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The Illusionist color script - BG keys End SQ

2011-12-31T08:19:00.000-08:00

this is close to be my favourite part of the color script/ BG keys I did... A bit gloomy but fun to do.. Again I got a lot of freedom from Sylvain Chomet. The first 3 pics are for the 3D generated sq, so they are not use directly in the film. Here I have explained how we did the work-split in BG dpt. And here there are examples of how the keys were used in the final bg's.

glædelig jul - merry Christmas

2011-12-23T02:48:00.000-08:00

Deamon illustrations for book 02

2011-11-12T06:37:00.000-08:00

some more spreads for the book written By Benni Bødker I illustrated in august this year.

Mikisoq design - some old files.

2011-11-12T06:20:00.000-08:00

and here are some Mikisoq designs that I did for Afilm in Copenhagen after my job as Art director on The Illusionist. Its a big shame this film never made it. It could have been a cool job....it was fun to develop these environments.

Orla Frøsnapper circus

2011-11-12T05:50:00.000-08:00

here are some uploads from the production design I did for Orla Frøsnapper. This time the circus. I have incl some very early drawings as well as the final artwork.

Lego Ninjago production design

2011-10-08T08:19:00.000-07:00

in 2010 I had the pleasure to do the production design for Lego's tv series Ninjago.
It was the same production company Wilfilm that I did Orla Frøsnapper for. Together with Michael Hegner the director of the initial series we made this simple and colourful look.
At the end Niels Bach joined the forces.

I have just finished the second season together with Anne Hofmann , Frederic Bertrand and Robert Brandt.

Lego Ninjago production design

2011-10-08T08:08:00.000-07:00

Demon 02

2011-10-08T07:01:00.000-07:00

i just finished this easy-reader written by Benni Bødker...
here are a couple of spreads..

Demon 02

2011-10-08T06:58:00.000-07:00

color script for Sandmänchen

2011-10-08T06:45:00.000-07:00

This part is in the end of the film - the count down. I had Anne Hofmann's beautiful production design to base the colors and mood on. It was fun to do.

color script for Sandmänchen

2011-10-08T06:41:00.000-07:00

jakob´s tree

2011-10-08T06:38:00.000-07:00

on this set it was Jakobs tree hut that the three kids spend a lot time in to plan their moves. The drawings is all so some of the early ones in the process of finding the style. So I drew a lot. The interesting part was to keep the naive feel and still define volume.

Orla Frøsnapper design Jakob's Tree

2011-10-08T06:33:00.000-07:00

Orla Frøsnapper design - Blacksmith set

2011-06-23T12:55:00.000-07:00

The line drawing was one of the initial design for the set.. It was a bit tricky to describe volume and still be true to Ole Lund Kirkegårds style of drawing... But I think we managed to meet him on the way..

Orla Frøsnapper design 02

2011-06-23T12:50:00.000-07:00

Orla Frøsnapper design

2011-06-23T12:46:00.000-07:00

- two years ago Peter Dodd contacted me to ask if I wanted to design his upcoming cgi feature Ora Frøsnapper.
Since its one of the classics of Danish children literature that if not every - but then at least a substantial amount of kids know in Denmark.
.I then talked to one of the producers Erik Wilstrup over a cup of coffe..I was glad to say yes..
This summer it have had its premier... and that came to be a lovely day.

The first set I show is the Blacksmith set. He is a pretty tall guy with BIG hands.. So when he stands behind his fence only he can look over it..and he is not a very nice guy, but i tried to make his garden a male paradise...fenced in, cosy cavelike place. The Ferguson is on request of Peter D...

The Illusionist Poster

2011-02-26T09:05:00.001-08:00

Sylvain Chomet "The Illusionist" color work - backgrounds

2011-02-26T08:56:00.000-08:00

- in-between 2006 and 2008 I was so fortunate to work on Sylvain Chomet's “The Illusionist”. The first two month mostly BG painter- then as head of Art department with the responsibility to oversee the productions of BG's and layout- clean-up even though that was in good hands of Isobel Stenhouse and Bjørn Aschim ( he did the beautiful cityscape drawings you see through-out the film)

When I came, they had been working for some time in making the animatic and was slowly starting the actual production of cleaning up the layouts. Evgeni Tomov had been working on the project on development and on the animatic, but had left before I came on board.... still he did circa the first third of the roughs for the animatic and Pierre-Henry Laporterie had taken over where he left.

