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Fantasy-Kinderbuch "Das Dorf unter dem Fußboden" von John E. Brito im Buchhandel

Below the Floor is available – Finally!

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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 […]

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Below the Floor, Children's Books
fantasy fairytale children`s book by John E. Brito

Fairytale Book Cover Reveal

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The cover for the german version of my fantasy children’s book is finally finished. After many of you gave me a lot of helpful input on the different cover sketches […]

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Below the Floor, Children's Books, Director's Sketchbook
dark faery illustration by director John Brito

Dark Fairy

Featuredby John E. Brito 31 Comments

Whenever I am not working on my horror/sci-fi/fantasy web series Shadows of Prey or on my animated science fiction short film Echoes, I like to sketch some critters and creatures […]

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Director's Sketchbook, Fairy
John Brito shooting science fiction film Nostromo in Tunia

Shooting the post apocalypse near the Algerian border of Tunisia

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In order to capture the right mood of a desolated dryland for Nostromo, we flew to the deserts of Tunisia, near the border of Algeria. It was in spring of […]

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Nostromo
pen and ink concept design illustration for a post apocalyptic short film by John E. Brito

Post Apocalyptic House

July 27, 2020by John E. Brito 2 Comments

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 […]

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Director's Sketchbook, Project 17
watercolour illustration of a dark fairy by author and filmmaker John E. Brito

Fighting the Dark Fairy

July 20, 2020by John E. Brito Leave a comment

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 […]

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author's sketchbook, Below the Floor
ink pen illustration of a post apocalyptic shed home by author and filmmaker John E. Brito

Post Apocalyptic Shed Home

July 14, 2020by John E. Brito Leave a comment

The post shows an ink pen illustration of a post apocalyptic shed home for the post apocalyptic short film called Project 17 by author and filmmaker John E. Brito

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Director's Sketchbook, Project 17
post apocalyptic building by John E. Brito

Post Apocalyptic Building

July 8, 2020by John E. Brito 4 Comments

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 […]

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Director's Sketchbook, Project 17
Corona, Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

Corona – We Will Get Trough This

April 2, 2020by John E. Brito 2 Comments

Corona – We will get through this

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Corona
children's book illustration by children's book author John E. Brito

Fantasy Children’s Book Illustrations

May 28, 2019by John E. Brito Leave a comment

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 […]

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Below the Floor, Children's Books, Leto's Labyrinths, On Self Publishing
fantasy creature illustration from the fantasy children´s book "Below the Floor" by author and director John E. Brito

Confessions of a Children´s Book Author

May 15, 2019by John E. Brito 8 Comments

How children´s book author and director John E. Brito´s first fantasy book “Below the Floor” came to be.

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Below the Floor, Leto's Labyrinths, Life as an artist
Kinderbuch Das Dorf unter dem Fußboden - John E. Brito - erhältlich in Österreich

More Printed Kobold Stories Arrived – Finally

February 8, 2018by John E. Brito Leave a comment

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 […]

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Below the Floor, On Self Publishing
paper cut illustration for animation by John E. Brito

Final Papercut Illustrations For A Museum Animation

January 30, 2018by John E. Brito Leave a comment

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 […]

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Work
young adult dystopian story with female protagonist by John E. Brito

The Wolves

January 23, 2018by John E. Brito Leave a comment

Between getting paid jobs done and publishing my first children’s book, I tried to set aside time for some other stories which were running through my mind (and dreams). One […]

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The Wolves
Das Dorf unter dem Fußboden Kinderbuch von John E. Brito

Below the Floor Sold Out One Week Before Christmas Eve

January 16, 2018by John E. Brito 4 Comments

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 […]

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Below the Floor, On Self Publishing
I wish you Happy Holidays by John E. Brito

I wish you…

December 27, 2017by John E. Brito Leave a comment
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