Voting for Klops

You can vote for our film "Klops" on arte :D Yaay!
http://voting.creative.arte.tv/de/clip/180/directlink

good clean-up day

If there are bad hair days, do "good clean-up days" also exist?
It's like my brush strokes magically do exactly, what I want them to. Together with my friends from animation school, we are working on a TOP SECRET short film project! ;-) So the last few days I've been animating and today while working on the clean-up, instead of making hundreds of short lines, I just quickly move my hand a few times and then there it is, a wonderful expressive and accurate line. Maybe it's because of Chris Oately's advise "try to accomplish your work in one stroke in stead of using ten"

backwater review

I'm very excited! Someone wrote a short but very nice review about our film project "backwater"
You can read it here (and also watch the film - "but careful if you are at work, the film contaisn artistic nudity ;-D):
http://www.kuriositas.com/2012/06/backwater.html

Portfolio Cover

I had the idea making a small portfolio, representing all the students and the movies we made. It was available at the premiere. Everyone liked it <3
The idea came when we all were looking for a design for the cards that were sent to all the guests. I had a design, deriving from Mucha's four seasons, since our four movies kind of represented a season.
The character designs from the right side to the left are done by myself, Felix Zehender, Eiti and Regina Haselhorst.

work-collection

The end is near... only three weeks until our movies have to be ready for cinema!
There will be a small booklet containing short movie descriptions and portfolio work.
First I wanted to keep my pages simple and clean and only use very few images.
Yeaah, so here's what happened:

animation show reel

See my animation show reel on vimeo!
That's all I've got to say right now, 'cause I'm too busy working on our short films. Only 3 weeks left! Then I need someone to hire me :D

Koops scoops

Our third project has started! "Backwater" is being produced right now. The story which Janina Putzker and I were working on since August 2011 (later on joined by Sebastian König and Susanne Herzog) is finally coming to life. I'm so looking forward to the result!

This summer...something BIG is coming!

The first week of our second project has started. Eiti made the wonderful designs and had the idea for this hilarious short film. Here's what I've accomplished so far:

                                           

Our premiere is going to be on 27th April. Our short films go cinema - for only one glorious evening. As there are only 10-12 tickets per person, not everyone can come. But I am already planning on home cinema events for my friends ;-)

preview to red riding hood

For two weeks now 12 people have been working hard on the first final project: a new version of little red riding hood. Regina Haselhorst is our producer, director, designer and everything . The rest of us does the animation part, coloring, compositing and background painting.
I am part of the team that has to animate the wolf. Here is some first insight!
I am really looking forward to the finished version. A short movie of 3 minutes length, done in 3 weeks - incredible! ;-D

 

Danny the conductor - rough animation

Last week Fabian Erlinghäuser from the Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon (Secret of Kells) was our tutor at animation school. We had to animate 5 seconds of classical music by Bethoven and let Danny, the main character from "Cats don't dance", be a conductor. It took me a week (let's say about 5 days) to finish those 5 seconds. Thank you for the great hints and critique, Fabian :-) Now I feel a bit more confident about animating!