Style Test

The last year too much was going on! There just wasn't any time to draw or paint anything useful for my blog. Today I decided to try a very simple style. I chose a random scene and a reduced color scheme.

A dream is a wish your heart makes

A friend asked me to draw "Affenputtel" as a birthday present. Finally I had to force myself to do some private drawing again! :3

looks interesting without outlines

Lady pets with ribbons

Happy new year everyone!!

Last year I was asked to design a female shrimp character for a shrimp breeding shop. So I want to show some various sketches and stages of the aquatic pet (I mixed vector outlines with water color as well as digital color)!
Another one with a ribbon would be the lady pug, which was just a quick fun illustration :)

photoshop practice

no references used

Logo-Time

A friend asked me to make a logo for the day-care-center she works in. A few things were predetermined, such as the cross and 3 little birds. I also had a picture of the bird, which I adapted and improved. The final and approved one is above, accompanied by some earlier variations.

final logo

Crazy competition!

Yesterday I had one of the most crazy experiences of my life: the 24 hours film racing. Here's the thing:
Saturday morning, at 4am we recieved the theme, a prop and an action that were to include in the movie. It was allowed to use existing characters, so we prepared by drawing characters and consider a rough animation style or after effects animation with layer puppets. You'll see some works below.

Of course we used none of the existing characters.
Of course we developed a complete new style and story.
Of course the set we chose was a cinema full of characters.
21 characters, I believe.
24 hours for the film.
3 to 4 hours after the plot was decided.
3 hours before the deadline the animation was done and the last scenes were rendering in After Effects.
3:30 am the whole thing was successfully uploaded.
A group of 10 (in the beginning 11) people are still startled that the wohle thing worked out and we are all very proud and love our little "baby".
And we are the only group from Germany. The rest of the competitors are from the USA, Canada and a few Britains.

It's amazing how fullfilling animation is to me. Thank you for the opportunity, my dear comrades!

Unfortunately I cannot show the 1:15 minutes movie yet, because of the competition.
In the meantime you'll have to work with more drawings ;-)

preproduction for the 24h film racing

pre-production layer puppets - the right one was a design from amazing Eiti, which I adapted.

Cyclops designs while plot discussion -  they weren't chosen in the end

 sketches for a Game Character I am drawing at the moment  

This last one is a poster for a friend in my hometown. He is a pool attendant and asked me to design and illustrate a poster for a unicef - donation campaign. It was done in Photoshop. I enjoyed the work very much and I hope all you people from Usingen and the Taunus go there on the 26th may and make lots of donations!

Portfolio Cover

I had the idea making a small portfolio, representing all the students and the movies we made. It was available at the premiere. Everyone liked it <3
The idea came when we all were looking for a design for the cards that were sent to all the guests. I had a design, deriving from Mucha's four seasons, since our four movies kind of represented a season.
The character designs from the right side to the left are done by myself, Felix Zehender, Eiti and Regina Haselhorst.

miss u

Goodbye winter!

Spring has finally arrived in northern Hamburg. Although we are still quite busy at animation school, working our daily 10-14 hours shift, we managed to go outside on friday, buying some art supplies and enjoying the first day in 2012, where I could go outside without wearing a jacket! *love*
To cherish the winter and snow, I'll finally show the snowboard design I made for my boyfriend. He really likes it, which makes me very very happy! *happy*

Hatschl is his nickname