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Age of Empires!

2011-08-08T23:43:00.000+02:00

This is the cinematic trailer for "Age of Empires Online" in it's full splendour! I did the character design as well as some storyboards for it and I'm very pleased with the final result. It was produced at Axis Animation in Glasgow. Watch out for the "Priestess of Ra" at the very end. Damn, I wish they had given her more screen time :)

Hopefully I will post some of the designs soon.

Heinrich Kley!

2011-07-26T00:01:00.000+02:00

There is a gorgeous Heinrich Kley exhibition at the Wilhelm-Busch-Museum in Hannover until August 21. If you have the chance: go and see it! They even have my favourite painting there "Die kruppschen Teufel". I just had to take a photo of that ...

Pirate N°2

2011-05-16T15:18:00.000+02:00

Just another grim pirate. Arrrr!

Man's Favourite Sport!

2011-02-24T22:42:00.002+01:00

I've been terribly neglecting my blog recently. Not that I don't have anything to show but this year has been quite busy so far. Hopefully I will post more regular again in the future. And no I haven't been fishing.

Space Ship N°3

2011-01-07T13:26:00.000+01:00

Fly me to the moon ... Happy New Year!

Space Ship N°2

2010-12-15T19:44:00.002+01:00

Back from California with another space ship.

Space Ship N°1

2010-11-11T14:49:00.002+01:00

Usually I'm much more into character design but I thought some visual development wouldn't harm. Here is the first of a series of spaceships. Fresh from the drawing desk.

BTW, only five days left until my trip to California. So if you are also at the CTN animation eXpo I'll see you there!

CTN animation eXpo

2010-11-02T10:56:00.002+01:00

I will be attending the CTN animation eXpo in Burbank this year. It's hosted by Tina Price and the Creative Talent Network. And as far as I've been told last year was pretty amazing! It's my first trip to the USA and I'm already quite excited. I will stay in California for about two and a half weeks.

So if you are also going or are in the area drop me a line. I hope to see you there!

All Creatures Great and Small

2010-09-09T22:13:00.000+02:00

This illustration is inspired by "All Creatures Great and Small" (which is known in Germany under the title "Der Doktor und das liebe Vieh"). It tells the story of the veterinarian James Herriot.

I still like the BBC series based on the books. It may be a little bit old-fashioned but it features a great cast and a lot of interesting side characters. Does anyone remember Tricky Woo?

Far Too Hot !!!

2010-07-14T00:55:00.001+02:00

It's much too hot. Even for the prickly bear armadillo.

Kangaroo!

2010-06-21T21:16:00.000+02:00

A boxing kangaroo ready to beat the hell out of you. Completely analogue: copic markers and colored pencil.

Life Drawing!

2010-05-25T13:32:00.002+02:00

Recently we practised life drawing at our Drawing Night. I hadn't done it in ages. And though I felt a bit rusty, it turned out to be a lot of fun! Everyone had to be the model in turn - sometimes armed with a broom or sombrero. These poses were between 3 and 5 minutes.

French Artist!

2010-03-04T15:26:00.000+01:00

Something more cartoony.

Hair Metal!

2010-02-18T01:32:00.000+01:00

Our last Bilderwumme Drawing Night's theme was: HEAVY METAL! So we took a trip down memory lane back to the 80s when hair was growing wild, guitar solos were hot and everybody was dreaming of becoming a rock star. Oh, and computers actually looked like breadboxes. And coincidentally t's a perfect match to my last post.

By the way, this guy looks a little bit like my first guitar teacher!

Switched on Mozart!

2010-02-08T11:31:00.001+01:00

Happy New Year! Can i still say that? It's already February - the year is almost over. Well, I made a lot of New Year's resolutions, but somehow I must have forgotten to include "posting on my blog more often" on my list.

To celebrate that I'm posting an old hat. Or better an old wig. I made this picture some years ago when we started our group blog Die Bilderwumme. The sketch was pretty crappy. But I didn't give up and I still like what came out in the end. So put on ROCK ME AMADEUS and enjoy!

Merry Christmas!

2009-12-24T14:10:00.002+01:00

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Christmas Gnomes!

