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Hello everyone !

Sorry as always for my not so frequent updates. I have SO much I want to show, but since pretty much everything are for stuff which haven´t been released yet, I cannot. But that means I will have a lot to show for the last half of this year.

Anyway, for fun I just made a JoachimArt skin for my igoogle page. If you are using igoogle (which I advise everyone to do) I think you should switch to my theme ;) ...

Check it out here!

hope you all are having a great summer! Sadly I feel it has hardly started here in norway (cold and rainy), which is sad to think about when the summer here is halfway through pretty soon :(

cheers!

Amazing just gets even better!

I just had to make a follow up on my Trico blog. Apparently that was an unofficial leak and now they are showing the real trailer for the game. All realtime and I don't know how they do it but the game looks even more breathtaking than previous games from the Ico team. Just check it out! I'm a true fanboy :)

Next game from Team Ico, footage revealed!!!

Hey its me again. I haven´t added anything new to my site, but I really wanted to put this up in case someone reads this blog and haven´t watched the new leaked footage from the coming game of Team Ico. I don´t know if you know who I am talking about, they are the creators of the fantastic two games Ico and Shadow of the Colossus on the PS2.

I´ve been waiting so long for something new they might be up to. And finally something has been revealed, and I gotta say it doesn´t disappoint, I got goosbumps all over the place, the artstyle, the animations, the idea, everything is just awh!
If you haven´t seen it, make sure to check it out, click here, and make sure to choose HD!

Hello Again!

Hey everybody, short between updates this time.
I recently watched Monster & Aliens (funny and simple kids movie, I loved the presidents performance doing Axel F for the Alien Robot :D ) with my son at the Cinemas, then I saw this brochure with coming kids movies. One of the movies which will be released near Christmas is a Norwegian "high budget" kids movie called Julenatt i Blåfjell. To my surprise I saw they were using one of the concepts I've done for the movie as the poster for the movie. I didn't know the movie was announced, or at least I though I wasn't suppose to show my concepts. But, since this image is released I guess I can show it myself :D
Anyway, this is the design for the mountain, which pretty much the whole movie spins around. What happens in the movie happens inside this mountain. Chimney Pot ( a Norwegian special effects company) are working on making this mountain in full 3d. The movie will be with real actors of course, so the final renders for the movie has to be more realistic than my concepts. But my concepts will also be used in marketing material, books, etc...so they have to keep some sort of painterly feel that can work for children illustrations as well.
Enough Rambling.... go to my site to see the sketch etc...

Hola!

I just thought it´s about time to make an update...It´s not Christmas anymore :D

Anyway, I´ve added an illustration I did for Recommended Design in Norway, for a icecream package. This ice cream will be released this summer in Norway, so if you are Norwegian, make sure to eat a lot of Lion Ice from Hennig Olsen :)

I also added a bunch of mediochre stuff to my Trashcan, not worth mentioning but still...gotta add some trash too :D

I wish you all a happy Easter, and I hope despite the fact that my site has been forgotten lately I will throughout 2009 add more than I have done earlier years (but don´t punish me if I don´t live up to my promises :) , this year has so far been beyond hectic)

Take Care
Joachim

Slow as Hell!

Heheh, yeah I know I deserve a beating. Geez, I'm still announcing Christmas on my site, and we are in the end of March! And, I was suppose to become an active blogger and all.
I'm gonna really try to make some updates soon, I have a lot of stuff ready to show, a lot of interesting projects ...but tight schedules are holding me back from updating my site.
For useless info, I just bought a brand new 3.06 GHz iMac, gotta say that's one lovely machine ! I can't believe I've spent 15 years on pc with a wacom tablet dying randomly on photoshop startup (I hope this is a common problem)...I'm not used to a OS that runs so fast smooth and without any problems, and looks good too :) I've become a fanboy I think.

And spring is about to burst here in Norway after 6 months of nearly being absent (or at least it feels that way when it's cold and snowy), good times these days...iMac and spring :D -what more can you ask for?

Stairway To Heaven - available at AppStore

Hello guys and gals !
Finally our tiny Iphone game is available at the AppStore ! So if you have an iPhone, be nice and download it! It's not a GREAT game, but I'm happy with the outcome, since this is my first iPhone game and it was started and finished developed within 2 days :D

Check for: Stairway to Heaven (on appstore)

It's a simple and fun game. Wouldn't be bad with an online highscore, but it was never time for that.
It was made by Me, Joachim Ante (programmer at Unity 3d) and Chester Lawrence. At the same time, me and Chester provided art for other small iPhone games that was made at the Unity Game Camp. . . so a busy but fun weekend.

Happy new year!

Hello everyone. It's been a nice chrismas holiday for me this year, an almost double week were I've been able to relax with my family after a very hectic end of 2008. Mostly for me it's been about being with my kids building Lego Star Wars and playing Lego Indiana Jones and Lego Batman on DS and Xbox 360...yup it's that age now for 5 year old son. My youngest, 2 year old son, pretty much wants to watch Ice Age all the time, and that's what he's been up to during the holiday...soon I think my DVD player will refuse that certain dvd and puke it out instantly...(or atleast I hope it will :) )
So, no new art from me to share yet, most of what I did late 2008 I cannot show yet. But, here's a drawing of Wall-E from my 5 year old son. Enjoy!

Merry Christmas everybody!!

I´ve been extremely slow with updates lately, because of some very busy weeks lately. But I wanted to make this last minute update to wish you all a great Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Since I didn´t have time to make my personal christmas picture this year, the best I can offer is a small image I made for McCann, for their internal christmas card.

Embryo

Our company recently received 800.000 (approx: 100.000 usd) from the Norwegian Filmfund in support to develop an iPhone game we call Embryo. A "simple" game idea I had which we thought would fit nicely on an Iphone. The game will be all about fun gameplay, but we will also focus on having nice stylized graphics and sound. It's going to be a lot fun to develop.

Ps! And this is the first post to this blog I've written and submitted from my Iphone -thought that would suit the topic :) iPhone rulez btw!