OUGD602: Creative Networks With Matt Forsythe, Cameron Stewart & Babs Tarr

by Roxxie Blackham on Thursday, 13 November 2014

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

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