2009-12-18T10:00:00.002+01:00

This is a page from my portfolio. Maybe someone remembers the dreamy gnome with the wishlist I posted some time ago. With christmas at hand I thought it's the right time to post some more of the bunch. I suppose they are quite busy at this time of the year.

Crazy Bird!

2009-12-08T23:20:00.002+01:00

A crazy bird presumably from South America.

Dragon!

2009-11-30T11:08:00.002+01:00

Our last Bilderwumme Drawing Night's theme was Knights & Dragons. At first I though it was a marvellous idea - far from it! I had not drawn a dragon in ages and I pretty struggled with it. So I've ben practising a little bit since. This is one of the better efforts.

Close to the Wind!

2009-11-16T00:54:00.007+01:00

It's hard to deny, autumn is here. Or to be more precisely the windy, unpleasant and undeniably wet part of autumn. And the fact that it's already dark at tea-time doesn't make it any better. Well, at least you can't see the bad weather ...

This picture is a little bit older. (I did it in 2007 when a storm called Kyrill rolled over Germany and left quite some devastation behind!) I though it would make a good editorial illustration or maybe a book cover. So I added the nonsense typo.

By the way, the landscape looks exactly like in Ostfriesland where I come from!

Scary Girl!

2009-11-05T00:54:00.001+01:00

Yesterday I was looking through a stack of folders with older sketches and rediscovered this scary little girl. Well, 2008 is not that long ago, but I had almost forgotten it.

Back from the Dephts!

2009-10-28T01:34:00.004+01:00

I've been scuba diving in the Mediterranean!

Cyclops Pt.2: The Epic Colour!

2009-10-08T01:43:00.011+02:00

Here it is: Last week's post in full epic colour. The chap's name is Polyphemus by the way.

This is the first inked Version. I wasn't quite satisfied with it and I didn't think adding all the chest and arm hair would make it easier to colourize it. So I inked it again and decided to skip the hairy stuff and add it later digitally.

This is the second clean-shaven try. For anyone who's interested, if I'm not sure about the inking, I usually scan the sketch and print it out in very light blue so I can do several versions. I like that much more than using a light table.

This is half way through the colouring process and still clean-shaven.

Cyclops Pt.1: The Sketch

2009-10-04T23:42:00.005+02:00

Is it already a month since my last post?! Oh boy, time flies. Okay, here is something more sophisticated: a cyclops. And since it's Greek mythology it's almost bound to be art.

Of course it's before that damn Ulysses thing happended. Everything was topnotch. You know, hanging around with your goats and sheep, pulling out some trees every once in a while and having a good time being grumpy and unkind. And then that bloke Ulysses comes around the corner to gouge your eye out just because you told that nasty creep to bug off! Dreadful.

I will post the coloured version very soon!

The Girl in the Yellow Dress Pt.2!

2009-09-01T23:21:00.003+02:00

The summer has been quite nice so far but also very busy. And though I fear it's slowly coming to an end this day was another sunshiny one. I hope you had a nice day too!

Pirate N°1!

2009-08-26T01:02:00.004+02:00

A pirate to keep things going.

Froggy the Burglar!

2009-08-22T01:28:00.004+02:00

Nothing special, just a portrait of a little criminal.

Moongazers!

2009-08-07T15:56:00.003+02:00

Okay, this is a follow-up to the honeymoon post. The good thing about doing an illustration in individual parts - apart from taking much more time, making everything more complicated and amazingly blowing up your Photoshop document - is that you can easily do a new arrangement. Took me about twenty minutes. And it's a completely different picture.

PS: Thanks a lot for your nice comments on the last post, folks! I really appreciate it, it was alot of hard work ...

Canadian Honeymoon

2009-07-29T01:41:00.017+02:00

Last Saturday I was at the wedding of my good old friend Detlef, whom I know since ever. A couple of other good old friends were invited as well. But when it came to make a greeting card or some kind of gift everybody suddenly turned out to have two left hands - as always. So the task came to me - as always. But that's the burden you have to carry if you are the guy who draws the funny pictures I suppose. I'm quite busy at work at he moment, not to mention the other job I had to finish last week. But damn it was his wedding! So I spent the the nights doing this picture. Well, I could have done it earlier - as always - but sometimes I need the pressure I guess. Detlef and his wonderful wife loved it, so I think it was worth the long hours. And the wedding was great, which weddings are not necessarily are! We had loads of fun. Well, I think you have already guessed, where their honeymoon trip takes them to ...

