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Mumienwächter

Book cover design and character illustration for a children's ghost-story novel — from pencil concept sketches to fully rendered 3D characters.

Project
Mumienwächter Coverdesign + Illustrations
Category
Bookdesign
Publisher
Edition zweihorn
Author
Stefan Gemmel
Role
Concept art, Book cover design, Character design, 3D implementation
Tools
Photoshop, Cinema 4D
Year
2011
The finished book cover for Mumienwächter — Das Geheimnis der Geisterbahn, next to a fan of six pencil concept sketches for the mummy character and the ghost-train scene

Book cover and Illustrations

Concept sketches

The complete cover flat for Mumienwächter — Das Geheimnis der Geisterbahn, showing front, spine and back with the lettering logo, a moonlit junkyard scene and the ISBN barcode
A stitched, patchwork-skinned character study of the mummy-guardian child, arms spread wide, with visible sutures and a torn ear on a plain background
Four pencil concept sketches of the mummy character in different action poses, arms raised, walking and reaching

3D Character

Three fully rendered 3D views of the mummy character — front, back and three-quarter turn — with glowing red eyes and weathered bandages
The rendered cast lineup — the bandaged mummy guardian, the anatomical girl with her chest cavity open, the boy protagonist, and a small glowing purple spider creature

3D Rendering

A nighttime ghost-train scene inside a monster-mouth archway — the mummy guardian and the anatomical girl lit by a boy's flashlight, candles flickering on the tracks
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