Simon Schlager
Several years ago I bought my very first sketchbook after I took an online course led by Mattias Adolfsson. Since that day, I have taken a sketchbook almost anywhere I go.
How I fell in love
with sketching
Plants.
Study of an unknown house i
Study of an unknown house iI
Man from copenhagen
Animations
I have always been passionate about animation. In the summer of 2025 I had the opportunity to do an internship at Joana Suska’s, who has been one of my favourite animators for years.
Animated: water color on paper
Glitch Effect: Adobe Photoshop
Compositing: Adobe After Effects
Hat Dude
Animated: Procreate Dreams
Compositing: Adobe After Effects
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Animated: Procreate
Compositing: Adobe After Effects
Music: Studio One
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Cycling
Alien Pants
Animated: Procreate
Compositing: Adobe After Effects
Music: Logic Pro
Animated: Toon Boom Harmony
Compositing: Adobe After Effects
Glitch Run
Film and Sound
Music and sound have been my world for five years, before I decided I wanted to dive into the world of visuals. Therefore, I often create sound design concepts, scores and background music for my university projects. Over the past years I published an album and several EPs under my alter ego: The Patch
One SHot
In the third semester Lisa Oberleitner, Michael Lutterschmied, Johanna Bergmann, and I explored the creative process itself in a five-minute-long (poetic) documentary.
Michael Lutterschmied: color grading, camera
Lisa Oberleitner: editing, off, sound
Johanna Bergmann: editing, camera
Simon Schlager: score, sound post-production, camera
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The Patch
I have been working as a freelance producer and artist for over three years now. My album is the project I am most proud of so far: No one else has been involved in the making. I wrote, recorded, mixed and mastered everything myself.
You can listen to the whole album here.
Photography
Photography was my start into the world of visual art. It has taught me more than I could name here.
It changed the way I see and interact with our world forever. Sometimes I just sit in one place and observe what happens around me. Sometimes I take photos of such things.
Digital and hybrid workflows
Digital workflows are great, not only for animating. Yet I still love to start analog: I love to trace sketches that I drew on paper and convert them to paths.
Or I even make my own brushes in Procreate based on textures and shapes I created on paper.
— I used my digital brushes and my own paper texture for this commercial project for sofar sounds. <3
Corporate design
In the autumn 2025 I had the opportunity to do a rebrand of the corporate identity of Josefee Apotheke, Leoben including a packaging design concept for a wide range of products which is currently implemented.
