Mega mecha robot

Hey! My short Hum is part of Future Shorts best of 2009 program! Check out all the films and screenings here.

Also I just completed Machinarium. Awesome point-and-click puzzle adventure game, with a beautiful style and nice little story. great music too.
Check it out yo.

tower

Life Drawingses

Hey I finally pulled myself together to scan some life drawings.
These are all from sessions at MPC from the last two months i think.
Newest at the top. If I do this right.

Brutal Legend!

Hey, Brutal Legend is OUT! BUY IT! PLAY IT! OR DIE!

I'm super excited about this you have no idea! There's a couple of reasons for that. First off because of Grim Fandango and Psychonauts and Full Throttle and everything else Tim Schafer has been involved in.
Can't get enough of the imagination, humour and clever writing. And the ART. oh man each game with its own distinct style matching the universe of the games.
So yeah I'm a huge Double Fine fanboi geek dude. deal with it and join me.

I was psyched when I got to work on Brutal Legend as part of an internship a couple of years back, and it was an amazing experience. I want to thank everyone who made that possible, and the great people at DF who had the patience to work with me. You guys are awesome.
The skin on my fingers has grown back over the years, so don't worry.

Im very proud to have been the tiniest part of this, and today Im gonna share some of that work with you.

Ophelias' behind. I was blessed with the task to carefully place each of those vertices after tons of research and guidance from the art and animation teams.
I know. This screenshot alone is enough for you to run to the nearest game dealer, but just in case check out some brutal trailer, track list and interviews.

I'll see you on the battlefields of Metal!
(when I can afford a xboxstaion5..)

laters.

lunch doodle dudes

Some slightly suspicious looking gents for today.

London sketchcrawl #24

From last weekend.
It was a blast.
Looking forward to next time!

Mining Facility

speedpaint

life drawings

Heres a few sketches from life drawing sessions at MPC.
Im having a blast with these, and hope we can keep the sessions going.

Hum at Siggraph 2009 and lunch sketch

Hey, I forgot to mention. Hum is at Siggraph 2009! Or a trailer version of it is.
I'm not sure.
But Its screening Thursday 6 of August at the 2 cool 4 school program 3:45 - 5:30 pm, check it out if you are around.
Thanks to my creepy stalker friend Laurence for pointing out when Hum was on!

Here is an alien encounter sketch from lunch breaks this week.
laters.

Wolf towing Cruiser

The Wolf got famous for saving a Titan freighter trapped in a deep space well.
The pull lasted an entire month, with the crew sleeping on rotations or not at all.
Still in service today.

Heavy

Quicky turned into TF2 inspired heavy dude on duty.

street from the future

'Tortoise? What's that? '

crazy cook

so crazy

life drawing

Couple of sketches from last weeks session.

hangar speedy

Quick one for today.

Walker Camper 5000

The brand new Walker Camper 5000
For all your future family holidays on Mars.

edit: added process

Off to sea

The Hunt

Trying out custom brushes some more. Super fun stuff.

Also I finally beat Dead Space. Must admit that I kinda had to force myself through the end, I really enjoyed the first half, but then it went down a way too familiar road in both story and level design.
Still the first half was awesome, and if you are into getting scared shitless in space, give it a shot!

sunday speedy

30mins of my girlfriend in my oversize sweatshirt, working hard on her final project.
On our super small couch.

space update

from planet doodle.

More naked people!

Ok. So I'm trying to keep regular at the shoreditch lifedrawing society. Its good fun. If you are in London you should check it out.
Here are some from the last couple of sessions. This blog needs more spaceships and robots now I think.

You might have thumbs. But you still got a long way ahead of you!

Human...

I saw the E3 prelude for Mass Effect2 and just needed to draw some alien lifeforms.
I really dug how well designed everything in that game was, it felt like a living world where aliens has trends and style.

Also I'm playing Dead Space atm. I'm really enjoying it. or it scares the living crap out of me. which is enjoyable.
Story is quite cliche and kinda cheesy, but theres just something about long dark tunnels inside a giant space ship filled with flickering lights and monsters.

Ok. bedtime.
laters.

naked people!

Of lately.

alien space suit

Hey,
bank holiday doodle, in between getting slaughtered on bnet.

