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Mm Interview with Vera Bee

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<img align="right" src="http://www.mediamolecule.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/speechspeachspeechy1.png" alt="speechspeachspeechy" title="speechspeachspeechy" width="300" />In what we can now claim to be a regular happening, we sent over some interview questions to the <a href="http://www.verabee.com/">awesome artist Vera Bee,</a> whose sticker pack will be changing the face of LittleBigPlanet from today! She sent the questions back to us with some answers on the bottom, and now we have an interview. That’s how that works folks!
So pull up a seat, chill out with some tasty cake, and meet Vera Bee…
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<span style="color: #fc0ba0;">Mm:</span><strong>Please introduce yourself!</strong>
<ul>My name is Vera Brosgol. I’m a lady living in Portland, Oregon, where I draw storyboards for an animation studio called LAIKA, and comic books and illustrations when I’m not doing that.</ul>
<span style="color: #fc0ba0;">Mm:</span><strong>When did you start drawing? How did your style emerge?</strong>
<ul>I started drawing pretty much as soon as I had my grasping skills figured out. My style used to be pretty complicated, but after going to animation school I settled on my own simple cute thing. Animation is a lot of drawing the same stuff over and over so you learn quickly that a simple design is probably best.</ul>
<span style="color: #fc0ba0;">Mm:</span><strong>What inspires your work? Do you have any things that you come back to when you are needing some inspiration?</strong>
<ul>I’m inspired by movies and fashion and plants and birds and what my friends are drawing. When I need some inspiration I trawl the internet for a while and that usually takes care of it. <a href="http://www.Drawn.ca">Drawn.ca</a> is a great place to start.</ul>
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<center><img src="http://www.verabee.com/images/hollandred.jpg"/></center>
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<span style="color: #fc0ba0;">Mm:</span><strong>Do you carefully plan your pictures or do you prefer a stream-of consciousness approach?</strong>
<ul>I used to be pretty cool with just making things up but nowadays I am a big-time organized planner. I bought a Wacom Cintiq and now I can get a rough sketch just right on the computer before printing it and going to the next step. Maybe it’s taking the spontaneity out of things a little bit, but I will accept that for access to an undo button.</ul>
<span style="color: #fc0ba0;">Mm:</span><strong>Who are your heroes in art?</strong>
<ul>I am brimming with admiration for Jillian Tamaki, Frank Stockton, and Bill Presing, who does some wicked cute-girl art. My friend Jon Klassen is the best designer I know. And Fred Moore drew my favorite ladies of all time maybe.</ul>
<span style="color: #fc0ba0;">Mm:</span><strong>Have you ever committed a crime against art?</strong>
<ul>There were some rough patches in high school, that is for sure. I watched more animes than I maybe should have.</ul>
<span style="color: #fc0ba0;">Mm:</span><strong>Have you ever committed a crime? A proper one.</strong>
<ul>I stole a police notebook once from a college bookstore. It was worth less than a dollar but I think it being a police notebook makes the crime more badass.</ul>
<span style="color: #fc0ba0;">Mm:</span><strong>What is your ultimate artistic dream?</strong>
<ul>I have very small unimpressive dreams because I would like to have them come true someday. Currently I would like to make a children’s book or another short film. I guess if they both won awards that would make it more ultimate. Yes. I would like to make an award-winning children’s book and/or short film.</ul>
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<center><img src="http://www.verabee.com/images/highwire.jpg"></center>
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<span style="color: #fc0ba0;">Mm:</span><strong>Who is your favourite cartoon character in general and why?</strong>
<ul>I really enjoyed Joan of Arc on the late great Clone High. I related to her on too many levels I think.</ul>
<span style="color: #fc0ba0;">Mm:</span><strong>Do you ever play videogames? If so, which ones?</strong>
<ul>I try not to play too many because life is fleeting, but I just bought a PSP and I am going to play LocoRoco on it like crazy! I love that game so much. If anyone can suggest other adorable PSP games I am all ears.</ul>
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<center><img src="http://www.verabee.com/images/turtledogs.jpg" /></center>
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<span style="color: #fc0ba0;">Mm:</span><strong>What do you hope to see people using your stickers for in LittleBigPlanet?</strong>
<ul>I hope they use the plant ones to make verdant jungly environments. And that the can-can girls will be made enormous and threatening with monstrous animated kicking legs.</ul>
<span style="color: #fc0ba0;">Mm:</span><strong>If you were to build a level in LittleBigPlanet, what would it be like?</strong>
<ul>It would consist entirely of the cabbage sticker in different scales. Cabbageland.</ul>
<span style="color: #fc0ba0;">Mm:</span><strong>If you could add another word to the following mantra, what would it be? Play, Create, Share and…….</strong>
<ul>Destroy.</ul>
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Thanks for that Vera! The Vera Bee sticker pack will be available on the PSN store today, as soon as it updates in your region, and costs $1.99 / ?1.59.


