After receiving her diploma in Audiovisual Media at the University of Media in Stuttgart in 2007, Maria started working as a freelance 3d Animation Artist. She mainly worked for Studio SOI on award winning projects like “Angel afoot” or “The Gruffalo”.

Her passion for creating images, that tell a story of their own and creating unique environments and characters, which appeal to the viewer and entertain with their looks and personality, has led her to turn her creativity more towards illustration and design.

Maria works in traditional as well as digital mediums. She lives with her two daughters and spouse in a small town in Germany, drawing whatever crosses her mind or catches her eye.

Website: www.mariabogade.com

PUBLICATIONS

MAGAZINES
2010 „Dream Chasers Magazine“ Holiday illustration „Making Cookies“ to colorate with Sarah Bash – Gleasons poem and a full page article with three illustrations.

ASSOCIATED PRESS article about „They Draw & Cook“ featuring my illustration „Monster’s favourite Pumpkin Soup“ along with illustrations from three other artists. The article was picked up by lots of other online news services such as timesunion.com

2011 Cover design/illustration “On the Rooftop” for the January/Febuary 2011 edition of “Dream Chasers Magazine”.

BOOKS

2011 „They Draw & Cook“ – Cookbook with 100 illustrated recipes, one of them being my „Monster’s favourite Pumpkin Soup“ published by Weldon Owen Publishing. The book is expected to be released late this year.

“Wee Granny’s Magic Bag” will be published by Picture Kelpies an imprint of Floris Books late 2011. It is illustrated by Maria in her watercolour and ink style.

2012 “Schlafplatz gesucht!” Is a story written and illustrated by Maria in her digital style. It will be published early 2012 by the Bohem Verlag based in Switzerland.

• PROFESSIONAL ANIMATION WORK AND PROJECTS
• 2004 Thomilla – On my Mind (Script, Animation, Modeling, Texturing) Music Video
• 2005 Bommel & Struppi (Script, Director, Design, Animation, Modeling, Rigging, Texturing)
• 2006 Pilippo (Script, Director, Design, Modeling, Texturing, Shading, Rigging, Animation, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing) Short Film
• 2006/07 In Aphrodite’s Garden (Script, Director, Design, Modeling, Texturing, Shading, Rigging, Animation, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing)
• 2007 FSME Nanoreise ( Director, Modeling, Texturing, Shading, Animation, Lighting, Rendering, additional Compositing)
• Zecken- Entwicklungsreise/ Tick- Developing Story (Background Modeling, Shading, Animation, Lighting , Rendering, Compositing)
• FARO Gage Imagefilm (Modeling, Texturing, Shading, Animation, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing)
• COMBOTS Batman Collection, COMBOTS Lissy Collection,COMBOTS Spongebob
  Collection (Modeling, Animation, Rendering, Compositing)
• 2007/08 Engel zu Fuss/Angel afoot (Modeling, Texturing, Shading, Animation, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing) Short Film
• 2008 FARO Quantum Imagefilm (Modeling, Texturing, Shading, Animation, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing)
• ENBW-Smartfactory (Design, Modeling, Texturing, additional Shading, Animation,
  Lighting, Rendering, Compositing) Advertising
• ENBW-Network (Animation) Advertising
• GUMBALL (Modeling, Texturing) TV-Series
• BAXTER-Menningokokken ( Director, Design, Modeling, Texturing, Shading, Animation, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing)
• 2009 Emmi & Krzzlfz ( Modeling, Texturing, Shading, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing) Teaser
• ENBW-Home ( Director, Design, Modeling, Texturing, additional Shading, Animation, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing) Advertising
• THE GRUFFALO (Modeling) 30 min. Movie for BBC
• LOEWNZAHN – CO2 (Director, Shading, Rendering, Compositing) Short Film
• Zecken 3d (Shading, Texturing, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing) Advertising
• 2010 WT PRINZESSIN (Modeling) Short Film
• LOEWNZAHN – Zahn (Texturing, Shading, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing) Short Film
• THE GRUFFALO’S CHILD (Pre-Viz Artist) 30 min. Movie for BBC

