Alex Heberling

I found it interesting that my life drawing teacher, Louise Captein, once said my work had a narrative quality to it.  I suppose such a quality is the result of my sequential art aspirations.  Even in a class that had little to nothing to do with my comics, a narrative shined through, enough that people [...]

Winter 2006
This set of time-lapse images was my final project for my film photography class.

These four images are time-lapse photographs of the music visualizer in iTunes, Apple’s music player.  It displays random images and distortions of images based upon the waveform of the song playing, so these images got a very ghost-like [...]

Spring 2007
The prompt for this assignment was similar to that of iCouch; combine an organic object with an inorganic object. Thinking along the lines of the previous combination of computer and couch, I decided to combine furniture with flowers, and the result was the Flower Chair.

I later used the Flower Chair in an animation flipbook [...]

Spring 2007
Stickman, or So I Was Walking…, was the final project in my animation course.  I’m a huge fan of Randall Munroe’s xkcd, and wanted to pay homage to a webcomic that has become so influential in such a short time, so this animation is heavily inspired by the themes of the comic.
Xkcd comic [...]

March 2007

Garanos first came about as part of a group project in high school.  As happens with people at that age, the various members drifted off in their respective directions, and I am no exception to that.  Still, I walked away with the character who would become my creative focus to this very day.  I [...]