The black/grey/white animatic worked as a blueprint for the film... I do hope that it will be included in the DVD release... one can say that the film was done twice first a rough drawn and posed black/grey/white film and then the color version that I worked on.

Bjørn had done some color work but I after a short time when I started doing the color-keys for the BG's I did it mostly from scratch keeping only little from what was done before....and was a dream job to do. First I had those great drawings to work from and then a handful of great artist to paint the BG's. Anne Hofmann whom I think did close to 100 and did some of my favourite BG's in the film, Bjørn Aschim - also a great painter, Marcin Lichowski, Julien Deman – did too few BG's since he worked on the character color together with Emma McCann that beside her job as character color head did a handful of BG's. Beside supervising the artists I painted as many BG's as I could manage.

I enjoyed staying in Edinburgh for those close to two years I did. And Im proud of have been part of that film. I got some good friends among them the assisting director Paul Dutton that wrote the Fiddler Pieces story...another great project.

More to come, stay tuned..

Sylvain Chomet "The Illusionist" color keys - Backgrounds

2011-02-26T08:39:00.000-08:00

Sylvain Chomet "The Illusionist" color key's - backgrounds

2011-02-26T08:37:00.000-08:00

Das Sandmännchen - Abenteuer im Traumland art work

2011-02-02T11:16:00.000-08:00

I was so lucky to part of this film directed by Sinem Sakaoglu and with beautiful production design by Anne Hofmann. In these pictures I was asked to design some interiors for the live-action part of the film. The kids bedroom and the living room. It takes place in a light tower so no corners. It was hard to live up to the stuff done for the puppet part of the film...but fun.
People that have seen the film might recognize the Zeppelin lamp or the Moon-dogs...

check this out, a blog by Anne Hofmann

2011-01-21T08:46:00.000-08:00

- and you find it here !

- from the drawer

2010-11-11T10:48:00.000-08:00

The Illusionist stills

2010-11-05T13:19:00.000-07:00

here are some stills found here and seeing them makes me proud to be part of making this film.

2010-11-05T13:16:00.000-07:00

The Illusionist stills

2010-11-05T13:14:00.000-07:00

The Illusionist stills

2010-11-05T13:11:00.000-07:00

cartoon brew post

2010-11-03T02:39:00.000-07:00

on the cartoon brew site they have this recent post about the Illusionist.
It's nice to see that it will be shown in the states.

- from the drawer

2010-10-23T10:45:00.000-07:00

here are some pictures done for project that might never lift off...how ever cool and fun they would be to see on the screen.

shame.

Daemon illustrations

2010-10-03T02:18:00.000-07:00

Daemon : Eyes of fire

- just finished these illustrations for a book by Benni Bødker together with Anne Hofmann who helped me with some of the spreads. Fun to do.

Daemon illustrations

2010-10-03T02:16:00.000-07:00

Daemon illustrations

2010-10-03T02:05:00.000-07:00

Mikisoq development art

2010-03-31T10:57:00.000-07:00

In the summer of 2008 I had the big fun of working on development art for the 3D feature Mikisoq for A-film. The site is just launched please check it out.
I did a whole bunch of location designs together with director Jesper Møller and Søren E Olsen who started it all several years ago.

scenes from the desert

2010-01-29T03:10:00.000-08:00

sans souci 01

2009-06-03T04:33:00.000-07:00

sans souci 02

2009-06-03T04:30:00.000-07:00

Waiting is...

2009-05-27T04:24:00.000-07:00

Millennium trilogy

2009-03-27T06:28:00.000-07:00

I was so fortunate to get the job of painting the pictures to be used in the title-sequence for the TV-series based on Stieg Larson's Millennium trilogy. The task set by the art-director Philip Einstein Lipski was to paint in an old style....to make them look "hand painted" and he gave me a lot of freedom to come up with the layouts and the look of the paintings...it was a fun job to do. I have uploaded details of the full pictures. The series will be aired in 2010.

Millennium trilogy

2009-03-27T06:16:00.000-07:00

Millennium trilogy

2009-03-27T06:15:00.000-07:00

Christmas cards 2008

2008-12-11T04:10:00.000-08:00

here are some of the cards I drew and sent to family and friends... as usual I had a fun time doing them.

merry Christmas

Christmas cards 2008

2008-12-11T04:08:00.000-08:00

Christmas cards 2008

2008-12-11T04:07:00.000-08:00

Christmas cards 2008

2008-12-11T04:06:00.000-08:00

Year one

2008-10-12T10:42:00.000-07:00

CU

2008-09-20T12:53:00.000-07:00

Some day...

