eulenstadt: 2013

Thursday 26 December 2013

Monday 29 July 2013

So this is what i'm actually "supposed" to be working on nehehee X))
A retelling/reinterpretation of the russian fairytale Snegurotscka, the Snow Maiden or Schneeflöckchen in german. I wasn't really sure for the longest time in which direction i wanted it
to take, style and storytelling-wise.

There are many different versions of Snegurotschkas story; sometimes she is the daughter of Jack Frost and the Spring fairy, sometimes she is just a little snow child that came alive (sorta like Pinocchio). In all of the versions, she dies/melts at the end, because the sungod takes her or she gets to close to a fire or something along the lines of that.

Since there are some many different variations, i'm thinking of writing my own text for it at the moment. We'll see..

Concepts, sketchdump whatevs...x)) i still like the Icecastle a whole lot.

drawing challenge weekly: tentacles!

so we figured we needed more challenges because apparently our drawing challenge has become so popular that people were getting impatient with only one! who would have thought....=)

so Jelena is now our new appointed weekly challenge admiral :)

We had some pretty cool topics already, but i couldn't really do anything because my hand is still hurting a lot of the time and i still have this other project to finish.

But ok, here ya go, i finally did a little thing, because tentacles. yeah.

Monday 15 July 2013

Exhibition Time! Rundgang Department Design 2013

Semester's over and i think we're all recovered now from the stress of our annual university exhibition. x)

Have some photos. >y<

Wee sketchbooks! And my book project on the wall, will post about it soon.

Look art! >y<

Spider dress and Unicorn hat!! So cool.

This is us in the sounddesign room and Kerstin with her audio play of "The Frog Prince":)

babypossum and a mean looking binturong, two of my favourite critters :3

A really cool bachelor thesis that i liked a lot.

We built a sandcastle on the second day...damn designers, just can't stop doing things with their hands. X)

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True story! I like my university.

Sunday 23 June 2013

WE NEED MORE JUICE..game jam part two

hey guys! back from the game jam, tired but happy :) The Game Jam was a game design workshop hosted by InnoGames in Hamburg. The concept was pretty simple: you basically have 44h to create a game. No restrictions, no other rules. Free drinks&snacks plus Sushi on the house. Wow X))

I'm a bit too groogy now to write a long coherent text but Dimi, one of our designers already has a cool post about it that you can check out here if you like!

edit: hahaaa so Jelena beat me to it, she was like 2 minutes quicker with her part 2 jam review X)
Lookey here!! :D

So i threw together some stuff that i did for our game.

final background :) made it much simpler than the original concept, but i really like how it turned out considering the (little) amount of time i had.

mock-up of the bg and some game objects that i did and a little character dummy.

we called him Bob.

concept sketch dump, throwing things around in painter as usual.

You can check out the prototype of our game for the time being here :))

There are some things missing (like the bg effect from my previous post) that didn't make it into this version because there wasn't enough time, yaddayadda i still like the result X) And just the experience to work together on a project like this in a team of programmers, game designers, illustrators totally made it worthwhile.

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