Schmidts Katze & die Mäusebande

Also ich sach ma: Getz gehtet ab wie Schmidt's Katze! (this is a German saying and I think it means the same as "it takes off like a scalded cat" or something.)
Schmidts Katze from Schmidt Spiele is a fast hide and seek memory game for kids of four years of age and over. Slip into the role of a mouse and try to hide from the (friendly) Schmidt's cat (it just wanna play with the mice... honestly :)

And I like most that they have named one of the eight mouse-character after me: Timo Tollkühn :))
(engl. Timo Temerarious <-- that will definitely become my new gangster rapper nick name ;)

Get the game on amazon.de and do you already know the "Schmidts Katze" puzzle?

Schmidts Katze Puzzle

This is the first puzzle with the cat whose name hasn't been far from seeking for a publisher like Schmidt Spiele: Schmidts Katze :)

Get it here or better at the toys store of your trust :)

Making of Schmidts Katze

First cat sketches, that didn't really work well yet:

Drawing the cat in a walking pose was a literal step into the right direction. This evolution of the final sketch proves the rule: size (of the head) does matter!

On the basis of the finally inked cat character, I created a fur colour range. The editor chose the black one cos it was best to be combined with every coloured background.

After that, the fur painting had to be defined in detail.

And tadaaa (or meoow): Schmidts Katze was made!

The Unusual Suspects

"I can't believe they pieksed someone to death... they look so cuddly and innocent."
But no one knows what it's like to be a bad man... behind button eyes.

Find out more about Isabelle Metzen's Little Pieksis on the Little Pieksis blog and get your own little fellows (before they do something stupid and come into conflict with the law like their brothers.)

Merman

colored this time!

Merman sketch

Home to Paris HOME2PAGE

Open the curtain for the new Home to Paris website, that I've drawn and designed in their ideas. You see their stage from the hall cleaner's point of view after a succefull gig. Do you smell the sweat, smoke and alk that perfumes the air?

Home To Paris SNOW

It was the whitest turn of the year since centuries and fittingly Home to Paris (will they ever arrive there?) released their new album called Snow. The release party took place at the Gleis22 in Münster again and like usually they played their indi-ska-balkan-pop-mix to a capacity crowd. Was fun to witness it.

This is the poster for the concert. I played Mother Hulda (Frau Holle...), let it snow and turned the stage from their new homepage into a wunderful winter wonderland!

And I used the same picture for the cover and case design of the new album Snow: This time it comes around in a fancy digi-pack!

Homepage, poster and CD became well-rounded and I'm already looking forward their new ideas and topics.

Also see the designs of the HtP-albums Point of View, Melodienwagen and Disco Circus

Fredificated fames

For the next issue of the book columne, Fred had to slip into the clothes of a bunch of promis. Can you tell who they are?

New Blog Header 2011

I guess you already noticed it, I just added a new header and changed the colour scheme of my blog! And the Blogtopus replaces my old wise rat (don't worry, it didn't die, it just went on pension...), but:

R.I.P. 

Old Header

2009-2011