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Ritual Decay – Overseer

wilhelm@deaddreamer — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:27:08 +0000

Well, finally my cooperation with Dr. Nachtstrom is complete. Check it out either here

or on youtube via http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq1eS8WHKCU

Don’t forget to watch it in fullscreen in hd

walter (aka dr. nachtstrom) is responsible for the crazy techno sound and your humble narrator is to blame for the visual experience.

A little rundown on the video: 32 gig of data, most clips composed in adobe aftereffects, some 3d elements rendered in maya, and arranging and effects added in adobe premiere. Working time on my side: approx. 40 hours, maybe more.

Hope you like it!

Ritual Decay Teaser

wilhelm@deaddreamer — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:48:54 +0000

well my friends, in the summertime usually people go on vacation, i for myself decided to launch a crazy project called ‘Ritual Decay’, a cooperation with my good friend Dr. Nachtstrom. We noticed that we are that similar in some of our musical and visual tastes that it would definitely be an interesting experience to start a project together.

we are just in the process of finishing our first multimedia track called ‘Overseer’. It will be a wild audiovisual experience, i can promise you that much

Here some pictures to tease you a little bit further:

expect the video in high definition pretty soon, stay tuned!

Steinerei

wilhelm@deaddreamer — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:27:11 +0000

My dear friends, this is already my 8th year of freelancing. So far I always had a problem with seperating my workstuff from my artwork, which affected the way how i would display stuff – should i show my workprojects, my bread and butter jobs or more of the artistic stuff.

Until now i was leaning more into the artistic stuff that i mainly did for musicrelated clients. While this was definitely one of the main things i focused on in the last few years I also started to do commercial stuff which did not fit into the frame that i set myself with deaddreamer.

As you probably might know, the music industry is in a steady decline. sure, the big artists are still making big bucks, mainly because of their cross-platform marketing and concerts. Cd sales are low to non-existant and lots of labels are either defunct or heavily reduced their releases.

Electronic music has a big disadvantage in this downhill rumble: their listeners are generally technologically advanced and can download an entire album from a torrent or a rapidshare directory quick, efficiently and without any hassle.

So music generally got easier accessible and as a result it also got a serious decline of worth. I am one of those persons who noticed this already years ago. within the last eight years i probably made the artwork for about roughly 100 different cds. this year i made so far three albums – basically everybody i worked with is not releasing anything further.

In the meantime i also shifted my work focus on more down to earth stuff. design. print. flyers. logos. the usual stuff that you do as a graphic designer. unluckily those projects did also not fit will the deaddreamer stuff.

since a while i am thinking how to split those things and after some headache and idea finding i finally settled on www.steinerei.at.

Steinerei is still work in progress though, the actual webpage will still need a while until its done. While my work webpage will be in german, this does not mean that englishspeaking clients should not feel welcome – i still will do international jobs, don’t worry.

From now on you will find my workstuff there, with a strong focus on commercial design and Deaddreamer will be dedicated as my my personal playground. This also gives me more freedom what i am posting here, because i can do it as a private person and not as a company.

Golden Times – Goldie @ WUK

wilhelm@deaddreamer — Sun, 02 May 2010 11:15:41 +0000

the guys from second sight are up for another party at the wuk, this time with dnb godfather and enfant terrible goldie. so if you are in vienna on the 29th of may be sure to drop by!

goldie flyer: front

goldie flyer: back

goldie poster

Dystopia – Beginning of the end

wilhelm@deaddreamer — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:58:05 +0000

What is it with this attraction on dystopy? Can’t say for sure, but i believe for me it has something to do with my childhood – growing up in the 80s and 90s where you got swamped with movies about the end of mankind. mad max, terminator, mark 13, all these impressions did leave a mark with me.

Nowadays the end of the world moves a little bit further away, we don’t have the overpowering nuclear thread like it was at the 80s. Nonetheless the interest in the downfall of society is still there. Its interesting for us in a weird way.

Little sidenote: I would not survive the apocalypse too long, i guess. Not good with guns, can’t run fast and the skills that i have are probably not that relevant – not sure about the need for illustrations and design in the modern wastelands.

