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I decided with a colleague that there are still not enough veggie/vegan/plant-based stickers around. We both do enjoy the fun and positive message many people put in stickers, so we decided to add our own spin. These are drawn in Procreate, then vectorized. The result is either brought into Blender as a PNG and rendered with pretty path tracing shadows or packed on a single printable sticker sheet.

Veggie Stickers

Poisson Steve is a creation by Vigz with Music by Tomo. Their Video has blown up on Instagram with a very catchy song and super cute Illustration as well as Animation. Inspiring a huge crowd of creators online to put their own spin on the Steve the Fish in orange with arms as well as legs. And a song so catchy it won’t leave your brain.

Remaking Poisson Steve

I took some time to focus and relax by drawing these ink drawings in a small A5 notebook. As always Leuchtturm1917 paper and black 0.4 archival ink pens.

More Sketchbook People

Quick Exercises in frame by frame animation. Drawing these little doodles over and over again has a meditative quality to it. Each seperate animation took between 30 to 70 minutes to create.

Vacation Gifs

Even while not playing or working on projects I find myself creating a lot of things everyday. Sometimes documenting said things on Social Media, sometimes just for myself. I spent quite some time on creating procedural systems in 2022, be it either to generate (very limted) game worlds or complex 3D geometries.

Small Things 2022

A collection of things I did in 2021. These are in particular order and just capture some of the “other” things, at least the once I some how documented. I was deep into illustration drawing animations to either use as gif or as sprites for small interactive experiments with godot engine. There is also some documentation from the eurorack build.

Small Things 2021

I did break both my arms during a skateboard accident in March 2021. During the healing process afterwards, I had to attend quite a lot of physio and was not able to do anything at a desk, like most of my hobbies, which are at a desk. Luckily I could use Mirjam’s iPad and draw/animate without straining the right arm too much.

Animated Exercising

I spent some time in April building a mesh and surface generator for spaceships. The abstract baseshapes are combined with predefined symmetries, but can also show asymmetrical features. A greeble shader displaces the surfaces and helps define the scale of the spaceships.

Spaceship Generator

This was done with the creative animation Tool Looom by IORAMA. The Animations are screen captured from an iPad and then slightly edited and underlaid with a basic sound design and musical elements. The Piano is also live recorded back to the playback of the animations via the ipad. Proving to me that super professional audio and creative equipment is not necessary to finish something worth making.

Looom

This is a series of daily illustrations for the community event 36daysoftype. Each illustration is designed as a Eurorack module.

36 Days of Type

Bringing together the scribbles and photographs of my daily commutes. The Sketches are done on my paper notebooks, photographed and edited them with my mobile phone.

Sketchbook People

During the 2013 installment of 36daysoftype, I did dive into creating randomized but pleasing illustrations via automated processes. Little did I know that this kind of procedural generation would not only be used in my private projects but would also become more and more important at work.

36daysoftype2018

Sculptjanuary

This has been an incredibly fun project for All About Space Magazine. Art Direction by the fantastic Jonathan Wells. Thank you for the opportunity, Jonathan.

Darkmatter

This is a series of daily illustrations for the community event 36daysoftype. Each illustration was done within my available free time after work, sleep, and bachelor studies.

36daysoftype2017

While I overall enjoyed my Studies in Cologne, I was not the best in keeping or even archiving all the practial work or the papers we had to write. Something I now dearly regrett as I often would love to skimm through a chronological order of works and classes. So this is less of a Portfolio entry and more a way for me to archive some of the things I did back then.

Studies 2016

This is a series of daily illustrations for the community event 36daysoftype. Each illustration was done within my available free time after work, sleep, and bachelor studies.

36 Days of Type

Art Director Jan Lankisch and frontman Bid approached me in again in 2015 to help them create the Visuals for the latest The Monochrome Set release. This time Bending metallic rings in a shape of Bids portrait. It was a vial aspect to weld the bust onto a plane, to make the portrait pop more out of the circles.

The bust is a mix of a photogrammetry scan of myself, sculpting Bids head and face form onto it.

Spaces Everywhere

Tiny Illustration series that was once planed to be printed on 100x100cm acrylics.

Neon

Art Director Jan Lankisch approached me in 2013 to create a typographic cover illustration for The Monochrome Set (then under the label Disco Bleu). Bandleader Bid asked for a typographic cover with a retro feel, merging the acronym of the album title into the key visual. The graphic was reproduced on vinyl, CD covers, T-shirts, and other merch.
While they were touring with Super Plastic City, I had the opportunity to take some snapshots of the band and vinyl in the now remodeled King George Bar. Hiding in the last picture: Aydo Abay and Axel Prahl, because these kinds of fun things just happen if you work with Jan.

Super Plastic City

vimeo.com Self initated demoreel based on projects I completed between January and April in 2013. Featuring 3D illustration, simulation, animation, texturing, rendering and editing.

Demoreel 2013