible work experience) on a workshop in November. I'm really interested in attending, as it will help further my practice, however getting to Bristol on the train plus the £200 workshop fee is a bit unachievable.

I have emailed them back to ask about their future workshops and what concession prices they offer. Am currently waiting on a reply...

Dapper Signs lettering workshop View this email in your browser

Dapper Signs  Introduction to Brush Lettering workshop Hello we are getting in touch because you or people you know may be interested in our two-day, Introduction to Brush Lettering workshop we are running. The workshop will help you get to grips with the tools and techniques to begin painting beautiful letters. Based in the Dapper Signs workshop in Easton, Bristol, you will have one-to-one guidance from start to finish. From learning the basics of how to paint block and casual alphabets, to completing your very own sign that you can take home with you. Formed in 2009, Dapper Signs is a small sign company based in Bristol specialising in 100% hand-painted signs. Dates: Sat 22nd and Sun 23rd Nov Time: 10am - 5pm Materials: All materials provided Price: £200, includes lunch and refreshments (concessions available) Booking info: please contact info@dappersigns.co.uk  Please forward this on to anyone you think might be interested. Thanking you in advance. Cooper and Katie HAND.BRUSH.PAINT