Here some illustrations i did covering the topic, got plenty of these, stay tuned for some more.

cybertoyz: chaos theory – outside booklet

cybertoyz: chaos theory – outside tray

retractor: no resistance – cover

retractor: no resistance – inside booklet

Toon Time!

wilhelm@deaddreamer — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:00:53 +0000

from time to time i stray from my usual style and my mixture of 3d and photoshop and start something completely different. one of those things are my cartoony artworks – when i was younger i doodled a lot and this is somehow the digital equivalent of those. i usually don’t start with a sketch, but instead see that i create something unique within the digital medium. those usually take a lot of time, but hey – they are fun.

xatrik: inside information – outside booklet

xatrik: inside information – inside booklet

psionic riot – outside booklet

psionic riot – inside booklet

Public Beta – Shirt Designs

wilhelm@deaddreamer — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:49:30 +0000

those who read my journal carefully will remember that i mentioned that i did some shirt designs for public beta. well, good news, the stuff finally got printed and can be purchased via their webshop. there are tshirts and hooded vests of both my androids and cybergoddess design, and they look really neat. i am happy. the quality of the shirts is top notch, so if you want to get your freak on, check them out

direct link: androids t-shirt
direct link: androids hooded vest

direct link: cybergoddess t-shirt
direct link: cybergoddess hooded vest

i was thinking about making shirts for a while, so its a happy coincidence that zoran and gabi from public beta approached me with their inquiry. doing artwork for shirts is a tad different from my usual approach, so it was interesting to see if i can adjust to the requirements. all the design was done in adobe illustrator.

Cyberspace

wilhelm@deaddreamer — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:46:29 +0000

One of the frequent topics i always come back to is cyberspace – for me there is still this idea of the abstract world of information, in which we are immersed and have unlimited freedom – so bascially its pretty much everything that the internet isn’t.

my inspirations for this kind of artwork are the wonderful and deep cyberpunk novels by neal stephenson and william gibson, the crazy artwork of the computer game rez, and everything else that i find fitting.

there a a couple of albums i did with this sort of theme, for now i want to to present you two albums for digital psionics, psionic substance and psionic moove.

Winamp Skins – Stuff from the Internet’s past

wilhelm@deaddreamer — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:38:20 +0000

Oh my! I am digging up some old stuff that i already did about 100 internet years ago, my winamp skins from back when skinning was popular (roughly somewhere between 1997 – 1999). The winamp skinning scene was quite active and a fun community. There were a lot of famous skinners like Fli7e, Goran, Pordey, Sphere and lots of others whose names i unluckily already forgot.

Apart from my latest skin, n30n, none of them are for download – mainly because i made them when winamp 2.2 was out, so a couple of features are unsupported. if you really want to find them, i am sure you get them somewhere on the big wide web.

Coldbringer
(Title from Batman The Dark Knight returns from Frank Miller)

Schubdüse
(Title from one of Sven Väth’s tracks – and yes, its steampunky)

Crystal Bastard

Plasma

Zorg
(Zorg was the evil guy from the 5th element.
gary oldman, you know. he’s cool.)

Neon
My last skin I ever did and also the only one that
is still downloadable at deviantart

I still have another batch of skins for other music players that i will also post sooner or later. oh, the fun!

Future Beatz – DnB SciFi

wilhelm@deaddreamer — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:41:58 +0000

from 2002 to 2005 i did the flyers for future beatz, a drum and bass party in vienna’s flex. those were really fun. the parties were also crazy. good times.

4 Horsemen – 23.02.2002

Pascal – 13.04.2002

Black Sun Empire (Front) – 28.09.2002

Black Sun Empire (Back) – 28.09.2002

Klute (Front) – 30.11.2002

Klute (Back) – 30.11.2002

Kemal – 22.03.2003

Barcelona Release Party (Back) – 02.08.2003

DJ Sonic – 29.11.2003

Black Sun Empire (Front) – 17.01.2004

Black Sun Empire (Back) – 17.01.2004

Fresh (Front) – 27.03.2004

Fresh (Back) – 27.03.2004

DSCI Night – 22.05.2004

Big Sound Clash – 26.03.2005

31 Records Night – 28.05.2005

Tactile – 29.10.2005