These are some of the inked sketches I did. I decided to do them seperately to be able to move them around later on. For some unknown reason I skipped the moose.

After I had the idea I did this colour key.

A close up.

Need For Speed!

2009-07-17T00:49:00.001+02:00

A horse on a kickboard.

Matthias!

2009-07-09T01:02:00.006+02:00

A quick portrait of my pal and fellow blogger Matthias. He likes big sketchbooks, Greek mythology, great amounts of black ink and white wine a lot. Cheers!

Animation Talk!

2009-06-30T00:21:00.005+02:00

Last Friday I went to Hamburg and attended the Animtion Talk. This year's guest was Michael Thurmeier from Blue Sky Studios, co-directer of ICE AGE 3 - Dawn of the Dinosaurs. It was sort of a live making-of. He showed a lot sequences in various stages of production from storyboard to finished film and explained and commented everything. He also showed a lot of beautiful color keys and some of the marvelous character designs of Peter de Seve. Beside that he talked about the challenges of doing the whole thing in 3D. Very interesting stuff indeed. (I wonder if they are doing an "Art Of" book?!) Following the presentation was a Q&A. After the show was over I had the opportunity to have chat with him and he turned out to be quite a nice guy!

Dragon Dog & Sloth!

2009-06-24T01:01:00.002+02:00

Two crazy animals I drew recently.

Off to work!

2009-06-16T00:35:00.005+02:00

A typical German workman on his way to work. Done completely analogue with brush pen and copic marker. Cheers!

Cannonball Curly!

2009-06-05T01:33:00.007+02:00

Every two weeks we are celebrating the Official Bilderwumme Drawing Night, a nice evening with colleagues and friends dedicated to art of drawing funny pictures. Most of the contestants are posting on our group blog The Bilderwumme, by the way. Usually we pick a theme that sometimes dramatically changes into something completely different. A couple of weeks ago the theme was seafaring. That was much fun! This is one of the sketches I did.

At first I used a brush pen for inking but I wasn't satisfied with the result. It didn't feel appropriate for the style. So I drew another version and used a felt pen instead. (Is felt pen the right word? Or is fineliner better?) I added some shading for now, but I will defiantely colorize it when I find the time.

Angler!

2009-05-27T01:53:00.004+02:00

I've got a lot of marvelous things in the pipeline, but nothing ready to post yet. So just a little portrait of someone who likes to go fishing. Tight lines!

Space Age Pop Cartoon Guy!

2009-05-06T00:11:00.003+02:00

"And now for something completely different."

I've been trying out a lot of things recently. This is one of the efforts. Sophisticated 60s space age pop cartoon style in stereovision. Cheers!

Señor Gomez!

2009-04-27T10:41:00.001+02:00

Señor Gomez is a nutria and chief editor of a little newspaper.

Planet of the Apes!

2009-04-15T10:17:00.005+02:00

Classic literature for the spohisticated ape.

Can you spot the mistake? ... Right. The title is on the back of the book. I didn't even notice it. Mr. Schwarz had to call my attention to this big blunder. But everything else is abolutely authentic.

Easter Parade!

2009-04-08T01:47:00.003+02:00

"Happy Easter!"

Easter is just around the corner. So high time to post some rabbits.

PS: These cuties are from my Harvey sessions.

Guy with Strange Head!

2009-04-03T15:18:00.000+02:00

You gotta have brains!

2009-03-25T00:15:00.003+01:00

"Igor! Hurry up!"

This is a leftover sketch from last year's Halloween. You know what's missing? Right, a banana peel ...

The Wishlist!

2009-03-16T09:35:00.003+01:00

"You can never start early enough with your wishlist!"

Sailor!

2009-03-05T01:02:00.004+01:00

A sailor - with almost no outlines and some tattoos.

Here's to you!

2009-02-26T00:27:00.004+01:00

Another one ... hicks!

Evil Elf!

