ComicsAndMore
Today I Learned - Comics, Arduinos, 3D Printing & More
Glance
- WHEN May 11th, Saturday, 2pm
- DURATION 2-3 hours. Even longer if you want.
- LOCATION sudo room
- PRICE $0
- NUTSHELL Old-fashioned comic book jam. We will take the end result and print it out as a relief using the 3D Printer.
- INSTRUCTOR Romy Ilano
Decoration of SudoRoom
By the end of the day we'd like to hang up some comics in the space to spruce it up.
Github art projects SudoRoom
Sharing is Caring. Please fork and add to the potpourri.
https://github.com/sudoroom/ComicsArtSudoRoom
Hardware
- Giant roll out scrolls of paper 20 feet long that we can draw a big comic on!
- Wacom Bamboo Tablet
- 3D Printer
Schedule
- Roll out a big roll of paper
- People draw their characters interacting (1 or more characters per artist)
- We scan the drawing
- We fuse the scan onto a 3D Model using the customizable Lithopane onThingiverse - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:74322
- Print out the lithopane on the 3D Printer
- Warning - this might take a while (at least 20-30 minutes?)
Anti-Patterns
I would avoid these patterns. I've noticed that a lot of wealthy non-profits and profit companies have taken to invading hackerspaces like SudoRoom to get free publicitiy and to lure people to their classes. This is very uncool!
- Turning this into an event where someone can hype their street fashion / street art label / gallery instead of collaborating and creating. This is an anti-pattern because SudoRoom is not really the right place for someone to hype their street art / street fashion gallery, and those kinds of things take time. This is also a good way for someone ruin their brand.
- Spending the first 20 minutes of the meeting talking about projects going on in other spaces and watching videos of established cartoonists.
- The event getting hijacked from someone from a wealthy non profit who goes on and on for 20 minutes trying to get participants to sign up for $300 arduino classes. This is a bad pattern because we end up listening to someone paid off by the rich non-profit holding $300 arduino classes instead of actually getting to work on the workshop.
- Someone showing up and trying us to put all our stuff on a start-up's freemium creative drawing website / social networking start-up.
- Someone getting paid for an art supply company telling us to spend all our money there. In my experience the best cartoonists are fine with jamming on the cheapest materials possible.