Biographie

Benjamin von Eckartsberg lebt und arbeitet in München als selbstständiger Illustrator für Verlage, Film-und TV, Werbung, Zeitschriften und Direktkunden.

Seine zweite Liebe gilt dem Schreiben von Comics und er hat großen Spaß am Teamwork mit anderen Comickünstlern.

 

Biography

Benjamin von Eckartsberg works in Munich, Germany, as a freelance illustrator for publishers, film & tv, advertising, magazines and direct clients.

His second love is writing graphic novels and enjoying the teamwork with other artists.

 

Education

1993-1997 I Kommunikationsdesign Fachhochschule München, Deutschland

graduated in Illustration as Diplom-Designer

 

Services

Illustration

Characterdesign

Concept Art

Layoutscribble

Keyvisual

Storyboard

Comic

Techniques

digital

pencil

ink

watercolor

acrylics

 

REFERENCES

 

Film & Tv

Pixar, Universal, Constantin Film, UFA Cinema, Blue Eyes Fiction, ARRI, Neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft, Caligari Film, Rat Pack, Barefoot Films, HerbX, Living Room Pictures, Starbright Inc Production, Wiedemann & Berg Film,  Black Sail Pictures, Markenfilm,Hofmann & Voges, ProSiebenSat.1, e+p films, H5 B5, etc.

 

Publishers

dtv, Cross Cult, Egmont vgs Ehapa, Éditions Paquet, Verlagsgruppe Weltbild, Ullstein, Editorial Periférica, CYPI Press, Underwood Books, Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz, etc.

 

Magazines

GEOlino Zeitreise, Dein Spiegel, Kultur Spiegel, Uni Spiegel, Men´s Health, Maxim, etc.

 

Advertising

Vice Media, DDB Hamburg, Jung von Matt, Serviceplan, J. Walter Thompson, Saatchi & Saatchi, Scholz and Friends, Publicis, Avantgarde, Böning.Haube.Nerger, Heye & Partner, Interone, Waechter & Waechter,

Webguerillas, St. Elmo, Wunderhaus, Start, Ziel, MAD, Argonauten, Bob Helsinki, Brainstorm Club,

For Sale, hp albrecht, Interone, It's life, Klink Liedig, Lübke Prey, Panama, Lunch Advertising,

Ziggy Mediahouse,  Huckleberry Friends, Kosch, Robert & Horst, etc.

 

Direct clients

Tschibo, C.G. Breiger, Augmented Minds, Allianz, Leeward Islands Communication, Bayern International GmbH, BMG, Aixsponza, Goetheinstitut, Hama, Oy Leiras Finland, P1 Gaststätten Gmbh, REWE Touristik, Rocket Studios, Sternmark, The Shack, Viva.com, Walz Kunsthandel, Gallo Design, Hüper, etc.

 

Games

Crytek, Travian Games

 

Awards (as writer):

2018  Nomination for the 18th Max-und Moritz-Award (Germany) at the International Comic Salon Erlangen in the category Best German Graphic Novel for GUNG HO 3 - Sexy Beast

2017 3 Rudolph Dirks Awards (Germany) for GUNG HO in the german categories Best Scenario (Benjamin von Eckartsberg), and in international categories for Action/Adventure

and SciFi/Alternate Universe

2017 Eleventh International MANGA Award (Japan) Bronze Award for GUNG HO 3-Sexy Beast

2017 Winner Best Comic Series (France) for "Gung Ho", Festival BD Sollies-Ville

2015 "Prix Diagonale Le Soir " (Belgium)
for best Comic-Series of 2015 for "GUNG HO" (Éditions Paquet)
2015 Prix bande dessinée 2014-2015 des collégiens de la Somme
 for "GUNG HO 1-Brebis Galeuses"

2007 Album of the year for „Die Chronik der Unsterblichen 1“

given by the Comic Convention in Chambery, France

2006 German Fantasy Award  (Deutscher Phantastik-Preis 2006)

for „Die Chronik der Unsterblichen 1“

Category:  Best Graphic Novel of the Year, given by www.deutscher-phantastik-preis.de

2005 Sondermann - Award

for „Die Chronik der Unsterblichen 1“

Category: Best German Graphic Novel 2005