Mirjam Leppers: illustration

zondag 29 maart 2015

Selfie girl | progress I

"Je stuurt je selfie pas de wereld in als je tevreden bent over je zelfportret. En als je te weinig likes krijgt, haal je het er gauw weer af." Volkskrant 28 maart.

In order to finally really get going with my project, I'm having some fun developing a little animation about the selfie girl. Doing some movement studies, sketches and developing a moving storyboard.

dinsdag 3 februari 2015

Green light | presentation

Green light | showreel from Mirjam Leppers on Vimeo.

Friday 23th January I've held my 'Greenlight presentation' for teachers and students in order to get a 'green light' for my graduation, which took place in Concordia Enschede. I've showed a little showreel to support my talk and a slideshow about my travel through the course and working up to my graduation idea. Here's a small text which sums up a bit what I talked about:

Loads of imagery, loads of ideas.
I tell my stories through imagery, but today I'll talk about it.In the first year of the AKI, which was an orientation year,
I couldn't be happier with what was offered to me, painting, sculpture, drawing, video , photo shopping etc.

Great, but that did made me doubt until the ultimate day which course I wanted to do.
I wanted as much freedom, in material and media-choice, themes and ideas.
I chose to do Sculpture.Which I did for half year, experimenting with different material and subjects, combining and tasting,
which was really nice for getting to know different techniques and material.

It didn't make me as happy though. I missed something essential, a rhythm maybe, and inducement, a question or problem?

Then there was something as ACD on the AKI, Art & Crossmedia design. Which, in that time, was spoken about with some fine-arters a little bit as:

"That's just making logos right? Corporate identities?"

      "Do whatever a client wants?"

  "Being ubergood in photoshop?"

      "You do earn lots of money with it tough..."

  "How can you develop a signature with that?"

Well, was I mistaken. When I switched to ACD, a world opened up to me, just as much media freedom and material choices,
but we had questions or problems that we had to solve.

Where it didn't ever matter as much what the question was,
coming up with an idea for a jewelry commercial,
programming a flash game and designing the concept for it,
making a hand drawn animation starting with nothing.. etc.

Over the three years I had loads of fun experimenting with media,
getting new assignments every week and let a process go on that.
I discovered that my fascination isn't in being able to use all the media that I want and practice,
but to choose the right medium for the question.
Although I also believe that there is no perfect solution to a 'design' question, only a suited one.

Last half year I tried to discover what my point of view is and clarify that,
by looking into some more critical and political subjects with my dissertation,
film minor, working with dogma and identity research.

This was my story, and now for my graduation I'm going to look in other stories.For my graduation I'm going to look into the column, IK@NRC, a daily column with little personal anecdotes of readers, and translate that into imagery. Loads of imagery, loads of ideas and translations Where I'm going to use all the expertise in from the last years that I gained, my view and signature and as always: let the process guide me and let that frame the end-result.

Slides used during my talk.

zaterdag 11 januari 2014

Cupiditas | Movie Poster

End result and proces of designing the poster for my 30 seconds animation Cupiditas, which I will post online soon.

zaterdag 4 januari 2014

vrijdag 3 januari 2014

Lady Holle | fairytale wooden book

Example for my fairy tale wooden book that is in the making. Idea is that the book only exists out of wooden linings, everything that is white will be cut out, so that when the story evolves, the images evolve with the linings.