Final realisation

The final result (Photography). The ring is made from white gold and coated with Rhodium.

Other publications:
Signet Ring
Signet Ring - 3D Print
Rhinoceros Gallery
Signet Ring - Gold model

KvadratPlus

KvadratPlus, design company (product design, graphic design, jewelry design and visualization).

Link to Blog
Webpage: www.kvadratplus.net

hohkravt.com

Finally I bought my own domain hohkravt.com. Soon I will upload some projects and other stuff, but for now only Curriculum vitae and link to my blog is available.

Web page realisation: Matej Hohkraut

Award for best animated film

Vesna Award for the best animated film – Chicory’n’Coffee, Dušan Kastelic

Definitely one of the undisputable highlights of the festival, one of the top achievements of Slovenian animation and a short film in general. With a striking accuracy and a well applied touch of finery, it tells a story full of bitter-sweet truth. Using modern animation technique, the film can shamelessly match those from the best and the richest of the studios. The film makes chicory smell just like coffee. On behalf of all the viewers, we kindly thank the author’s wife for the patience she showed throughout the years.
(from left to right: Uros Hohkravt, Mateja Staric, Dusan Kastelic)

(Festival Selection Panel)


Link to Slovenian version

Link: www.fsf.si

Festival of Slovenia film - Festival slovenskega filma

SREDA, 22. oktober 2008

Glavna dvorana / Main hall

Ob 21.00 uri Čikorja An' Kafe,
kratki animirani film, Dušan Kastelic, Dušan Kastelic, 8 min, 35 mm

Kje / Where: Festival of Slovenia film

Premiere of Chicory&Cofee Animation

6.10. 2008 Kinodvor, ob 21:00 uri

Cikorja an`kafe, Dusan Kastelic
(Predpremiera: zahvaljujemo se Filmskemu skladu, ker je dovolil predvajati film pred uradno premiero, ki bo na FSF 2008 v Portorozu).

Ring with stone settings

Sometimes we have to made very complex ring, with a lot of details, stone holes and form that can not be jet in rubber mold. In this cases, stereolitografy is a great choice that can be used.
I made the test ring (you can download the ring here) with stone settings in Rhinoceros and than I save the model in STL format for stereolitography (Digitalwax 029). In this process, we don`t need rubber mould to jet wax rings. So, we made a few models and put it directly to the tree (how the tree looks like).

Results: The rings were casted without porosity and the stones were fix inserted. The only problem was surface (the models needed to be extra handmade polished) and the space between stones (was not shiny). We also notice that the models made with Digitalwax 029 were a bit deformed, because the wax doesn`t harden instantly (but it runs a bit) .

Casting process: Part 1, Part 2, Jewelry casting

Buoh mi odpusti t`s grijeh!

A few months ago I made a contest for the best T-shirt (2D & 3D motif). The winning T-shirt was "Buoh mi odpusti t`s grijeh!". I made a few of them for my friends and for all who are supporting me at my work.

Photo: Matej Hohkravt

Works of Uros Hohkravt on Design East EU

Some of my works (Surprise flower, Key for, Saturnus and Tea bag) you can see on Design East EU side.

Source: Design East EU

You can see Surprise flower on...

Surprise flower is also introduced on IDasia and greendesigners side.

Chicory&Coffee in Razvoj magazine

Razvoj magazine has published an article about Chicory&Coffee animation (it speaks mostly about our procedures and attitudes about it).

Here you can download the whole article in pdf format (or you can use "My share box" on the right side of the blog).

Author of article: Tatjana Polanc Kolander

Surprise flower

Life itself has always been an inspiration to us. Not only our life, but also the vital energy of other human beings surrounding us. Beside the fact that growing plants is existentially very important for people, it also fills them with enthusiasm, plants have a very calming affect on people, they produce oxygen etc.

We buy a neatly packed small pot with a seed sowed in it. The seed can be waken by removing the lid on the top of the pot. When the daylight breaks through, the story begins. That causes curiosity and interest which won’t leave us calm until the plant grows (we will curiously observe its growth every day guessing which sort of plant it is). Instructions, written on the inner site of the lid will help us grow the plant correctly (temperature, humidity, light etc…), but won’t reveal the sort of the plant.

Some people will get fond of the plant in that cycle, they will get to know it better, maybe turn their experiences over to others. Some of them will take it as a surprise, joy and a spontaneous moment. But all of them will experience a moment of anticipation and joy watching the birth of a new plant, which symbolically speaks of joy, hope and life.

Customer:
It offers a spontaneous moment of purchase to the costumer (it breaks daily habits and an excessively planned life). Costumers interests (what did she/he actually buy) will be aroused along with pleasant feelings of anticipation and finding out which plant will grow from their pot. (first we take a guess on the appearance of petals, we wait if the flower will grow…) Our curiosity causes that we like what we do and we feel well doing it.

Producer:
According to transport, maintenance and keeping is Surprise flower a very simple product (no need of light or a big glazed window). Life expectancy is much longer than by plants in full growth, which need daylight and have to be watered regularly.

Recommendation:
It would be reasonable to use well resistant seeds of plants, which grow relatively fast. Mineral material should be added to the soil, because it is indispensable for a successful growth of plants. There is an extra ring in the pot which absorbs the moisture, but when we open it, it takes over the function to cover the soil and in that way prevents germinations of weeds.

::Idea is introduced on IDasia and also on Greendesigners side::

Chicory&Coffee in Klik magazine

The article about Chicory&Coffee is published in Klik magazine. Article speaks about how the idea was created, something about developing and authors.

Here you can download the whole article in pdf format (or you can use "My share box" on the right side of the blog).

Author of article: Irena Hlede

My first ring

Here are a few pictures from our jewelry courses (this is my first ring I made...yupiiiiiiiiiiiiii :)
Ups, I am behind the camera again :)) Hope you like it.

Web page - Chicory&Coffee

Web page Chicory an Coffee is now finally opened for public. Now you can see work in progress (concept design, story boards, models, scenes, characters...etc.).

Team:
Dusan Kastelic, Ken Heslip, Cory Collins, Iztok Mlakar, Alenka Leskovsek, Branko Gradisnik, Jure Tovornik, Saso Krumpak and Uros Hohkravt

Link: Chicory&Coffee web page

Evermotion & 3DM

Article was also on {E}vermotion and 3DM sides (as a news).

Making of on 3dtotal

Chicory&Coffee article was published on 3dtotal side. You can read it on 3dtotal side (direct link to article) or you can download it in PDF format here.

Next to this I would like to thank all who visited and read the article Making of, specially to Chris Perrins (3dtotal) for publication of the article.

Jewellery design school

I am in school again with my very good friend Ines Kristan (she is graphic designer - on the left) and Tadeja (fashion designer), however this time for jewelry design (I am behind the camera :)
The group is very pleasant and I enjoy to work with them.
I am also enthusiastic with professor Zdovc, because he is accurate, reliable and very good teacher with a great knowledge about jewelry and metalsmithing.

Mentor: prof. Zdovc

Chicory & Coffee on 3dtotal

The Shop scene is on the front-page of 3d total, and it will be permanently included in 3dtotal gallery (Cartoon section).

CGTalk Forum

You are all invited to comment my work on CGTalk Forum.