Reisen til Julestjernen

Reisen til Julestjernen is a well-known Norwegian Christmas play from 1924. Even better-known is the movie from 1976. A few weeks ago a new movie based on the play was released in the cinemas here in Norway.
Gimpville did some of the effects on it and I did some of the designs including The Northern Wind and Santa's workshop. The Northern Wind can be seen at 0:41 in the trailer and the workshop can be seen at 1:30.
Here are some concepts of the workshop's exterior and interior:

Gimpville Dump

It has been a while since I've posted anything I've done in work at Gimpville. So here is some selected stuff from the last year.
First out some character design work I did for three animated Coop Extra-spots.

Final designs:

Some more concept art:

I also storyboarded these and animated the first 15 seconds on this one (still one of my first CG-animation jobs ever):



Check out the other two films here and here.

Next up is this spot for Canal Digital. I did several concepts of the main character and the environment. I also blocked out the animation in TVPaint and did some backgrounds.

We did several variations of this, including one with a special offer from TVNorge. Here's a concept I did for that:

Finally some concepts for this spot done for DNB:

1st TSW Meeting Notes

I came over this sheet while unpacking a box at home: My notes from the very first official The Secret World (TSW) production meeting.
TSW was released by Funcom earlier this summer. I left the production back in 2009, but already then I had been working on it as a concept artist for about three and a half years.
I believe this note is from early May 2006. We were just a handful of people attending the meeting and we were planning a demo level taking place in Transylvania, Romania. The player would move through the forest, come over a gypsy camp, have a chat with a gypsy king before visiting a gypsy woman living by a lake. Finally the player would end up in a cemetery and would have to fight werewolves and vampires.
And, the most important thing, it had to be KICKAZZ (and more comic than Van Helsing).
Deadline: 26nd of July 2006 - or even better: mid-July. That sounds like a tight deadline, but TSW had evolved from a FPS idea which had been in the works at Funcom even earlier which meant some work had already been done on a very similar demo. But now the game was called The Secret World and was going to be an MMORPG.
After this meeting I would sit down and do a sketch of a werewolf which would be my first concept for the game... It wasn't very good though. I might post it for the 10th anniversary... ;)

Bendik and the Monster

A few guys here at Gimpville are currently doing some pre-production work on Bendik and the Monster, an animated short directed by Frank Mosvold, which is scheduled to be released some time next summer.
Here are some concepts. Don't forget to like our Facebook page.

Phenomena 7

Here's a book cover I did last summer. It's for Ruben Eliassen's Phenomena 7: Frostens Datter which, pretty obviously, is the 7th book in his Phenomena series. It was published last autumn by Gyldendal.
This was the first cover in the series he didn't illustrate himself, so to me it meant I had to do my interpretation of the already established character designs and the style.