Mystery of Albesila

Vord Halloween Party costume

2008-11-02T04:16:00.000-08:00

Talented costume artist from United States of America - InKibus done a costume for the halloween party based on Vord character. You can see his finished work here, and the detail.
We hope that he have lot of fun during the process of making the costume and of course have amazing halloween party!

Be sure to check his profile at deviantART to see lot of his others great costumes.

Integration meetings

2008-06-12T13:30:00.001-07:00

Long time ago we arrange integration meetings with people from our team. Of course those meetings was for people who live nearby.

It was a lot of fun to see poeple in real and know them a bit.

Anyway, if you wanna see photos from those meetings check set's on our Picasa account, here you go:

hah, yeah! we now have a Picasa account too. Isn't this great? ;)

Work collection at deviantART

2008-06-07T02:21:00.000-07:00

We create a new collection catalog on deviantART. In this collection you could see all works which been made from deviantART members. For now collection includes concept art works: character and enviroment designs. In future we'll be add there more works that will be made in our project.

Click here to see collection catalog.

Mystery of Albesila on Vimeo

2008-05-26T05:06:00.000-07:00

Soon you'll may check our video materials on Vimeo. Today we create there our profile :)
So, if you have there account add us!

Fanart collection

2008-03-03T08:50:00.001-08:00

From this day you can see all fanarts maded for our project in our collection at Deviantart.
Go here to see them :)

CGpad about us!

2008-02-16T03:05:00.000-08:00

One of the bigest art communieties - CGpad publish in thiere news section information about our latest makning of video material and they spread few words about our project. You can find this news here.

Making of barbarian army

2008-02-11T12:09:00.000-08:00

This video present samples of works we done during the creation process of barbarian army.

Music by: Malone

Link to the video at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqgqSk4TsbY

Albesila wallpaper pack

2008-02-11T07:05:00.001-08:00

Another wallpapers for your desktop! Illustration by: Mariusz Kornatka, Tomasz Ćwik and Mateusz Oźmiński.

Making of Albesila: town and villagers

2008-02-10T10:47:00.000-08:00

Another making of, but this time we present town of Albesila. The video showing samples of works we made during the creations of villigers and the town.

Music by: John Revoredo

Link to the video at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA0BwlQtL-M

[credit list] enviroment design

2008-02-08T10:41:00.000-08:00

01. Alexander "miNze" Thümler
02. Andrew Eadington
03. Arkadiusz Malec
04. Beatriz Gálvez
05. Carl Button
06. Caroline Vaziri Garakani (Ikio)
07. Dariusz Zabrocki
08. David Newbold
09. Jan Cieślak
10. Jason Roll
11. Jason Snair
12. Juan Calle
13. Łukasz Fudalej
14. Maciej Rębisz
15. Luca Marcenaro
16. Marek Tarnawski
17. Mariusz Kornatka
18. Mateusz Oźmiński
19. Paweł Hordyniak
20. Przemysław Baraniak
30. Oneil Grandison
31. Ozan Çivit
32. Raine Kuusi
33. Robert Maschke
34. Ruolong Chen
35. Shaun Mullen
36. Stefan Prochaska
37. Sorin Jurcut
38. Tec
39. Tim Manuel Keil
40. Tomasz Ćwik
41. Lin Chen
42. Benjamin Ingber
43. Wasker

Main characters wallpapers

2008-02-03T14:55:00.000-08:00

Three wonderfull wallpapers for your desktop! Illustration on the wallpapers was maded by: Mariusz Kornatka [Tiriz wallpapers] and Agnieszka Osiwała [Faris and Sharr wallpapers]

Enjoy!

Download Tiriz wallpaper 1280x1024
Download Faris wallpaper 1280x1024
Download Sharr wallpaper 1280x1024

Vampier castle wallpaper

2008-02-02T08:58:00.001-08:00

Illustration on wallpaper: Robert Maschke
Download wallpaper 1280x1024 here.

Avatar Pack vol.1

2008-01-29T13:34:00.000-08:00

Here you can download Avatars from Mystery of Albesila project. Use them for free anywhere you want - at forums, DA etc

Avatar pack vol.1

Making Main Characters

2007-12-31T16:24:00.001-08:00

Making Main Characters from Mystery of Albesila on Vimeo.
This video showing samples of works we made during the creations of the main characters for our movie: Tiriz, Faris and Shaar.
You can see at the end characters layouts - designs acctually accepted.

