designs fiction

The New Digital Art Of Patrick Janicke

2012-01-30T13:07:00.000-08:00

Mechanical Surrealism - The middle class isn’t disappearing, it’s moving!

2012-01-30T12:40:00.000-08:00

Winter Rider by fameland by fameland
The Vanishing of The Middle Class? If you once belonged to what was known as the American Middle Class you might soon find yourself pushed out of your habitat, maybe even your professional playground. With a fameland vertical motorhome™ you can join The New American Nomads™, find freedom and easily adjust to changing circumstances by rolling across the hills of adversity. Embrace change and move on. Merge your home and workplace and ride this fantastical studio on wheels. Easily change locations in this bizarre economic landscape!

Buy Fameland Stamps Forever

2012-01-19T17:57:00.000-08:00

Buy Forever Stamps this week before the prices go up. If you're so affluent that you'd rather go for some luxury, try the Fameland Fantastic Easter Egg Stamp before the Easter Bunny hides them all.
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Immobilien Und Mobile Zukunft

2012-01-18T10:35:00.000-08:00

"Food Trucks, Motor Homes and Mobile Clothing Stores. Mobile devices are getting bigger and better. More and more institutions that were once stationary like restaurants and hospitals will soon be on wheels. Everything is in a flux. The American Nomad™ of the future embraces the change! He is open to anything and attached to nothing. Well, almost nothing. He sits in the pilot's seat of Church de Luxe, his Vertical Motorhome™, traveling the hills of fameland in search for meaning."
From "Luxe & The Preacherman" by Patrick Janicke © 2012

The Art Of Flight - snowboard designs fiction

2012-01-15T23:43:00.000-08:00

Flying into a dead tree and breaking its branches - who said life was fair?

Art by Patrick Janicke © 2012

The Rise of Silver

2012-01-15T21:35:00.000-08:00

The Adventures of Luxe & The Preacherman, Episode 15:
"The Roach Coaches have evolved to highly decorated stylish food trucks, mobile restaurants invaded LA's streets. Then Retail Stores picked up the same idea and we start seeing boutiques on wheels in Hollywood. This trend is ongoing: avoid high rents and put all your stuff on wheels. Inflation you say? The Silver Surfer uses less gas than the Cafe Racer. So yes, we believe in the rise of silver and the emergence of The New American Nomad™."

The Adventures of "Luxe & The Preacherman" by Patrick von Janicke © 2012 All rights reserved

Patrick Janicke exhibits in "Three Artists You Should Know" January 2012

2012-01-14T09:44:00.000-08:00

Thanks again to all you movers and shakers for attending the opening of "3 Artists You Should Know" last Saturday !
(you know who you are) For those of you who missed it, the doors are still open, come check it out! Among some well established pieces such as the Patrick Janicke trademarked Rolls Royce on tracks Vertical Motorhome, the show also features some brand new works of ChurchdeLuxe, The Return of The Gold Standard and a playboy mansion on wheels.

Gallery 800
5108 Lankershim Boulevard, North Hollywood, CA 91601-3717 (818) 763-8052 ‎

On display at Gallery 800: A playboy's mansion on wheels

2012-01-14T09:29:00.000-08:00

Gallery 800

5108 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood, CA

818-762-9995

Gallery 800 is the fine arts gallery of the Art Directors Guild, and works to showcase and promote artists and the talented professionals of the film and television industry. The gallery is located in the NoHo Arts District and holds various types of exhibitions and shows throughout the year. Some past exhibitions and events have included "Women! Images and Interpretations," "As Seen at Comic-Con," "Art Unites" and "Art Unites: Share the Holidays" among more. For more information as well as a digital photo gallery, check the main site or call for details on upcoming events.

Patrick Janicke's playboy mansion on tank tracks

Return of The Gold Standard

2012-01-04T20:34:00.000-08:00

Luxe & The Preacherman returned with Church de Luxe when the Golden Child hit $2500 an ounce! A trip through fameland reveals that the future is golden for all of us!

The Flower Girl - New Art by Patrick von Janicke at Gallery 800, Saturday January 7th 2012

2012-01-03T15:13:00.000-08:00

Flowergirl On A Chopper Motorcycle Motor Home by fameland
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The Rolls Royce Off Road Camper arrives in fameland

2011-12-31T17:12:00.000-08:00

A Playboy Mansion on Wheels by fameland.
Start being a fan of fameland concept art today!

