School competition

A very strange assignment for the 'Fuldaer Zeitung' or 'Kinzigtal Nachrichten' where I had to illustrate a school competition. It was fun to go back to classic water colors rather than doing the coloring in the computer.

Sporty

These are some of the countless characters I created for 'ExerciseTV'. Once again, this was an assignment by Los Angeles based designer Volker Dürre.

Watercolor

A watercolor painting I did for singer/songwriter Oren Lavie but was never used for any promo.

But, nevertheless for me it was fun to do something different...

Boxer

Here is a kind of illustration i'm rarely doing. It's a vector based two colored BOXER I did for the Boxer Café in Venice, Los Angeles. The art direction was supervised by Volker Dürre of Durredesign. Thanks to Volker I'm able to leave tiny marks even in the USA.

Eichhörnchen

Something funny...

Guess which is the bad one!

00Vogel for Sparkasse

Once again Agent Jürgen Vogel is on a mission for the 'Sparkasse'. This time I was lucky to do the funny Storyboard for director Sebastian Strasser. It always has been a dream of mine to once do storyboards for a Bond movie. This was kind of a preparation for that. Here you can see some samples of the classical pencil style frames. The goal was to make them look like the original boards from a sixties movie.

Jump

This is a rejected, but funny illustration which was ment to be shot by a photographer. The Berlin based event agency 'dreinull' had the idea for a summer-party-invitation of an embassy. But in the end the jumping guy was obviously to edgy for that kind of client.

Olympus Pen Storyboard

This again, was a job where I could draw, how a storyboard has to look in my opinion. Roughly sketched out, but still clear enough to show what's important. There's even enough detail and some quick grey shade to create some atmosphere. These are samples of what I did for 'Olympus Pen Giant' for production company 'Big Fish' located in Berlin.

Here's the finished film:

Nasser Fisch

Some sketches inspired by a Novel. Author Volker Kutscher has written two great crime stories set in the 'Golden Twenties' of Berlin: 'Der Nasse Fisch' and 'Der Stumme Tod' .

Springtime

Two of the illustrations I created in 2007 for the dating service of the BVG (Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe). Recently, they wanted me to do a new one. This time a lesbian couple. The approval is still pending.

Shoe Action

Here are some samples of my Storyboards for the TV spot Deichman - most wanted. We really wanted to get that feel of speed and action. So the sketches are very rough and directly scribbled on the blank page with a permanent black ball pen. With clean drawings over pre-pencil-sketches I would have lost the energy of the somewhat iconic chase frames. You can watch the final film here on the Deichman site.

Betty Powers

With my fellow screenwriter Rasmus Borowski I once was inventing this story about a comic book amazon girl who suddenly enters the real world. With her kind of destructive behaviour and simple 'good vs. evil' way of thinking she brings some trouble to the life of the artist who created her. In the somewhat crazy and silly action filled storyline she has to fight against censorship, police special forces and the ban of her own comic series. The idea was to make a movie like "Roger Rabbit" but with a boys fantasy of a sexy comic book heroine. Of course it was too expensive and too badly written, so "Europacorp" wasn't interested. Nevertheless it was funny to write and to design the main character BETTY POWERS.

GOETHE!

These are just a view examples of the great amount of drawings I did for the feature film Goethe! directed by Philipp Stölzl. Philipp likes to do storyboards for his scenes. It was exciting to see how this images drawn from imagination and references came to life in the finished film.
The film has a quite unusal approach because it deals with young Johann Goethes coming of age, his first love and breakthrough with Werther...

The film will be released in autumn 2010.

Trailer

Séance

I recently finished these moods for the presentation of the Rasmus Borowski film project Séance.


The story is about the young Anya who finds herself chased by a mysterious russian society which had something to do with the dark orphanage past of her late mother. As Anyas older sister Valeska disappears from Hamburg, she teams up with Mr. Antonov, who tries to convince her that she's a strong medium like her mother once was...

Storyboard sketches

...sketching out the scenes is the most fun in doing storyboards. Especually when there's heavy machinery like helicopters and boats involved. This was for Das Geheimnis der Wale, a ZDF/ TeamworX production starring Veronica Ferres, Christopher Lambert and Mario Adorf, directed by Philipp Kadelbach.

Point of view

One night, one strange incident. A gas station is robbed but who is the victim and who committed the crime? In another kind of 'Rashomon' storytelling some typical Berlin characters like the young, angry, suburbian girl and the infamous TV celebrity are involved and tell their very own version of the crime...

I wanted to combine the classic idea of showing different flashbacks with a 'one night' action thriller like After hours or Running scared in the present timeline.

We shot this in two nights with famous TV actor Sascha Hehn, we all know so well from his 1980s appearances in Traumschiff and Schwarzwaldklinik. Here, he returns with an exceptional performance as an egomanic TV host. Karolina Lodyga (Anna und die Liebe) played Lucie and was acting in front of a camera for the first time.
Me and the production company Kaminski.stiehm.film hope to produce the feature film in 2010.

getting startet

I finally want to post some of my daily work on a regular basis. I hope to keep up with this idea and you enjoy some of my images and clips...

The link to the official site of the shortfilm I produced with Rasmus Borowski:

www.derbeste.net