Another Remake In The Works

Posted in Sketches on March 8th, 2010 by Jab

“Those are the things that upset me!”

Posted in Sketches on March 3rd, 2010 by Jab

JEP’s Rudolf

Posted in Animation from Germany on January 5th, 2010 by Jab

Happy New Year!

The French internet portal canalj put some of the animated Rudolf shorts online, part of the animation and production team of which I have been for almost a year now.

See the first eleven episodes here!

Merry Christmas

Posted in Animation from Germany on December 20th, 2009 by Jab

Here’s a little Christmas story we worked on earlier this year:

A Chicken Christmas

It’s in German and not dubbed, but enjoy anyway and Merry Christmas.

Quick Lunch Sketch

Posted in Sketches on July 17th, 2009 by Jab
Monkey Island is back!
Monkey Island is back!

I’m animating again and with the characters we’re using at the moment it’s possible to do it directly on the Cintiqs the studio bought us. Much more flexible than scanning everything into Animo first. (I just hate Animo’s numbering system.)

Quick Colour:

Guybrush Colour
Guybrush Colour

Still Very Busy Times

Posted in General Animation Bantor, Sketches, Finished on June 8th, 2009 by Jab

Work is still going strong at the Cologne animation studio, and especially fun because I’m currently getting a crash course in Flash with a pay on top.

What we’re working on is

Rudolf, the misadventures of a strange-looking rabbit-thing, thought up by Belgian animator, storyboard artist and director Rudi Mertens. Work will be outsourced to Asia soon but there’s a chance the Flash clean-up team will get to animate on episodes instead. Not a bad deal at all!

I haven’t really had the time to draw for myself much. The following two sketches are actually several months old.

Character Concept (Rejected)

Character Concept (Rejected)
Ghostly Baseball Player
Ghostly Baseball Player

Also, Mr Martinez tells me the demo for his upcoming graphic adventure Shades of Violet will be out soon. I think what they have put together looks fantastically good for an independently developed game and I’m very glad to have been given the chance to design the demo’s locations.

Layouts

Posted in Sketches, Finished on March 28th, 2009 by Jab

Much work all around.

Commissions for Heriberto Valle Martinez and his indie adventure game “Shades of Violet”. I hope to be able to play the demo soon.

Colours courtesy of Jon Tiu.

Hallowed Hallway
Hallowed Hallway
Children's Cradle
Children's Cradle
Rickety Road
Rickety Road
Rumpus Room
Rumpus Room

SteamBoys

Posted in Uncategorized on January 11th, 2009 by Jab

Some new, early character concepts.

SteamBoys
SteamBoys

2009 - Q’apla

Posted in Uncategorized on January 8th, 2009 by Jab

Happy New Year and Good Luck to you all.

Some quick -

People Sketches
People Sketches

- and a ruff -

Layout
Layout

It’s cluttered in places. Some good colour and strategic lighting should help but I prefer it if a layout reads clearly from the very beginning.

More Sketches

Posted in Uncategorized on December 2nd, 2008 by Jab

Hardly any time to draw for myself because I’m animating for a studio again. Good times!

More Quickies
More Quickies