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3DTotal: Bright colours play an integral part in each of your images. Is this used to symbolise anything or just to make them stand out?
Christoph: Personally I hate bright colours. Colour contrasts create a feeling of tensions. This contrast
not only exists between the colours alone, there’s also a contrast between the lively colours and
the “dead” object - take a robot for example. So, I try to give vitality to everything, but on the other
hand I try to create this agitation via contrasts.
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3DTotal: What things inspire you when you start on a new piece of work?
Christoph: There’s nothing that inspires me that I could give a name to. My work pops up just like a stimulus through a muscle. It’s like a pulse which emerges in my brain, goes straight through my right arm and then onto the screen. Then, suddenly, there’s this simple shape that appeals to you. So I can’t tell where the shapes’ forms and the colours come from, it’s just like a force that pulls me to do something that suddenly appeals to me, or sometimes not. Of course there are images that you can see from really talented artists, which somehow stick in your head, but it’s not like “oh look what crazy stuff this or that guy did, I need to go the same way”. What inspires me the most is that simple shape I start with, and then I try to do “more”. This is when the brain comes in, trying to create similar shapes and forms - familiar to machines and buildings of all kind. |
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3DTotal: So, has a mood that you’ve been in ever reflected itself within your work?
Christoph: Mostly I’m not a very positive person. For me, the world is either grey or black. But the pictures I make are, in the majority of cases, very colourful and vivid. So I have never had a mood that has been reflected within a picture, robot, model or anything that I’ve done. You know, it’s just the same with clowns who want to make people laugh but are more often than not very sad. So it could be the same with me, but instead of making people laugh I want something else, well, maybe...
3DTotal: With a fascination into machinery, why is it that you have chosen to model robots over other mechanical objects?
Christoph: I’m modelling other things too, but I’ve never thought they were worth being rendered. Why robots? Actually I never thought about it. Maybe because a robot is not a static object. You can give a robot a human touch to express something people wouldn’t normally expect from a machine. Maybe that’s what makes them interesting?
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3DTotal: You mentioned you like modelling robots on the basis of making them more humanized. If you had a choice of modelling another piece of machinery what would it be?
Christoph: Besides abstract machines, which I really like to do, I would model some kind of vehicle, because there is a very strong emotional connection between humans and their vehicles - cars for example. So it would be interesting giving a vehicle a certain character through its design, not forgetting about the challenge which one has to meet when it comes to the complexity and usability of a vehicle. Every machine could have some kind of character, as mentioned, so every machine is interesting in its own way, thus the modelling and designing process will always remain interesting when it comes to machines.
3DTotal: Well it has been a pleasure talking with you. One last question before we finish. If you have one bit of advice you could give to any aspiring 3D Artists, what would it be?
Christoph: It has been a pleasure answering your questions! Only one piece of advice? Hmm, just start work now and don’t try to think to much about anything, and take your time.
3DTotal : Thanks very much for talking to us, best of luck for the future! |
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