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3DTotal: With today’s tools, a lot of comic book art is being turned to animation, has this ever been a route you would like to take?
Martin: Definitely! After I release my first short mini-series comic book this year I plan to tackle my creator owned story. Hopefully of which would work beautifully as an animated movie or Anime. That would be an absolute dream come true. As for animating myself, I have had a limited experience in it, and to be honest it’s just way too much work for my liking! Gotta admire those animators!
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3DTotal: They have Red Dwarf in Oz?!?!!?
Martin: They do! Fantastic Brit comedy :) …smegheads...
3DTotal: XBox Magazine, Viper Comics... did you pitch for a job or did they come to you?
Martin:
Well XBox magazine I contacted them offering my services, and to my delightful surprise they loved my work and I’ve been creating illustrations for them ever since. A great job and they is fantastic people who run the magazine. As for Viper Comics, I picked up there first title Dead@17 #1, really liked it and decided to email the creator; Josh Howard. We’ve been in quite close contact ever since, and I’ve done a short story and quite a few covers for them. Currently I’m working on a 4 issue mini-series debuting this year hopefully.
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3DTotal: So given that you had the enthusiasm to go and get clients rather than wait for them to come to you, what advice could you give to similar artists in that position?
Martin: Advice? Go and get your clients!!!!!!! You can’t sit around waiting for them to come to you, at least when you are first starting out. My plan of attack was this: - Create a professional website portfolio (preferably a .com or .net etc) - Create a list of ALL the possible Magazines, companies and places you would LOVE to work for and could see your work actually being used. -Find contact Emails for all said companies, and EMAIL EMAIL EMAIL. I cannot stress this enough, the more emails you send to different potential clients the better. Only 3 out of 10 may actually contact you back, and only 1 or 2 may offer you some work if you are lucky! SO get the computer booted up!
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3DTotal: Dream Job / Assignment / Company to work for?
Martin: Yikes that’s a tough one. At the moment I’m creating pin-up girls for magazines, and creating comic books. Both of which were my dream jobs. So I’m pretty happy right now. I would like to get a book out with Image Comics as I grew up on those guys. Also at some stage produce concept art for computer games, or be a project leader. I have a lot of ideas for video games I’d love to let loose one day. I’d also love to write and direct my own movies. But that one is a long shot ;) It’s all just a matter of time, and like I said I’m pretty content with where I am right now. |
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