Honouring the Ancestores

Today I want to use the chance to show how amazing my grandmother was. She died only last week and so I got to see through a lot of her work. She started attending drawing classes when she was 56 years old, followed by water color and china paint classes. I always admired her for her abilities in art and  cooking as well as her good natured heart and alltime cheerful character. Of course she always supported me with educational drawing-books, brushes and colors. What she admird about me was that at a certain point I didn't need any artwork to draw from - that I managed to produce images from my imagination. Still, she improved her skills only in a year and created beautiful portraits and still lifes.
I honestly wish to carry on and improve the "talent" I was given to make a living and make my grandmother proud.

1986 by Lore Koops

2011/ 12 by me

Furthermore, that's how my workspace at the animation school looks like. 

preview to red riding hood

For two weeks now 12 people have been working hard on the first final project: a new version of little red riding hood. Regina Haselhorst is our producer, director, designer and everything . The rest of us does the animation part, coloring, compositing and background painting.
I am part of the team that has to animate the wolf. Here is some first insight!
I am really looking forward to the finished version. A short movie of 3 minutes length, done in 3 weeks - incredible! ;-D

 

New year's big band

A happy new year to everybody! :->
These little birds are a birthday present to a good friend - we once imagined cute, fat little birds and crows playing in a big band.
Mobile phone uploads still challenge me, but at least I get to update my blog :-p