A gift for Easter - Loudspeaker designed by Patrick Janicke

2011-12-25T07:00:00.000-08:00

The Art Directors Guild's exhibition "3 Artists You Should Know" currently displays Patrick Janicke's "Spring Rider". Some Gallery 800 visitors thought of the "Spring Rider" as an Imaginary Easter Bunny's Motor Home. This inspired some Easter merchandise - now available through fameland's zazzle store.(http://www.zazzle.com/fameland)
The Easter Bunnies Motor Home is playing some beautiful music.

Flower Powered Easter Egg Speaker by fameland
View more fameland merchandise

The Tree of Life, the Art before the film

2011-12-12T09:55:00.000-08:00

The Tree of Life by Patrick Janicke by fameland
Large format poster printing from zazzle

"Winter Gypsies #9" - Digital Art by Patrick Janicke

2011-11-17T19:30:00.000-08:00

"Winter Gypsies roam the snowy winter wonderland in the Northern parts of fameland. Winter Gypsies float in the translucent chamber of ChurchDeluxe™ the ever morphing vertical vehicular, that serves as both temple and vehicle to travel a world full of obstacles. The Winter Gypsies are almost constantly making out with one another and as a side effect they are creating the sexual energy necessary for the giant vehicle to move. Watching the hills like a Hollywood tourist, it arouses them to watch all the unusual sights in the land of fame. This in turn keeps the circulation of energy perpetuating itself. ChurchDeLuxe™is therefore considered fameland's "perpetuum mobile".
From "Luxe & The Preacherman, the Illustrated novel by Patrick Janicke

"Winter Gypsies #8" and "Winter Gypsies #9" by Patrick Janicke. Each print is thousands of pixels tall and full of intricate detail. Designsfiction.com is proud to present detailed close ups of these fantastical digital paintings.

Vertical Vehicular™ - Beginning of Patrick Janicke's Winter Series at Gallery 800, opening November 5th 2011

2011-11-05T12:25:00.000-07:00

Gallery 800 in North Hollywood, California currently exhibits a couple of new digital paintings of the Church de Luxe Winter Series by Patrick Janicke.
• Gallery 800
• 5108 Lankershim Blvd at the Historic Lankershim Arts Center
• NoHo, CA 91601 • 818-763-8052

"Winter Gypsies #8" and "Winter Games" by Patrick Jänicke are also available as art posters at http://www.zazzle.com/fameland

"Winter Gypsies #8" by Patrick Janicke

2011-10-31T19:45:00.000-07:00

The Winter Gypsy embraces a new American nomadic lifestyle. She welcomes the obstacles life presents to her and uses them for acts of beauty and personal growth.
Winter Gypsies #8" by Patrick Janicke; this digital rendering is thousands of pixels tall and full of intricate detail. Designsfiction.com is proud to present detailed close ups of this fantastical digital painting.

The Flower Girl Coffee Mug - The Flowering of a New Consciousness

2011-10-03T22:00:00.000-07:00

Flower Power Tree House Wheelie by fameland
See Luxe & The Preacherman on YouTube this Spring. Meanwhile back at the ranch: Hollywood Movie Art Old School production illustrations

Spring Rider by Patrick von Jänicke - April 2010

2011-09-20T19:54:00.000-07:00

During spring time; Church de Luxe, the Vertical Vehicular™ motorhome of Luxe and The Preacherman metamorphoses into an Easter egg on wheels and travels through a wonderful garden wonderland, abundant with colorful flowers.
From "Luxe & The Preacherman", the Illustrated Novel by Patrick von Jänicke.

"Spring Rider"by Patrick Janicke; this digital rendering is thousands of pixels tall and full of intricate detail. Designsfiction.com is proud to present detailed close ups of this fantastical digital painting.

