Live Broadcast II

Alright, another skipper right from my drawing desk, it's a kind of really rough silhouette test for this air bike copter thing. Let's see...

Here's an earlier version of this piece. I really liked the aerial gunners and the pilot-bird in the jockey pose, but, ultimately, the whole thing was too detailed to my taste:

Some influence came BTW from here and here.

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Live Broadcast

This is quasi a "live broadcast" right from my drawing desk. It should be finished by Thursday or Friday, this week... I'll keep you posted on the progress.

This here below is BTW another rough piece from the same thing:

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Sheets

These are a few samples of a selection of art sheets which were exhibited with original drawing size in the main hallway of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at this year's Pixel Conference, put together from the Nemoland exhibition 2009 and some newer things like my Birds & Pencils book.

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Rough Sketch; Pixel 5, Party & Conference Pics

The first time ever that a bear launched a self-built satellite into orbit...

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Update: Here are some snapshots of the Pixel Party. Top left is Jakob Schuh (co-director of "The Gruffalo", Studio Soi), top right Harald Siepermann (with whom I had way too much red wine), bottom left Saschka Unseld ("Toy Story 3", Pixar) who btw couldn't resist joining in the Pixel Battle game. The party, hosted right at the studio site of Vienna based CG power house Friendly Fire, was a really fun and hilarious get together. We got back to the hotel at about 5am :)

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I guess, besides Nemoland in Florence, the Pixel is – in its category – one of the finest, warm and friendly festivals what we have here in Europe.

Here are some gems from the actual show: © Staber/Pixel

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5th PIXEL Conference, Vienna

Get prepared for the PIXEL 5 this week! The annual Austrian conference on computergraphics and animation. Friday, November 5th - Sunday, November 7th, 2010, Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences. For more information please check out the PIXEL site right over here, I hope to see you there. So, pack your bags and go :) GET TICKETS HERE!
These here are btw some work-in-progresse pieces and the finished official PIXEL Battle sujet.

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Chuck Jones' CG Descendants

No bad, indeed. Via Matt Jones' blog:

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The Ducks Who Thought They Were Spirou And Fantasio

This rough cover concept drawing is for something I plan to do one day. Not in terms of a full length comic album nor a graphic novel but in a form of a short story or fun homage to the Franco-Belgian Spirou and Fantasio comics I grew up with. Especially the ones by André Franquin. Apropos Franquin, his collection of black comedy comics - Idées noires (Dark Thoughts) - is, to me, one of those all time "must haves".

The iron boat was quite inspired by those streamline beauties: (BTW, Hans Bacher gave me the idea of using irons as reference material)

Photos via DRB and Streamline Irons

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How To Train Your Li'l Dragons, pardon, Students

Daybreak, Campus Urstein

Here are some first impressions of MULAN art director Hans Bacher's visiting professorship at the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg. Yesterday, over 400 students attended Hans' animation talk. What an animation art fest we have here.

Photos © Satzinger & Hardenberg Image Archive. W.r.r.

Oh, by the by, this rough piece here below shows a nice example that the monster's napper changed a lot in the rough process. I'll try to post the finished piece by Thursday.

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Tomorrow

Alright, the "Bacher Week" at the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg will start right tomorrow... I've packed all my pencils, paper and smiles and I'm ready to go! I'll try to post some photos of the animation week here shortly...

In order to get attuned properly to this very week, here are two 'Beauty And The Beast' storyboard drawings by Chris Sanders and a story sketch (below) by Glen Keane, all of them coloured by Hans Bacher:

© Disney (via Hans Bacher's weblog)

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Marine Biologist And Lucky Luke Fan

Well, the picture says it all... BTW(1), lately I had no time to write answers in the comments section. Sorry for that, I will reply as soon as I can. BTW(2), corresponding to my drawing here, Achdé already posted the cover art of the upcoming/latest Lucky Luke comic album on his blog.

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Colours!

As promised, here's the finished thing. Some pieces from the process will follow, like colour palette etc.

The colour palette I used in this design:

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Monkey King StarDucks Branded; Nuke Sub Suit

Update: Another ruffy, the ACME Nemoland Nuke Sub Suit.

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In a final step, I did a lot of re-editing on my Monkey King piece. I StarDucks-branded the whole thing a little with the assistance of this fellow bird character and a lot of motorpunkish appliances. Alright, colours will follow with the next update. BTW, cheers to Charles, Charlène, Josh and Attilio for the kind feedback on my rough things here. I'm always suprised that those unfinished sketches are that well-liked.

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Vehicle Design: Rough Process

Here is another little insight into the rough process or very beginning of creating a vehicle. In this particular instance, it's a sort of prisoner transport craft with an unfolding chassis prison cabin.

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Academy of Art Character Design Notes

Orlando based and former Disney artist Jennifer Gwynne Oliver just opened an interesting new blog which features discussion, inspiration, notes and links for her AAU students or anyone else interested in the art and craft of classical hand-drawn animation. Even my looney beaks attracted attention there. Lovely.

BTW, here is the brilliant sister blog Academy of Art Animation Notes by David Nethery. Cheers to Jennifer and David for their vision and efforts!

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