2008-09-16T14:49:00.000-07:00

happy lift off 02

2008-09-10T13:19:00.001-07:00

an illustration for Jules Verne and a happy lift off

2008-09-09T11:31:00.000-07:00

roughs for book project

2008-08-15T10:50:00.000-07:00

hi ! here are some more drawings for this book project I do on the side.

friend

2008-07-10T05:44:00.000-07:00

encore

2008-07-09T13:58:00.000-07:00

nordic light

2008-06-26T13:18:00.000-07:00

encore

2008-06-12T13:34:00.000-07:00

another blue pic

2008-06-12T05:53:00.000-07:00

Home sweet home

2008-06-11T10:06:00.000-07:00

Been working in Edinburgh at Django film on Sylvain Chomet's film for nearly two years as Art Director.

I was great to work on his film...It will be worth waiting for.

Sylvain Chomets new feature

2008-05-16T13:16:00.000-07:00

this in the only image so far released from the film im working at.
I think its going to be an amazing film.

green is the colour of hope

2008-05-11T12:56:00.000-07:00

Die stille der Nacht

2008-05-11T03:41:00.000-07:00

...

2008-05-10T07:53:00.000-07:00

Crashed

2008-05-08T15:35:00.000-07:00

spring 03

2008-04-19T12:59:00.000-07:00

spring 2

2008-04-18T13:55:00.000-07:00

spring

2008-04-18T13:06:00.000-07:00

another morning travel picture

2008-03-30T11:46:00.001-07:00

I draw these pictures as I go along. Fill the book, scan and paint either in water or Photoshop...this one was drawn on my way to Glasgow. ...painted in photoshop

drawn in the morning waiting for take off.

2008-03-26T16:07:00.001-07:00

no contact

2008-03-24T15:15:00.001-07:00

...04

2008-03-22T14:41:00.001-07:00

...03

2008-03-21T08:58:00.001-07:00

Colored recently…drawn last year

... 02

2008-03-16T14:16:00.001-07:00

...

2008-03-16T10:35:00.001-07:00

in the middle of nowhere

2008-03-16T02:56:00.001-07:00

and I guess Im stuck here

wasteland 02

2008-03-13T15:26:00.001-07:00

snowmen in the sun- x-mass cards 2007

2007-12-19T14:45:00.001-08:00

more snowmen...

snowmen in the sun- x-mass cards 2007

2007-12-19T14:42:00.001-08:00

more snowmen...

some roughs for a book project

2007-11-25T09:34:00.001-08:00

Old man and the fish

2007-11-24T15:20:00.001-08:00

In the middle of nothing

2007-09-09T07:32:00.001-07:00

color studies for Jungo 3

2007-08-19T10:58:00.001-07:00

Quick colorstudies done last year for Jungo (3) goes Bananas.
It was fun to work these two weeks on this feature.. Since this is a 3D film it gives a different lightness to the painting-process compared to painting for at 2D film as "Asterix and the Vikings" (where I was head of BG department) or "The Illusionist" where I’m working now. They were only studies and not keys ...and thought as a working tool for Director Jørgen Lerdam and the Art director Steen Mesterton ..It was fun.

Furthermore was I working on Jungo 1 and 2 as a BG painter for many years ago so I had been there before in the days of analog painting.

color studies for Jungo 3

2007-08-19T10:45:00.001-07:00

color studies for Jungo 3

2007-08-19T10:37:00.000-07:00

monday morning

2007-06-14T14:24:00.001-07:00

another afternoon pic

2007-06-12T14:09:00.001-07:00

a late summer sunday..

2007-06-10T14:36:00.001-07:00

just another...

2007-06-02T12:55:00.001-07:00

drawing for the fun of it 08

2007-06-01T15:26:00.001-07:00

drawing for the fun of it 07

2007-05-28T15:19:00.000-07:00

drawing for the fun of it 06

2007-05-28T07:41:00.001-07:00

this one was colored on my laptop...blind while painting.. hmm.

drawings for the fun of it 05

2007-05-27T09:40:00.001-07:00

drawings for the fun of it 04

2007-05-27T09:38:00.001-07:00

drawings for the fun of it 03

2007-05-27T09:35:00.001-07:00

drawings for the fun of it 02

2007-05-27T09:32:00.000-07:00

drawings for the fun of it 01

2007-05-27T09:27:00.000-07:00

in the afterhours its nice to do pointless stuff of no use

some quick discarded doodles for a childrensbook

2007-05-27T07:57:00.001-07:00