2009-02-20T00:36:00.006+01:00

I drew this one at our Bilderwumme Drawing Night Christmas Special. Recently I've started working on a whole series of elfs. So there's more to come. And though it seems like I'm a little late for Christmas, you all know: after Christmas is before Christmas! First ... Hohoho!

UPDATE: I've posted some new non-evil elves over here!

Harvey!

2009-02-11T23:44:00.004+01:00

A couple of weeks ago I watched Harvey. You know, that old James Stewart movie from the 50s. I hadn't seen it in ages and could barley remember anything, but I still like it a lot. The main character's best friend is an invisible 6 foot 8 inch rabbit named Harvey. You actually never see the rabbit - but it's there! Deeply inspired I spent the rest of the evening drawing rabbits. And the evening after that too!

This is one of the efforts.

Alien Species!

2009-02-03T00:56:00.003+01:00

"Dr.Zoltan discovered this alien species on an expedition to Nebula 5."

Just a little sketch fresh from the drawing desk. I'm really busy at the moment. A lot of things to do beside work. So no time for colour.

Lauschangriff!

2009-01-21T00:13:00.003+01:00

Well, even goblins sometimes need a hearing aid. I did this sketch at our 5th Bilderwumme Drawing Night. (Lauschangriff means wiretap operation by the way ...)

Rüsselhorn!

2009-01-13T23:02:00.003+01:00

This is a picture of the extremely rare Rüsselhorn. It can only be seen at night after sixteen bottles of beer ...

Coffe Break!

2009-01-13T11:10:00.003+01:00

Happy New Year! Is it already two weeks ago?! Oh boy, time flies. Here is a litlle post to kick off things again. I recently tried to do some pictures without outlines. This is one of the efforts, that actually looks nice on the kitchen wall ...

Merry Christmas!

2008-12-23T01:18:00.005+01:00

I would like to wish you and your loved ones a merry Christmas with a quote from the one and only Christmas Song.

And so I'm offering this simple phrase,
To kids from one to ninety-two,
Although its been said many times, many ways,
"Merry Christmas to you"

Below you can hear the unforgettable Nat King Cole singing the Christmas Song. (The definitive recording can be found here.) Have yourself a merry little Christmas!

All the best,

Oliver

Guess who's coming for Christmas ...

2008-12-17T01:22:00.008+01:00

It's not Santa Claus. That's sure ...

The weeks before Christmas are always quite busy. Every year it's the same. So sorry for not posting too much and for being bad in answering and writing e-mails ...

Russian Radiator!

2008-12-01T22:00:00.002+01:00

It's bloody cold outside. Always good to have enough antifreezer in the system ... Nastrovje!

3rd Official Bilderwumme Drawing Night!

2008-11-30T00:49:00.004+01:00

Last Wednesday we successfully celebrated the 3rd Official Bilderwumme Drawing Night. Unfortunally three of our past contestants were unable to attend. But so far we managed to do it fortnightly. The theme of the evening was clowns. Above are a few impressions of the event.

Apart from that I'm quite busy at the moment.

Brit Pop Zombie!

2008-11-21T00:25:00.009+01:00

This is another sketch I did at our first Bilderwumme Drawing Night. He's even later for Helloween than last weeks jolly hunchback, but he's still having a hell of a party anyway. I hope he's not going to have a terrible headache when it's all over ...

A close up of the head where you can see the coloured outlines.

This is the colour palette I worked with ... okay, I confess, it's a fake! I don't do colour palettes, but I start with a colour layout as you can see in the first flat coloured version below. Florian used that kind of colour palettes in his latest posts. And they look so neat! So I though I do one myself ...

Hunchback Party!

2008-11-08T02:05:00.003+01:00

Today I finally finished this jolly hunchback. He's a little bit late for Helloween, but I think he went straight to some electon party. Yes he can! The week has been quite stressful and I'm off for the weekend. Cheers!

Frank and the Hunchback!

2008-11-06T00:10:00.008+01:00

Last week we had our first official Bilderwumme Drawing Night (okay, we still need an approprate and catchy name for the event!). We wanted to do that for quite some time and thanks to our guest Matthias Vogel we finally managed to make it happen. And it was fun! The theme was of course - as you may have already guessed - Halloween.

