{"id":15149,"date":"2012-03-12T19:53:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T02:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hereville.com\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2012-03-12T19:53:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T02:53:38","slug":"first-first-interview-with-me-about-hereville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15149","title":{"rendered":"First First Interview With Me about Hereville!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Desirous of Everything has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desirousofeverything.com\/2011\/03\/first-first-interview-with-barry.html\">posted their &#8220;first first&#8221; interview with me<\/a>. That one&#8217;s from a while ago, I think, but it&#8217;s nice to see it online. Here&#8217;s a sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Question: I personally, loved Pig.  I love how much expression he portrays before he even speaks.  And then when he spoke for the first time, I think I was just as surprised as Mirka was!  Can you talk about your process of creating him?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Answer:<\/em> I knew that I wanted the witch to have a familiar, an animal friend. But it took me an amazingly long time to decide on a pig! I went through so many ideas&#8230; a cat, a ferret, a goat. In retrospect, it seems silly, because a pig is so perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Because the pig is Mirka&#8217;s antagonist for so much of the story, I knew right away the pig had to be sort of prickly and easily annoyed. More of her personality came out as I sketched and wrote for her.<\/p>\n<p>When it came time to draw the pig, I was so intimidated! It&#8217;s hard for me to draw a pig well. What helped me a lot was buying a half-dozen little realistic pig toys that I could hold in my hand and use as models for the character.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desirousofeverything.com\/2011\/03\/first-first-interview-with-barry.html\">Click over to read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desirous of Everything has posted their &#8220;first first&#8221; interview with me. That one&#8217;s from a while ago, I think, but it&#8217;s nice to see it online. Here&#8217;s a sample: Question: I personally, loved Pig. I love how much expression he portrays before he even speaks. And then when he spoke for the first time, I [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}