These app teaser clips were part of a nice little project I did back in 2014. It was intended to tell a short story within four small clips as a teaser to announce the launch of an app.
Because the app never was published no one saw the clips so far. So, here they are put together as one. Enjoy.
I did this looped frame-by-frame GIF animation at the end of last year. The concept and character design were done by my great colleague Tim Weiffenbach.
Client: KIOBIS GmbH
Hi folks – serial killustrator Nils Eckhardt did it again. Some pitching boards and some storyboard keyvisuals – watch the outcome in the storyboard section…
Keyvisuals for “das integral”
For some quiz shows of the german broadcast station Norddeutscher Rundfunk I produced numerous limited animation clips in the years 2007 to 2009.
With 35 to 45 seconds length each and a tight deadline, there was less than one and a half weeks to put one of them together. This included character design, storyboard, animatic, limited animation, backgrounds, clean up, coloration and compositing.
You will notice some strange compositions with parts of the screen staying empty. They result from the way the clips were used in the „NDR Bibelquiz“ and „NDR Deutschlandquiz“. Some prominents were inserted to my movies via green screen explaining the answers to the asked questions. The clips playing in the background told a little story or just supported the explanations visually.
The character design was big fun because I had to create loads of adaptions of famous historical and biblical people in a comic style, such as Jesus, Martin Luther (not King!), John the Baptist, Mary, Barbarossa, Karl Marx, Moses, the Devil, Brothers Grimm, Klaus Störtebecker, Alexander von Humboldt, Catherine the Great and others.
A nice project with quite a challenge in the planning process. I’d like to do more of those 😉
(Thanks to my team for the support at in betweening, digitising and coloration.)
Animation sequences of the showreel taken from the “NDR Bibelquiz” and “NDR Deutschlandquiz”.
All rights reserved by Norddeutscher Rundfunk.
Music track “Swinging Hammock” taken from freesfx.co.uk
Long time no posting…
In lack of actual work to show, here is again some random doodle stuff from my sketch books.
As I’m currently working hard for an animated TV-series, I’ve to feed my site with some (really) old stuff from my sketch books. Enjoy watching…
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).
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…
