Out now! „Tigerträume“ (Tiger Dreams) is published in German at luftschacht in Vienna.
The publisher writes:
"Leo was really no ordinary bird. He found the chirping and trilling and singing of the other birds boring enough to fly away. These same old songs! He preferred to indulge in his daydreams, which unfortunately he couldn't tell anyone about, especially not the other birds. Because Leo dreamed of a wild cat friend. Leo loved cats. “I’ll tell the cat about my dreams,” Leo decided excitedly, “she’ll like them!” With lovingly weird humor and bright arabesque images, Julian Tapprich tells in his picture book debut Tiger Dreams about the adventures of the little yellow bird Leo, who, after his friendship with the neighbor's cat didn't really work out, sets off on the long journey into the jungle . There are supposed to be really big, wild cats there, for really big, wild dreams. Tiger dreams!"
New recycling rules in Austria explained in three animations, commitioned by: oesterreich-sammelt
Produced by West4Media, creative producer: Michaela Resch
Advertisement agency: Vetter & Partner
book cover illustration for Wortlaut, the FM4 short story competition, this year's theme is “PROMISE”.
In red: the first version of the cover. In blue: the final version after some feedback of the editors.
animation for the Viennese film production company west4media.
The client wanted 4 different car crashes illustrated with 2d-animations in a graphic novel style. The animations became part of a 20 min long documentary.
creative producer: Katharina Mörz
sound design: Wolfgang Feigel
The client writes:
“This project started like so many others: taking a shower and thinking about what my psychotherapist had said. She had proposed that I think of myself not as a homogeneous unit, but as a collection of parts, each with their own experiences, strengths, weaknesses, obsessions. I started thinking of the parts as figures, a group of people both strange and close.
I asked Julian to draw them, so that I could carry them around with me in card-size. He instantly understood the project, was very sensible to the emotional, intimate and personal dimension of it, and worked through cultural references and a lot of discussion to get each figure right. He reworked the cards as much as was needed, responding to my thoughts and feedback without ever making me feel like a pain or weight for asking changes. Throughout, I felt that this project was as mine as it should be but also marked by his sensibility, vision and touch, which I loved.”
Anna L., 2023
Portrait of a man who gets surprised with a gift.
Cover illustration for the novel Es könnte schlimmer sein (It could be worse) by Mario Wurmitzer. The narrative delves into a dystopian future where the corporate world intrusively melds with individuals’ private lives, creating a chilling and disquieting backdrop for the story.
Published at °Luftschacht in Vienna.
Cover illustration and book trailer animation for the German translation of the novel Malagash, written by the Canadian author Joey Comeau.
The book tells the story of a teenage girl who is planning to transform her dying father into a computer virus.
Published at °Luftschacht in Vienna.
Book cover illustration for a Norwegian novel about two parents and their estranged son. I wanted to depict the family dynamic with three pines: Two standing closely together and reaching out only shyly to a third tree that grows away from them and seems to have a rather twisted, mysterious inner life.
its a very self contained, well crafted text, that made me think of the aloof beauty of a Japanese jewellery box. I tried to capture that together with the dark and quiet undertone of the story.
The illustration is printed with black ink on a shimmery paper, that is used otherwise for boxes of chocolates.
Published at °Luftschacht.
Book cover illustration for the coming-of-age novel Wenn ich jetzt nicht weine (“If I Don`t Cry now”) by the US-American author Oísin Curran.
Published at °Luftschacht in Vienna.
First frames of a graphic novel called Isabelle the unmuted Mime.
Personal project
1st animation
Intro animation for a couple of documentaries on the occasion of Beethoven's 250th birthday, hosted by the pianist Rudolf Buchbinder. The animation premiered on the Austrian tv channel ORF III, december 6th 2020.
Translation of the German titel: "Rudolf Buchbinder and Beethoven’s Vienna. I Was Longing to Embrace the World."
Music: Rudolf Buchbinder playing Beethoven’s Diabelli Variation Nr. 10, 2020
2nd animation
Intro animation and motion graphics for a tv show about the Vienna State Opera, called “A House like no other. A Cheerful Journey from the Cellar to the Chandelier”. The tv show premiered on the Austrian tv channel ORF III, february 20th 2020.
Die Verbesserung unserer Träume (The Improvement of our Dreams) is a sci-fi novel by Sebastian Guhr. I wanted to capture the film noir atmosphere of the book, so I thought the cover could look a bit like a film noir movie poster, while also giving little bit of a hint to the sci-fi part of the story.
The cover was nominated for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis 2018 – an annual German science-fiction award – in the category best cover art or illustration, but didn’t win.
Published at °Luftschacht in Vienna.
