Posts tagged podcast
Polytechnicast - Interactive Empathy
In this episode of the Polytechnicast I share some thoughts on using empathy as a way to guide design choices in interactive projects.
Links Mentioned and Related Links
Follow Rob on Twitter or his blog at Interactive-Storyteller.com and workshops at Lean Into Art
Polytechnicast - Preparing and Topic Potpourri
In this episode of the Polytechnicast I have “preparing” on the mind. Working on a few projects simultaneously I find myself in the cycle of preparing, making, and finding useful connections between my projects quite often.
In addition to “preparing”, this episode is also a bit of Topic Potpourri!
Links Mentioned and Links That Came to Mind While Writing These Show Notes
- Oxford Notecard Pocket
- Notecards
- Hipster PDA
- Moleskine Plain Reporter
- Web Comic Alliance
- Ira Glass on the Creative Process
- Ann Arbor District Library Comic Artist Forum
- Mac Power Users Podcast - Automating
- Sikuli - open source/free deskop automation via screen capture
- Rube Goldberg
Follow Rob on Twitter or his blog at Interactive-Storyteller.com and workshops at Lean Into Art
Polytechnicast - Keep Moving
In this episode of the Polytechnicast is more art-journal than art-thesis. I share how I’m feeling good-yet-still-recovering from 30 classes in 30 days, some reflections on 30 Classes, and other November-timed art challenges.
Links Mentioned
- 30 classes in 30 days
- Jerzy Drozd
- Krishna Sadasivam participated in 30 Characters
- Tyler James participant and founder of 30 Characters
- Creating Crazy Characters
- Comics Fundamentals
- Creating Compelling Characters
- NaNoWriMo
- 30 Characters in 30 days
- 30 Characters Gallery - an alternate way to browse and search 30 Characters
- Craig Andera
- 100 Days of Hacking
Follow Rob on Twitter or his blog at Interactive-Storyteller.com
Polytechnicast - Jonathan Rector on Exploring Manga Studio
In this episode of the Polytechnicast I’m joined by comic artist Jonathan Rector. We chat about his recent delving into Manga Studio, how he used it for his 24 Hour Comic, what it’s like when you’re coming from an Adobe Photoshop background, and about using only digital tools to make comics.
Links Mentioned
- Jonathan Rector on Twitter
- Scribbles With Jonathan - LIVE! and Scribbles With Jonathan On Youtube
- The Standard - Comic and ComixTribe Writeup on The Standard
- Interview with Jonathan about Drawing The Standard
- The Hero Code - Comic and The Hero Code’s Successful Kickstarter Project
- Free Manga Studio Custom Brushes
- Art and Story Podcast
- DC Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics
- Jonathan Rector’s 24 Hour Comic
- Jonathan Demos Perspective Rules in Manga Studio
- Krishna Sadasivam Blogs About Mac OSX Utilities and Krishna’s review of ForeverSave
- Lean Into Art and 30 Classes in 30 Days
Follow Rob on Twitter or his blog at Interactive-Storyteller.com
Polytechnicast - Manga Studio First Impressions
In this episode I reflect on my first few weeks of using of Manga Studio.
- Adobe Photoshop
- Manga Studio
- Bizarro
- Krishna Sadasivam of PC Weenies
- Jonathan Rector
- Bryon Wilkins
- Web Comic Alliance - Getting Started With Manga Studio
- Rob’s 10 Finished Pages on 24 Hour Comic Day, All in Manga Studio
- Google Sketchup
- Export Sketchup to Obj (normally a Pro feature, this is a Ruby script work-around)
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Lean Into Art - LIA Cast 08 - Participatory Culture!
Can a podcast episode about artistic self determination and participatory culture be interesting?
That kind of topic exploration is developing into a pattern for our show. The Lean Into Art podcast is only 8 episodes along. However, in a way, that’s 8 iterations.
Each episode Jerzy Drozd and I are both building off what we think was working from the prior eposides and keep trying new things. It’s early to say, but I think we’re finding one of the cornerstones of the show: ask questions about a gray-area visual storytelling topic of one another and explore by constructing and deconstructing the ideas we share about the topic.
We’re sharing it in the podcast to discuss with you as well.
Full audio and video at the Lean Into Art blog.
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Polytechnicast - High Adventure Crossover with Kevin Cross
In this episode I’m joined by illustrator, musician, and teaching artist Kevin Cross. We discuss various aspects of making art for the all ages market.
We ponder what styles and stories tend to reach all ages markets and which presents multiple challenges as a creator. Also: how to face the doubt that some parents have when some things seem on-the-surface not as kid friendly while those same factors (like monsters, vampires, or talking fish) are genuinely appealing to the intended kids audience. Pushing buttons takes risks, how do you keep the exciting fun and fantasy in your all ages story without alienating the parents which are also your clients?
Part 1 of our talk is in this episode of the Polytechnicast. Part 2 is (or soon will be) available at High Adventures In Illustration!
- Kevin Cross Illustration
- Kevin Cross on Twitter
- Kevin’s Countdown to Halloween
- Childrens Book Market Thoughts by Morrie Sendak (creator of Where the Wild Things Are)
- TV Tropes Rebellious Spirit
- Nihao Kai Lan (educational cartoon targeting a young audience)
- Wendy and Marvin from the Superfriends (A surprise I learned while assembling show notes: evidently they’ve re-appeared as caretakers in Teen Titans?!)
- Classic series pushing the envelope of “safe”: Jonny Quest
- Kate Shields Stenzinger (childhood development specialist)
- Spongebob Squarepants: successful at serving all ages humor
- List of Sesame Street Monsters
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Polytechnicast - Expanding My Workshop Repertoire
In this episode, I share my work in progress plans on adding 6 more art/code/comics/UI workshops (in a fairly short timeframe) to my 3 workshop repertoire.
Links Mentioned
- Lean Into Art and 30 Classes in 30 Days
- Storytelling to Make Your Comic’s UI Awesome
- Comics Are Great by Jerzy Drozd
- Turning Jokes into Comics: Laughing Yeti Monkey Spaghetti
- Intervention Con
Follow Rob on Twitter or his blog at Interactive-Storyteller.com
Fun episode of Comics Are Great this week. Rob Stenzinger brought a lot of great food for thought on choosing a CMS for your comic and how to think about your site’s presentation.
Recent Workshop Sampler: Joke Comics and Comic UI
In this episode of the Polytechnicast I reflect on two workshops I’ve presented recently, share a sampler of each, and delve a bit into why I chose those the topics behind each workshop:
- Using Storytelling to Make Your Comic User Interface Awesome
- Turning Jokes into Comics: Laughing Yeti Monkey Spaghetti
Links and Resources Mentioned
- Kids Read Comics
- Laughing Yeti Monkey Spaghetti Tumblr Site
- Laffy Taffy
- Greg Dean’s Step By Step Stand-Up Comedy
- UP! Fair
- The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
