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Even though the mammoth animation did work well on screen, it didn’t work at all in its desired device. The walking-cycle was made for a Daedaleum (”wheel of the devil”), or the anthropic Zoetrope (”wheel of life”).

It’s project by Rotopolpress, commissioned by group of local museums. The daedaleum is, technically, such a gnarly animation-gadget, that the more fluent and detailed the animation by itself, the less it will work in the device. The tiny printsize doesn’t make it better, too. I tried fixing it by adding contrast, a lot of contrast. I almost tripled the lineweight, and added shadows. Nothing.

Regarding a Zoetrope it’s all about contrast, but more importantly moving shapes. The horse animation, which we had for reference, is not even a full loop. It only shows a third of the full cycle, but the bouncing shape, the flinging of limbs just does its job. A mammoth does not prance around its prehistoric meadows like a young gazelle… It’s, seen through the daedaleum, just a square! Argh, back to the drawing board and making it as simple and rough as possible.

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At the last Rundgang, the annual exhibition at the School of Arts and Design Kassel, I found out about the student-project Bonogoo. It’s a website dedicated to bringing products from design-students to the public. The website is still in it’s beginnings, but I do like the design, the concept as well as some of their products.

More here.

Redgarding the Rundgang 2008, I made a Flickr set, here.

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P1040163 - tiny, tiny spider

I spotted this tiny fella dangling from my desktop lamp, the other night. a.

I am currently working on a commission, where I have to visualize a mammoth’s walking cycle in 12 frames. I haven’t animated anything since my first semester in art-school, fun. So, here’s a small something. I still have to add some fur.

I am not dead, but busy. Currently working on a couple of jobs, as well as my final exams, which I can’t show, now.

Random doodle.

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Magazine commission. I think I didn’t post this one, yet?

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A small outburst, while working on something else.

I gave my dock another fun overhaul. Many of the icons are from Iconfactory, including most of the pixelated oldies.

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I’ve returned from the bi-annual Comic-Salon Erlangen saturday night. Our illustration class and Rotopolpress have been part of the Salon’s “Junges Forum”. It’s been okay, but I actually expected more cos-playing and crazier nerds, he. The amount of comics was intimidatingly overwhelming. Next time, I better be showing up with an own comic, or not show up at all.

The full set is HERE.

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Just in case anyone likes the “Sleeping Beauty” piece, you can actually order a limited high-quality archival print HERE. The prints are numbered and signed and cost around 50 EUR (approx. 75 USD).

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