These two sketches were done on that particular night. I almost finished the coloured version of the jolly hunchback yesterday. Well, almost. I will post it as soon as I find the time to add the finishing touches.

Swashbuckling Birthday Present!

2008-10-24T00:54:00.004+02:00

This is a birthday present I did recently. I usually don't like to do that, but when I was ill I didn't have the time to buy a proper one. And she wished for it ... last year. She explicitly asked for a pirate. What could I do? I made an exception to the rule. Then I quickly bought a cheap plastic baroque picture frame to add that special extra something. When I gave it to her she yelled and immediately hung it to the wall. Well, I guess she liked it ...

Black & White Rhino Business!

2008-10-16T00:55:00.003+02:00

We're quite busy at the studio right now because we have a deadline in a couple of weeks. So it was a bad time to get ill but I'm fit again and back into business. Earlier this week I finished the model sheets for a rhino and it already looks quite nice in CG. And it will absolutely not look like the one above. I'm really sorry that I can't show any of the actual designs. So here is a fun drawing instead.

As you might know there are black rhinos and white rhinos, well I would call this one a black and white rhino. Oh, and he is the editor of the "Daily Jungle News".

I've got the Flu!

2008-10-07T20:11:00.000+02:00

I've got the flu. That's boring. But the fates have been at least partially merciful with me. Yesterday I borrowed Shogun on DVD from the city libraray. You know, the mini-series from the 80s starring Richard Chamberlain and Toshiro Mifune. Television at its finest. Haven't seen it in ages. Makes being ill much less boring. Domo arigato gozaimasu!

Oh, I almost forgot. I did this picture for a pitch. Quite different in style. Guess what the theme was!

Crocodile Smile!

2008-09-30T23:35:00.003+02:00

Another inked sketch. A smiling crocodile. But I wouldn't trust him an inch ...

Longhorn Monster in Technicolor!

2008-09-23T23:58:00.010+02:00

Last week I didn't have the time to colourize the scribble of this triple-horned little fellow - so I did it at the weekend. As always I tried out a lot of different things. This it the final version in glorious Technicolor.

This is the first colour version I did. It's okay but somehow I wasn't satisfied with it. So I tried out a lot of different versions until I came up with the red and blue one. I really like to fool around with the colours. That's a big advantage when working digital.

When I start to add the colours I always like to see what the silhouette looks like. In this case I think it's rather nice. So I added the eyes and the teeth again.

And finally the raw sketch.

Longhorn Monster with Broadsword!

2008-09-17T11:22:00.002+02:00

The scribble for this one was lying around on my desk for ages. Now I finally did the inking. And I will definately colourize it. But not today!

Ronald Eargan!

2008-09-10T00:57:00.005+02:00

Sometimes people say, "Oh, you like to draw big noses!". Yes, that's true. I can't deny it. I love big noses. It's a recurring theme. But it's not fair to be reduced to just one oversized part of the body. I can do much more than that. I can do big ears too! Haha!

You wouldn't believe how long it took me to finish this one. Of course I don't mean the sketch. That came out of the blue. Ten minutes or so. But the colouring took ages. I tried a lot of different things, especially with the lines. And I totally blew up the thing in photoshop. In the end I had about a zillion layers I guess. I hope you appreciate that ...

Below are the sketch and a first colour version.

Geezer!

2008-09-03T02:02:00.003+02:00

This is Geezer. He is a big fan of Deep Purple - since 1969.

Sometimes at the canteen where we like to go for lunch there is this guy. You look at him and you just know he loves classic rock and presumably plays bass guitar - maybe in some Deep Purple cover band. He definately has been collecting records for a long time. Needless to say that he prefers vinyl. He works at an government agency. And though his colleagues think he's got a spleen he is a really nice guy. At least that's the story we came up with ...

Moustache & Trenchcoat!

2008-09-01T10:06:00.004+02:00

Recently I bought a black Copic marker. I never owned a black one before. They are really nice for quick sketches. Though I have to admit that those sketches tend to be rather big.

Skeleton Pirate - Aaarrrrrrrr!