New Invisible Plane design for Wonder Woman by Patrick Janicke

2011-08-28T12:58:00.000-07:00

In February of 2011 Patrick Janicke was hired by Warner Brothers' production designer Michael Wylie to design a plane for a new Wonder Woman TV series. The plane was supposed to be no larger than an SUV and have a modern concept car feel. Patrick Janicke started out with pencil drawings and discussed early concept sketches with Hollywood art director Christopher Brown. Later he built a computer model of Wonder Woman's plane to explore all angles and POVs. Unlike a car design, this vehicle, the plane, moves in all three dimensions and will therefore be viewed from its underside too. It has to look good from every angle. That's why the final stage of Patrick Janicke's design involvement with this Warner Brothers project was to create a previz type film, an animation of a virtual camera revolving around the computer generated plane.

see a clip of the not so invisible plane in the new Wonder Woman TV show here: http://www.dailyblam.com/news/2011/06/23/extended-clip-from-the-wonder-woman-tv-pilot-leaks

Wonder Woman's new plane revealed

2011-08-28T12:08:00.000-07:00

ChurchDeLuxe Winter Edition: "Snow Rider" by Patrick Janicke

2010-11-22T20:33:00.000-08:00

The Preacherman decides to take out his snowboard and go down the pipe of his Vertical Motorhome. A winter scene from "Luxe & The Preacherman", the Illustrated Novel by Patrick von Jänicke. ChurchdeLuxe, the Vertical Motor Home is persistently moving up that hill , against all obstacles or recessions.

Detailed close ups of "Snow Rider" by Patrick Janicke:

Commercial Production Illustration using Maya and Photoshop

2010-06-11T17:17:00.000-07:00

In another collaboration Production Illustrator Patrick Jänicke created set illustrations for production designer Johan Le Tenoux. Patrick built a 3D model of a set and rendered it using Maya. Finally he composited the Lexus LFA into his rendering using photoshop.
See Patrick Janicke's illustration and the final commercial on TV or YouTube!

This is the pursuit of perfection!

Red Dawn - conceptual previz design

2010-04-26T11:10:00.000-07:00

Bringing illustrations to life by building a CG model and animating a camera through it helps the production designer (Dominic Watkins) get an idea of the set before it is actually built.

White Gold - Concept Design & Conceptual Architecture

2010-02-02T18:39:00.000-08:00

What tools to use as a contemporary commercial artist ?

Designsfiction - Episode 68: Using professional 3D software

such as Autodesk's Maya for design pre-visualization in the entertainment industry.

Production Designer Andrew Reznik hired concept artist Patrick Janicke to help design the fantastic city "Milkquarious"for "White Gold" milk commercials.

Here are some samples of Patrick Janicke's ideas for quasi retro futuristic and humorous city planning.

This is an example of production illustrator Patrick Janicke's computer generated 3D environments.

For traditional 2D drawings, film production illustrations and photoshopped concept art; go to http://www.productionillustration.com

Recent preproduction movie art work also at http://productionillustration.blogspot.com

Click on this designsfiction blog title to go to the White Gold website and watch the ad movie "Battle for Milkquarious" featuring the final maybe less serious (?) design.

Concept Design Previsualization for Motion Pictures

2009-11-22T18:11:00.000-08:00

For the film " A Thousand Words", Patrick Janicke drew about 30 conceptual pencil illustrations of a tree that in a way plays its own character opposing Eddy Murphy. Production designer Clay Griffith chose a final design and a life size model was built. That full size tree was scanned to help concept illustrator Patrick Janicke build an accurate CG tree model. He also created different bodhi tree type leaves with texture maps. As the tree's loss of leaves is an important part of the film's narrative, Patrick did a series of previz movies to study the tree's transformation. In the movie's story, each leaf represents a word. When the tree dies and has only a thousand leaves left, Eddy Murphy's character realizes he is left with "A Thousand Words".
© 2008 designsfiction.com by Patrick Janicke, all rights reserved.

Vertical Vehicular Achitecture™

2009-11-19T19:01:00.000-08:00

Church de Luxe - Vertical Vehicular - the adventures of Luxe & the Preacherman continue, promoting daily "PERSISTENCE"!
Soon to be seen at Gallery 800 in North Hollywood. Also available as a major motion t-shirt picture at http://famelandfashion.com. ©2009 designsfiction.com by Patrick Janicke, all rights reserved

designsfiction - 3D art used in fashion

2009-10-12T13:54:00.000-07:00

The designsfiction 3D model built in Maya was redrawn by artist Patrick Janicke and became a T-shirt, now available for sale at TWISTED 7560 Melrose, Hollywood, California!

