New Ruthe backgrounds

Over the past few months, I got to once again contribute some background art for animated videos by Ralph Ruthe.

These were for the newest installment of "Biber & Baum":

And this one was for a new video based on the very funny HNO-WG audio play by Ralph and Haiko Hörnig:

Animated Movie Background Art

One of the backgrounds I painted for an animated movie I really hope we get to make:

It's for Ralph Ruthe's "HNO WG" movie (script by Ralph & Haiko Hörnig). We've been working on it (off and on) for 2+ years and now it seems very likely it will finally get the green light soon. Fingers crossed!

More Ruthe backgrounds

Just yesterday, Ralph Ruthe released a new animated short on YouTube that features a number of backgrounds painted by me. Check out "Die HNO-WG - Folge 12: Die Séance" on YouTube.

Here are some screenshots with my background art:

Tonk

A few years ago, Haiko Hörnig & I co-wrote the script for Tonk, a highly stylized martial arts/fantasy show. The 16-minute pilot actually got made (directed by Chon-Dat Nguyen & Alex Kleinrensing) and even played at the Cannes film festival, but we haven’t been able to secure funding for a full season yet.

Now it’s finally available for everyone to see on YouTube! Click on the image below to watch:

It's in German, but there are English subtitles.

Ruthe backgrounds

I haven't posted anything here in a while because I just didn't have much time since the birth of my kid. But now that the little one's spending more time at daycare, I'm going to try to catch up and post some of the stuff I've been working on.

First up, over the past 2 years I was fortunate to be asked to paint some background art for various animated videos by Ralph Ruthe.

The Iron Throne for episode 20 of "Pete":

A bunker and some houses for episode 11 of  "Die HNO-WG":

A living room for an animated ad for MagentaTV starring Christian Ulmen & Fahri Yardim:

Backgrounds are mine, all characters are Ralph's.

We're also still working on the theatrical "HNO-WG" feature film!

Die HNO-WG - Concept Art

I've got a cool new job: drawing concept art for Ralph Ruthe's movie based on his animated YouTube series "Die HNO-WG". The movie probably won't be out for a couple of years, but Ralph just shared a teaser trailer and my first piece of concept art:

This was Ralph's rough sketch:

The movie was co-written by Ralph and my "Orion" co-writer Haiko Hörnig.

NICHTLUSTIG Background Art

From 2016 until earlier this year, I got to work on the NICHTLUSTIG animated tv show (based on Joscha Sauer's hugely successful cartoon books) and drew most of the backgrounds for two of the six episodes. Now, the show is finally finished and available for everyone to buy (digitally)! Im think it turned out very nicely! Here's the trailer:

NICHTLUSTIG - die Serie from NICHTLUSTIG on Vimeo.

You can buy the whole season for less than 10€ on Vimeo On Demand RIGHT HERE. My work can be found mostly in episodes 3 and 4.

I uploaded a selection of my background drawings on Behance HERE. Here are a few of them, including one that didn't end up getting used (the last one):

Do check out the other ones on Behance!

HIPSTERS in Hell, pts. 9 & 10 & 11

German version of pt. 9 & German version of pt. 10 &
German version of pt. 11 

HIPSTERS in Hell, pts. 6 & 7 & 8

For these three strips, I experimented with animated panels for the first time, and I quite like it. I'm probably going to use it some more in upcoming comics.

German version of pt. 6 & German version of pt. 7 &
German version of pt. 8

transformation animation

An animated short film, done digitally in Flash. I originally did this for a university project involving advertising for a furniture manufacturer. Luckily, it was a fairly open project, so I could do what I wanted, as long as it involved one of their pieces of furniture in some way. And since I wanted to try out hand-drawn animation, I made this:

click here to open .MOV file (better quality)

self destruction

A short stop-motion animated video I did for university about a year ago.



Music by Muse.