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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