Hannes Rall

Since 1993 illustrator, animator and comic book-artist : Hannes Rall creates commissioned pieces and independent artistic works in the fields of 2D animation, illustration, comics and character-design.

His style concentrates on bold visual statements, strong character design and clear communication of ideas and stories. He strives for the creation of a distinctively unique look in his art, incorporating various influences such as German expressionism, modern comic/manga-styles and a reduced colour-palette. In his animation his goal is to combine fluid and sophisticated animation with an innovative look in the design.

He is equally well versed in the use of traditional and digital tools. His commissioned work covered a wide range of topics, including directing, designing and animating advertising and promotional films; writing and drawing comic stories for magazines as well as illustrations for books, magazines and advertising agencies.

Clients included main German TV-channels as ZDF, SWR, ARTE; publishing houses as Egmont-Ehapa Verlag, Pabel-Moewig Verlag, Klett Verlag and many renowned ad-agencies.

Hannes Rall developed the visual presentation at Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan for the client Bio-Pro Baden-Württemberg, an institution promoting and supporting German life science companies. This was part of the ”German pavillion” and included the design of the main characters, a 24 page comic book, accompanying Flash-movie as well as the design of the booth.

He is specializing on character design and has currently redesigned lead charcters of the popular German comic book „Bussi Bär“ in 2D and 3D.