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Commercial Pitch

tobias schwarz — Tue, 08 May 2012 07:45:15 +0000

I like working on commercials once in a while. They feel like a mini movie at best, they have a definite time frame, still wanting to tell an epic story – plus there always is a quick turn around.

Lately I have not had much extra time to take on commercials. More than a year ago I did this story pitch for a Danonino commercial, which was fun to do (I dont think anything ever came out of it in the end though).

Illustration

tobias schwarz — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:40:24 +0000

Design

tobias schwarz — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:33:41 +0000

Winter Update

tobias schwarz — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:43:35 +0000

...freezing temperatures outside and everything covered in white. It must be winter.

I have been plenty busy working away and feeding my wood burning oven to keep me warm. Only recently I discovered some great interviews with some fantastic fellow story artists currently working in the USA (on the schoolism website). I have not had the time to listen to all of them, but I can highly recommend (to those of you interested in story art) these ones for now:

Alex Woo (Pixar)
Louie Del Carmen (Dreamworks)
Kris Pearn (Sony Animation)
James Robertson (Pixar)

Also I have been listening to most of the interviews on the animationguild blog.

The latest for instance with story artist/ director Jennifer Yuh Nelson (Dreamworks) about Kung Fu Panda 2.

part 1
part 2

Going through my hard drive over the holidays I rediscovered two quicktimes I boarded a couple years ago. Created from a simple, few sentence outline with a 2.5 minutes cap and no dialogue (you have to provide your own sound effects while watching). There was a comfortable amount of freedom interpreting the outline while doing them, except for the fixed budget. The episodes were then finished directly by an animator in a cut out style and aired as animated segments during a kids show. Unfortunately I have never had the chance to see the aired version of these to episodes.

Happy Holidays!

tobias schwarz — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:19:12 +0000

…signing off for the holidays wishing everyone a festive holiday season this year and a fantastic 2012 to come!

Animal Sketches

tobias schwarz — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:49:29 +0000

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Characters

tobias schwarz — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:01:02 +0000

Poster Illustration

tobias schwarz — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:14:02 +0000

E-Learning: Roche

tobias schwarz — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:18:39 +0000

in 2010 tobias created a 10 page comic book for roche diagnostics, which is used as an internal workshop. the brochure is a complete e-learning seminar covering specific it security issues. the workshop was created bi-lingual (english/german).

Medlinq Cartoon (2009)

tobias schwarz — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:46:56 +0000

in 2009 tobias created a series of promotional cartoons for the medlinq software company. the cartoon were created bilingual and used on the company website and for print.