Hum

Oh man. My shortfilm 'Hum' is finally online! I'm super excited about this. Thanks to the great people at Future Shorts!

You can watch it here:

You can also watch it at www.humfilm.com. If you prefer.

Laters.

ST-4 'The Cat'

The ST-4 (originally dubbed 'ST Humming Bird') was produced in massive numbers at short notice towards the end of the war.
It had extremely low production cost and was used for both scout recon missions and combat.

But due to the rush in production, it suffered from a fatal flaw in balance, and ranked as the most common ship to spontaneously crash in the fleet.
Apparently this was halfway foreseen by the designers of the ST-4 as it featured the best eject and life support systems.
Over time it was nicknamed 'The Cat' by pilots surviving up to 9 crashes in the ST-4.

Edit: just tweaked the cockpit a bit and added the process ^^

The Flying Dutchman

For 'Folklore' thread on KC.

I alwayes loved the tales of the flying ghost ship, doomed to sail(fly?) the sea forever.

BATTLESHIP

journey sketckbook

Ok so a lot of stuff has happened lately. I was in Aberystwyth Wales, and would like to thank the ffresh (ha..ha) people there for a wonderful time.
Thank you very much for having me there, and arranging a great festival!

Also I just got back from a quick trip to Amsterdam with the mpc layout crew, which was awesome. Would love to go back there whenever I get the chance. Thanks to the team for pulling together and making it happen, it was great!

Here are some spy sketches of people I know, and some people I dont know.
Laters.

story keys and thoughts on inspiration

So here's some story keys from a project I've been working on for way too long.
By working I mean, being unsatisfied with my skills and avoiding showing anything from it, feeling I'm not able to create something that represents what I want to achieve properly. Guess what.
That is really dumb. I'm amazed how dumb I am sometimes.

Anyhow, I did some sketches of this back in school a couple of years ago, and it seems one of my former classmates and a very good friend of mine unconsciously got quite inspired by a particular design concept, and used it recently in his teams most excellent steampunk contest entry.
I guess it was a good thing, because it really shook me up, and now I feel I pretty much have to show this, just to make sure that if I one day should manage to get the project going and look the way I want, I'm not going to look like a ripoff of something I originally came up with.
Such tricky stuff..

I think our approach, context, compositions and emotions are quite different, and theres probably room enough in the world for more than one Dali-legged-boat walking between islands in a sea of fog.
Mine is a organic creature-vehicle capable of travelling between the astral planes in the story I'm working on.
If you want to see the original drawing for this, and check out my old workspace at school, you can try and take a look here.

This sequence shows the main protagonist being picked up by Charon at the bank of the river Styx and taken to the underworld.
I came up with this sweet thing about a hooded dude picking up dead people by a river for coins, and ferry them to the land of the dead(c)
pretty cool eh? Oops..
ehm... bear in mind this is a very small part of a larger complex story, but the design and idea of the underworld and how to get there, is something I would like to be able to say 'I came up with this'.

So all I want do really, is to get these out there, and continue to work with the story and design, as a lot of it is still very loose.
Also I would appreciate thoughts and feedback on these.

I don't care where people get their ideas, as long as they make something awesome and give credit, where credits due.
I was lucky that Andreas is an awesome guy, and he agreed to give a thanks in the credits.
Thanks a lot man! I hope you dudes win!

Ok, bit of rambling there, just had to get of my mind.
Thanks for reading if you did.
Take care.

Boiler

Hello everyone,

The Ffresh film festival taking place in Aberystwyth Wales, will be screening Hum as part of their International program from the 11th -13th of February.

I will be there and take part in a small panel session with Johnny Kelly and Joseph Pierce telling a little bit about what I'm up to.
Tim Allen is keeping an eye on it, hopefully it will be fun and awesome.
You can read more about it here. And check out Jhonny Kellys short 'Procastination'!

Also Brad Blackbourn the director of photography and head of layout, on 'Tale of Despereaux' has written an in depth article over at Vfxworld.
Loads of interesting points from a clever guy.
Check it out.

Ok thats it. Here's a giant boiler.
Laters.

a gentleman

quite a serious one.

