Today's His Birthday

Remembering Harald Siepermann (1962-2013) and his enormous talent.

Harald Siepermann

Yesterday, it was two years since character designer Harald Siepermann's passing. Remembering him with celebration rather than sadness: Look at this little drawing here, utterly remarkable.

Yesterday, it was two years since character designer Harald Siepermann's passing. Remembering him with celebration rather than sadness. Look at this little drawing here, utterly remarkable.

Ein von Florian Satzinger Paperwalker (@floriansatzinger) gepostetes Foto am 17. Feb 2015 um 11:29 Uhr

Pixel Vienna Conference, November 7th-9th, 2014

Over the past few years, Pixel Vienna presented stunners like Robert Blalack, Mario Ucci, Eric Goldberg, Bruno Bozzetto, Oscar Grillo, Andreas Deja, Harald Siepermann, Jakob Schuh, Saschka Unseld, just to name a few.

This year, my pals Jose Lopez, Alex Orrelle and Andrei Riabovitchev will continue the grand animation and VFX talks feast, scheduled for November 7th - 9th, 2014, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna:
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Alfred J. Kwak

By tomorrow, July 5th 2014, at the Herman van Veen Arts Center, Netherlands, the grant Alfred Jodocus Kwak exhibition will open its doors. In word, sound and vision. It is to be understood as a deep bow of adoration for the late Harald Siepermann's work. I'm glad and thankful for having become a part of this very duck's journeys and I look forward to the things coming up.

Hans Bacher: Escape From Toontown

«I recently found the ‘finale’ for the Toontown sequence in WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT, a part of a storyboard that Harald Siepermann and I created in the summer of 1987 in the AMBLIN-studio on the UNIVERSAL-lot.»

Hans Bacher/full article

Image via Hans Bacher's weblog. All rights reserved.

Kwak

I had a lovely time visiting Kwak and his best friends...

Testing

Alfred Jodocus Kwak, some rough warm-up test sketching.

Kwak is such a well designed character, thought up by Dutch singer/writer Hermann van Veen, this very duck was designed and one-of-a-kind visually-deployed by a German dream team of animation artists, the late Harald Siepermann, one of the foremost character designers on this very planet and Hans Bacher, one of the most profiled art directors in the animation business.

Harald Siepermann: Pre-Production Artwork

This is an early visdev piece from the pre-production of Harald Siepermann's first animated feature "Der 7bte Zwerg" ("The 7th Dwarf") as a director. The film will be released at the end of January 2014, nearly exact one year after his passing. The artwork here is by Paolo Giandoso but Harald's character design is clearly visible.

By the by, here's a photo (by Carrie Schilz) showing Harald in his The 7th Dwarf director's office, sometime in 2012.

Alfred Jodocus Kwak

Rough sketch test. For Harald and Belicta.

Harald Siepermann

Yesterday was Harald Siepermann's (1962-2013) birthday. I inked one of his sketches, recently (please see below). What a beautiful, soft design and lovely pencil linework. He was such an exceptional artist.

Please find more of his art, inspirations, references etc. over here: Harald's Pinterest wall - a truly treasure chest for every animation artist. Thanks for sharing, Harald...