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Tarzan concept art

more to follow, peterpopken.de

website update

Last year's illustrations produced during the pre-production for
THE MONUMENTS MEN. I was lucky then to receive plenty of reference and 3-D layouts from my colleagues in the art department. Credits go to set designer Dominik Capodieci, David Scheunemann and production designer James D. Bissell.

Some backgrounds became really busy and I thought it may be interesting to get a closer look at detail and texture. Below are the cropped versions, the full size images can be found on my website: peterpopken.com

The Beauty & And The Beast

What looks like an oil painting is actually a digital enhanced image, produced as a piece of set decoration for 'Beauty and the Beast'. Mainly I used photoshop's 'Extrude' filter to create the look of thick paint on a canvas. Afterwards layers with 'Craquelure' and canvas textures where applied to add aging to the surface. The final image was printed 90 x 60 inches and needed resolution high enough to be able to reproduce all detail precisely (see picture below).

La belle & la bête

We now have the first look at footage from French language version of Beauty & The Beast. Director Christophe Gans is the man behind films like "Brotherhood of the Wolf", "Crying Freeman" and "Silent Hill". More to follow soon...


 official trailer at labelleetlabete-lefilm.com

happy holidays

 another not so dark world

The Dark World

An unused concept illustration for the Thor sequel. Click image for

full size

Volume 2

The highly anticipated follow up to the best seller. Nuthin' But Mech, Volume 2 delivers outstanding artwork from 40 artist contributors to the Nuthin' but Mech blog. Kudos to you, Lorin.

Now available from Amazon.

nuthinbutmech.blogspot.com

who watches the watchmen?

@ FMX 2013

"…the exhibition Concept Art, Preproduction and Design in the Entertainment Industry, which is organized by the FMX and Design Center Suttgart, sheds light on an art form that is rarely shown publicly even though Concept Art occupies a specific position in the entertainment industry. It visually demonstrates that Concept Art can serve as inspiration, first sketch, visual guide and more. Attendees are invited to enjoy 30 art pieces from 15 international digital artists such as Harald Belker, Paul Chadeisson, Uwe Heidschoetter, Maciej Kuciara, Tobias Mannewitz, Paperblue, Peter Popken, Christian Lorenz Scheurer or Thomas Scholes. The opening takes place April 22, 6pm. Entrance is free…"

From April 23 - May 15, Haus der Wirtschaft, Design Center Stuttgart