S2E1 - Interview with John Peter Meiring

Hi gang, Season 2 is here! We are kicking off with an interview with John Peter Meiring, an illustrator and animator. We talk about his creative process, freelance work, and the shocking price of comic books in South Africa!

Born and Bred in South Africa, Pretoria. His art career started with his fascination with drawing dinosaurs, sharks and whales. He used to sit in front of the TV and pause on films like Free willy, Jurassic park and Never-ending story and try and draw the characters all the time. He started reading comics since I was about 10 years old, he remembers his sister bought a few copies of “the Darkness’ and “Ascension” and he was hooked, though his sister was not happy with me taking them all the time.

Back then in the early 2000’s, there wasn’t a lot of options for Creative careers, so he decided to study Graphic Design to get started. But in the mists of going to college and learning what’s out there, he started to learn 2d animation as well while still illustrating comics and character designs. Needless to say, the Graphics Design studies didn’t pan out since he got bored quite quickly, so he taught himself how to develop a style and soldiered on to get work in the illustration world. His world and career really got a big push when he moved to Ireland, Dublin. He started doing work for great studios in and around Dublin involving illustration and animation. Since then he has picked up a lot of work and started my own company here in London, UK. And Loving it!

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