I was asked to do a bunch of animated gifs for a Samsung Campaign. It’s been easily 10 years since I did animated gifs, and it took me a while to understand my optimal way of production.

Normally in animation filesize isn’t an issue, but with animated gifs on social media platforms that’s different.

It turned out to be the safest way to animate as usual in After FX, but this time in 30 FPS. This gave me some flexibility with framerates, and in the end I was able to do multiple outputs in 30 FPS and 15 FPS, and combine them again in Photoshop. This way I could vary depending on the filesize, and didn’t loose fluidity through the whole animation.

During production I was asked to also provide the animation in full HD, so I was very happy, that I already did the animation in 30 FPS, so exporting to a different format was not problem. Yay!

Timing in this ob was pretty tight, but thanks to the good teamwork with Cheil’s art director Guido Böhm all went well.

Client: Samsung
Agency: Cheil

Showreel of selected animation, funny loops and interactive animation.

I finally managed to assemble my animation works and projects in a short showcase.

All animations are done in classic 2D Style, though newer ones also contain some 3D rendering, camera-, and and light effects. Depending on the assignment, animations were done fully rendered for filmprint (cinema projection), broadcast as well as interactive flash-, or html5 based animation.

Bongholio Iglesias provided some tunes for this Showcase.
Thanks, big ape!

https://www.instagram.com/bongholiooo/

Ten woodprint motifs in a Postcard-set.

Offset print on thick paper, 4 colours with UV coat on the front side.
Labelled with a hand-printed woodcut on the sleeve.

Want them? You can order them online at Orenji.de

Woodprints and related stuff

My first catalogue containing non-commissioned artwork from 14 busy years! Yeah!

On one hundred pages I’m showing not only a complete and never before seen compilation of all my woodprints, but also serigraphies, free illustration as well as some insights in my  “Yolk” workshop, where the printing, shaping, cutting and glassing is done.

I printed all 100 copies of the first edition with an original woodprint on the linnen cover and now they are ready to be shipped.

If you want a copy, you can order it online at the Orenji Store.

“unfinished” – the new book of kombinatrotweiss’ artists.
Instead of providing final illustration we were asked to do scribbles, unfinished work, edgy and non-commercial, notes and blueprints of ideas. The book itself not only leaves space in form of empty pages and unfinished work but space for the viewers imagination aims to inspire the user to use it, draw in it, perhaps finish it.

www.kombinatrotweiss.de

It’s European Championship time. And so I was asked to do an animated clip for: a box!

Okay, it was not a box, but Walther Boxline, producer of all sorts of boxes, foldable crates etc.

The story was straight forward but the timing was pretty tight, so I had to start right away. For this animation I wanted to achieve more space and depth in the images, so I decided to arrange all layers and animation in a 3D environment to be able to use virtual cameras and their depth of field. It was quite tricky, but as always I learned a lot and am quite happy with the outcome.

Client: Walther Faltbox / Boxline.de
Agency: Thorben Roth Design

I regularly provide Illustration for Ferrero Chocofresh’s online sites. The Illustration often contain a mix of seasonal topics, small quizzes and mazes.

Here are some Illus I did in the first quarter of the year.

Client: Ferrero Chocofresh
Agency: La Red Berlin/Hamburg

For it’s third time the “illustratoren-festival” was held up in cologne showing more than 50 artists.

Initiated and organized from illustrators for illustrators it became a big success in the first two events in 2012 and 2014, attracting more than 2000 visitors. So the stakes were high.
Because the former venue wasn’t available anymore, the show moved to a new Place. And what a beautiful place it was: Horbach Stiftung in Cologne Südstadt is located in fully renovated industrial buildings, seperated in three main halls with walls reaching up to 6 meters.

It’s been so nice and inspirational to meet all my fellow colleagues. Meeting some of them for the third time in a group show, it felt very familiar right from the start.
For this exhibition the Illu 16 Team spend some money on new wooden walls and they were worth their money. With lots of helping hands we put them together and started hanging our work. For me that was quite a challenge. This time I wanted to show a lot of smaller prints and one or two large ones. But I didn’t do any planning on where to hang which one. So I just started by climbing up the highest ladder I could find and hang one large print as high as possible, just to see if it would look good. It looked good, so I hanged another one on the other wall and started filling up the spaces in between with smaller ones. And it worked quite well even without any planning or grid. Perhaps I was just lucky.

We were still a bit afraid that the new venue or other events on that day could mean few visitors. But we were quite wrong. The opening of the show was a sucess and the next days brought so many visitors that there was a queue up to the street from time to time.

For three days the show was opened, and I hardly managed to speak to every artist or to go to all lectures. It was just too much. And full. More than 3000 vistitors on three days. phew!

Big thanks to the organizing team who did a great job putting up this wonderful powwow of regional artists.

Right after building the red rocket I had the urge to rebuild that shape a second time. Of course I wanted to alter it a bit. I saw no need for the diamondtail anymore, I wanted the rail to be a bit rounder and add some more noserocker. And I always dreamed of a yellow board, so this would be yellow!

A nice sideffect was, that I needed some space in my workshop, so the task was to build a board only with leftovers. Because I’ve used the thicker planks on the red board, I had rather thin ones for this board. That made it even lighter.

The build worked fine and in february the whole family took off for a whole month to our canary winter hideout.
I also brought my big 8.4 longboard with me, but never used it. I was having so much fun with the yellow banana in all kinds of conditions. By the way: the fins I’ve built a bit to sharp. They’ve cut right through the leash. So next ones will get a rounder edge…

Note for the next build: I definitely need a rockertable!