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The Rise of Silver

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

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 ‎

Art Video - Gallery 800: A playboy's mansion on wheels

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

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!

A gift for Easter - Loudspeaker designed by Patrick Janicke

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 doodle

Flower Powered Easter Egg Speaker by fameland
View more fameland merchandise

The Tree of Life, the Art before the film

The Tree of Life by Patrick Janicke print

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

ChurchDeLuxe Winter Edition: "Snow Rider" by Patrick Janicke

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

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

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

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

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™

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

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!