Art Jam 19.03.
I made another Art Jam in my apartment today (well, technically yesterday).
Attendees were Gerald, Andi, Paul, Lisa, Laurenz, Christoph and Henrieke over uStream.
Had tons of fun watching UHF, made stupid sketches and eventually played a round of eat poop u cat.
Here's the result:
1. "Lucy sent his winged skull to North-North-East."
(drawn by Paul)
I have to promote this
Check out this awesome Video a friend of mine made, this needs more exposure!
Whoops
No sketchdump last Friday.. but I simply had next to nothing to post.
In 8 days I'll be on my way to the U.S. already and there's still alot to do before. Hopefully I'll be able to post photos/sketches from there.
Horton is a badass
Horton hears a who was actually a pretty good movie, I enjoyed it alot.
They probably feared it could be too successful when they made these awful movie posters, probably with the intent to scare kids away.
For comparison, here's real Horton:
Christmas Presents
Wow! Loads of awesome stuff I got this christmas. Also I was reminded once again how lucky I am to have such a great family. 
Anyway, here's what I got:
At first, christmas cards from friends around the world (thanks to everyone!), an Ukulele (finally!), another bright orange DryFIT shirt (can't have enough of those), Glicos from our japanese friends (awesome candys), A TOTALLY AWESOME TEX AVERY FIURINE (which I'll explain later), Pralines, Disney Comics, Books (a Thriller and one about Toilets), DVD (Hollow Man), a laminating machine and Eric Goldbergs "Animation Crash course", which seems to be the best book about animation since Preston Blairs.
So this is the figurine I got. It's from "The early bird dood it".
To refresh your memory, here's a screencap:
The figurine is totally awesome and I just posted this to make everyone jealous 
Luckily the gifts I gave to others were also liked (Beer, Giant Microbes, DVDs, other stuff). The most fun thing was probably the tiny RC helicopter I gave to one of my brothers. It's totally fun and survived many crashes already. I should get one for myself too..
Amazing that this actually works (very well even). It just needs quite some practice.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to everyone who reads my blog! And thanks for reading my blog at all!
Creating your own custom aperture
It's common knowledge that the bokeh in pictures will reveal what the aperture looks like. A good example are lights turning into stars when you do long exposure with small amerture, like f16.
For this trick you will need a lens with big aperture, like f1.8 or f1.4, otherwise your custom aperture and the internal aperture will overlap (or you need to make yours really small). I used an old Nikkor f1.4 manual focus lens.
Cut out any shape you want out of a opaque material and put it directly in front of your lens - voila. It looks like this:
With this, I created the following cheesy shots:
This way you can create nice backgrounds for your christmas shots.
Running Sushi
Met up with some friends for running Sushi after Comicbörse, sketched a bit and had a good time
We also put the Camera on the Sushi track and got some funny reactions.
There’s no return now
I bought a Ticket: Vienna -> San Jose -> Orlando -> Vienna.
Henrieke also goes with me. First we'll attend Further Confusion in San Jose, where I'll meet alot of cartoon artists and hopefully also the Guest of Honor, Jeff Pidgeon. awesome!
After that we'll follow the invitation we got from Herbie (awesome Disney animator) and spend 2 weeks in Orlando visiting theme parks and meeting cool people.
Es lebe Elektro
So I made this Electro Mix recently, basically for training, to have some nice music in background. But as many people liked my last mix, I'll put it online for download. Don't expect any fancy transitions as I did this with a program intended for live mixeing.
Anyway, it's really good Electro House Music, so I hope you enjoy
(I made this fancy cover which actually took longer than making the mix)
Or if you want to save bandwidth:
Tracklist:
- David Guetta - Delirious (Laidback Luke Mix)
- Starkillers - Big Bass (3.2 Mix)
- Dj Antoine Vs Player & Remady feat MC Roby Rob - Work this Pussy
- Guru Josh Project - Infinity 2008 (Klaas Vocal Re-Edit)
- Michael Mind feat. Manfred Manns Earth Band - Blinded By The Light
- Hipp-E & Dj Dan - Bangin On Ya System (Matteo Dimarr Remix)
- Heiko und Maiko - Techno Rock (Elektro Energetischer Mix)
- DJ Tom - Rock On (Mondo remix)
- DJ Gollum feat. Felixx - Fairytale gone bad (Lars Electro Remix)
- Jamie Fisher - just be good to me (2006 sunrise Mix)
- Dave Darell - Freeloader (Spencer & Hill Remix)
Sketch Meeting 22.10.08
Soo, I made a sketch meeting in my apartment once again!
Gerald, Alina, Andi, Martin, Marlene and Paul attended, and it was alot of fun!
I'm totally happy with my apartment, I can host alot of people and it's a perfect environment for creative stuff. I wish my amplifier worked though.
(l ro r) Andi, Marlene, Alina, Paul
We produced alot of Sketches and made a big drawing:
top-left: Andi, bottom-left: Alina, middle: me, top-right: Marlene, bottom-right: Gerald
I met Ulrich Schröder!
A friend called me today, pointing out that Ulrich Schröder is doing free sketches at a games convention here. (check out his works here)
So I just went there, waited about 1,5 hours in the line and got a great sketch for me:
And I also got an even better one for Henrieke:
We talked a bit, even though he was very busy with drawing the requests from other people.
His inking style was so amazing, especially at this speed. He told me the feather he was using was 70 years old, and if it ever breaks, he'll be helpless.
Yaay!
Uncle Scrooge!!
I was really lucky that my friend pointed that out, since he was only here yesterday and today! Standing there for ages was totally worth it.
Charleston gift
Henrieke knows I love the charleston and made me this awesome sketch!
For more of her fabulous sketches, be sure to visit her sketchblog everyday!
