Characterdesign for an imagefilm. The client chose something more conventional, but like this better personally.

A friend of mine started a new Youtube channel about chess problems. It is highly recommendable if you speak German, because his analysis is very good and it is worth watching. The animation is pretty limited, as was the budget ( I did half of the work for free, because I really like chess).

These were the basic ideas/ sketches:

and a little additional animation