The Rebel Nature story manifest

"Dreams from the past becomes nightmares of the future"
Plastic is a dream material. It can become anything you need and make your life so easy but now it is becoming the nightmare of the near future. Forget religion and political conflicts because this challenge is something everybody on the planet is facing. This is where Rebel Nature gets its fuel because I truly believe that stories can change the future. This is the kind of story I want to tell. Not by patronizing but by engaging in a adventurous universe where anything could happen if you start to act instead of waiting. Pick up that piece of plastic you see next time you are on the beach.

Right now the fast-running flow of entertainment is turning storytelling into big business. Stories are shaped by focus groups and market analysis with the goal to sell as much merchandise as possible. Stories have become a commodity.

We need to understand that stories shape our dreams and our future. At some point it is the only trace we set for future generations to understand our actions. At some point, storytelling and creativity must set new goals.

Rebel Nature is a “do good/feel good” story project with the ambition to create a fully CSR certified entertainment property.

Rebel Nature will try to prove that storytelling is one of the most important human survival skills.

Christian Faber

Founder of Goodman Rock

A Teaser for the upcoming app

Escape RIG21

2014 is the year of change

Sometimes you just have to act instead of talking about it. From today I will start using this blog for sharing my work on bringing a dream to life. All systems GO!

Happy Easter to you all

Guess one of the things I'm working on these days:)

Hero Girls 2014 MOCs

With the new mini-robot it is easy to give any of your mini-figs a cool upgrade. Here both Wild Style and Mia have gotten their true hero status ready to fight any micro manager or superglue mogul. Hero Factory 2014 rules!!!

Aquazone - My Art Direction debut on a LEGO project

Back in the early 90ies I had already worked as an assistant and illustrator on different LEGO lines but finally it was time for me to have my debut as Art Director. 

Shortly after in late 1993 Advance was briefed on a completely new LEGO play theme for 1995 and I was extremely lucky because I got to create the full package. 

The line was called Aquazone. This was a dream come true. I got to work with one of my deepest passions; Diving and the underwater world. I chose the environment and here I used one of the most fascinating rock formations in the natural environment, namely the basalt columns. These structures are created when the basalt cools down and shrinks after coming up from a volcano and breaks into hexagonal columns. 

The drawing you see on the left is done with AD-markers on paper:) This was before the age of computers so everything was done analog. 

The basalt columns reappear in the cave in "Invasion from Below" the 2014 Hero Factory mini movie. The structure is simply too good to only use once:)

 I designed the different logos and the bright yellow graphics and finally got to direct my first LEGO commercial. We filmed for a week in London and used one of the biggest motion control rigs in Europe. I think it was called the Cyclops (you don’t want to get in the way of that monster). We filled the studio with smoke and light beams and simulated water the best way possible. It was the best AD start anyone could have asked for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5dLp1O5keM

Toa/Bohrok teaser poster

The Toa entry awakened the Bohrok swarms and the Toa had a face off with their distant relatives. The Bohrok were a quite advanced specie that had the ability to attack an enemy and take over the attacker by shooting off the Krana to work as a face hugger. That fate is teased in this poster.