Online

Children’s Illustrators: www.childrensillustrators.com/mariabogade
Filu (german site): http://www.filu-archiv.de/Maria_Bogade
Blog: www.mariabogade.blogspot.com
Art House Cooperation: http://arthousecoop.com/users/mariabogade
Behance: http://www.behance.net/mariabogade
Society 6: http://www.society6.com/studio/mariabogade

My name is Carla Manso. I was born on 15th September 1983. Since my childhood that I love everything that envolves drawing and handicrafts. I noticed aptitude in drawing when I was around 10 years old. I was influenced by japanese cartoons on TV (Anime) and began to draw those characters. It was the only way to “own” my favourite Animes. Back in those days the Internet wasn’tfully developed as it is today and it was hard to find them. Some time later I began to draw my own characters.

In highschool I studied art. I began to enjoy the technical part of drawing in and outside school with the portuguese paintor Susete Pereira. In 2002 and 2003 I had some paiting exhibitions of my own. In 2003 I began my gradutation in “Visual Production Design” in IADE (Visual Arts, Design and Marketing Institute). One of the branches I enjoy the most in Design is the creation of corporative brands.

I worked three years as a graphic designer, but right now I’m a 100% focused in Illustration for children’s books. Some of my first books, in which I’m working right now, will be available soon.

On the Web

Facebook:   http://www.facebook.com/carlamansoo
Blog: http://telhadogato.blogspot.com/
Carbonmade: http://carlamanso.carbonmade.com/
Portfolio behance: http://www.behance.net/carlamanso

I was born in a suburban area of Tokyo, Japan in 1983.

I spent most of my childhood as most Japanese kids do: watching anime, reading manga and playing outside with my friends. Just next to our house, there was an old agricultural research center, offering the perfect venue to explore for kids with wild imaginations. Abandoned green houses turned into dusty dungeons with transparent walls and the vast gardens became endless forests where dwarfs inhabited. 

I was also immensely fascinated by every living creature I encountered, especially insects. There is a huge variety of insects in Japan and I remember spending countless days hunting them. I believe that living in such a place, surrounded by a large variety of elements had a powerful influence on my creativity.
Rivers, mountains, forests, cities, they were all filled with life and offered me something unique.

All I needed was to look for the right place. Even in the irrigation canals that most people would not even care to see harbored slimy fish, small crawfish, frogs, funny smelling algae and many other specimens.

At the age of 9, I immigrated to Montreal, Canada. It was the beginning of a new life. I learned to play hockey and spent some time practicing music, but I would always come back to drawing. I was later struck by the art of graffiti which opened up a whole new world of shapes and colors. Though drawing had always been my passion since when I was still in Japan, I was completely hooked to this form of expression from that moment on.
My artistic pilgrimage began, I spent years trying to find a style that would match myself and my creative needs. After trying many media, it became clear that my preference was painting: either on canvas or on screen. I also got absorbed by photography: taking pictures and retouching them.

I painted day in, day out, until finally I had had enough of it. Then, for more days, I took pictures and retouched them. Wandering between two worlds, going back and forth endlessly. After a while, I was not sure what I was, I felt like half-an-artist, half-a-photographer.
In addition, I had recently started to show the symptoms of a serious disease caused by viral clay.  I became crazy…feeling definitely that something was taking over me…maybe I was crazy.

The days trying to fight back the newly invasive medium – clay – continued. And when I finally stopped fighting, a revelation came to me.  Clay was the medium for me to bridge the gap between painting and photography!!!

Now that my artwork is the integrated form of all the media I love, I truly enjoy every single step of every single project that I accomplish. All my creative needs are fulfilled, I am now a happy artist!… for now at least.

I don’t doubt that something new will take over me again down the road, pushing me toward yet another creative quest, it is only matter of time. I can only hope my media and I will have evolved into something greater by then.

Website: www.rakuinoue.com

Social Media

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