A new issue of ‘Making Games’ hit the stands this week. In it you can find the Making Of my ‘BADASS RABBIT‘. It’s the first part of a new workshop series about creating 3D low poly game characters.
You can order the issue ‘here‘ or by clicking the post image on top.

I wish you all a happy new year! I know I’m a little late but the last months were a fun ride and I couldn’t stop (and update my blog) because everything is so f….n amazing! I want to give you all an update on what I am working on this days and what you can expect from me in 2009.
First: I’m working as an art director for ‘Rough Sea Games‘, a new browsergame company. You can read the official press release (in German) ‘here‘. I can’t talk about the game I’m working on yet, but you can follow the official blog at ‘Rough Sea Games Blog‘ to see our weekly updates. And you can take a close look at our ‘Company Logo‘ I’ve designed. All I can say is: We are working hard to make the best browsergame ever! “Rock the boat!”
So what does this mean for my comic projects? The answer is I had to make some decisions regarding my current work on ‘Ray Harryhausen Presents’ and new ‘Tales from the Crypt’ stories. So I was asked by Jim Salicrup to do another Crypt story recently which I had to put down because of my new job. I also put down a coloring job for a book at IDW. I have finished two issues of ‘Ray Harryhausen Presents: It Came From Beneath The Sea… Again!’ which means the last two issues will be done by another artist. This is sad because the story is really amazing and it sucks I can’t do all issues. But hey… I’m still very excited to see it in print because regarding comics this stuff is my best work yet. A big THANK YOU to ‘Sven Strangmeyer‘ who did an amazing job on coloring my sequentials.
Another collaboration with Sven is the ‘Hillary Clinton Cover‘ we did for the ‘Female Force’ comic series for Bluewater Productions. Unfortunately Hillary somehow saw the cover before print and… mhhh… let’s say, she didn’t like how my comic clothing fits her forms… so the cover isn’t a front cover anymore. You will find it as the back cover to the series. I’m curious to see the new front cover now.
And because I am talking about Bluewater projects let’s go on with news about ‘Captain James T. Kirk’: I did some designs for the new original comic series by ‘William Shatner‘! Somehow this makes me feel like an ensign on the Enterprise… hehe. As a huge Star Trek fan this really is amazing!
Regarding other stuff: I was interested in doing a comic for the image anthology ‘Popgun’ and I have to thank Thomas Mauer who introduced me to the people behind the books. But finally they decided to not let me do it because my art didn’t fit the book. I think this is strange because the whole anthology features a lot of different art styles and it seems like a ‘no creator money involved’ project. I wanted to do my first official comic story from my creator owned title ‘MAYA‘ for it because I think it is a great format. Too bad. But hey… without a publication in the anthology maybe I can make some money with my art… hehe.
As you may know I started on a CGSociety contest, called ‘Steampunk‘. Unfortunately I didn’t find the time to finish it. I will asap when I find enough time beside my other projects.
I did finish the first part of a new ‘game art workshop’ article for the German game developer magazine ‘Making Games‘. This will be out soon in issue ’01/2009′. The series will show how to create a low-poly game character. Here you can see my character the model will be based on: ‘BadAss Rabbit‘
That’s it for today folks. CU soon!

Chris