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"Mm Interview with Vera Bee" is an automatically posted news item which was grabbed from MediaMolecule.com (www.mediamolecule.com). The original article can be found here (http://www.mediamolecule.com/2009/08/27/mm-interview-with-vera-bee/).		2009-08-27 17:40:00

Author:
Spaff_Molecule
Posts: 421

She looks just like how I imagined her, lol.

Really nice drawings.		2009-08-27 17:54:00

Author:
Leather-Monkey
Posts: 2266

I sent you a Guinness Spaff, how could you betray my trust and not post our contest

Also I think there may be something to adding a 'destroy' to that little ol motto; what with all the bomb survivals n all 		2009-08-27 17:56:00

Author:
Shermzor
Posts: 1330

http://www.verabee.com/images/turtledogs.jpg




This is the only part i noticed. I like Doggie Turtles XD		2009-08-28 01:39:00

Author:
King_Tubb
Posts: 435

I will buy this sticker pack just in the hope that I'm giving her money.2009-08-28 01:41:00

Author:
coyote_blue
Posts: 422

Also I think there may be something to adding a 'destroy' to that little ol motto; what with all the bomb survivals n all

Ha ha.

I really liked the artwork. It's a shame I'm not artistic enough to have a use for the stickers, but still.........		2009-08-28 02:09:00

Author:
comphermc
Posts: 5338

Please let them include the turtle dogs in the pack.2009-08-28 02:10:00

Author:
Darth J464
Posts: 343

lol if u want another on, there's always locoroco 2, which I always thought was the best, for having better music and more abilities and such.

if yoi like the style of rhythm and art, then im sure you'd love patapon, the first one. its made by the same people. lol i know i know, im a nerd when it comes to this...		2009-08-29 05:52:00

Author:
Voodeedoo
Posts: 724

This is the only sticker pack to date that I've actually purchased. I love the old vaudeville aesthetic, and Vera's artwork has a ridiculous amount of charm. I'll definitely find a way to squeeze these into a level at some point. I just REALLY want a sticker cut-out tool/sticker corner-editor before i launch in...2009-08-29 06:29:00

Author:
Teebonesy
Posts: 1937

Is the Sticker Pack worth buying? I saw a polar bear in it and became interested.2009-08-29 21:30:00

Author:
SLS10
Posts: 1129

I dig this chick.2009-09-03 04:19:00

Author:
gevurah22
Posts: 1476

Just to chime in here with some results from Vera's pack. I've been loving this sticker pack, using the hell out of it. I wonder if Mm suggested to her back when they commissioned this to possibly make some "ocean" themed stickers? Because at least half of her stickers seem to be sea creatures! It's one half vaudeville show stickers, a bunch of ocean stuff, and then some REALLY great foliage, really cool trees, flowers. One of my favorites, and one I've been using over and over and over, is the ivy sticker. You may or may not ever have a need for burlesque dancers, but these stickers also come in handy. I used one as a "Vargas girl" style pinup on the side a fighter plane.2009-09-03 06:03:00

Author:
Teebonesy
Posts: 1937

What's up with the MM guys?
A week without any kind of news is quite strange.		2009-09-04 16:06:00

Author:
OmegaSlayer
Posts: 5112

They're probably sorting out the beta.
Or they'd better be...		2009-09-04 16:16:00

Author:
ARD
Posts: 4291


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