PLEASE, DO NOT PLAY YOUR BANJO INAPPROPRIATELY: Morning Bookmark Roundup #1

Wednesday 17 February 2010

Morning Bookmark Roundup #1

I've decided first thing every morning that I successfully wake up, I'll update of the latest going ons in my favourites to do with animation and illustration.

http://www.thestoryboardbook.com/

I personally think these are a GREAT idea.
Spotted on Cartoon Brew

There's a Bizarro App for that

I actually own a small book of Bizarro at my parent's house, it's a newspaper cartoon in the vien of The Far Side. So I find this pretty interesting. An updating comic App for iPhone that gives you a new comic each day.

Spotted on Drawn!

Overcoming Creative Block

This was found on the fantastic The Comics Bureau, a maintained website by local Glyndwr tutor Dan Berry, which gradually worked my way into one of my (very rare) comic related favourites. It's good because it looks at news about all forms of comics and graphic novels. Not just Marvel/DC like big oafs hitting each other with hammers in a series of random, violent events which is what 'comics' get labeled as these days.

Rad Sechrist Interview

Rad's tutorials are printed out and all over my wall, no joke. Rad has helped me out so much over the last few weeks in my understanding of breaking down my illustration and figures for animation. I've started following his set 'rules'. This was found on the great, handy Character Design Blog.

That's about it. If anyone has any handy animation/illustration/the practice of comics website links, feel free to post them in the comments.

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About the gentleman behind Inappropriate Banjo

Martyn A Eker was born in the Channel Islands, in Guernsey which resembled that last triangular corner bit of toast you couldn't eat in the morning. After a decade of development and decadence, he subsequently moved to this little known place called 'England' within 'Britain', which is a lot more difficult to describe in shape let alone draw from memory. But apparently a lot of famous historical people had come from there, like Shakespeare, Doctor Who and James Bond.

From here, Martyn A Eker decided to continue his manic doodling from school and enrolled in college to study a 'National Diploma in graphic and Design' for some obscure reason, it was here that Martyn A Eker decided to look into the crazy idea of becoming an animator, due to his lifelong ambition to become a cartoonist.

Not satisfied with his current art skills, Martyn A Eker studied a further course, 'Foundation Art and Design' where he discovered how much he hates artists that don't have a reason, metaphor or purpose for their works to be made.

From here, Martyn A Eker moved to North Wales and studied at university in the specialism of 'BA Hons Design Animation' (which had nothing to do with piloting planes) at Glyndwr University, which had some kind of identity crisis seeing it was originally called NEWI which really didn't stand for 'Nothing Ever Works Institute', despite the toilet graffiti.
It was here over the years that Martyn A Eker discovered how to make images move like a magician, a long way from the original nervous twitching, scale changing characters which would look better put out of their misery.

Once completing this course Martyn A Eker was given a offer he simply couldn't refuse, which about a year later he did. Turning his nose up at an uncompleted 'MA in Animation', Martyn A Eker tried to sit down and figure out who he was once and for all; and then he realised, he was a nutter that illustrated and scripted funny things and was truly happy when he would giggle reading his own works afterwards and obsessively wrote things about himself in the third person.

It was at this specific time, that he continued his lifelong quest of becoming a cartoonist once again and a damn good one, at that.