Monday, December 8, 2008

Weekly Task #001

Every week someone in the Red Baboons Sketchgroup comes up with an idea that can be illustrated. The so called "Weekly Tasks" started monday. I posted the idea for the very first task: The task is to create a character that is a muay thai fighter who does not look like a typical one. My sketch:

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Animation Excersise

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This was my first animation excersise.
My lecturer was Oswin Skomroch from Bluebyte.


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My second animation excersise.
This time we first had to draw a jump animation with 5 keyframes as a reference for this 3D animation.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Quong Cover



That is the cover of Quong, the school project that I have mentioned in my earlier post.

Monday, November 17, 2008

"Manga Talente 2009" Contest


My contribution for "Manga Talente 2009" contest of the Leipzig Book Fair.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Meeting Harald Siepermann

First of all... WOW!
If you had asked me a year ago whether I could imagine meeting a real Disney artist so soon I would have said "No, of course not!". I'm really happy about meeting Harald Siepermann, a german character designer who worked on Mulan, Tarzan, Roger Rabbit, Alfred Jodokus Kwak and many more great animated movies!

He came to the Games Academy to teach us Character Design.
His lecture was awesome, although it was only the first day of the lecture I really learned a lot. Not only his didactics impressed me, it is the fact that Siepermann has great experience in terms of art, especially animation.
He often refered to Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas, two of Disney's Nine Old Men.
It was also great to find out that hes also a modern person (it surprised me that he knows Dr House and Grey's Anatomy), that he is a person with a great humor and that he does not discriminate against anime such as those oldfashioned art lecturers (you probably know what i mean!) =D
He even told us Hayao Miyazaki's secret that makes Ghibli characters special.



On this picture you see Harald Siepermann and me.
I am holding a drawing of Alfred Jodocus Kwak , that he drew for me: