Niko - The way to the Stars

Today I took a look at the trailer of "Niko - the way to the Stars" (click the picture) an 3d-animation movie who will comes to cinemas in the end of 2008. It's so cute! This movie is a cooperation between Finnland, Germany, Denmark and Irland. My friend Goro Fujita worked on it and I am very curious to see the movie. I hope that I find the occasion to animate a little short in the next time maybe a sequel of Wilson the snowman. We will see... :o)

WALL-E

Watch the new WALL-E Trailer! The robot is so cute :o)
I'm very curious to see the next Pixar movie next year...

Ratatouille

Finally I saw this weekend Pixar's Ratatouille and only I can say: WOW! What a movie. The animations were awesome, the story great, the techniques amazing and the rats so cute. I can advise everybody to see this movie :o)

"Pelé the panda" is online now

Finally I put my degree movie "Pele the panda" on my webpage. You can see the short in 2 version: english and spanish. Since some days the short is on youtube too. Hope you like it.

English version:



Spanish version:

My shorts on Youtube

I found some of my shorts on Youtube. Have fun...!:


Flytrap (2D-Animation - 1. semester)


Gambare Saburou (3D-Animation - 2. semester)



Wilson the snowman (3D-Animation - 2. semester)



The sacred stone of Horus (3D-Animation - 3. semester)


Teamgeist (Commercial - 4. semester)


Galaxywhoyi (3D-Animation - 4. semester)


Ida Hlms - Nur auf Rügen (Musicvideo - 4. semester)


Merkaba WS 2004 (3D-Animation - 5. semester)

Pele with texture

Here the last panda. Now with texture:

Pele in nature

I finished with modelling and rigging of my Panda. So I made today a mood picture just for fun :o)

Old modellings of Pele

I post here some old modellings of Pele to see how he changed his look

Pele in 3D

I finished with the modelling of Pele. Here the last look:

Merkaba the movie

Sorry for waiting so long but now I've finished my semester project "Merkaba" and I've wrote yesterday my last degree examen. Now I will prepare me for my degree short film. Click on the image to see the Merkaba short...

Ratatouille animation test

I've found this cool animation test for "Ratatouille" the next Pixar animation movie. Check it out!

IO - Music clip

Yesterday the music band "IO" were here in the filmschool for shooting their new music clip. Two of my friends will make the clip for their degree film. They asked me if I could help them. It was a funny shooting day with great music and a very sympatic band.

Wilson the snowman - new music

Finally I managed it! - I can show now my short "Wilson the snowman" on festivals. Guillermo A. Gómez has composed and performed a fantastic music for the short. He is a very good composer with immens talent and I'm glad to work with him . To see the short with new music click here (5.5 MB)

Little weight animation

Here a little animation, doing last friday. I used the LowMan rig of Miguel González Viñé. Click on the picture to see the test:

Motion control - Stop motion short

Finally we finished our stop motion short. Only the sound is missing. Click on the pic to see the short short (800 kb) :o)

Headless

Today I was in a bad mood. So I decided to make a little short in our stop motion lessions. Have fun! :o) Click on the picture to see it.

Modeling - Color tree

Modeling

This week we will build a landscape with styrofoam in our lecture modelling. My task is to model a old tree. We have fun but it is also time-consuming. On Thursday we have to finish the modell. Here a step by step picture :o)

Ida Helms: "Nur auf Rügen"

We finished our last project for this semester. Our team (Marc Erhardt, Adrian Heinze, Christian Hercher, Cordula Langhans, Manuel Müller, Gila Röhrig and me) produced a musicvideo for a german electronic funk band: Ida Helms. All together we worked on it 3 weeks. It was a great experience to make a music video and we had a lot of fun. Click on LINK to see/download the video: "Nur auf Rügen". I hope you like it.

Adidas "Teamgeist" Commercial

Today we finished our student-commercial. The theme was Adidas "Teamgeist". We had to make a commercial about the World Cup ball with the demand not to see the ball in the film. The whole class worked on it. It was a very funny project and we learned a lot how to make a commercial. Click on -> movie to see the shortfilm (Quicktime, 2,3 MB).

New Pixar trailer

I saw the new trailer of the next Pixar movie: Ratatouille. This project was formerly listed as 'Untitled Pixar Rodent Project' but the Los Angeles Times reported recently that the movie's title would be the same as the name of the lead rat: 'Ratatouille.' I love it and can't wait to see in the next year the 3d-animation movie.

animation test

Today we animated some little animation tests with a cube person. Here a little test (200 kb) => Link

Galaxy battle

I upload today the galaxy-spaceship project on my homepage. Our class produced this little 12 sec. short sequence in 2 1/2 days. Click the link to see/download the film (1,5 MB)=> Link

Spaceship project

Our course have to make a spaceship fight animation like the intro in Star Wars III. For this 15 sec-project we have 3 days for finished it. Yesterday we modelled all fighters. Here one of the 5 destroyers. Hope you like it. In the next days I will post the final animation. Click the first pic to see a little gif-animation:

Commercial

In the last days we worked on a fictitious commercial for a german sport house. First we developed the idea. In the next time we will shoot the shot. Here the first moods:

Movie-Link

Here you can download now our movie: "The sacred stone of Horus" (21MB)

Finally we finished the short. In the last days we still put a narrator in the intro for telling the history of the phararo. We took the text from the "stone of Rossette" because it mached very good with our short. I hope you like the movie. Now I will think about a new idea for my next 3d-short. Stay tuned :o)

The sacred stone of Horus

Today we finished our 3d-movie! In the next days I will put the movie on my homepage. I hope you like it. The title of the film is now: The sacred stone of Horus".

First finished renderings

After recieving a filing extension we have now a little more time to make our film better. Here you see now the first finished renderings:

Tracking video

In the last two days we learned about tracking. A task was to shoot a real short sequence and to integrate a 3d- object or a person. It was a funny day. Here you can see my short sequence ;o) ->Link

Treasure room

We shaded on this weekend the treature room of the mummy. Before shading I painted some pictures for seeing if the color combine with our style. Here one of the matte painting:

Mummy's room - Matte Painting

Hieroglyphe wall

Egyptian painting

The deadline is near. The animations are almost ready and my team need vacations :o) Today we thought about the entry-sequence. My job was to draw some concepts for the treasure room walls. Here a hieroglyphe sketch for our 3d-short:

Mummy's darling

Our team thought about the color for the mummy's treasure. We decided to take a red/yellow because we want demonstrate that the stone is the core of the mummy.

Comic - Wilson the snowman

Today I recieved an email from an uncle who lives in brazil with the information that there is an illustration & comic competition in a brazilian newspaper. First I wanted to send my pictures but later I saw that the deadline is next week and that ist too short. My idea for the comic category was making a comic about my snowman Wilson. Here's a prelimiary draft:

Renderings-tests...

Here some new pics of our 3d-animation-short. In this moment we are making some rendering tests for seeing if the mummy and the investigator combine with the background.

3D-short: The bane of the mummy

In this semster (3. semester - The German Film School) we have to make a group-short-animation project in XSI. We are 5 students and we have 6 month to complete this short (after our lectures). Our story ("The bane of the mummy") is about an investigator who wants to find a treasure and a mummy who trys to prevent it. We finished with the modelling and rigging of the models and tomorrow we will begin with the animation. Here our modelsheets and some 3d-pictures of our short: