German Design Award 2016 for Pinot-Tauren Branding

I created the illustration for a wine branding in the past for a well known winery called Metzger.

The agency I'm worked for won the 'German-Design Award 2016' with the branding!

The winning entry:

A local TV broadcaster made an short report about that, sadly I'm not mentioned at all. But the guy's of the Stauffer Media & IT make it well. :)

Link to the Video at SWR- Mediathek


The daily newspaper of Rheinhessen region wrote an article about it

Link to the newspaper article


Another themed report was published by Open-PR magazine:

Link to Open-PR report


You can see the process of the illustration at my Behance-Project:

Link to Metzger Wines on Behance



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Previously on the blog

Link to my Metzger Wine Blog-Posting

Race Above the Clouds

A cat and a duck in a fast competition above the clouds, hidden for human eyes, sitting in some diy-junk airships and fighting for the win.

This image was done for a contest at RenderStreet. The goal was to interpret the given concept to a full rendered scene inside of Blender.

It was the 1st price winning entry. The price is 1 year of renderfarming at Renderstreet, I'm so glad that it happens cause my actual bigger 3d project (I don't want to say more) will defintive profit on this.

The scene was build and rendered in Blender. The GPU rendering in Cycles took me 17h on a Titan X in my Workstation with a Intel Xeon E5-2620.

Here are the final airships on Sketchfab in 3D:

Cat Ship by Dirk Wachsmuth on Sketchfab

Duck Ship by Dirk Wachsmuth on Sketchfab

All texturing work was done with Substance Painter. Here are some renderings made with the new implemented I-Ray renderer.

Crab Lurker

Happy New Year!

I modelled and textured this real-time critter in my sparetime over the holidays.

Some screenshots:

Screenshot from the ZBrush sculpting:

Here you can find some tips about the navigation inside the Sketchfab 3D viewer.

Crab Lurker by Dirk Wachsmuth on Sketchfab

Leonardo da Vinci 3D

I made this sculpture of the great inventor and artist Leonardo da Vinci two years ago with ZBrush. I think I thought on him yesterday because he had some similarities to Santa Claus. :D So before he will get more dusty on my harddrive I decided to retexture him and use the model as my first contribution on Sketchfab. I hope you like it.

Leonardo da Vinci by Dirk Wachsmuth on Sketchfab

Frohe Weihnachten

Now I have the time to post some new stuff I've made during the last month. It was a time of new challenges and a bunch of work has to be done. The first point is I work as an ZBrush lecturer on a private school for Gamedesign in Leipzig since october. It's great there and the students are really nice and creative. And the second point is I work hardly on a animated short at the time with some great dudes - more on this later.

The following works are made in my restricted spare time between that both. I hope you like it.

Some tries in analogue sculpting (work in progress):

The 1 Euro coin is for size comparison.

And a bunch of quick digital sculptings, just for fun and also work-in-progress.

And a character WIP/ anatomy study:

Merry Christmas to all of you!!!

Illumatkalender 2016

Hier eine kleine Werbung in eigener Sache (und Sprache).

Jauchzet, der neue ILLUMATkalender 2016 ist da!!!

Der Illustrationsautomat hat wieder für jeden Tag des Jahres eine poetische oder witzige, ernste oder unterhaltende, lustige oder listige Zeichnung parat. Entstanden sind die spontanen Bilder in nur wenigen Minuten bei Live-Aktionen des ILLUMAT aus den Wünschen und Ideen seines Publikums. Herz und Hand des charmanten Automaten sind Illustratoren aus Weimar.

Dieser Abreißkalender zeigt euch eine Auswahl mit den Besten der Bilder und Wunschideen eines Jahres!

Als kleines Special durch das Jahr gibt es zahlreiche Sondertage zu entdecken,
 z.B. den »Tag der verlorenen Socke«, den »Tag der Tiefkühlkost« oder den
 »Stell-dich-deinen-Ängsten-Tag«.

Also, bevor er wieder fort ist und das neue Jahr ohne ihn beginnt, könnt ihr den Kalender hier ergattern:

• Online direkt von uns hier bei Dawanda

• oder für größere Mengen gerne Anfrage per Mail hier: mail@illustrationsautomat.de

• In Weimar lokal an folgenden Orten:
Schauschau Weimar
Bauhaus.Atelier Shop Weimar
Stift/Kontor Uni
Eckermann-Buchhandlung

• beim Verlag: www.mueckenschwein.de

ISBN 978-3-936311-23-5

Diesmal ist das Cover von mir. :)

Metzger Wines

In cooperation with Stauffer - Medien & IT I made some illustrations for different wine etiquettes.

A winemaker named Metzger (german for butcher) commissioned us to uplift their former designs.

Drink`N`Ride

My first job was to integrate the vintner himself into the label.

"Drink'N'Ride is a sweet and nonalcoholic secco.

(the cow was given and is based on the first corporate design made by Buero Medienagenten)

Dry Aged

The second illustration was for a well seasoned wine which is called "Dry-Aged".

The task was to show the vintner in the fictional pose of pushing some hanged wine barrels like a real butcher would do to make Dry-aged beef.

Pinot-Tauren

The "Pinot-Tauren"(Tauren; german plural for taurus) is Metzger's trinity of Pinot Noirs. Every wine is from various sites and is grown on different soil.

So the task was to communicate this distinction through the bulls' poses and expressions.

You can find the wine on the customers website:

www.wein-metzger.de