VISUAL DEVELOPMENT ARTIST SERU FILM
IDEA ACADEMY ROME
FEATURE (MY FAIRY TROUBLE MAKER) Freelance Character Designer 2020/5
VISUAL DEVELOPMENT MASTER 1
TV SERIES (PETRONELLA APFELMUS) 2D Animation Designer Freelance Character Designer
2019/10 - 2020/6
BACHELOR OF ARTS 2019/7 - 2020/4 2019/3 - 2019/7
VIRTUAL DESIGN Kaiserslautern, Germany
GAMEFORGE
WORKSHOPS
TERA, AION, SOULWORKER, OGAME, RUNES OF MAGIC Graphic Designer, Illustrator, 3D Artist
DESIGNING COLOR AND LIGHT with Ty Carter, 2020
2017/8 - 2019/7
2013/10 - 2018/9
ILLUSTRATION AND PICTURE BOOK DEVELOPMENT with Beatrice Blue, 2019
VR COASTER Concept Artist, Sculptor, 3D Artist Trainee
NIKARENSCH.COM NIKARENSCH@GMAIL.COM
2016/3 - 2017/4 2015/12 - 2016/3
CREATING APPEALING CHARACTERS with Taylor Krahenbuhl, 2018
Matilda
BASED ON ROALD DAHL‘S „MATILDA“ Matilda is an extraordinary brilliant girl. She has to face her parents missunderstanding her and the incredible terrorizing principal Miss Trunchbull. Due to the unfairness she plays tricks on
the grown-ups all the time to revenge herself untill she recognizes her telekinetic superpowers. With the help of the lovely teacher Miss Honey she turns the tables in her life.
Wormwood‘s Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood are Matilda‘s parents, who are more interested in their TV programmes than their daughter.
Mr.Wormwood „Mr. Wormwood was a small ratty-looking man whose front teeth stuck out underneath a thin ratty moustache.“ Roald Dahl
He is a boastful, arrogant man and a used car salesman, who is corrupt in his Job.
Mrs.Wormwood „A girl should think about making herself attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books.“ Roald Dahl
Miss Trunchbull „A gigantic holy terror, a fierce tyranical monster who frightened the life out of pupils and teachers alike.“ Roald Dahl Miss Trunchbull is the terrible headministress of Matilda‘s school. She is a former Olympic hammer thrower with a hatred of children.
Miss Honey Miss Honey is Matilda‘s lovely first grade teacher. She is one of the first persons ever who fully appreciate Matilda‘s incredible abilities. Both share a similar background.
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A story about a girl who doesn‘t fit in what we would call „a normal society“ . Being bullied all her life she discover her very own super power and becomes a super villain. This Project shows the visual development for a possible childrensbook.
Character Exploration Grumpy AGnes
Agnes is indeed very different. Born with curly untamed hair and a an always grumpy appearance she gets bullied since she can remember. Not being accepted - as well from her friends as her family - you can image how grumpiness is growing inside a little child’s heart.
Cloth Exploration
Style Exploration
After fruitless attempts adapting other girls with their perfect straight hair she can’t bare it anymore. Her emotions start to explode when she discover her hidden super power. Her hair would move on its own suddenly. Thats when she notice that she could use them to fight the others for a revenge. „...and she combs and combs and combs her hair but no matter how, her stupid mane stayed untamed.“
Tides
Heyla is a cheerful and playful girl living in a land where tides control water and land. It‘s 2070 and the earth faced a climate catastophe causing a big flood which arrives once every month. Most of her time she spends in the mountains. But when the ebb arrives she goes down to the marshland collecting treastures and leftovers like plastics, usefull materials for cloth or lodges and fish.
STUDIES
CHILDHOOD WEEK Childhoodweek is an event hosted by the Illustrator Beatrice Blue. Twice a year a list with prompts will be announces.
Artists from over the world can participate to create illustrations inspired by their childhood memories.
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