Love Among the Trash

A new painting...














- MK

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

Autumn is Coming

Since autumn is my favorite part of the year, I decided to paint a new personal artwork. Hope you like it.
Done in Photoshop and Maya in about 5 hours.

- MK

Inspired by Pixar

I watched a lot of Pixar movies lately and I decided to create a painting using a similar style. Stylization, bright colors, skewed contours, all that good stuff... The main source of inspiration was the wonderful art of Jeremy Vickery. He taught me a lot.

- MK

Follow the Black Wolf

A personal painting I did when I finished a certain project and had a few days of free time. Base mesh created in Maya, then I painted over the render & overlayed various textures. Done in about 7 hours.

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Some Storyboard Work

I get asked a lot lately whether I make storyboards too. Well... yep, I do :-) If you're interested in some sb work then, just let me know.

- MK

Contourland

A new technique I've been trying out lately, full of harsh contours. I combined it with a fantasy world that is appealing yet creepy at the same time. The result is... interesting,I'd say. :-)

- 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

Shroom Huntin

Another quick color study. Oh, how I love this color palette... Simple, yet effective.

- MK

Follow the Glowing Balloons

A personal artwork. I always loved this color combination and I really wanted to do some fantasy, almost childish painting. Then I heard Tomas Zemler's Follow the Flying Squirrel and the idea was born. Hope you like the result.

- MK

Artist for hire

If you need some illustrations, concept arts, matte painting, just let me know. I'm cheap and my results are solid! :-)

email: martin.klekner@gmail.com

- MK

Got a Deal, Partner?

What was originally meant to be just a quick ZBrush test to practice my skills, somehow ended up...this way. The original idea was to create a lizard head, but when I saw his expression, I just had to make him a gangster :-D Created in Zbrush and Photoshop.

- MK

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

Cave Exodus

Another painting...Getting used to tablet.



And here's my little making of.



- M.

Desert Encounter

I finally got myself my first tablet. I'm pretty satisfied with it though very clumsy at working with it at the moment. Anyway, I tried some digital painting with it. Somehow, I'm not really happy with how it came out...But anyway. Trial a error is the best teacher, huh? :-)



- M.