business lunch

on and on...

"Weiter, weiter ins Verderben.
Wir müssen leben bis wir sterben."

— Till Lindemann

Your Highness again

A very busy weekend in Belfast, back in 2009. Within 2 days I had to illustrate costumes of all the main characters. It is funny how time pressure makes you think of more efficient ways to render detail. Some of the default brushes in photoshop create interesting patterns when you mess around with the spacing in the brushes window.
I posted the detail above that explains the technique very well.
It really starts working once you zoom out.

Unknown Identity

There are two things I really find difficult when doing interiors. First, finding the right angle that shows as much as possible of the set without causing too much distortion. The other is lighting the entire room and providing the right mood for the scene.



Regarding the perspective I use 'vanishing-point' in the photoshop filter menu. A very useful application and I am always surprised how few people actually know about it. All illustrations were done about a year ago for a film called 'Unknown Identity' and there are more samples on my website if you are interested.

Your Highness

workshops

The development of virtual film sets will be part of the lectures I am preparing at the moment. Both, exteriors and interiors will be subject of a design task given to participants. I have two courses coming up, in Berlin and Dublin. The course in Ireland will start on Saturday, Dec., 4th and not 3rd as announced previously. If you are in the area you can sign up at screentrainingireland.com

Exposé 8 is out…

…and I am glad to see so many familiar names on the index page. It seems there are much more loose and painterly images in the selection than before. Take a look at Eduardo's entry and you know what I mean. The book comes with several video tutorials and brushes from the artists. It is now available from Ballistic Publishing. And for those who don't buy a book by it's cover there is a page preview on the website too. Cut a long story short, here is one of my entries:

nuthin' but mech

This one was more of an experiment and inspired by a track from Auditory Aphasia. Actually I used Scott's 'Random-Layer-Technique' as described in one of his DVD's. Always surprising what comes out of it…more of this on Lorin's cyber-blog nuthinbutmech.blogspot.com

Auditory Aphasia-Wubducted by The Peppermill

tutorial

This is one of my images chosen for Ballistic's Exposé 8, a collection of digital paintings from more than 250 artists all over the globe. The people at CGSociety asked me to do a tutorial for their web-site and talk a little about the way I work. You can find a walk-through the painting process in the tutorial section at features.cgsociety.org

Porthos

For several reasons I started reading 'The Three Musketeers' by Alexandre Dumas. Not only perfect entertainment but a great lesson in storytelling too. The ebook is available here.

"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."

— Alexandre Dumas