Midyear I concepted the playing area for the very succesful social game Solitaire Castle. The client was MegaZebra, a munich based company producing facebook games.
It was a lot of fun to do because I like work on this funny comic style of the game. Each playing area had to match the correspondent background of the different rooms. Melanie Miklitza painted the beautiful background art of the game and Anja Rabenstein did the clean ups of my concepts.
Here are some examples:
Ten years ago, back in 2002, I made an animation concept for a short film which is dealing with some scenes in an underground station. Actually I thought all data of it was completely lost together with the hard drive which broke with my former computer.
So, you can imagine my excitement when recently I found some printed screenshots of it after all the time by chance. The background was a two-tone drypoint print and the characters were animated with a kind of digital cut-out-animation in an ancient software called Moho (which got advanced to Anime Studio later).
… is not the title of the latest movie I was storyboarding for. But this door 13 leads to my artists workshop. I’m in there since the beginning of the year, when I was moving down two floors in a complex of buildings called “Fruchthof”. In fact, it is an old fruit market.
The rooms of my new studio are quite big, the colleagues around me are supernice, as is the hood and finally I have enough space to place all my artbooks in range. And I got my own doorplate. Gosh! Altogether it’s really cool to work there.
Have a look at it:
Watch out for the silver surfer, always having an eye on me while I’m working.
Door 13…
I was invited to a wedding the last weekend where I had to draw a greeting card spontaneously. And as I’m working only digital for more than two years now, it was a bit of a challenge.
But in the end it was a nice experience to draw with pencil and marker again and NOT to have the opportunitiy to adjust the drawing or parts of it afterwards.
…I’m working on several projects the next few weeks. So it will take some time before I can post new pictuers.
But I found some old stuff, worth to show you. These are some drypoint prints I produced within my studies in Hamburg. Hope you like it…
Violá! I did these character sketches in preparation for storyboarding the ProSieben Superheroes Campagne.
Actually, these doodles weren’t used for the project but anyhow look good enough to me for posting them here.
Annemarie Warnkross as “The golden surfer”
Aiman Abdallah as “The professor”
For the current ProSieben Superheroes Campaign I did the animationboards.
The Superheroes clips were directed by Alexander Krause, executive production company of the spots is TRIXTER and marvelous Alexander Lozano did the great character design.
You can watch all spots on the ProSieben-Homepage or a montage on Vimeo.
There is a spot with Lenny Kravitz, one with Stefan Raab and Steven Gätjen, Annemarie Warnkross got her own and one with Stefan Gödde and Lena Gercke.
Moment mal – es ist doch erst der 1. Dezember…
Genau rechtzeitig zu Weihnachten ist die Kurzgeschichte Alle Tage wieder von Henry Steinhau mit exorbitant lustigen Illustrationen von mir fertig geworden.
Eine wunderbare was-wäre-wenn-Weihnachtsgeschichte für Kinder und Erwachsene, die es hier zu bestellen gibt.
Da in dem Film Als der Weihnachtsmann vom Himmel fiel sehr viele Visual Effects verwendet wurden, war es nötig ein Storyboard (VFX Board) anzufertigen. Zusammen mit dem Kameramann Alexander Fischerkoesen haben wir so einen Großteil der Effekte im Vorfeld der Dreharbeiten geplant, für deren Umsetzung schließlich Scanline VFX gesorgt hat.
Seit Donnerstag, den 24. November 2011, läuft der Kinderfilm “Als der Weihnachtsmann vom Himmel fiel” nach einer Geschichte von Cornelia Funke in den Kinos.
Ich habe unter anderem einige Concept Arts für die Produktion angefertigt, die es hier zu sehen gibt.