Link to the video at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD1nRfXyAS8

Old wallpapers

2007-12-06T01:56:00.000-08:00

END of concept art stage

2007-11-27T09:26:00.001-08:00

We are honestly happy to inform you that we finally end concept art stage in our project.
We wanna thanks to all great artist who cooperate on this project through almoust one year and 5 months!
Thanks to all!

Soon we'll need some helpfull hand with storyboarding but about this we'll inform you in few weeks.

a bit feed: we found a bit chance to publish official artbook with concept arts from the project on PAPER! ONE BOOK! There is a big chance that [possibly] in june 2008 we relise beautifull artbook! Stay tuned!

Enviroment concept artist needed!

2007-11-14T14:13:00.001-08:00

If you like paint or draw buildings, locations and you don't know what to do - join our team!
We are now looking for enviromental concept artists and painters. Esspecially for moodboardings.

Send your applications at: mysteryofalbesila@gmail.com
We'll welcome any exemplary piece of art and/or a portfolio.

The project is noncommercial and nobody's earning money on this movie.

Faris artwork - tutorial and details

2007-11-08T12:07:00.001-08:00

We proudly present tutorial of Faris artwork maded by Agnieszka Osiwała.

[credit list] character design

2007-11-02T17:13:00.000-07:00

We proudly present credit list of all artist who work on the character designs for our movie. Thanks for all who work on the characters! It was a pleasure for us working with such talented artists.

01. Agnieszka Osiwała
02. Alper Türköne
03. Arkadiusz Malec
04. Artur Sadłos
05. Dan Liimatta
06. Darius Cheong
07. Dariusz Zabrocki
08. Andrew Eadington
09. Engelszorn
10. Bartek Jędrzejewski
11. Eren Arik
12. Frederik Dahl Tyskerud
13. Grzegorz Mitas
14. Grzegorz Przybyś
15. IVE
16. Jakub Kasper
17. Jakub Oleksów
18. Jakub Rogoziński
19. Jason Snair
20. Jan Cieślak
21. Jan Pospíšil
22. Johannes Helgeson
23. Jorge Gecov
24. Cameron Kirk
25. Klaudiusz Stochmal
26. Kliment Kelchev
27. Łukasz Fudalej
28. Magdalena Łysak
29. Mariusz Kornatka
30. Mathias Kollros
31. Michał Dziekan
32. Miroslav Petrov
33. Oscar Sjöstedt
34. Pantoja Toniko
35. Paweł Faliński
36. Paweł Hordyniak
37. Piotr Uzdowski
38. Przemysław Baraniak
39. Przemysław Grzesiak
40. Rafael Rivera
41. Rui Pereira
42. Sebastian Skrobol
43. Surthur
44. tenShu
45. Tomasz Bakalarz
46. Tomasz Ćwik
47. Wareagle

MoA at MySpace

2007-10-28T12:02:00.000-07:00

From today we are at MySpace too!
If you have accounts there add us to your friends

Here is our profile url.

Illustration contest

2007-10-22T11:10:00.000-07:00

We open a contest for all artists to make illustrations with main characters from our movie.

You may do illustration with one of those characters:

All works send us artwork in oryginal resolution at mysteryofalbesila@gmail.com
Don't forget wrote in e-mail your name, nick, e-mail adress, webpage url and country.

The best works will be used as a promotion materials and in making of videos. Of course authors will be on the credits list.

Don't forget to place our logo if you want publish work at CGpad or Deviantart.
Here is logo.

good luck :)

Character creation: Vord

2007-10-05T17:45:00.000-07:00

Formerly Vord was just a tall, attired in black, pale man. He was characterized by an aquiline nose, high forehead, long hair streaked with grey and small scars on cheeks. During the process of character design, Vord went through a metamorphosis. From the countless ideas something that we didn’t really expect have emerged.

Even first ideas had suprised us. Something completely new for the Art Team was eg. the interpretation of a necroman as a native american shaman.

„Vord is a leader of the barbaric army – I wanted him to be culture-linked with them by his clothing.”