2008-08-20T00:03:00.005+02:00

I started off this blog with a pirate post. But since then there have been no pirates at all. And no skulls and skeletons too. That's a shame. So here is the 2-in-1 package: A skeleton pirate! Aaarrrrrrr!

(I wasn't in the mood for soft shading so I used some colour hatching instead this time.)

Homie Duck!

2008-08-06T23:37:00.009+02:00

"The early bird catches the ... fish!"

Does anyone remember the Homie Bears? It's a little personal project I started last year. I posted a series of pictures back then. (Just click on the label "Homie Bears" at the bottom of the post to see them.) Recently I took the time to work on it again.

I thought they could use some company. Here is the first of the Homie Ducks. His name is Rupert and he loves to go fishing. And it's best to get up quite early to do so.

Hippopotamus Amphibius!

2008-07-31T00:03:00.008+02:00

In April I started working on the character design for our new movie at Ambient Entertainment. It's called Die Konferenz der Tiere (The Conference of the Animals) and is based on the famous book by Erich Kästner written in 1949. The story takes place in Africa and features - as you may have already guessed - all kinds of animals. That means of course a lot of research and so I already bought my annual ticket for the Zoo in Hannover, which is quite marvelous by the way.

But there are no hippos at all in the story. Can you believe that?

High Fidelity!

2008-07-22T01:57:00.001+02:00

As you might know dogs have a great sense of hearing. So it's no big surprise that they like to enjoy the ultimate stereo sound experience in nothing less than high fidelity.

Crazy Cop!

2008-07-11T01:33:00.006+02:00

This picture is a little bit older, but I haven't posted it here.

At work I like to play a little game and ask a colleague to say something that I'll have to draw then. With this one it went like this:

"OK, say something."
"Errr ... Giraffe."
"Well ... say something else."
"Crazy Cop?"
"That's good."

Then I did a scribble which wasn't too crazy at all, but that's where the idea came from. Thanks to Michael for the inspiration.

(By the way, the sandwich is of course low-fat because he minds keeping his body in shape ... but he's a tough guy nevertheless!)

Watercolour Girl!

2008-07-03T23:35:00.003+02:00

The Animation Talk was great. Mr. Silver turned out to be a very nice guy. I took a lot of photos and will post a selection soon. In the meantime a little watercolour sketch I did recently.

Animation Talk with Stephen Silver!

2008-06-27T00:30:00.000+02:00

Today I'm going to the Animation Talk in Hamburg. Stephen Silver is giving a lecture there at the chamber of commerce. Harald Siepermann and Uli Meyer will also be there - so it's definately going to be great!

Slurp!

2008-06-25T00:17:00.005+02:00

This is a collaboration between Jens (who is lead storyboarder at our studio) and me. We were just sribbling away to distract ourselves from doing some serious work when Jens drew this cute little chimp. I spontaneously had to ink it.

So through this great joint venture we're proud to present you the recently discovered and extremly rare long-necked sugar water chimpanzee. Slurp! Cheers!

Curly, Black and White!

2008-06-22T21:01:00.002+02:00

Alien Nose!

2008-06-10T01:08:00.002+02:00

A combination of two of my favourite themes: aliens and noses!

Die Hard!

2008-06-03T02:12:00.004+02:00

"Yippee-ya-yay Schweinebacke!"

To be honest this guy wasn't meant to be Bruce Willis. But after I added the undershirt things just fell into place. Some blood, dirt, a plaster and something that just exploded. Die hard with a nose. There you are!

Monster Gang!

2008-05-20T12:04:00.003+02:00

Busy again. No time for colours today.

Leprechaun Bureaucracy!

2008-05-14T21:19:00.005+02:00

He steals your mail at night. His oversized head is filled with mischievous thoughts. And he will put the spell of bureaucracy on you when you need it the least. Nasty litle creep.

Miscellaneous Stuff!

2008-05-05T23:28:00.006+02:00

These are some pictures I recently did for the Bilderwumme.

An extremely happy walking guy. Done straight with the Art Pen.

An old man in blue.

A couple of ape scibbles I did for a project last year.

Smiling Guy & Drawing Jam Graz!

