{"id":4291,"date":"2013-09-04T04:09:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T04:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4291"},"modified":"2013-09-04T04:09:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T04:09:09","slug":"artist-stephan-martiniere-talks-about-space-and-sci-fi-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4291","title":{"rendered":"Artist Stephan Martiniere talks about space and sci-fi art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noted artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martiniere.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephan Martiniere<\/a> gave an interesting presentation at the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icarusinterstellar.org\/congress-livestream\/\" target=\"_d\">Starship Congress<\/a> event in Dallas about the movies, artists and illustrators who drew\u00a0 him towards science fiction and space art as he was growing up, about how he developed his skills and techniques, who his major influences were, and about the movie and animation projects he is working on today: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Ye1CI5wWhc&amp;feature=c4-overview&amp;list=UUjJdNqYgYW7WL5U7oEtJRZA#t=9m52s\" target=\"_blank\">Space Art &#8211; Youtube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Martiniere&#8217;s talk was followed by the awarding of prizes for some excellent &#8220;speed sketch&#8221; works created during the conference by some of the attendees:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Ye1CI5wWhc&amp;feature=c4-overview&amp;list=UUjJdNqYgYW7WL5U7oEtJRZA#t=48m03s\" target=\"_blank\">FarMaker Interstellar Speed Sketch Award &amp; Auction &#8211; Youtube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted artist Stephan Martiniere gave an interesting presentation at the recent Starship Congress event in Dallas about the movies, artists and illustrators who drew\u00a0 him towards science fiction and space art as he was growing up, about how he developed his skills and techniques, who his major influences were, and about the movie and animation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4291\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Artist Stephan Martiniere talks about space and sci-fi art<\/span> <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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-sci-fi","category-space-arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-17d","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12496,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12496","url_meta":{"origin":4291,"position":0},"title":"Rik Allen creates sci-fi glass sculptures","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Glass artist\u00a0Rik Allen\u00a0specializes in sci-fi space inspired sculptures:\u00a0Area glass artist making art of rocket science - Connecticut Post. 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