Thomas Ćwik

Gradually, Vord’s image gets more and more mysterious. Character becomes more dark and unsettling. His face is less human-like; his long hair disappear in the process too.

At this stage Vord had an image of a grim necroman, attired in black. Lukas Fudalej added some character by placing a crystal of power on the Vord’s forehead.

„...the only idea except the style of clothing and face for a bad guy was a silver mirror. Silver as a magical metal in composition with a mirror would be a weapon and a shield at the same time. It would deflect, protect against mind attacks and accumulate, focus the power of the necroman.”

Lukas Fudalej

Next idea was that Vord should wear heavy, full plate armor. This idea was connected with that the dark powers had corrupted and deformed the body of Vord – it’s disgusting, covered with scars – that’s why it have to be hidden underneath metal.

„Sight of a mage in full armor is very unusual. That could make this character unique...”

Marius Kornatka

We had decided that Vord needs something that would make us scared and anxious when seeing him, something that would make us instantly categorize him as a villain. Marius Kornatka suggested, that a proper mask would be perfect fot this. There was several versions of the mask – some very decorative, some simple, even coarse. Finally, we have picked a mask that, in our opinion, perfectly reflected the unemotional, cold nature of this character: inhumane, merciless, reserved.

Finally – a breakthrough. We have gotten a sketch, that definitively depicted primary characteristics of our villain: pride, haughtiness, unnaturally thin figure. Armor was replaced with long, black coat. Individuality was ensured by buttons and square-cut edges. Arising association of this coat with priest’s soutane is completely unintensional – yet appropriate, because of this Vord have become even more spiritual and enigmatic.

Because of the severe climate of Albesila, Vord was provided with a warm fur protecting againts coldness and a pair of long gloves. But a project of the character now seemed too trivial, simple. We needed some fresh ideas. Fur was eventually replaced with a short throw from crow’s feathers, we got rid of the golden trimming too.

We had discussed how Vord should move. We have agreed that he should be majestic, proud. Lucyna Rogoża suggested that the chaotic nature of Vord should be shown in a scene when he goes across a market square full of dead bodies. He would avoid touching any of the dead – with disgust, he would lift the edges of his coat to keep it clean and out of blood. Although finally we have picked an idea that Vord would float in the air, flying above the ground without making any sound. Thanks to this it’s even more doubtful – who is this necroman – still a human, or a supernatural being.

„People, in most cases, fear what they don’t know. By covering the mages face, we have achieved the goal. Effect is heightened by bloodstained eyes filled with emptiness and hate.”

Marius Kornatka

That’s how the most dark, mysterious and at the same time most interesting character of Mystery of Albesila was born. Designing it was a lot of fun and we hope that you’ll be able to see that in the movie. We hope that you’ll like it, just like we have liked it.

Final concept art you can find in Vord feature.

Artists who worked on this character:
Marius Kornatka
Thomas Ćwik
Lukas Fudalej
Jackob Oleksów
Thomas Bakalarz

Mystery of Albesila Logotype

2007-09-22T06:33:00.000-07:00

As we promised we inform about results of the logo collaboration we announced 3 monts ago. Here you can find all the details about logo collaboration.

We get much of submissions and it was a really hard to choose a right logo for our project. Because we get really good project from many people. Here you can see our best submissions.

Here is our choose of the logo. This logo presents mood and character of the type like we wanted from the begining. Congratulations for the logotype author: designboot.

We wanna thanks to everybody for all submited logotypes in this collaboration!

Making of the scale model

2007-09-17T08:34:00.000-07:00

Making of the scale model from Mystery of Albesila on Vimeo.

Almost a year ago we ended works on the Albesila scale model, which should have been one of the background elements of the previsualisation. At the end of the work we'd decide to use 3d model in prewisualisation so we don't use scale model anymore.
We worked on the scale model almoust 3 months. Lots of our friends help us made it. Also, we meet wonderful people who helped us as well.
Scale model was not finished in 100% but we want to show you how we had fun during the process.

Link to the video at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALcSbf19hQo

New website adress!

2007-09-17T08:31:00.000-07:00

From some time now, we've been thinking of changing the address of our project's website. Thanks to Michał Meiser's kindness the website can now be seen at the following address: www.mysteryofalbesila.com