2008-05-01T00:38:00.007+02:00

Last week I returned from the Alps where I had a great time with Florian. Graz is a beautiful city, definately worth a visit. We visited the Schlossberg, the Landeszeughaus (very inspiring!), the Kunsthaus, the Mausoleum of Ferdinand II. and everything else. And a lot of nice people everywhere. The Royal Styrian Drawing Jam was fun and quite relaxed. Thanks a lot for having me there! Of course I took myriads of photos. Here are some impressions of the trip.

This is a piece I did not at the drawing jam. I'm working on a lot of things at the moment, but nothing I can post right now. And we just started with our next project. Hopefuly I can tell you more about that soon. So in the meantime another portrait. A guy with a moronic smile.

3rd Royal Styrian Drawing Jam!

2008-04-16T01:45:00.006+02:00

Thursday I will fly to Austria to visit the magnificent Florian Satzinger in the beautiful city of Graz. And on Friday I will participate in the 3rd Royal Styrian Drawing Jam at the Forum Stadtpark in Graz. I'm really looking forward to that! I think it's going o be fun. Join us there for a nice evening. See you there!

Last time I think they had the topic friendly aliens at the jam. So the picture above is somehow related. Though you might say he looks rather lunatic he's mostly harmless! Anyway this is my contribution for this week for our group blog the Bilderwumme.

Rockabilly Nose!

2008-04-12T02:25:00.003+02:00

A portrait of a good-humoured rockabilly guy. I'm not sure if I spelled the background text orthographically right, but who cares. I reused the "burning truck" tattoo from our first movie Back to Gaya (aka The Snurks). I think it suit him well!

Triple Monster Whopper!

2008-04-05T12:17:00.002+02:00

This one is a little bit older, but I thought it would complement the previous post. I did it around Halloween. Well, I know there is still some time left - but who cares: "Trick or treat!". Haha, first!

Monstrous Morning Break!

2008-04-01T01:09:00.003+02:00

Nothing like a nice morning break with a friendly blue monster.

Oh Baby, it's cold outside!

2008-03-20T15:32:00.007+01:00

A little winterly impression. Not that it's snowing here in Hannover. Two days a go there was actually a little bit of snow in the morning, but it vanished as quickly as it came. Hasn't been a great winter after all. But it was enough to inspire this little picture.

Okay, today is the first day of spring as Mr. Schwarz kindly reminded me. Do I care? No. Somewhere it's snowing right now ...

Happy Easter to all of you!

Free at last!

2008-03-14T01:30:00.011+01:00

Last week we finally finished work on on our recent movie URMEL VOLL IN FAHRT. And to be honest, I'm glad it's over! This year has been pretty stressful so far and I'm quite exhausted. Now I'm enjoying my newly gained freedom. A couple of weeks off is just what I need. And so far I've been lazy like a bone ...

Above you can watch the trailer. It doesn't look very splendid here to be honest. I was just curious to test the movie uplaoding feature! A better high-resolution version can be found over here.

The movie was made at Ambient Entertainment, a small studio here in Hannover, Germany. That's where I work most of the time. I was mainly responsible for the character design and the CG-supervision of the characters. But over the course of production I did a lot of other things too. It's our third CG feature film and done at a rather decent budget compared to US productions!

URMEL VOLL IN FAHRT by the way means something like URMEL - FULL THROTTLE. Urmel is the green dragon-like main character. It's based on a famous German children's book from the sixties and the sequel to URMEL AUS DEM EIS which we did before. It will hit German cinemas on the first of May.

I recently discovered (and actually as I'm writing this!) that I haven't written much about what I'm actually doing to earn a living so far. Maybe I'll write more about that in the future - in case you're interested!

Batman - The Dark Knight!

2008-02-26T11:11:00.002+01:00

Again another unusual piece for me. To be honest I've never been much into the superhero business at all. I grew up with Asterix, Tintin and Spirou. But Batman is quite cool. So here is my humble version of the Dark Knight.

CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO TURN ON THE LIGHT AND TO REVEAL A LITTLE BIT OF HIS TRUE IDENTITY!

Oh boy, I guess nobody will read the text and click on the picture ...

Little Punky!

2008-02-22T00:35:00.002+01:00

And now for something completely different ...

