My latest DemoReel featuring the best projects I've worked on so far. It includes freelance projects as well as work that I did at Animationsfabrik, Pictorion das werk and AixSponza.
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Image spot for Foodbanks of Belgium.
Simulations and particles done by me. This spot also served as an example at my talk at Maxon UserMeeting '09.
Agency: Germaine, Antwerp/Belgium
CD: Dirk Domen
3d Designer: Rizon Parein
CGI Studio: AixSponza
Creatives: Jef Boes, Pieter Claeys
Sound designer: Thomas Houthave
Account: Jan Boschmans
Download file (mov h264, with sound, 2Mb)
This is a nearly-full CGI spot of a new model of Nescafé's Dolce Gusto line of coffee machines. All shots except the "coffee pours in cups" ones are fully 3d.
I did lighting/shading of this shots:
- CloseUp of coffee pad inserted in machine
- Packshot
Download file (mov h264, with sound, 13Mb)
Spot for the launch of a new round of Monopoly at McDonalds Germany.
I created technical setups for the itunes library and folding-open effect of the price cards.
This is only the CGI ending of the spot. There's a live action part that goes in front of it.
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The RedBull Airrace is a sport where the best pilots of the world compete against each other in a race of speed, precision, skill and very fast reactions. This video takes you through all the rules and basics of the sport.
I was production lead, coordinating the actual production phase and I was also responsible for water shading. Additionally I did technical development on the motion blured propeller. The final thing renders extremely fast (under 15 seconds a frame), does not require any real motion blur to be calculated yet is a full 3d propeller you can fly around, behaves right with anisotropic reflections, casts and receives blurred shadows and can be controlled via a simple slider to go from the full 360° blur disk over fanned propeller blades down to completely sharp blades without any blur.
Watch file (RedBull webpage)
For the first time in history RedBull Racing allows a sneak peak into their production facility in Milton Keynes / England.
I was Lead3d at AixSponza for the production of the 3d animations in this video. I supervised the production/rendering phase and also did lighting and shading on the 3d "hangar" shots.
As my hosted space as well as monthly bandwith is under quite a strain with all the animations online I thought I'd put this one on Vimeo for you watch.
Watch file (Vimeo)
A real quicky! A 15sec intro animation for German Computergames Awards. Produced in a record time of three days start to finish including more stuff like logo loops, seperating animations to be played before nominee-movies and things like that.
Client was ProSieben/Sat1 Media Production which produced the award show.
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Formula 1 has adopted the most sweeping changes in the sport's history. The new rules have significantly changed how the cars look and effect everything from aerodynamics to tires.
Sebastian Vettel runs through what it all means and how it all works... and how to use the brand new hybrid power train KERS.
My main tasks where making all dynamically reacting smoke and lighting.
Download file (mp4, 24Mb, includes Sound)
Four variations of ING logo animation for belgian TV. Modeling and shading was done by Rizon Parein, I animated all four variations.
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For the world's first formula one night race AixSponza did a 2.5 HD min. feature of the Singapore racing circuit. Mark Webber the pilot of the Red Bull racing team comments the film directly from within his virtual race-car.
For this project I was LeadArtist doing lighting mostly along with some enhancements to the car rig.
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CGI shots for a McDonalds TV commercial. I made everything except the compositing. Main task was to do the camera mapping. All 3d objects in the spot are not true 3d but photographs mapped onto lowres proxy geometry (except the cup).
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This one was done as an ident spot for Bayerischer Rundfunk which is a german tv station. Most of the spot was live action, the bees are the only CGI shot in it.
Rigging and animation by Fabian Rosenkranz, rest by me.
Download file (h.264, 7.5Mb, no Sound)
Produced for a company which buys your life insurance to give you money in emergencies this german only spot was produced to be shown at trade fairs and online. Task was to put the graphics into the pop up book.
This is the first project where I was in charge as LeadArtist. I coordinated a team of 6 people working on it and additionally animated three scenes myself.
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A rather graphic commercial for an Austrian Bank. Butterflies are what I did plus some general rendering tasks.
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CGI sequence to be put in a live action Maggi commercial. The cooking book is turning pages on it's own and the pictures in the book are actual moving footage. I did everything except the compositing.
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This one is a TV commercial for a Spanish company that provides storage space. It plays on the Tetris theme and how you can clean up spaces by storing your valuables somewhere else. It's a 100% CGI commercial with no filmed elements. I was responsible for shading of the furniture mostly.
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Chevrolet Spark is going to be introduced in China and this is the corresponding commercial. What I did was particle effects and some compositing
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For the Geneva Motorshow AixSponza did this 2min promo animation featuring the brand new Mini Cooper S. I did about 1/3rd of the car animations.
This is only a short bit of the complete animation. It only shows shots that I've animated.
Download file (h.264, 7Mb, includes Sound)
Medion is a hardware manufacturer that operates in most European countries as well as in North America. This spot features a range of its products and was adapted for quite a lot of different languages and product ranges. I was responsible for cameramapping the products and placing tendrils and flowers.
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This is the thesis animation that I did at the University of Hertfordshire for my MA 3d Digital Animation course. I made a whole seperate homepage for this film so more information can be found there.
Direct download (h.264, 25Mb, includes Sound)
The films' homepage
One of the semester projects at my MA studies. Topic was "nonlinear time". In this very short animation time is inconsistent. Some parts of the scene portrait run at normal time, some are timelapse and some are slow motion.
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