walter p. hoebich

This place in cyberspace is a casual presentation of creative projects and random news, mostly art-related. You can also visit a  work samples page to view media production samples in categories

Nerd & geek culture

A project for Gang Green Productions, this art was an event logo for a concert which was also used to announce the birth of SLC Nerd, in Utah.

• A quick series of clicks to create a Utah-shaped polygon,
• glasses added for sure (even though plenty of us nerds wear contacts)
• “Cities would be like zits” idea was almost immediate as well, largest one at Salt Lake City, of course

There was a horizontal version, too. Vacant space within the borders of the state wasoo vacant, the mouth had to be added with Lake Powell and Colorado River. I love the mouth’s expression caught with a pretty accurate depiction of a lake in the southern region of the state. A funny and nerdy mouth shape forms in just the right spot.

This was a fun task.

Four areas of production strength

An asset to any visual media production room, I can provide strong support in four areas. I can operate independently if necessary, or more desirably, as part of a talented team—where each associate has serious skills getting utilized along project workflows.

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Remote aid keeps me in the Marine Corps mix

I was happy to provide some volunteer time and .eps preparation for long-time friend Joe, fellow Marine from Camp Lejeune. He has a position with League 636 in Pennsylvania and knew who to call when they needed  a patch design ready to go. I used a vector based application.

Training & Education Support

 eLearning samples at Course Catalog

Perimeter Products courses (3 of numerous)

• Apples
• Melons
• Cheese

Flash production with d&d for online corporate university content like:

• Course openers
• Lesson transitions
• Content production
• Activities, quizzes, self-checks and assessments
• File optimization and conversion

Suggestive Selling , Shoplifting

Animated ads and calls to action

A ball icon was created with treatment for each retail season and holiday. View the full seasonal collection here.

Social media brainstorm
In 2010, supplied ideas for a twitter-based logo and icon. This required the use of an email account to set up a mock presence of the company on twitter. A testing ground for viewing the appearance of the main elements: a custom-made background, the logo, an icon to use is at twitter.com/lrnsmthng

Rendering of sophisticated illustrations and creating casual cartoon characters.
Coronary arteries line-art was brought to life with some time in Photoshop.

Cartoon portraits

In most cartoon cases, I’ll use white paper and create with black marker and colored pencils.

Most enjoyed is the black markers– bold, with thick contour and a thinner one for details.  With the 2 markers (and back-ups) I’m a happy camper.

This cartoon of Barney is a “Walta Special Light” because there are limited background details.

People describe crazy things to draw sometimes, when they share private jokes with the people they are ordering for.

Event Specials

These things are great for Retirements and Roasts as well. Recently, an 18×22″  was done to use on an easel at her 40th Birthday Party entrance and sign in.

There’s a website developed specifically for the cartoon-portraits offered. Enough are done that they needed to be classified and described. Visit ♥CartoonsMadePersonal.com

Cartoon sample in black and white

Sometimes black and white works well. This was created with a marker and scanned into Photoshop for some value on cheeks and eyes.

Black and white caricature sample

Time Stealers

Since the 1st batch of eMails received, spam has been a wicked time-stealer. With shady testimonials and bogus specials, spam Subject headlines take false advertising to another level.

Even if the only attention given to them is to “delete them”, it’s still tons of wasted time each week. And then multiply that by 52! Yuk.