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Manou the Swift
"Manou
the Swift" is a feature film mainly produced at Luxx
Studios in Stuttgart. Ambient Entertainment helped
out and animated about 24 minutes of the movie. It
is about a young orphan swift growing up with a
family of sea gulls who took him in when he still
was an egg. When he realizes that he is not a gull
he leaves his foster home and tries to find his
place in the world. He meets other swifts, finds
first love and new friends and has to bring swifts
and gulls together to help them all through great
danger.
Watch a first teaser here. |
Happy Family
"Happy
Family" is a movie based on David Safier's
bestselling novel of
the same name. After 4 feature movies developed in
collaboration with
Konstantin Film, "Happy Family", like "Back to
Gaya", is Ambient
Entertainments own production. With some breaks
because of other
smaller projects I worked over a time of more than
three years on that
project and learned so much about animation that I
am starting to feel
experienced ;)
Watch the trailer here. |
Happy Family 4D
"Happy
Family 4D" is a 4D movie for Europaparks "4D Magic
Cinema" and stars our friends from "Happy Family".
Due to a misunderstanding they provoke the anger of
a witch at them and get turned into monsters. While
experiencing the roller coaster ride of their lives
they have to catch the witch and bring her to jinx
them back into their human form.
Watch the trailer here. |
The Time Carousel
"The
Time Carousel" is a 4D movie for Europaparks "4D
Magic Cinema" and the second adventure of Euromaus
and his friends. The evil Nachtkrabb wants to get
rid of Euromaus and his gang and tricks them into an
odyssey through time trying to keep them trapped in
the past. Our friends have to work together to beat
the Nachtkrabb, prohibit his plans and find a way
back home.
Watch the trailer here. |
The 7th Dwarf
The
7th Dwarf is a german coproduction of several
companies. I know about Zipfelmützenfilm,
Animationsfabrik, Trixter, Scopas, Virgin Lands and
of course Ambient Entertainment. AE did about 16
minutes of final animation. For me it was my
favourite project to work on because of the toony
style and the great rigs and characters we worked
with.
You find the Dwarfs homepage here. |
Tarzan
Tarzan
was the first big motion capture project I worked
on. Capturing and editing was done by Metricminds.
Except the shots that had to be keyframed, for
example swimming and vine swinging, only facials,
hands, fingers, feet and toes were animated by
animators. Therefore our work was not that exciting,
the project itself however was very interesting to
work on.
You find the Tarzan homepage here. |
Animals United
Animals
United is the first film for theaters I worked on. I
created character animations for many different
characters. That made it both diversified and
challenging. It was a great experience working with
this team of excellent animators, I learned a lot
and made new friends as well. The movie will be in
theaters in autumn 2010. In Germany at least.
You can watch the trailer here. |
They will come to town
They
will come to town is the thesis project of Thilo
Ewers and Holger Wenzl for the Filmakademie
Baden-Württemberg. My friend Ellen and I animated
the whales for this social spot.
You can see some still images and watch the spot here. |
 Descendants
Descendants is the thesis project of Holger Schönberger and Heiko van der Scherm for the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. My friend Goro and I went there to help out with the animation. What was planned as three month animation practice turned into over one year of full-time production :) But we are very happy with the final piece. Descendants is a 14 minute animated short about the wish of attaining the unattainable and about the fact that something good can evolve from something evil. After two years on many festivals Descendants has amongst others won the Jury Special Prizes at Sicaf and Mundos Digitales 2008 and the Grand Prize at Tokyo Anime Award 2009. You can read more at CGTalk and watch the movie here.
Team:
Heiko van der Scherm, Holger Schönberger, Bernhard Haux, Goro Fujita, Felix Graf. What did I do: animation, fur. running time: 14:29 min |
Aroughcun
This
was our thesis movie. We wanted to do something
special and very nice to look at, but because of
immense lack of time it did not turn out in any way
like we planned. But that does not mean it is bad, I
still love it for what it is. Watch the movie here.
Team: Moritz Bunk, Marc Mueller, Felix Graf. What did I do: preproduction, shading, lighting & rendering, compositing. running time: 4:09 min |
The orkbabies
At
the end of the german filmschool five other students
and me decided to produce a short together. We were
from three different classes and we worked
additionally to the required projects. Once again we
all learned a lot and we won the International
Golden Panda at the Sichuan TV Festival in 2005. You
can watch the movie here.
Team:
Marco Wilz, Goro Fujita, Stephan Stoelting, Jens Ole
Bukowsky,
Jan Maroske, Felix Graf. What did I do: preproduction, modeling, texturing, puppet rigging, animation. running time: 5:01 min |
A footbag animation project
My
so called solo project. When I did this short piece
of animation I already knew I would specialise in
animation so I did not come up with a cool idea for
a story, I just animated. That of course was a lot
of fun. It took me around 1.5 month to complete this
little piece. Watch it here.
running time: 0:52 min |
Kong and Bird
The
first big 3D project at the german filmschool at the
end of the second semester. All in all production
took about 3-4 month. We really learned a lot ^^ The
short also made second place at the Bielefelder Film
and Video Challenge 2004. Watch it here.
Team: Goro Fujita, Moritz Bunk, Felix Graf. What did I do:
story & direction, character design (Bird),
texturing, compositing,
lighting & rendering, animation, environment. running time: 3:55 min |
 
The Beauty Of Life
The
Beauty Of Life was the big project of the first
semester at the german filmschool. It took about one
year of production because everything was drawn by
hand. It placed first at the animago award 2003 in
the alternative category. Enjoy it here.
Team: Moritz Bunk, Patrick Kreuser, Goro Fujita, Marc Mueller, Sylvia Kratzsch, Christian Miletzki, Felix Graf. What did I do: animation (hands, dog, butterfly), animo colouring and compositing, transitions. running time: 9:11 min |