Daimler Chrysler Visualizations

After the Six video I went to Stuttgart to do car visualizations for Framedaniels Stuttgart, also doing research on rendering techniques, process development and data management. Some of the results can be found here.

Six : Dreckig

Dreckig (german for "dirty") was a music video filmed on a bowling track in Frankfurt, yet it used motion control equipment, a VariCam from Panasonic, direct to disk recording and extensive previzualisation.

For a complete review of the project, see here .

Damnatus

Damnatus is a fan-movie set in the dark and gothic universe of Games Workshop´s "Warhammer 40.000" universe. It´s a completely no-budget project, I contributed some of the more complex shots wich included servo-skulls, shapeshifters, powerlifters and daemonically possessed doors, but also needed a lot of tiresome matchmoving and rotoscoping.

You can find a summary of my work on the movie here or visit the official site.

DocScherer-praxis.de is of course not a movie, but a homepage for my parents doctor´s office. In the "Lexikon" section it also includes some 3D stills and animations of a cutaway head. There is also a modified offline-version for a info-terminal in the waiting room. Unfortunately, feedback was that NIL that no further update has been made (only Kids approached it and wanted to play games).

http://www.DocScherer-Praxis.de

Barathum Part II is the last project I worked on during my time at the German Film School. I contributed the quick and dirty hellhound-type critter to this horror-movie by Falko Jäger, Jan Schulze and Husam Al-Hakim. Unfortunately, the negotiations on the music have yet to reach a conclusion, so this one is with sound only.

running time approx. 3:40 min, 7 MB , credits and summary here

Merkaba is a visualisation-presentation of a personal flight simulator with the same name; CG with live action elements. This was the concluding project of the pioneer students of the German Film School. As project manager with a crew of 12 I also did the script, storyboard, animatic and layouts, supervised animation and directed, as well as doing major parts of the modelling, texturing, rigging, animation, effects, lighting, rendering and compositing.

running time approx. 4:00 min, 16 MB , credits and summary here

Ghoststory was an ambitious project halted in february ´02 due to technichal difficulties and data loss. Only a few shots were finished.
To be revisited. Summary here

running time:
ghost1_skel.avi , 3 MB, approx. 30 sec,
ghost2_room.avi , 4.5 MB, approx. 40 sec

Five Gentlemen Productions presents the very last news broadcast from earth. Sit back and enjoy.

FGM News is a short done with Maya with a crew of 5. I was responsible for lipsync, character modelling and animation, as well as parts of the story, writing and effects.

running time approx. 4:30 min, 16 MB , credits and summary here

This a music-video done as an exercise at the German Film School; as the music wasn´t cleared for broadcast I´ll present only a small part of the video without the soundtrack, where a CG fly (SI|XSI) taunts a battle weary Counterstrike-player. I managed production, modeled and animated the fly and came up with the plot. It´s called "Traction".

excerpt , 4 MB, 1:00 min, full , 20 MB, 3:40 min, credits and summary here

Atraditional 2D animation about drunk Holger riding home. I did character design, keyframes and inbetweens as well as some coloring and the final shading. "Ansichtssache" (= point of view) was the concluding movie of the first semester.

running time approx 3:00 min, 8 MB , credits and summary here

Various Clips

These are just several short animation or stills of other graphical work I did, either commercially (with scopas Film), at the "German Film School" or in private.

Solitude
first cell animation
Dodge WC51
non-commercial ad " MOTZ "

Robotech Shooter

This is a little something I toyed with during my mechanical engineering studies: a sidescroller set in the "Robotech" universe, with mecha from all three subseries. Programming done in RealBasic, modelling and rendering in Electric Image, but I never found the time to finish it. Nevertheless it now has it´s own page in the hobby-section.