“I shopping och kärlek är allt tillåtet.”

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Andreas Qassim

Årets spel är här: Ullaredspelet! Spelet är skapat av Pia Forsberg på Krabat i Lund. Jag har illustrerat kartongens framsida, samt varorna som man kan shoppa i spelet. För grafisk formgivning står Jerry Söderström på S&S Design.

“Spelet där allt kan hända, precis som en helt vanlig dag på varuhuset. Du köar, springer på bekanta, tappar bort maken, campar, fyndar, fikar, flirtar, går vilse…

Samtidigt som du är indragen i ett rafflande, skoningslöst och makalöst roligt kundvagnsrace!”

Spelet finns att köpa på Gekås Ullared och Krabat i Lund, Klostergan 14 (Bytaregränd).

Citylogistik

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Andreas Qassim

Studio Qassim takes a new turn with this animated information film for the Copenhagen municipality project Citylogistik. The project aims to replace heavy transport in the inner city with more environmental friendly alternatives.

Sådan virker Citylogistik from Citylogistik on Vimeo.

The film is basically hand drawn, but animated in Flash. It was edited in Premiere and After Effects. The cut out paper collage coloring of the backgrounds were made in Photoshop.

The film was made in collaboration with Alfred Gunnarsson and Niklas Ström. Alfred designed the website and logo for Citylogistik. We were both involved in shaping the script for the film together with our friends at the Copenhagen municipality. I designed, storyboarded and animated the film. Niklas did the outstanding sound work. In fact, the three of us had so much fun doing this project that we will definitely work togheter again. We’re currently in the process of forming our own animation bureau, and we’re already in the talks for our next project. I’ll let you know once we’re up and running.

Big thanks to Johan Rünow at S8AN Communication for helping us out with After Effects!

The Muppets Comic Strip

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Andreas Qassim

The Gilchrist brothers Muppets comic strips from the 80s continue to inspire me. The perfect way to unwind after a hard day’s work. Super simple in content and style, they still make me smile. Or maybe I should say they make me smile because of their simplicity. Or is it the innocent sweetness reminding me of my childhood?

I really like Guy Gilchrist’s drawing style. The characters are boiled down to the essentials, interpreted in a personal way. The weight of the ink lines are well balanced, the volume of the characters is solid. You don’t find a single superfluous line. Every line has meaning.

I love these collection books. The strips are pure black and white, which makes you appreciate the ink work a lot more. I got them through Amazon from various second-hand bookshops. Cheap, fast, carefully packaged. I like to think about how these books were once in somebody’s home. There’s a history to these items.

The only thing I miss are the half and whole page strips that I used to collect from various magazines as a child. Does anyone know if there are collections of these available? The final strip of the Muppets series according to Muppetwiki:

Guy Gilchrist worked on many comic strips, like Nancy and Sluggo, Mudpie, Today’s Dogg and The Muppets. He even helped create The Muppet Babies cartoon series back in the days.

Guy Gilchrist is also a country musician. You can check out what he’s up to these days here. Everything in this post is ⓒ The Jim Henson Company.

Bamse Biblioteket PM-serierna Volym 2

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Andreas Qassim

Fick precis den nya PM-boken med postuma Rune Andréasson-serier. Som jag skrivit om tidigare har jag alltsedan jag läste Bamse och Guld-Gnoms skatt, skriven av Rune och tecknad av Tony Cronstam, tyckt det varit något väldigt speciellt med PM-berättelserna, och jag är verkligen glad över att ha fått teckna några av dessa.

Omslaget är tecknat av Lars Bällsten, tuschat av bernt Hanson och kolorerat av Thomas Holm.

PM-bok #2 innehåller flera pärlor. Här hittar vi bl.a. serierna Brum-kludden och Med pensel mot svärd, båda tecknade av Cronstam, samt den lite kontroversiella Mård-Lisa, tecknad av Lars Bällsten. Här finns även serien om Bamse och Lilla Åsnan som gick som miniföljetong nyligen i tidningen nr 7-8/11.

Härligt att se sina alster på så fint papper. Älskar lukten av nytryck! Och roligt att se dessa båda omslagen tillsammans i all sin prakt. Båda är tecknade av mig och tuschade av the one and only Kerstin Hamberg. De är speciella på så sätt att jag stod för både layout och teckning. Tidigare omslag som jag har tecknat har varit layoutade av Joakim Gunnarsson. “Omslaget” till Lilla Åsnan I publicerades på C3 (näst sista sidan) i Bamse #6/11.

Över huvud taget är jag väldigt glad och stolt över att jag fick teckna Runes berättelse om Åsnan, som han själv stöpt i så många former. Var inspirationen till Åsnan troligen kommer från kan man läsa i boken. Ser fram mot nästa PM-bok, i vilken jag har jag tecknat åtminstone fyra av serierna.

Samtliga bilder i inlägget är ⓒ Rune Andréasson.

This and that

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Andreas Qassim

Since early September I’ve been buried underneath heaps of work. That’s good. I’d rather be stressed out by too much to do than too little. However, those kinds of weeks and months leave little room for blogging. I’d thought I’d post a little bit of this and that from what I’ve been up to during autumn 2011 so far.

Kulturnatten in Norrköping 24 Sept

I was invited by Arbetets museum in Norrköping to do some live cartooning for families visiting the exhibition Bamse & Du during Culture Night (Kulturnatten). The Bamse exhibition took place at the EWK-muséum, a section of Arbetets museum devoted to political art. EWK – Ewert Karlsson 1918-2004 – was a Swedish superstar in political cartoons. He won several international awards for his art. My job was to deliver Bamse drawings to the families visiting the Bamse exhibition.

Photos taken by Aleksander Savic, official photographer for Arbetets museum.

I was amazed by two things. 1) That Bamse is still so popular. Children and parents still love the comics and the films, just like I did when I was a boy. When I’m out in public like this I’ve also noticed a certain awe for hand drawn comics and animation in general. It seems like many people are tired of the digital stuff, big budget 3D productions and the like. There’s a strong appreciation for the craft when people see it’s being done manually.

2) That young children were prepared to stand in line for such a long time. I’m not a fast cartoonist, but I wanted to make sure that everyone waiting got a drawing of their favorite character. So instead of three hours with two breaks, I drew constantly for 3,5 hours. Some kids waited for probably an hour before it was their turn. Thank you all for your patience! And many thanks to Arbetets museum for having me. I’d love to come back, to draw or just to visit your beautiful museum.

John Bauer-gymnasiet in Lund 6 Oct

My friend Johan Rünow invited me to hold a workshop in drawing and digital coloring at the media school where he’s teaching. I’m really quite jealous of these students who get to make books, photography, posters, zombie films etc. Having fun while at the same time learning essential tools, digital and manual, for working in media in the future. I was there to teach about drawing – sketching and inking, and coloring your artwork digitally. A lot to go through in just three hours.

Each student had their own personal computer. Some even had iMacs!

While the students were hard at work I made a cartoon version of myself who’d drunk too much coffee and done no workout. Tried to explain how you can play around with proportions to create different types of characters.

I wanted each student to make a cartoon version of themselves. Not an easy thing to do, especially if you don’t spend all your spare time drawing, like I did their age. But the students were heroic and made some really cool cartoons. Some of them were really quite outstanding, and I hope to be able to post a gallery of the students’ work here later on.

The students went from hand drawn manual work to digital coloring in Photoshop. Photos taken by Johan Rünow.