Early years

Warming, whose parents were both working in the airline industry, lived in Sweden until he was 5.

After relocating back to Denmark, Warming completed elementary school in Kolding

Kolding

Kolding is a Danish seaport located at the head of Kolding Fjord in Region of Southern Denmark . It is the site of the council Kolding Municipality. It is a transportation, commercial, and manufacturing centre, and has numerous industrial companies, principally geared towards shipbuilding...

, one year as an exchange student at Crater High School

Crater High School

Crater High School is a public high school in Central Point, Oregon, United States.- Small School Initiative :Beginning in the 2007-2008 school year, a program called the Small School Initiative was established in Crater after a monetary grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...

 in Oregon, followed by one year at Handelsskolen Business School in Denmark.

Career

From an early age Warming was influenced by Pop art

Pop art

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...

, comic books, graffiti

Graffiti

Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....

 and street art

Street art

Street art is any art developed in public spaces — that is, "in the streets" — though the term usually refers to unsanctioned art, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives...

. In 1988 ,Warming was recruited by an advertising firm in Denmark, earning the title of Art Director

Art director

The art director is a person who supervise the creative process of a design.The term 'art director' is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games....

 at age 25. At the same time, Warming attended fine-art classes at the Spectrum School of the Arts. He majored in painting and live drawing.

In 1993, Warming founded Warming Illustration, moved out of the studio "Den Blå Bil" and joined the artist studio Pinligt Selskab in the heart of Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

. While there, Warming worked for 14 years alongside Valhalla

Valhalla

In Norse mythology, Valhalla is a majestic, enormous hall located in Asgard, ruled over by the god Odin. Chosen by Odin, half of those that die in combat travel to Valhalla upon death, led by valkyries, while the other half go to the goddess Freyja's field Fólkvangr...

 comic book creator Peter Madsen and Teddy H Kristiansen, as well as fantasy artists Jesper Ejsing and Emil Landgreen.

During this period, Warming produced a range of artistic works including children's books, licensed characters, educational books, advertising, magazines and board games. He also illustrated several computer games, most notably two for the Danish National Space Center

Danish National Space Center

The Danish National Space Center is a Danish sector research Institute and a part of the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. It is located in Copenhagen at Østerbro...

 and Egemont Publishing in conjunction with the Danish game development company Wegame.

Warming worked with a wide array of companies including Lego

Lego

Lego is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures and various other parts...

, Mattel

Mattel

Mattel, Inc. is the world's largest toy company based on revenue. The products it produces include Fisher Price, Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels and Matchbox toys, Masters of the Universe, American Girl dolls, board games, and, in the early 1980s, video game consoles. The company's name is derived from...

, Marvel

Marvel Entertainment

Marvel Entertainment, LLC , formerly Marvel Enterprises and Toy Biz, Inc., is an American entertainment company formed from the merger of Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. and Toy Biz, Inc....

, Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

, Suzuki

Suzuki

is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Hamamatsu, Japan that specializes in manufacturing compact automobiles and 4x4 vehicles, a full range of motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles , outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines...

 and Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....

.
Warming illustrated the worldwide published magazine Entre Nous on AIDS awareness for a year, edited by Jeffrey Lazarus, as well as illustrating articles for the Danish cult magazine Press, edited by Allan Nagel.

As an author and illustrator of children’s books, Thomas Warming debuted in 2003 with Kanonkongen (The Cannonball King), now published in three languages: Danish

Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

, Korean

Korean language

Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...

 and English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

.

These publications were followed in 2006 by the Sci-Fi trilogy ""Tellus - del 1: Lys I Mørket (Captain Tellus – Part 1: Light In The Dark)"". The first installment is translated into the English for the American market by ""High Before Homeroom"" author, Maya Sloan (Simon and Shuster Gallery Books 2010). Part 2 in the series is currently in the making and it is entitled ""Tellus - del 2: Magerne (Captain Tellus - part 2 : The Magi).""

In 2008 and 2009 Warming was chosen to represent Denmark at the annual MoCCA Art Festival (Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art) by the Danish Consulate in New York. Warming received a government grant in 2009 by Statens Kunstfond, to participate and exhibit.

Warming has maintained a fine art painting career throughout the last 20 years on the side participating in solo- and group shows and was selected for Diesel New Arts selected jury Scandinavia exhibit in Copenhagen 2005.

Besides Warmings artistic career, he taught sequential art, perspective drawing and acrylic painting at Københavns Tekniske Skole, Kreativ afd. (Copenhagen Technical College, Creative Dpt.), for a consecutive period of 10 years (1998–2008)

Current work

In 2009 Warming received a sponsorship for an Extraordinary Artist Visa and moved to New York City. He is currently working as Lead Concept Designer and Matte Painter for Walsh Family Media on the upcoming CG feature animation film The Cool Beans: We Need a Hit.

Danish film director Tao Nørager

Tao Nørager

The documentary follows the increasingly anxious Mackenzie in the last days before a fashion show giving a unique view into the fashion world. As opposed to Nørager's fashion shootings featuring a complete film crew, Nørager chose to be the cameraman himself, in that way ensuring that he did not...

 is currently making a Documentary about Warming and Patrick Walsh of Walsh Family Media as they are launching the movie

Works

publications by or with illustrations by Thomas Warming

• 1996 The polar bear - By Inga Birna Jonsdottir, Stokrose Publishing.

• 1997 Metallica - By Inga Birna Jonsdottir, Stokrose Publishing.

• 1998 Exhibition - Danish erotica”. By Benthe Clod. Stokrose Publishing.

• 1999 Sprogets lysthus - By Erik Skøtt Andersen. Alinea Publishing.

• 2002 Taran’s første rejse - By Lloyd Alexander. Forum Publishing.

• 2002 Taran og mørkeridderne - By Lloyd Alexander. Forum Publishing.

• 2002 Taran og borgen på øen - By Lloyd Alexander. Forum Publishing.

• 2002 Taran vandringsmand - By Lloyd Alexander. Forum Publishing.

• 2002 Kong Taran - By Lloyd Alexander. Forum Publishing.

• 2003 Kanonkongen –By Thomas Warming. Forum Publishing.

• 2003 Væsner – By Mikkel Starup. Forum Publishing.

• 2006 Tellus - del 1: Lys I Mørket– By Thomas Warming. Peoples Press / Phabel Publishing.

• 2008 Tyvetøs - By Glenn Ringtved, Politikkens Publishing.

• 2008 Inger Svinger fra Heksehuset – By Jim Højberg. Alrune Publishing.

• 2009 The Waymor – By Will Smith1 and Tony Smith. Currently shopped to publishers.

Kanonkongen (The CannonBall King)

Children's book is for ages 5 and up, hand painted in acrylics, 32 pages and illustrated in full color. The book was nominated Book of the Month by the Copenhagen Public Library

The book was well received by the Danish newspapers calling it "a promising debut with an appeal for children who like action"

Tellus - del 1: Lys I Mørket (Captain Tellus – Part 1: Light In The Dark)

A cross-genre publication. It is part one of a Science Fiction trilogy for young adults.

64 pages and fully illustrated in acrylics and Photoshop. The book is meant to be a mix between picture book/ graphic novel and comic book. The book was published in Denmark in a untraditional wide format, through Peoples Press Publishing. Part 2 is currently in progress.

External links

• Warming's website