My name is Robin Krist and I am a Dutch based graphic designer
with a passion for concepting, storytelling, illustration and animation.
I am a geek, film fanatic,
absolutely adore surreal art and always try to put something
weird and creative in my designs.
Currently I am working at Piece of Magic Entertainment,
as a designer.
Piece of Magic Entertainment is a worldwide theatrical distributor specialising in documentaries, feature films, anime, live gaming events and concerts.
I worked on titles such as André Rieu Love is All Around, League of Legends, Spirited (Apple TV),
Godzilla Minus One, Royal Opera House, Stop Making Sense and many more.
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Sometimes we're in between projects and I get a little free time.
During those periods I try to stay busy by reimagining the artwork from projects.
There are two animated projects I want to showcase.
The first one is called 'INWARD'.
The second one is 'Everything I Ever Wanted'.
INWARD consists out of animated storyboards, made with Procreate. The story is about the struggle that comes with a negative self-image.
How feeling like you do not fit in can impact your mental health. Because it is difficult to change someone's view of themselves, I opted to show the story of self negativity. In the hope that it might connect with someone.
The story itself is based on Joseph Campbell’s ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’.
Everything I Ever Wanted is a song written by Soezy Castillo, who also helped me with the sound design of INWARD.
The song is about the experience of feeling love and it not being what she hoped it would be.
For the animation itself, I picked parts of the lyrics I wanted to visualise.
This way the animation is a bit more abstract, but enhances the lyrics of the song.
“ Is this what love’s like
I’ll only be passing by ”
It starts with one person that starts walking and eventually it’ll become a group of people all passing each other by. Each having their own problems.
“ I’m too late, too young
There’s iron on my tongue and red in my body ”
Red blood cells come falling down. There is iron in blood and it is in our body.
For a while I wanted to create my own playing cards.
I, however, couldn't decide on the theme. Until now.
A deck consists of 52 playing cards and two jokers.
The cards that do not have a number (jack, queen, king, ace and joker) have a unique and strange figure prescribed to them.
The playing cards are called "Drolatique", which translates to humorous, or funny.
The style is inspired by medieval art and illustrations, like the ones you can find in medieval bestiaries and/or manuscripts.
A couple of illustrations that I made in my spare time.
