Welcome! BOИBOИ™ is essentially a blog with the sole purpose of showcasing professional and personal art works created by Marko Ljubez. Furthermore this space serves as a trackback diary, displaying random thoughts, things that inspire me, movies and music I like, food I enjoy and more.
This blog is in development. More to come soon.
Here is an update on whats going on at the moment as 2010 looks like it has potential of becoming a very interesting year. I am very proud to announce that I will be joining the art department at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), a division of Lucasfilm Animation in Singapore. I am tremendously excited, honored and humbled by this opportunity to work with a fantistic team of artists from over 45 different countries. I look forward working on new exciting feature film projects and developing my skills but I am also hoping to experience some personal growth. If everything goes according to plan I will be relocating to Singapore on 1 March 2010. As much as I am excited about the unfolding events I am also very much scared and anxious. But then again "Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?"
Below is a little clip I found recorded of Discovery Channel regarding Singapore. Have a look if you are interested.
Im trying to stay updated by compiling a new showreel, representing my works to date. It's been two interesting years and allot has happened since my last reel. Ive learnt allot and had the pleasure of meeting some great people and working on some interesting projects. The following is a mix of works done professionally aswell as personally. Enjoy! I've updated my Resumé aswell.
I haven't done a Photoshop Freestyle session in a while, much due to having allot of work on my table, but also the holidays and lack of inspiration. The Swedish winter-season and the lack of sunlight really gets to me which at times feels like I'm on the verge to a depression. Anyway, I'm trying to fight it and get the brain working again by feeding it with colors and light. Here is a little piece paying homage to one of my favourite movies, The Iron Giant (1999), directed by Brad Bird.
The following is one of the matte paintings I created for the Ilta-Sanomat spot. The art direction called for a Victorian-type industrial building. A 3D model of the scene was modeled, shaded and lit. This material was used as a base for the matte painting. The 3D model also served as a guide for the green-screen shoot in order to extract correct camera angles. The greenscreen shoot itself resulted in filmed "workers" which were later composited over the matte painting. Moving machine parts were rendered as separate passes and inserted into their respective positions at the compositing stage. This saved time as we only rendered animated parts and did not need to calculate the heavy 3D scene for each and every frame throughout the animation.
This is a recently completed project for Radiotjänsten, which is part of the swedish public service with the task of collecting TV Licence fees nationwide and verifying payment of them. This was a full on campaign intended for showcasing on the internet, tv and cinemas around the country. Stopp offered full service assistance throughout all media-departments. The interactive movie, featured on the campaign website offers the visitor the chance to upload their own pictures and have them automaticly inserted into the movie content. So far the movie is a success generating over 5 milion unique views in just about 3 weeks time. My work included helping director Max Vitali to extend his plates with help of matte paintings. The movie was shot on Canon 5D Mark II by several small crews around the world and proved itself to be a challenge at the compositing/tracking fase due to the shearing and compression of the material. The following images are just some of the matte paintings i created for this show.
Trying to keep the wacom pen going and putting some of my personal ideas on "paper". This concept was made to pre-visualize a possible matte painting. My main concern with these sketches is the overall composition, mood and atmosphere. Details are secondary.
The short movie "Herr Rodebjer" is the first in a series of creative and interactive editorials from Rodebjer, aimed to further emphasise the strong vision of the Rodebjer brand. The premiere editorial "Herr Rodebjer", a short movie directed by Mattias Montero, has since its premiere won the Public Prize award at the A Shaded View On Fashion Films Festival, held at Centre Pompidou in Paris. My work included rebuilding almost all of the environments, originally shot in Paris, with help of matte paintings according to the Directors whishes. A high contrast silhouette appearence was applied to all the skylines in order to achieve what Mattias was striving for, with the intention to resemble surreal theatrical side-scene flat sets. Further compositing work was done by Crawford Reilly, Linus Eriksson, Julius Denizhan and Peter Marin. For a sneak peak watch the trailer bellow...for full movie visit Rodebjer (Editorials).
A small update before i head on home. The following matte painting was a Vue experiment, trying to see if i can combine some of the features this software offers with my own way of working. The entire image (except for the balloons) is a 3D generated model, including procedural terrain, spectral atmosphere and volumetric clouds. The advantages of this software are huge especially in the conceptual stage of a project. Hopefully I will have some time over to render a full on 3d-camera move but as for now here is a still frame. Enjoy!
The following cover art was developed for the band Bolywool and the official release of their first album Through a Century. Bolywool is Calle Thor, Oskar Erlandsson and Cristian Ekman. The concept for the design was inspired by the music itself but also Öland, the place where I and some of the band members grew up. Through a Century will finally be released on October 14th.
"For those who are not familiar with the history behind the title, Through a Century, you are in for a treat. Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, in a city by the sea, two lads sat in their living room and recorded demo songs in Cubase with the worst karaoke microphone the world has ever seen. It was the very same session(s) that spawned songs like In a Dreamer's Dream of Dreams, Sleep Today Away, So Low Down and The Origin of Nothing to name a few. On a cold February day, Century Blues was written, and the lyrics featuring the repeated stanza "through a century". As some of you might have noticed, the thematic canon of Bolywool, besides playing on intertextuality etc, is the notion and concept of time in relation to variable x (and sometimes even y). Thus, this title is, from our point-of-view, spot on since it sort of encompasses all these extended symbolisms and metaphors in only a mere three words."
Below are some of the earlier concepts for the cover art.
or those who are not familiar with the history behind the title, Through a Century, you are in for a treat.
Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, in a city by the sea, two lads sat in their living room and recorded demo songs in Cubase with the worst karaoke microphone the world has ever seen. It was the very same session(s) that spawned songs like In a Dreamer's Dream of Dreams, Sleep Today Away, So Low Down and The Origin of Nothing to name a few. On a cold February day, Century Blues was written, and the lyrics featuring the repeated stanza "through a century". As some of you might have noticed, the thematic canon of Bolywool, besides playing on intertextuality etc, is the notion and concept of time in relation to variable x (and sometimes even y). Thus, this title is, from our point-of-view, spot on since it sort of encompasses all these extended symbolisms and metaphors in only a mere three words.
The following is a music video by Martin de Thurah for Fever Ray, featuring Karin Dreijer Andersson. Martin is the same director responsible for yet another of my absolute favorite music videos for Röyksopp- What Else is There. Have a look and get inspired!
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