Submairne checks out some ice

Also check out the trailer for BRUTAL LEGEND!!!!11one

The Tale of Despereaux. I saw it.

I finally got to see Tale of Despereaux, and I'm very happy that I got to work on it.
It has a beautiful Flemish inspired look, a classic (tho quite complex) fairytale story, not counting on pop culture references to be funny, and no songs.
But the best thing about it was the cinematography and mind blowing layout.

here's a couple of stills i scavenged from the nets of shots i worked on.
I found one of them with this article on Evgani Tomov, the production designer on the show.

Check it out, and bring your kids.

I bought a scanner.

I actually bought it a while ago, but stuff has been busy lately. With l4d, quakelivebeta and fallout3 coming out and all.

These are from various life drawing sessions in Shoreditch and some bits and pieces from my sketchbook.
man I really wish I bought a faster one. I was so busy looking for resolutions and dpis, i forgot to ask about speed.

harbinger

Of something new.
and some news.
My bro ran a marathon in a suit of armor (yes) and I am now located at MPC.

Also I'm getting totally hyped on l4d. I think we should play it.
ok laters.

Spades

My contribution to c9 weekly for theme 'girls kissing girls'.

horus & diver-space dude

More Flybys

Reworked the t16's as I wanted a version with a little more color pang, slowly it turned into an alternate version. Then this other one popped up so i decided to roll with it for a bit.
Also DMDM went really well, Hum took one of the main prizes!
Other news I just completed Bioware's Mass Effect, which was awesome. If you are into kotor and general sci-fi space stuff, and shooting stuff, get it! I hope i forget it soon so i can play it again.
ok laters.

It'll be just like Beggar's Canyon back home!

The original T-16 Skyhopper design seems to be a crossbreed between the amazing minds of Colin Cantwell's model making and Ralph Mcquarrie's concecpt art.
hey did you know that the model Luke plays with in A New Hope, was the actual prop miniature? man im such a sucker for this stuff..

Hey also, I'll be in Aarhus, Denmark on the 19th of June, participating in the DMDM -Danish Championship of Digital Media.
Its in Musik Huset, where they will be showing different digital media and there will be a screening of 'Hum'. and its free i think.
see you there. maybe.

THEEEE ZOMBIE RIVERRRRR

hey its something not brown.

summer 08!

Nice weather today in the Kingdom of the Queen.
Have a great summer! and an ice cream!

dead ol' whaler

DeathHeaven

...OG DØDSHIMLEN VENTER PÅ DIG!!!!

Mines

wroooom

Dr. Urtz

The only picture available of Dr. Urtz. Its believed it was taken while he was working in his underground labs in Germany, right before he disappeared from the face of the earth. Rumours speak of his last unseen invention. referred to, as the 'Doomsday Device'.

two tracks

Little activity at the kc forum for 'mankind and his pet'. However you should also check out another track, performed by one of my friends. you probably know it, and its already a great song, but this version is awesome.
check out the background too. this guy no doubt has great taste.
ok laters.

BATTLE BROS!

ah ha! a wallpaper for my comrade! we both own a lot of our upbringing, and therefore how we cope in our daily life, to scenarios like this.
man i can't wait!

they called him 'Oldschool'

The first of his kind, before modern days got too high tech.

spaceship

old transporter/assembly plant support ship. Modified and rebuilt for the war. only few left these days, very hard to find parts.

forest

why hello there my friend update. this one is for my awesome girlfriend, i hope she likes it.
you know what? I'm moving on. After a great time with my friends Edda (thanks for letting me stay a couple of days more, and not be homeless!) and Brainboy, I'll be going to Camden Town, the birthplace of true British punk, or at least so I have been told. exiting.
Take care.

Red and Boxbot Responds

oh finally. 'Red and Boxbot Responds' is on the tube. This was a 48hours project done by Andreas N G (Werner) and me, at the stuttgart Red Girl 48hours 3d jam session. All we got was the red girl rig and two computers with photoshop, after effects, premiere, and maya.
-and loads of red bull (disgusting stuff).
afterwards we did some minor tweaks 2 evenings at werner's place, so the story was a bit more clear and polished.
Rene Brokop did a cool score to fit it all together. i hope you dig!
ok laters.

