Product animation

Here's a little product animation I made for my parter company Siller Print Factory. I'm quite stoked actually that I get to do that sort of stuff there as well, so I don't have to always just look after the company's website. I did this animation in AfterFX with 3D layers which worked out just fine. Please excuse the horrible quality here.

one more

and just because I'm in such a good mood today... another animatic screenshot which features my protagonist Florian Heimerl :)
(actually this is the opening shot of my short film)

Animatic Screenshot

Sooo... another weekend of not having any spare time has passed by... and although I have been real busy and productive, I didn't manage to work through the amount of stuff that I originally had on my schedule. Which means I have half an animatic now...

Anyway, after another meeting with my advising profs today, I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel (and I hope it's not the train...).

The picture above is a screenshot of my animatic (my favorite one actually, cause Klößchen is by far my favorite character). More will follow soon. The full animatic is due monday so I'll have another lovely weekend locked up in my refuge.

However, I'll try to listen to my mum who said "just don't forget that you're actually enjoying what you're doing!" - she's right, I tend to forget that sometimes...

..and another one

alright, here's another character named Kevin alias "Gameboy Kevin". He's the typical asshole kid that has got no social competence whatsoever. He's the result of a childhood spent in front of the TV and a divorced mother that tried to make up the lack of attention with all sorts of material goods, preferably computer games.

Right now I'm trying to get some sense into my plot, so I can make my advising profs happy. The last meeting with them has had the result that I had to redo and change quite a bunch of things, but what they said made all perfect sense actually.

Haven't slept much the past week and at some stage I thought I am actually going crazy, but I guess everything's gonna be just fine...

Awesome Artist

Just a quick post to say how amazing and inspiring I find Yannick Puig's work. Particularly his music video "I lived on the moon" is mindblowingly awesome!! I think he deserves an Oscar.
Yannick Puig's website

Sneek preview and synopsis

Et voilá: the first character sneek preview of my bachelor animation short film "das Wartezimmer"(the waiting room).

And this is roughly what it's about: The protagonist Florian Heimerl needs to get an autograph of his doctor. He arrives at his practice and asks the receptionist to get it for him, but instead of fullfilling this task immediately, the heavyset woman sends him into the waiting room. An this is where Heimerl's odyssey starts... he'll be spectator and "victim" of the strange behaviours of his fellow occupants - the corpulent Ms Breitfuss with her overweight infant Klößchen, granpa Wilfried who is hooked up to a breathing apparatus and the rude Gameboy kiddo Kevin.

I'm done designing all the characters, but I'm not gonna post them all at once - to keep up the curiosity :P

Fachwerk Titel

Von meinem Bachelor Projekt hab ich im Moment noch nichts zu posten, drum fang ich mit dem Cover vom "Fachwerk" an. Diese erste Augabe unseres Hochschulmagazins haben wir zusammen im 6. Semester entwickelt und entworfen. Das Thema des Magazins ist 3D und beinhaltet so ziemlich alles was räumlich ist: Von Origami über Hologramme und Wallsticker bis hin zu Paper Toys und Filmarchitektur.
Das Cover- bzw. Umschlag-Design (mit Ausnahme vom Logo) habe ich mit Hilfe von viel Input seitens meiner Kommilitonen entworfen.
Das Magazin haben wir durch Anzeigenschaltung finanziert und digital drucken lassen mit einer Auflage von 150 Stück. Am Tag der offenen Tür der Fachhochschule Schwäbisch Hall fand es bereits reissenden Absatz.

Erster post ever!!

Aus aktuellem Anlass gibt es seit heute auch einen Blog über mich, meine Arbeit und was sonst noch so ansteht südlich des Weißwurscht-Äquators in der großen bunten Welt des Mediendesigns.

Welcher Anlass denn? - Mein Bachelor-Semester hat vor unglaublichen zwei Wochen begonnen und bereitet mir bereits jetzt schlaflose Nächte (na ja, um ehrlich zu sein sind's bisher eher nur schlaflose Stunden...aber das mit den Nächten kommt ganz sicher noch). Und da ich ja nun in den kommenden Wochen hoffentlich am laufenden Band mit großartigem Design um mich schmeißen werde (ich hoffe man kann hier den Sarkasmus rauslesen), und da ich ab heute endlich mit CS3 arbeiten kann und weil's langsam echt Zeit wird, gibt's eben brandneu und exklusiv den Shapefarm blog.

Hier werd ich also ab heute tolle Sachen posten. Natürlich nicht jeden Tag und vielleicht entscheid ich mich noch das ganze hier auf Englisch zu machen, aber das kann ich mir ja noch überlegen, weil ich bin auf meinem Blog schließlich der Chief Commander und kann meine eigenen Regeln aufstellen. Gott, ganze 24 Jahre musste ich auf diesen Tag warten!!! :)

Na dann, viel Spaß beim Durchgucken,
die Marina