About Nils

Nils Knoblich is an illustrator, comic artist and animation director. He creates comic books (available at rotopolpress) and animation short films and works freelance for several clients. Currently he works on his animation short The Burning Haus (funded by Hessen Film Fund Germany), several illustration projects and he prepares the narrative Orang Utan Knock Out.

Since 2005 he studies Illustration/ Comic and Animation at the Kunsthochschule Kassel (Germany) under Hendrik Dorgathen, Andreas Hykade and Thomas Meyer-Hermann.
This year he studies at the School of Art, Design and Media of the University of Portsmouth (UK).

Nils was born 1984 in a small city in the Ore Mountains / Erzgebirge (former East Germany). During his youth at the dreamy Lower Rhine region / Niederrhein, close to the Dutch border, he did many Super Mario Kart races against his sisters. Sometimes he won. Or he met with friends and created comic books.

Now he is almost grown-up and if he does not sit at his drawing desk, he dances costumed as an electro-hedonist across the streets of Europe or he djs and produces music as part of the DJ collective Frau Mit Muskeln.

If you like to hire Nils as a freelancer or just to collaborate on a project - feel free to send him an email to:
mail [at] nilsknoblich [.] com

Filmography
2010:
The Burning Haus (2D animation - work in progress)
2009:
LEUCHTSTOFF - The Depressive UFO (2D animation clips projected by night on a facade)
Muscle Woman (interactive installation, in collaboration with Felix Böttcher)
2008:
Shoppen (animation clips for the play Shoppen at Theater Bielefeld)
Käfer Klaus (3D animation for Volkswagen AG, co-direction with Bao Liu & Sebastian Stamm)
2007:
1st Date (2D animation)
2006:
Genesis - Die Schöpfung (pixilation, co-direction with Sebastian Stamm)
Basisklassen DVD (interactive DVD, co-direction with Sebastian Stamm)
VOOM-VOOM (rotoscoping, co-direction with Sebastian Stamm)
2005:
Ikea & Karamell (cutout animation)

Publications
2010:
Triebwerk No. 4 - comic anthology, Kunsthochschule Kassel [ view the book ]
Die Extraterrestrischen - comic & illustration fanzine, Kunsthochschule Kassel [ view the book ]
2009:
The BONK League Vs Team Psychotropica - leporello fold comic, rotopolpress [ view the book ]
Dancing Shoes by Gerrit Starcewski - commissioned illustrations, published by EDEL [ view the book ]
Freistil Black - illustration in compilation “Best of European Commercial Illustration”, published by Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz [ view the book ]
2008:
THE BURNING HAUS - comic book, rotopolpress [ view the book ]
Postcard - illustrations in the selftitled book, UK: Laurence King Publishing / GER: DUMONT
Zuchthaus - comic short story in TRIEBWERK #3, rotopolpress [ view the book or view the comic ]
2007:
The Shepherd - comic short story in DOLOR #1, rotopolpress [ view the book or view one comic page ]
2002-2004:
K.O.M.A. Food, Nerds #1, Nerds #2 - comic books, Blind Pigture Industry

Performances
2008:
DAS SCHICKSAL DES H.D. - live costume performance at KUNSTVEREIN HANNOVER with illustration class of Kunsthochschule Kassel [ view the video ]

Group shows
2010:
Die Extraterrestrischen - Fumetto - International Comix Festival, Lucerne, CH
Methodology - The long long corridor, Portsmouth, UK
2009:
Secret Service - rotopol, Kassel
DRÜCK MICH - Spaziergang 09 / Fridericianum, Kassel
DRÜCK MICH - Festival of International Animation, Stuttgart
2008:
RUSSEN - rotopol, Kassel
TRIEBWERK - rotopol, Kassel
2007:
Illustration per Post - Damen und Herren, Düsseldorf
Wald & Wiesen - rotopol, Kassel
Narrenhände - Amtsgericht, Kassel
Zeichen und Wunder - Caricatura, Kassel
2006:
Nahrungsaufnahme - Torcafé, Kassel
2004:
Innere Sicherheit - Wilhelm Busch Museum, Hannover
Innere Sicherheit - Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte, Berlin

Press
Neon Enlightment - Blog Interview: Meet Nils Knoblich
Freie Presse - Newspaper article

Clients
Volkswagen AG, Studio Filmbilder, Sony BMG, Theater Bielefeld, Vice Magazine Germany

Download Portfolio HiRes-PDF here

Top image: Nils Knoblich and the Mobile Wheelchair Disco on London’s Brick Lane, June 2010