digital coloring tryouts

i just tried out different ways of coloring with the pc lately and came up with some drawings just for fun.
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Basement Blues

I finally uploaded the finished shortfilm on vimeo to join the "driven creativity competion" of g-technology. i hope you enjoy it and feel free to vote comment and show to your friends. thanks!
here´s the cover and the star of the movie :)

hello, do you work here?!

my stop-motion short-film is finished and ready for the vernissage on july 23rd. till then there is much to do for the presentation and other things so until I upload the whole work here´s another small piece i´ve done parallel. although it´s not so elaborate like the other work it´s still a great thing since it´s published in the book Helllo, do you work here?! by Alterna Comics. So you can buy it in American Comicbook-Stores and order it via Amazon!
on the homepage of the book you can even see the piece in the Excerpts-Section with the story!
How cool is that!? here it is again with a little colour:

on set

the diploma-project is finally taking form! after much planning, drawing storyboards and writing story and concept i finally built up a little set and did the first test-shoots. i decorated the set according to old vanitas-stilllives for there is much vanitas-symbolism going on and it´s visually attractive. here are some snapshots of the set and the first attempts of animating...

JnB - Logodesign

another job in between the stop motion thing and other projects was to design a logo for a team of some dedicated fellas who are planning to realize a new type of catering chain concentrated on fresh fruit-juices and -cocktails called "juice and booze" (short JnB). They have a really nice concept including a few stationary chain stores and mobile service for events etc.
They are currently in search for sponsors with a presentation including my logo and business papers which you can see above. I wish them all the best for their project!

oh and for the logo i chose the chamaeleon-mascot as a symbol for their alternation between alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. also the spiraled tail is a nice graphic ornament and reminds of the whole cocktail-mixing thing...i suppose :)

storyboardin

back at my stop-motion flick i now concentrate on the real short movie i want to do. after some tests and research about stop motion, claymation etc i now try to elaborate my story via a storyboard. it´s also essential for the final shoot to pinpoint every detail for there´s so much to keep in mind and pay attention to. but again it´s way too much fun to really feel like work :)

af cobras utd.

more or less semi-professional soccer-team "af cobras utd." asked me to help them with a new logo and jersey-design. always good to work with people with a good sense of humor :)
i took some photos at their successful season opening where they not only triumphated optical.
pictures can be seen via facebook

audible brain surgery

here´s the story of a sketch for school which made his way to the music-stores and tv-screens :)

supposed to be an illustration for a newspaper article about music-therapy after an apoplectic stroke the picture was later used by german heavy metal band q-box for their cd cover.
i just had to redraw the existing bandlogo in the same style add it to the illustration and with a little digital editing it was ready for print.

clay everywhere

despite the whole final-work for school thing and other small jobs i couldn´t resist doing a piece for the poster-contest of 'kulturspektakel gauting'.
it´s always fun and i´ll do it till they pick one of my layouts ;)
last year´s was a little banksy-influenced collage thing and guess what it is this time...clay :)

test-shoot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfLXTlf-Gug

a little bumpy but he finally got to have a smoke. more complex than i thought but however i´m still kind of content with it. so is he on the face of it :)

finale

for my final work at ifog academy i chose stopmotion-animation as theme and before i concentrate on a shortfilm i´ll do some test-shoots which i´m about to post here later. working with clay is still as much fun as 20 years ago but the lil fella has to chill under his plastic tent till i sort out the whole program-stuff and get a proper tripod for my eos...

first steps

while facing the end of graphic-design studies i combed through the early works at ifog academy.
there´s everything from unsightly over absurd to quite funny. and there are those which i still find - in all their imperfectness - quite charming...

dusky eddie

wondering where that blog-header above comes from?!
it´s a cutout of my dusky version of a 'edward scissorhands'-poster.
i´ve done a sketch which i liked so much i thought i had to make something out of it.
here´s the sketch and the 'something'...

skeletons in the closet

to start this whole thing i dug out some pieces from under the bed.
this one´s acryl on cardboard with some digital post-editing.

same technique on the second one which is one of my favorites and was used for a short story by acclaimed writer emanuel von thadisburg :)

blog kick-off

welcome to my little online showcase, thanks for stopping by.

here i´ll post works all around my graphical output such as illustrations, animations, logo - or product design.

for questions or requests just contact machineisland@gmx.de.

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greetz andip.