Meier Müller Schulz & Schmitt

Jan Maroske earns his money as a digital compositor,
but ever since I knew him he was an ambitious as passionate screen-writer.

A little while ago he had sent me the first version of the script for his short-film
and we exchanged some ideas about it. Since I was involved into this early phase of development
I found it rather easy to support the pre-production with an illustration representing a central scene with almost all the characters in frame.

Production-Painting for the short "Meier Müller Schulz und Schmitt" , 1/4 of 2006

By now and some script-versions later, Jan does already have several actors interested into this project and is trying to raise film-founding. It's a bit of a heck with that founding right now, as a lot of film-makers I know had to experience.
I really hope for this piece to be shot in 2007 as announced on the official website where you also can also download the script (drehbuch):

Meier Müller Schulz & Schmitt

Working a little on this project was sure fun, first because I really think that this short would be equipped with a quite original sense of humor in a short-genre that would perfectly harmonize with the talents of a good friend.
I could rellay imagine this to work out and that's good.

Second to that I dwelcomed the change to define characters not for animation but for life-action film, virtualy characters that would be not build in 3D or even drawn but being represented by real actors. So in a way it's like pre-casting. It is alway desireable to work as close wtih a director/ writer and into a script to vitalize the own ideas.
By now I await the further progression; next for me would be to render the storyboard. "Cont'd"


















Character-exploring/ defining scribbles for Meier Müller