Art – Forbidden Folds

Character Design

We develop characters with a heart and soul. No exceptions.

February 26, 2024

Illustration

Sometimes two dimensions are enough.

April 18, 2026

Animation

Sizzle Reel, various Projects

We design and animate in 2D and 3D, for games and film, analog and digital, interactive and static.

Enjoy our sizzle reel for a taste of our work:toys and colorful candy. We use bold colors and simplified shapes to encourage a sense of “playfulness”. Being a physics based puzzle adventure, it is important that objects are easily readable at a glance.

Music by Sebastian Smus from the WHALIEN OST

October 3, 2024

World Building

WHALIEN

physics based puzzle adventure game

The world of WHALIEN is inspired by the look of plastic toys and colorful candy. We use bold colors and simplified shapes to encourage a sense of “playfulness”. Being a physics based puzzle adventure, it is important that objects are easily readable at a glance.

METANOIA

mixed media short film

METANOIA is an animated mixed media short film (~5min).
Real sets are combined with digital character animation to create an exagerrated but grounded world.

Our responsibilities include world design, digital pre-production, look development, analogue set planning and building as well as some post production (digital Backgrounds and vfx)

Project core Team:

Tristan Neuberger
Melanie Wressnigg
Jakob Steininger
Jakob Vogel

Find out more about the project here: Project Link

DOOMSBURG

Worldbuilding for a series of digital Short Films

Doomsburg is set in a world where the blood moon always shines bright.

By Martin Birner, Jakob Vogel and Johannes Diekmann

Other Projects

We just love building worlds.

February 13, 2024

Storyboards

Doomsburg

Storyboards for animation

Vulvarine – Animal

Storyboard for the Musicvideo “Animal” by Vulvarine.
Video directed and produced by Tanja Gruber

Watch the video here: video link

March 1, 2024

UI

User Interfaces

From main menus to setting pages, over scoreboards to dialoge screens and item descriptions UI is a constant companion in games. We have over 5 Years of professional experience creating User Interfaces in Unreal Engine for PC and Consoles.
We create resolution independent UI to be interacted with controller, mouse and keyboard.

Here’s some examples of our UI in various states of Development, from early versions allowing us quick and functional navigation through early builds, to final and polished Scenes conveying information just as much as emotion.

Dodgeball Burglar

Action, Top Down

WHALIEN

Puzzle Adventure

Kronberg

Survival Horror

April 17, 2026

Painterly

February 29, 2024

Black and White

Sometimes all the color you need.

Holy Diver

Dethrone

Ice World

April 17, 2026

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Category: Art

Character Design

Character Design

Illustration

Illustration

Level Design

Character Art

Animation

Animation

World Building

WHALIEN

METANOIA

DOOMSBURG

Other Projects

Storyboards

Doomsburg

Vulvarine – Animal

UI

User Interfaces

Dodgeball Burglar

WHALIEN

Kronberg

Painterly

Black and White

Category: Art

Character Design

Character Design

Stephanie

Klark

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DBBurglar

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Police

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Roxanne

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Shirley

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Joe_01

Squid

EdFred

Anna

Drohne

Steve2

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Fin_Happy

Oliver_Ref_Sheet_02

Steve

Joe2

Doug

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Valerie

Illustration

Illustration

02 WHALIEN Assets

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Doomsburg Poster

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WHALIEN Screenshot

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WHALIEN Screenshot

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Level Design

Character Art

Animation

Animation

World Building

WHALIEN

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METANOIA

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