The Risk of Being a Constructor

There once was a constructor of bridges, who constructed a bridge (Herrenbrücke) which was meant to connect the former commercial center Lübeck with a harbour to the Baltic Sea. It was built (opened 1964), but caused difficulties from the beginning of its existence. They had to open it for relatively small vessels or ships nearly hit the bridge posts, which weren't suitable placed. Even more bad they often could not shut the bridge out of mechanical difficulties, which was causing long waits. It is said the designer of the bridge has jumped down of it, but there is no prove, that this really has happened.
A decade ago they replaced  the bridge by a tunnel (2005) and the bridge has been torn down. Bad is that now it has become more difficult to go by bike from Lübeck to the Baltic Sea. You have to take a bus through the tunnel.

For this animated gif  I've the first time drawn with gimp instead of with the good old pencil, just to see how it is. It's interesting and if you anyway make a digital work out of it the quality of the stroke is good enough. It is just far more complicated. It might be easier to draw with a pencil and to scan the drawing.
Anyway, I took a photo as a background, which I've taken recently. It actually doesn't show the Herrenbrücke but a bridge in Berlin where I live now. I combined this background with my digital drawings and added speech bubbles, which are meant to shortly tell a dramatic story.

Deep Sea Touched

I am rather interested in any kind of animation. I like most abstract and experimental animation. I am not very skilled at creating animations, but I like sharing my attempts which are anyway influenced by the years I'm already doing artwork.

Deep Sea Touched is a simple chalkboard animation where a drop of water falls into the deep sea.

Chalkboard animation means there is something drawn on the board and there is taken a photograph. Then the next drawing is added and the earlier drawing is wiped of. This is repeated until the animation is done.
I used my tripod and a camera to take the single images and in the editing software Gimp combined them to this animated gif.

Yellow Submarine

3D modelling and animation is rather interesting to me. I've already learned a lot about the 3D tool Blender, but mostly created after tutorials, which makes it not unique enough to present it as personal artwork. Then again I have also personal 3D creations, which but are quite simple. 3D needs a lot of knowledge of the tool until you are able to deliver convincing 3D design. Still, I want to post sometimes something when I think it might be interesting to others, too.

I start with a work after a tutorial, which resulted in an animated gif of a yellow submarine.

Click here for the tutorial.

I went through the tutorial, but the result seemed too mechanical and like a plastic model. I've already changed the form and colors after my taste and ability, but in addition I've applied a posterize filter in a video editing software to make it look better designed. I saved the work as single images and in Gimp created the animated gif.

I like the gif because it looks like a mysterious story about a long journey with a peaceful submarine.