John Brito

While I was creating the concept designs for my post apocalyptic short film, Project 17, I also thought about what the homes of different people on different steps of the social ladder would look like.

I thought that someone with more resources might have a home that was made out of better materials, not just waste. At least, someone like that might have a more consistent choice of building…

Fighting the Dark Fairy

I did this illustration a while ago, when I was writing Below the Floor, my illustrated fantasy children´s book. I was thinking about the knautbolds, a fierce but good-hearted tribe of tiny warriors. I had this idea for a backstory for one of these knautbold warriors – and how his life would eventually end.

Below you can see the scribble of the cover idea: The knautbold finally faces the…

Post Apocalyptic Shed Home

This is another ink pen illustration I did for my postapocalyptic short film called Project 17. Please leave a message below and tell me what you think about it. 🙂

A long while ago, I did the concept designs for one of my post apocalyptic shortfilms, Project 17. Below you can see one of the buildings I had planned to build as a miniature.

This was way before The Walking Dead happened on tv 🙂

Actually, I finished 80% of the miniatures before I lost the working place where I was building them.

Corona – We Will Get Trough This

I do not have to tell you how our current situation is. You know how the situation is.

Empty streets, staying at home, quarantine. But we are doing this for our older ones. For our parents. Our grandparents. Our aunts and uncles. For the old nice neighbour who never forgot our birthday.

Beds in hospitals

We are staying at home, reducing contacts as much as possible. Why? Because we are flattening…

Fantasy Children’s Book Illustrations

For the last two years, I have mainly been working on the distribution channels for my first children’s book, Below the Floor, and getting legal stuff done.

That was not the most inspriring part of the job. But it needed to be done. Now I can understand, why most authors prefer not to follow the self publishing path, as after months and years it gets pretty exhausting. Nonetheless, if I was…

Confessions of a Children´s Book Author

It´s been more than a year since I last posted on this blog and a lot has happened since then. Many things went fine and some things went wrong. As a returning reader you might know, that I published my first children´s book, “Below the Floor” in December 2017. And by publishing I mean self publishing.

Getting Into Book Stores

Getting into book stores was not as difficult as I thought that it…

More Printed Kobold Stories Arrived – Finally

Earler this year, I posted that I ran out of books one week before Christmas Eve. Which was terrible –  but somehow cool as well. For several reasons, I had messed up ordering more books (and I also had underestimated the sales), so I was eagerly awaiting my next shipment of printed books. And it arrived in January. At the moment, I am trying to get Below the Floor into book stores in Germany.…

Last year, I did some animations for a museum and if you are a returning reader you might have seen the early stages of one of the papercut illustrations in this post. As the job has been finished and all the animations are up and running in the exhibition, I thought I might share some of the illustrations from the fifth clip with you. This clip was about the change of significance of religion…

Between gettings paid jobs done and publishing my first children’s book, I tried to set apart time for some other stories which were running through my mind (and dreams). One of these is The Wolves. The story just popped up while I was listening to this track during working hours: Some of you might know the track from the World War…

On December 18th, Guenther, the owner of the bookstore Bücherturm, asked me if I could bring along some more books to the public reading which would take place later that week (and about which I might write in another blog post). Boxes, boxes, boxes “Sure”, I said and checked the boxes with the shrink-wraped copies of Below the Floor. Just in case you are new to this blog and are wondering now:…

I moved into another office room some months ago. It is a smaller office now, and the rent is more expensive, but in the place I am now, I can put in my own furniture. Which is very important, when you want to accomodate your working place according to your needs. My good old drawing table. The Visual Library So I put in the wooden tables (which were patiently waiting in a freezing cold store…

Things are going really fast since I released my first fantasy children`s book Below the Floor (or: “Das Dorf unter dem Fußboden” as it is released in German). One day, I was driving with Guenther, a colleague of mine, to a client (we worked together on this animation project for a museum, he owns a multimedia company). We were talking about different projects and I mentioned that I was working…

Some days ago, my brother Jim (if you remember: he is my favourite victim when it comes to get together a crew for one of my short films) sent me a foto of something I did not really understand what the deal was about, at first. Then, two days or so later, he called me, asking if I had seen the book. Me: “Which book?” Jim: “Your book, man. The one with the Ewoks.” Me: “Jimmy, they are not Ewoks.…

Below the Floor is available – Finally!

It has been a huge struggle to publish my first fantasy children`s book, Below the Floor – or “Das Dorf unter dem Fußboden”, as it is being published in German first. I have been working on this project for more than three years now and my little kobold Leto and me have had many ups and downs during this time (I even quit my safe job at an advertising agency which I really liked in order to write…

Creating paper cut illustrations for a museum

In the last three months, I have been busy creating animations for a museum. In the initial plan, I was meant to animate historical images like this one. But it would have taken too long to isolate the animated elements and recreate the backgrounds, so I offered to create the illustrations as well. That way we had a maximum of control on the elements that needed to be animated. After the client…