In the Marble Desert

A concept art I've created for my friend's film project. Check his Facebook fanpage.

- MK

The Return

This is a first illustration for a book I recently finished. More coming soon.

- MK

Walls of Primos

So, I decided this would be a good time to finish my old matte paintings. Gates of Primos are now more or less done... though I could work on this forever and I'd never feel satisfied. So I better post it.

Walls of Primos are impenetrable. Its gates are shut... The barbaric outside world may never enter the last outpost of humanity.

- MK

Star Wars Armies of the Fallen Teaser

On April 18, 2010, I finished Star Wars Shadows of the Past. I had a vision then, of armies of soldiers with lightsabers clashing in the setting sun. I spent the next few moths learning enough CG to make this happen. In December 2010 I announced Armies of the Fallen and I've been working on it ever since.

In summer 2011, due to computer failure, I lost 90% of my AotF data. I had to start again. In December 2011 I got to the same stage where I was in August. Then, when I finally started to export the shots, complications arose, I wasn't happy with the shots, the music, everything. A lot of back and forth work was required. But we kept on going. And I am now ready to present to you what I saw in my head two years ago.

Dailymotion version - better quality:

Star Wars Armies of the Fallen: Concept Teaser by MartinKlekner

And it's just the beginning...
:-D (It sounds so epic when I say that)

- MK

Come In, Have Fun

New artwork, created in Photoshop, base mesh in Maya. Finishing touches in After Affect. Took me about 4-5 hours.

- MK

Unused Matte Painting

Here's a little matte painting I did for a certain project. This piece never made it further than the WIP stage (though it's pretty much 90% finished), so I'm posting it here.

Yep, inspired by Dylan Cole and Chris Stoski.

- MK

Featured in 2D Artist

My Dreaming of Paper Airplanes is now published in the 2D Artist Issue 68 gallery. It's a great honor for me, there's a lot of incredibly talented artists contributing to 2DA and I still don't really feel like being good enough to be listed among them. But hey, I won't be the one complaining... :-D

To download the gallery section, just click on this link.

- MK

Dreaming of Paper Airplanes

I got sick, so I decided to paint something while lying in bed. It's been a long time since I've last opened Photoshop, too long. The composition is all wrong, I guess, but still... I had a lot of fun.

Created in Photoshop, base mesh in Maya.

NEWZ

In the precious free time I so long to have now I managed to paint several digital and matte painting studies. By no means masterpieces, but it was great fun making them.

City of Primos * Work in Progress

Futurisk

Misty Tower

Invasion

That's all from me for some time.
- MK