"The Flowering" at Gallery 800, showing new art by Patrick Jänicke

2009-05-26T09:40:00.000-07:00

the UPCOMING ART SHOW "SPRING INTO SUMMER" will feature "the flowering", a V16 powered tree of life, 3D art work printed on canvas 3' x 4.5' by Patrick Janicke.

The show opens Saturday, May 30th 2009. Gallery 800 in North Hollywood - The Art of Hollywood's Professionals & Art Directors. 5108 Lankershim Blvd at the Historic Lankershim Arts Center
NoHo, CA 91601 • 818-763-8052 • gallery800@gmail.com

"The Flowering" by Patrick Jänicke - conceptual art studies

2009-04-26T10:11:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the preliminary studies for the 3D model called "the flowering". You can see part of the modeling process and experiments with an HDRI lighting setup, creating an environment for the (V16 engine powered) flying tree of life.

The Power of Intention

2009-04-24T10:37:00.000-07:00

Church de Luxe - works in progress

2009-04-18T10:11:00.000-07:00

The Adventures of Luxe & The Preacherman

2009-04-16T11:08:00.000-07:00

- Only on designsfiction.com : Preliminary Design for Church de Luxe - the vertical motorhome™ - (based on a 3D model)
A sneak preview of the upcoming project of beneficial presence:

3D set design using Maya - by Patrick Janicke

2008-11-30T11:27:00.000-08:00

These are some rendered still images showing the benefit of building a three dimensional computer model to explore a fictional design - a design of fiction ;-)

Depending on your clients needs and objectives a digital model provides all kinds of pre-production and pre-visualization options.
Such as:
- You can have intimately lit perspective views evoking the mood and feeling of actually being in the space.
- You can generate flat plan or elevation views which give exact dimensional information to those who need to build the set in reality (set designers, art directors, carpenters etc..).
Note the different appeal of the 3D set with and without the application of detailed texture maps.

Posted with discretion by designsfiction.com's designer Patrick Janicke.

luxurialism: concept design enters fictional luxury

2008-11-16T11:17:00.000-08:00

- Using Maya for conceptual industrial design -
P. Janicke: concept design enters fictional luxury production - true wealth is the freedom to move in any direction at any time - can your Aston Martin do that?

Rolls on Tracks

2008-08-17T19:12:00.000-07:00

Engineered using the "Science Of Getting Rich" - Funtastic luxury vehicle design in a fameland fashion by Patrick von Jänicke

Fameland - Metabella's Rolls Royce

2008-08-06T15:56:00.001-07:00

Fantastic concept vehicle design and CG model by Hollywood concept artist, L.A based German artist , the INS named him "artist of extraordinary ability" Patrick von Janicke - patrick@productionillustration.com
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk/projectcardetail.asp?id=3

Decades after TRON

2008-06-17T13:13:00.000-07:00

Here's new Hollywood pop art 3D work in progress: Using Maya Ray Tracing for beautiful reflections on these simple race cars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAMWUV5kHjA

..to be continued!

Stills from the Fameland Race Movie

2008-06-12T20:58:00.000-07:00

car duellists - test

2008-06-11T13:20:00.001-07:00

Basic 3D animation by designsfiction

2008-05-30T20:34:00.000-07:00

Water Tunnel

2008-05-15T21:15:00.000-07:00

music by Goldfrapp, electronic music video art by Patrick Janicke

architectural design and previsualisation

2008-05-08T11:09:00.000-07:00

Patrick von Janicke - previsualization of experimental architecture

Fictional Design - Designs Fiction in FAMELAND

2008-04-18T12:13:00.001-07:00

This blog is the 3D art home of designsfiction.com by Patrick Janicke, Conceptual Art Director - for more 2D film design, please check out the.....
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SPEED RACER - Movie Race Car Design

2008-04-16T13:35:00.000-07:00

Some of the many exciting new race car designs by Patrick Janicke for the Wachowski Brothers' SPEED RACER movie.

Patrick Janicke's concept designs to be revealed as the SPEED RACER release date approaches.

production design and illustration

2008-03-23T00:13:00.001-07:00

production illustration has its original site with lots of art work from all the movies since STARGATE at http://www.productionillustration.com