I have to admit this is a quite unusual piece for me. Well, it was just a spontaneous scribble. But somehow I like this anarchic little fellow. So here it is.

Curly Rockabilly Pompadour Hairstyle!

2008-02-12T23:39:00.001+01:00

Lately I've been complaining about how busy I am because we're finishing our current movie at the moment. Well, it got even worse. We had to start head over heels with some new character and conceptual designs for our next movie because of some federal funding deadline. Of course no final designs, just something to give an idea of the mood. And though it was stressful it was much fun. It's always great to start with something new and to come up with new fresh ideas. The bad thing is that the work we actually have to do has still to be done. So a lot of long hours.

Today I did a final conceptual illustration that came out very neat. Sadly I'm not allowed to show it. Confidential, ya know ...

So in the meantime a little sketch I did recently. Another hairstyle. Curly likes to wear his hair high.

Mr.Cheese!

2008-01-29T23:05:00.001+01:00

OK, I admit it's rather odd to voluntarily draw a piece of cheese. It just happened. But everything is there: action, adventure and romance. Give a warm welcome to the most extraordinary Mr.Cheese!

An ordinary guy!

2008-01-22T09:21:00.001+01:00

An ordinary guy. Done with an ordinary pencil.

Alien Slug!

2008-01-16T01:10:00.000+01:00

We are at the moment finishing out 3rd cg movie. It's the sequel to Urmel aus dem Eis (aka Impy's Island). I'm doing compositing, effects and some graphic design at the moment. So not much drawing at all. The good thing is I'll start with new designs very soon ...

This is an older drawing I coloured today. An alien slug called Sluggy.

Happy New Year!

2008-01-10T01:02:00.001+01:00

The new year started off quite busy. A lot of work to do. And building up my new wardrobe has been my greatest achievement so far. The next big thing is putting all my stuff back into the bedroom and the new wardrobe respectively so that I can get through to the living room window again and turn off the lamp in the corner ...

All the best for the New Year! And may it be a good one!

Mr.Gurke Strikes Again!

2007-12-19T10:22:00.002+01:00

Recently Mr. Jörn Gebert asked if I ran out of nosejuice. I'm glad to inform you that I'm not. So here is another conk for the collection.

Back to Gaya!

2007-12-19T09:55:00.000+01:00

These designs are from BACK TO GAYA, the first movie I worked on. They date back to the year 2001. At least that's what the signature says. Gosh, is it really that long ago?! In that year I made my diploma and stumbled right into the production of the first ever German CG movie. There I worked together with most of the people from the Bilderwumme. Though it was a suicide squad altogether, we had a great time after all back in the good old days of the Royal Art Department known as the ADs ...

The first picture shows two character studies. You can easily imagine by whom the left one was inspired. The other is somehow a little bit amish. The bottom one is a design for a guard which ended up in the movie. And they are all 100% non-digital. Used a lot of marker back then.

Goblin!

2007-12-05T02:04:00.001+01:00

Just a goblin.

Pictoplasma 2007!

2007-11-21T01:09:00.001+01:00

Mr. Schwarz and I will attend the PICTOPLASMA ANIMATION FESTIVAL in Berlin this weekend. Especially for this occasion we fabricated the handcrafted buttons on the picture above. So watch out for the guys with the cool buttons. See you in Berlin!

OK, so much for the advertising.

I'm quite busy again. I got a call today that an advertising job for which I did some layouts two weeks ago has to be finished until tuesday. Great. As if I didn't have enough to do anyway. But I do not complain. At least I won't get bored ...

So above is a scribble from the vaults. A portrait of a guy called Jürgen I once met.

Passepartout!

2007-11-13T22:30:00.001+01:00

This a character design I did for fun. It's Jean Passepartout from Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days. He is described as a likeable fellow with "a good round head, such as one likes to see on the shoulders of a friend". And he is as much passionate and fun as his new master Phileas Fogg is not. A true Parisian from Paris.

So imagine a happy Passepartout standing inside the house at No.7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens just after he heard Mr. Fogg say: "Now from this moment, twenty-nine minutes after eleven, a.m., this Wednesday, 2nd October, you are in my service."