Sunday, May 20, 2012

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!

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Soon we will be together again

The original is less colorful, fitting the feeling of longing for your love. But the mobile phone app makes everything nice and shiny ;-) Emphasizing the pleasant anticipation :-D


Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Monday, April 30, 2012

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.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

work-collection

The end is near... only three weeks until our movies have to be ready for cinema!
There will be a small booklet containing short movie descriptions and portfolio work.
First I wanted to keep my pages simple and clean and only use very few images.
Yeaah, so here's what happened:


Thursday, April 5, 2012

animation show reel

See my animation show reel on vimeo!
That's all I've got to say right now, 'cause I'm too busy working on our short films. Only 3 weeks left! Then I need someone to hire me :D

Sunday, March 18, 2012

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



Sunday, March 4, 2012

Koops scoops

Our third project has started! "Backwater" is being produced right now. The story which Janina Putzker and I were working on since August 2011 (later on joined by Sebastian König and Susanne Herzog) is finally coming to life. I'm so looking forward to the result!

Sunday, February 26, 2012

discovering color again

movie prospects

random characters

red and violet
I got myself new sketchbooks. One of them is for water color, form moleskine. Since working on short films the pages get filled with drawings so fast!