LIA Cast 21 - Emotional Throughlines

 

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Chances are you're familiar with the term "throughline" in regards to drawing, but this week on the show Jerzy and Rob explore how they can map that idea onto writing characters. Using examples from popular stories, and some of their own experiences, the Lean Into Art guys attempt to create a general map of what a character's emotional throughline might be.

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Social Networking

Upcoming Workshops for February 2012

 

 

LIA Cast 21 - Emotional Throughlines

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LIA Cast 20 - Working with CSS

So you've got a webcomic site set up, whether it's a Wordpress installation, a Tumblr blog, or you've hosted it on Posterous. But the notion of customizing it on your own creates a little bit of stress and uncertainty. Understandable, since most of us are artists, not programmer nerds!

Fortunately Rob Stenzinger likes to walk the imagined line between these two camps. This week he takes the time to take us through some basic ideas on how CSS works and demonstrates how to use these techniques by changing some elements on the Lean Into Art site and his own Tumblog. A great refresher course for those of us who are familiar with CSS, and a great intro piece for those of you who have never gotten under the hood to customize your website.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Social Networking

Upcoming Workshops for February 2012

 

 

LIA Cast 20 - Working with CSS

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Polytechnicast - Service of a Game

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In this episode of the Polytechnicast, I delve into some behind the scenes planning and development I do to support Guitar Fretter.

Recently I received an email from an Android user who is rather good at the game. On her Android device once she gets past level 12 or so the game has problems. I share details on how I’ll tackle that issue, ponder the complexities of the Android market, future updates for Guitar Fretter and behind the scenes thoughts on Guitar Fretter’s game design.

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Follow Rob on Twitter or his blog at Interactive-Storyteller.com

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LIA Cast 19 - Skill Set Overlap

 

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This time Rob and Jerzy find their way to a topic through talking about Rob's recent experience presenting at the Ann Arbor District Library's Comic Artists Forum. The subject this week is ostensibly building local communities around your chosen field of art, but an underlying idea of how these skills apply to developing and maintaining a presence online eventually surfaces.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Social Networking

Check out the Lean Into Art Workshop page for a complete listing of over 40 hours of instructional material!

 

LIA Cast 19 - Skill Set Overlap

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Polytechnicast - Jumping into Clojure with Special Guest Craig Andera

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In this episode of the Polytechnicast I’m joined by special guest Craig Andera for a totally unscripted tutorial session on programming Clojure. Clojure happens to be Craig’s programming language of choice.

Clojure is a very different coding experience for someone like me who’s into Lua, Python, JavaScript, and ActionScript. Before this podcast I hadn’t written a single line of Clojure - now I feel I have a grasp on the basics.

This is an episode I hope will be interesting whether you’re curious about getting into coding, familiar with coding and are wondering about Clojure, or curious to see how I explore an unfamiliar coding language.

Links Mentioned

Follow Rob on Twitter or his blog at Interactive-Storyteller.com

 

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