The Star: October 18, 2018

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Thursday October 18 2018
Our People
Depicting the quintessential Kiwi
That video got over a million
views, so I was used to that I
guess. But I’ve never had any
attention within New Zealand.
I put the first People of New
Zealand cartoon up on Reddit
and that sort of went to the top
of Reddit on the New Zealand
thread. Ever since then I put
them up and it goes to the top
pretty much every time.
Have you had any exciting
opportunities after the People of
New Zealand series went viral?
Yes, there’s been people
asking for commissions. I’ve
always done that but it’s people
from New Zealand asking for
commissions and things like
that. There’s a few little projects
which are currently in the fire,
but I can’t really talk about those.
I mean, I’ve got a book contract
that will be out sometime next
year. The coolest thing that
happened last week was some
people from Stewart Island had
a party and the theme of it was
to dress up as a person of New
Zealand. They sent me a bunch
of photos so that was really good
to see. I think by far that sort
of thing is the coolest to see. I
thought that was awesome. But
even when I hear people talking
about it, that’s really cool too.
What is the process of
creating one of these
drawings?
In terms of inspiration, the
people that I’ve done, I’ve had
those people in my head for
a long time and never really
thought about drawing them
before. It’s getting harder as I
go along. I might just go and sit
at the shopping mall or go and
sit down and have lunch. But
most of these people I’ve had in
my head for 25 or 30 years and I
see them every day. I categorise
them into an Office Jan or a Shae.
Sometimes the idea takes a lot
longer than creating the actual
art work. I mean, it can take two
or three hours to create an art
work but coming up with the
little points can be a lot more
difficult. Like I’ve probably got 50
or 60 other ideas just jotted down
but I’ve not got quite enough
detail to make them into a full
art work yet. So I think that is
more difficult. I’ll just go for a
walk and find that these people
will come to me. Then I do a
preliminary pencil sketch, ink
it up with an ink pen and then
use some markers to colour it
and add highlights, things like
that. I do it every day, I get home
from work and draw every day,
so you work out a good process of
getting it done.
What do you do for work?
I work in advertising, I’m an
art director so campaigns and
graphic design and all of those
sorts of things. It’s not anything
that I’d want to shout about but it
pays the bills and is interesting.
Is art in your family?
Yes, well, my dad Dave Moore
was a writer and an art director.
He worked for The Star back in
the day. He was art director at
The Star and then art director
and motoring editor at The
Press. I worked at The Press for
about three or four years, it was
cool. I worked in the editorial
department doing the graphics
and stuff. That was my first
proper job out of polytech. I
remember going into dad’s office
during the school holidays,
sitting at one of the empty work
stations and using the markers
and fancy pens to draw pictures.
That was always fun.
Have your always lived in
Christchurch?
I studied here and worked here
before I moved to Australia for
five or six years about four or five
years ago. It was mainly working
for apparel companies doing
illustration and things.
What else do you draw
other than People of New
Zealand?
After a while, I started to
put all the weird things I was
drawing, because I like sci-fi and
fantasy, so I wanted to put them
all together in the same place and
have a reason for them to exist.
SATIRE: Office Jan and Shae are two of
artist Sam Moore’s creations from his
People of New Zealand series.
So I’ve made this world called
Flogoria and while I haven’t
planned it out too much really,
I have locations and characters
and creatures that all live in
this world, which is fun. So I’m
working on a pitch document
for a company in Los Angeles for
that at the moment. Ideally, I’d
love to make Flogoria into a full
story. That could be a cartoon
or a book or a movie or a TV
series or something like that. So
that’s progressing slowly at the
moment, but it’s going well. I’ve
been meaning to work on it for
the last two or so months.
What other hobbies do you
have outside of cartooning?
I don’t really have time for
anything else. I get home and
I draw. Other than that I like
eating food and I’m a casual
sports fan, I guess. The Black
Caps are my favourite sports
team. I’ll give you a little preview,
there’s an interesting cricket
thing that I’m working on and
might be happening soon.
The Star
Food
vendors,
live music
for empty
quake site
• By Louis Day
SOUTH NEW Brighton is
about to be revitalised.
Nearly eight years since the
February 22, 2011, earthquake
wrecked shops on the corner of
Estuary Rd and Bridge St, new
commercial and entertainment
activities may only be weeks away.
The empty plot of land on the
corner is set to be filled with a
community common ground.
Live music and food from
food vendors will be on offer
and it is hoped that it will be up
and running before Christmas.
The common ground will be
managed by the Bridge South
Brighton Trust, the food will be
provided by the Food Collective
and Sustain South Brighton will
organise the events.
Sustain South Brighton community
activator Samantha Fay
said the common ground was
exactly what the community
needed.
“To have that common ground,
that gathering space where people
can come together and hang out
and share knowledge and learn
from each other, that’s going to be
amazing to have,” she said.
Ms Fay said the community
common ground would have a
focus on sustainability.
“Lots of the workshops on the
space will have a real green focus,
what you can do to reduce waste,
ways you can be more sustainable
at home like gardening and
things like that.”
Coastal-Burwood Community
Board deputy chairman Tim
Sintes was confident the common
ground would get a lot of use.
“I think what’s being thrown
in there will be used all the time,
the place is crying out for something.
Between Southshore and
Brighton there’s not much in the
way of shops.”
Mr Sintes also applauded the
commitment made from the
food trucks on the site to only
use recyclable materials.
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