My morning train takes me past the Olympic site and the enormous shopping centre that now graces the sky line. And each morning; outside the transport offices this stressed worker is always having a fag break.

concepts for pilot

Early this year we (Uli Meyer studios) completed a short pilot for a young children's TV series. Myself and the talented Tori (aka Tori cat) worked on the concepts and backgrounds, then we moved on to the HUGE task of painting the CGI environments. the pilot will soon be posted on ulimeyer.com


Some of my concepts below.

rendered shots coming soon.




Late summer oil painting

Last week I was fortunate to attend a one week oil painting class at Central Saint Martins, the class was taught by Mike Major.
I really had a great time. It was a small class of about 8-9 people, all working in oils.
We had the same model all week - 4 poses. 3 one day and a two day to finish off.

First day,- - free to do what we wanted

Second day, as it was a small class we couldn’t move our easels around the room. At first I hated my view. But was pleased with the end results. For this we used earthy colours, basically we couldn’t use any strong colours.Third day. No brushes, no fingers, only pallet knife. For all these paintings we put a wash on first, for this I used a strong pink.
The first of a two day. Only four colours- Light yellow, dull green, dark red... and black! Sorry can’t remember the exact names.

The final canvas after two days, sadly not yet finished on the bg.

big thanks to Uli


wildlife

I drew these for a friends wedding dinner - animals instead of table numbers , makes the day a bit more fun.


post-it

brendans head


like Uli and Boris im sculpting brendans bonse, this is so much fun.

The last... last crusade.

Indiana Jones 4… 50% excitement - 50% curiosity. Spielberg re-visiting his popcorn film making, and with a new take on the characters. The cgi special effects shunned… and we get a new drew struzen poster!

and now for a new post

an airship and a dog
(mr schlingmann, now post yours!)

Life Drawing/sculpting


Uli kindly lets us take over the studio once a week to arrange life drawing, these were yesterday’s creations. Thee sculpt was from a 45 min pose. The first photo was the angle I set myself up. As you can see from the second photo I was to lazy to move around. But it was great fun.