The Rebel Vlog is finally a reality. Go ahead and dive in:)

RebelVlog finally live from the Rebel Garage in CPH. This is the first Vlog describing the work behind my past, present and future projects. All about Rebel Nature, Waveborn, concept and design, behind the scenes and a dive into the past projects including a certain Biological Chronicle. This is also the start of a long awaited giveaway "The RebelVlog Garage Giveaway" Join the journey toward a new legend with all the waves and hustle on the way. This is ultimately about creativity with a Rebel twist. Comment, share and Enjoy!

Cryoshell from 2006 to 2017 and beyond

This is a small tribute to all the people who have followed Cryoshell since 2006 and their amazing patience. Now you can be a part of this new beginning. We will keep the epic feeling alive but take it to a new place beyond the horizon with a new purpose. Say hello to the band on their first day on the new project. Nobody knows the future but you can be certain it is coming so choose your course and remember to bring some personal and powerfull music.

How to move inside ice. Mammon credit sequence.

Mammon title screen from the final version

If you ever wondered what it would look like to move through the ice of a frozen Norwegian lake, now you have the chance. This is the credit sequence of the new season of the NRK series Mammon that is a modern drama build on politics, business, religion, money, oil and everything in between.

Link to Mammon ll Credit sequence

I worked on this concept together with Ghost and they executed it in perfect hyper-realistic macro style but all in 3D.

With this “Frozen lake” concept we tried to depict all the hidden layers of this complicated story in a poetic and symbolic way. A lot of different pieces of evidence are suspended in the frozen water.  The camera takes us deeper into the darkness of the lake and at the bottom black bubbles of oil are hanging like black pearls.

One of my concept sketches. 2 branches shape a cross

Another concept sketch with a frozen gun

The making of "Invasion from below"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6lQRVg525M

Behind the scenes of "The robots are coming"

http://youtu.be/yTB11sgbbr4
Here is the ¨Behind the scenes¨ of the LEGO Mindstorms video from the Copenhagen Metro. It was not just another day a work. Great location, amazing dancers and a cool new robot from LEGO. What more can you want.

The LEGO Friends case

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82--KPcOgDY

Working on the the creation of the property and the launch campaign for LEGO Friends has been the wildest experience and the result speaks for itself. I was lucky being a part of this "giant leap for LEGO".
Left you see a romantic snapshot from the LEGO Friends filmset.

The Bionicle legend told in stone and sand

Back in 2000 when not much Bionicle material was produced I was faced with a difficult task. On the CD-rom that would be included in some of the launch canisters we were to explain the Bionicle legend visually. How could I show the foundation of the legend without destroying the epic vision?. I would be impossible to produce the 3D scenes that would do the idea justice with giants rising above the clouds. At the same time explaining the foundation would give away the secret of the great robot beneath the seabed. The answer was “keep it simple”. I decided to tell the story in simple shapes of sand and stone. A circle filled with sand where the Turaga would tell the legend and keep the score of good and evil by moving the symbolic stones around. That became the stone legend and it was staged in an ancient temple in the jungle. This temple also worked as the navigation of the CD-Rom produced by Advance with 3D assets from our own 3D department and Ghost. This CD-Rom also included the small movie clips that introduced the original Toa and their environment.

The Piraka Revolution

Back in 2006 the story of Bionicle took a mayor shift. We needed some fresh adventure so the Toa were sent on the Ignition trilogy to ignite the legend.

We also needed to refresh the campaign and the look and feel. The Piraka were cast as “the gang on the loose” and the style was urban and graffiti inspired. To really make a change we set the scene in a strange surreal stronghold that was quite modern with clear references to human technology but with a twist. This was steam punk meets Bionicle and the Piraka had their own rodeo bull, an industrial robot for getting dressed and a sliding gun rag. A beat up sofa and TV set and small tech creatures running around including a fly and a camera. Here you see some of the first sketches and 3D models of the Piraka location.

I directed the music video style commercial about the gang of Piraka in their hangout and we even did a Piraka rap to take the campaign totally out of the epic story mode and into the street. Some loved it and some hated it but it defenitely was something different.

Diving deep with the Toa

2007 was a fantastic year in the Bionicle legend. We got to go underwater for an entire year and for the second half of the story I directed the trailer teasing the adventure of the Toa Mahri as they chased the Mask Of Life. "Face Me" was specially composed by (what later would be known as) Cryoshell to support the story of the Toa Mahri.

Cryoshell – Creeping in my soul

The song "Creeping in my soul" from 2007 really set the direction for the band. It has a spooky fragile tone and the lyric will creep into your ear. The video was shot on a scary mansion south of Copenhagen on a cold foggy day. I art directed the video and shot a lot of still pictures on set and some of these pictures became the cover of the EP and the album.

Barraki 2007 – Creeping in my soul

This was another highpoint in the Bionicle legend. Everything seemed to come together. Great mystery, great danger, great characters, great location and great music. As said earlier underwater is magic to me and probably the closest we will get to visiting an alien world in our lifetime. So getting to direct a legend in this location was epic. And thanks to Cryoshell for putting unforgettable music to this fantastic year.

Directing a legend

2008 was in many ways the highpoint of the Bionicle legend. This was when the big secret was disclosed and when the destiny of the Toa was finally fulfilled. They restarted Mata Nui but Makuta had been ahead all the time and turned their victory into defeat by taking over Mata Nui right at the reboot. Making a film that depicted this was one of the biggest challenges in creating Bionicle. For many years I doubted that we would ever get to make this sequence. One task was to design the giant Mata Nui himself. Another challenge was to make the whole sequence epic enough to contain 8 years of legend. As always the crew at Ghost VFX http://ghost.dk/ and sound designers at Mainstream http://www.mainstream.dk/ did a great job and made the vision come to life.

Bionicle concept video 2001-2008

8 years in 3:15:)

The birth of a Toa

These thumbnails were done early in 2000 and represent my vision of how the first Toa would come to life on the beach of Mata Nui. Imagine it on the big screen in the cinema. The canister drifts in the endless ocean, full of seaweed from its long journey. Washes up on the shore. Small mechanical part registers the location and automatically shoots of the hatch and all the parts of the Toa into the sand. The parts start assembling themselves ending up with the head being put into place. This newly build hero is like a baby at first, unsecure on his feet and aimless in his behaviour. He tries to pick up the sword but his joints are weak and snap off. Finally he finds the first mask lying in the sand. He puts it on and it gives him his first character information. He becomes strong and secure in his moves and picks up the sword again. The sword flames up. Now he knows he is a Toa of fire and he looks towards the volcano and begins his journey.