Star Wars

Here is some of my RealTime VFX work that I contributed to the recently released game "Star Wars : Sith Edition"...

Szzzzzz

My first character using Zbrush 3.5. Still work in progress...
It's a combo of Zbrush, Project Messiah (posing) and Modo (rendering)....ps: 16 hours of work...

Modo and Messiah...

Playing around with Modo 401 and Messiah....

It's show time.... !!

I have updated my showreel (new and old stuff).

Hello world

A little side project to keep me busy. All done in about 3 days...

Sleeping...

Still in the 2D-Brush-Mode. I dediced to spend some hours to create a new 2D image. Sometimes 3D work is tooooo ...usual...

Howl....

I thought now it would be the time to swing the 2D brush for a bit.

Walter

I don't know how many times, I had the urge to bring "Walter" on my monitor. Modeled and rendered in 2006 on a boring Sunday afternoon in Guildford / UK.

Captain Scarlet

During my time on the kids TV show "Captain Scarlet" in Pinewood Studios / London 2005. Originally hired as a Ligthing TD I was tasked to design, model, texture and render a 15 secs sequence of a flyover across desert like landscape.

"Look into my eyes..."

My first test using Maxon's BodyPaint for texturing. This character was done for the cinematic sequence of the RPG "Sacred" by Ascaron. The goal was to give a skeleton warrior some kind of facial expression. And as we know: "eyes" are the mirror of the soul. The cinematic was successfully produced during my time at MBA Studios in Summer 2003.

Toys...

best friend. Again an image done by me for training purposes only. With this rendering I tried to achieve the feeling of a toy figurine. Done during my time in London sometime in late 2005.

The king is dead ..long live the king

This picture was done during my time as one of the studio managers at MBA Studios. Entirely done by me using Lightwave and a bit of image sharpening in summer 2003.

Here Kitty Kitty...

My first quadruped setup and animation. The rig and animation was created in Project Messiah an animation package that is available for all major 3D applications. This animation was done for training and for a pitch to get a deal to create a cinematic sequence at MBA Studios in late 2003.

"Wobble" test....

The year 2003. The mission "Dynamic Wobbling". Done in messiah in 3 days.

Rabbits don't come easy...

Back in 2003 I was contacted to make the music CD cover (front and back) for Helloween's (popular Heavy Metal band) album "Rabbits don't come easy". .... fun times ...when your clients wake up after partying at 5 pm to give your feedback..lol...

Flip the coin...

Done back in 2002 (in only 6 days...modeling, texturing, rigging, animating and rendering) in good old Germany. Initially done to test skinning in messiah than turned in to a "fun" project.

Long time no see...

Finally! I decided to take care of my "garden" again. And the loss of my grandpa put things in "perspective". Even the sunny San Francisco weather doesn't help to change or help to improve my emotional state. Maybe a little bit of "gardening" will help, planting some fruits of my labor. So I decided to transfer my website into a blog. I know that some of the pictures are rather old but still, these pictures are a map of my path ....my path to the West.

LucasArts

Welcome to the West. To be more accurate ... San Francisco. I started working at LucasArts as a Senior VFX Artist on the Indiana Jones game for XBox360 and PS3. Nothing to show yet...but stay tuned to see some official announcements.

Changes...

Hello world!
Finally I have managed to get back to my blog. A lot of things happened the last few month.
Most important, I have changed job. Still being at EA Games, after finishing my VFX work for Battle Field 2 : XBox 360 I got transfered to the PreVis team over in Guildford.

BattleField 2 : Modern Combat

Battlefield 2 : Modern Combat. Done! We finished the last bits of the game and I polished my VFX till the very last moment. It was a fabulous experience and the entire team !rocked!

A coworker and friend died early January....I was...well I am still very sad that we have lost a friend. Really hard to believe that death is always coming between us. It's quite easy to forget about what life is all about. Rest in peace Sascha!!. .!...!...

EA Games

Finally ! My work on the "Captain Scarlet" TV series came to a conclusion. I learned a lot, met a lot of people and found some new friends. Now I've accepted an offer to work as a VFX artist at EA Games on one of the first Xbox360 titles: "Battlefield 2 : Modern Combat".

Pinewood Studios

I made a decision to move to London and signed up to become a Lighting TD on the 3D TV show "Captain Scarlet", produced at the Pinewood Studios outside of London.

My Passion

I decided to jump over the Channel to try my luck in London.
I got hired as a freelance character animator on the projects "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and the music video "Maya"