Mar 26, 2013
From summer until winter 2012 I was writing on my master thesis on the topic: “The development phases in digital character design – an analysis of various practical approaches with following evaluation and classification”. The abstract reads as follows: In today‘s media landscape, characters and creatures vary greatly in their type as in their range...
Mar 25, 2013
The following books were my most used resources during the writing of my master thesis on the topic of character design. They helped me a great deal to find my topic in general, to break it down into sections and to find interesting viewing angles. Of cause they also helped me on the practical part....
Mar 22, 2013
To support the final three dimensional modeling by Alexander Holz, I did a Model Sheet as a guideline to show the designed creature from different views. It was quite hard to keep the distances and shapes correct from the different angles and I also did some small mistakes which I’ve noticed much later. I thought...
Mar 22, 2013
The second part of the design process started with a new research stage and many new sketches on animals and forms, which could be combined with the previously designed creature. I then did some sketches on the topic of anatomy and invented a short story to give the glowing green elements on the creature some...
Mar 21, 2013
As a practical part of my master thesis I did and documented a Character Design for Chris Creatures Filmeffects. The whole project took about six month with some breaks during my research and writing stage of the thesis. It was also a cooperation project with the 3D artist Alexander Holz who supported the design process...
Mar 19, 2013
Last summer I’ve started to draw a girl from my favourite online store at one evening. It was kind of a good training and I’ve decided to draw more fast paintings of those beautiful girls there. At deviantArt: [Shop Girl 01] I did girl number two also at one evening but later changed a little...
Mar 18, 2013
Another good part of Anthony Jones Creature Design course was his voice. I really enjoyed the deep sound as one hears it during the course for many many hours and so a pleasant voice is clearly a plus point. Lesson 5 – Posing and Fitting in an Environment In this lesson the task was to...
Mar 18, 2013
I took part in my second course at schoolism.com last summer: Creature Design with Anthony Jones. His teaching style was quite different in comparison to Bobby Chius Digital Painting course but I liked it just as much. He was more explaining and defining what will be needed from an artist working in the field of...
Mar 17, 2013
After finishing my master thesis in the beginning of 2013, I’ve rewarded myself with a short trip to Prague (as it’s so easy to get there by train from Berlin) together with my boyfriend. The weather forecast did show some snow for the weekend but sadly the weather was more like snow-rain and pretty much...
Mar 16, 2013
This was done for a friend who wanted a special present for his girlfriends birthday. I especially enjoyed painting her hair as it was quite a challenge to keep all the motion and dynamic. His hair too was quite a challenge as the bald parts quickly look unnatural. But I’ve heard that she liked her...
Mar 16, 2013
For the writing of my term paper on digital painting and my master thesis on the topic of character design I’ve bought and researched in some actual magazines. As in Germany the amount of magazines on the production of two-dimensional and three-dimensional digital art is limited, I also bought some international ones. “ImagineFX” (Future Publishing)...
Mar 15, 2013
In the fourth semester during my master studies and after thinking a while about the right subject, I’ve started with my term paper on the general topic of “Digital Painting”. My main focus were the development of the digital art form, the used programs to create and the fields where digital paintings are used in...