Giant Deep Sea Monster Fish of Death! and news.

Hey fine folks. man so much has happened since last update. i missed you.
Hum took the first prize at the Sicarm International Contest in Murcia, and i got to go there, it was awesome.

Hum will also be screening at this year Danish Filmfestival in Odense, and ill be there the 29th of August. hope to see you (and finally find out if anybody reads this, and who YOU are).
it will be screening the 28th at 11am and 29th at 19pm. and its free!

I started working too, now im located at Framestore CFC in London, so if London is where you lurk around, lets hang out.

Heres a diver battling a giant Monster Fish of Death.

Fast Western!

Ok so Finally FAST WESTERN made it to YOUTUBE.com! This means that you (whoever you are) can enjoy this small animated graphic super adventure western-movie, that me and my formerly fellow students* worked hard on for less than 24 hours a couple of years ago.. all for free! It was traditionally drawn and animated on paper, afterwards scanned in for hours and hours and colored in a program I will never mention by name no more. But now its for the eyes of the world to see. hope you dig. we did.

*Known as Dark Room Productions, formerly known as Cool Room Productions.

weird fingers!

This guy has totally weird fingers. he was born that way, and who knows maybe this weirdness could turn him into a great piano player?

update for real. with Fish head.

Ok so this is totally new stuff, no old hard-drive stories I promise.
I bought a new wacom board since I'm no longer in school and can't abuse school equipment.
yes no more school! I graduated last last Thursday and it feels great! So now I can listen to the black keys and paint all day. actually pretty close to what I used to do anyways.. well.
Take care!

Oh yeah Im working on getting a myspace site.. Its rough. remember to do the dishes.

Jack the Ripper.

Hey this one is actually old stuff.. But I felt like making an update, and didn't have any new drawings worth posting. But its ok, because the reason why this was not posted last year, is because I drew it and saved it on a computer home at my parents, and forgot everything about it and where I put the file.
So from the depths of a faraway hard drive, I bring you: Jack the Ripper.

Oh.. Yeah and this is the funniest animation I've seen so far this year:
Purple and Brown.

The end of the Road.

Yeh. No more for this Chevy, or the happy couple and their honeymoon.
But what is more romantic than freezing to death in each others arms?

Snow

I wish there was some snow outside. But no. But there is snow in this painting!
Its sort of a self portrait, so I hope you like it!
Other news: I brought the new Tom Waits Orphans today and it is GREAT! Go get it now!
-Only bad thing is that my stuff always turn brownish when i listen to his stuff.. which happens a lot. hmm..
I got the limited edition with a fine little book inside, man I love the feeling of looking through a new cover full of pictures and lyrics while listening to the music for the first time.
So if you are a musical genius, wondering if you should sell your soul along with a fancy cover.. The answer is yes.
Another thing: My Ally Tauruz and I played war3 tft against the rank 1 arranged team players on Lordaeron today, and got our asses kicked in. -But we did call them N00bs! HA!
Bye.

It seems that my desire for drawing get bigger when I'm doing technical stuff in Maya... Guess it a good thing.
I dont know about this one, it turned a bit corny somehow (hey at least she does not have crap elven ears, or fairy wings)... But its in colors...!

If you still think this post hurt you, listen to some Man or astro-man?! (it helps me and if you don't know them, be happey that you saw this post)

Theres just nothing like drawing naked people!

We had a model last week, and well its been very long since I did this.
(We did have another session a couple weeks before, but that turned so crappy that it did not happen anyway).
I'll post these, and quickly make another update, so they soon vanish into black blogger hole of the past. Hate the naked man while you can!

PUMA Rocks!

After playing the sweet Company Of Heroes for some time, I have concluded that the SdKfz 234 'PUMA' Armoured Car is so awesome that it must have a crew of at least two hot chicks!
Lets say three, the third one is eating packed lunch in the hull.
Ok laters.

Amazing! Update! Well here's something a bit different. I'm working on a lot of other stuff, but its secret for now.. HA!

more wallpaper for your kids room.

Old Jas

To keep me from going insane doing my batcherlor 3d project..

blog spot first post

Hello Blog spot.
Im happy that you got so popular that I finally found you.
I hope we enjoy the time ahead.

//Sonobeno