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Big Brother 11 Opening

2011-06-06T16:21:00.017+02:00

great fun project including a 2 day shooting in Cologne with all the candidates. Here's the animated Opening on Youtube.

der Kreuzfahrtkönig

2011-03-29T10:51:00.004+02:00

another project from work (summer last year)

The Animal In Me

2010-10-22T17:52:00.005+02:00

Voilà: my most favorite packaging I did so far. It's been great fun designing and animating it! Unfortunately the show itself was huge crap, so it hasn't been on air for very long :(

Cruise King draft

2010-06-21T11:34:00.005+02:00

Here's a logo draft and styleframe for a show called "Der Kreuzfahrtkönig". It didn't make it into the final round cause it's too medieval and knightly for a show that's about people going on a cruise, but I'm quite fond of it nevertheless so I thought I post it here.

B-list celebrity

2009-11-14T09:55:00.006+01:00

a character I designed for a TV show packaging - he didn't make it in the cast cause the editors said he's too old for the show.
He's representing a stereotype of a b-list celebrity. Maybe he used to be a TV presenter who's career has been struggling and who's now trying to get his foot back into the door by showing up in bad sitcoms and reality TV shows. He's been replaced by a younger model, but I still think he deserves some degree of publicity, so he made it on to my blog.

RTL II goes Oktoberfest

2009-08-24T16:59:00.003+02:00

A "save-the-date" invitation for Oktoberfest 2009. Background by courtesy of my collegue Andrea.
Prost!

Ballermann Hits 2009 Opener

2009-08-04T11:26:00.002+02:00

Finally I'm allowed to post it - I made the new packaging for Ballermann Hits 2009 and I'm quite happy with it. It's been great fun designing and animating all the props and characters! So far my favorite project at work.

Hinterm Sofa an der Front

2009-07-07T12:18:00.003+02:00

I haven't been posting stuff for ages now. That's because I haven't been terribly creative lately. I really do hope that this is gonna change soon.
Meanwhile I thought I post this little German opener for a daily sitcom called "The War at Home". I made it a few months ago with Cinema 4D.

Typo for "Son of the Mask" Trailer

2009-05-11T16:56:00.005+02:00

one more typo from work. this time I thought I upload the whole trailer, so you can see my typo in action :-)I designed and animated the two 3D words "Superkräfte" and "Superchaos" in Cinema 4D.

The Fast & the Furious Cut-in

2009-04-15T10:06:00.005+02:00

Another little project from work...

Another Typo

2009-03-17T12:59:00.004+01:00

This one's been for a Big Brother Trailer. A magician's been visiting the show. It looks heaps better in high res - I really wish I could upload high res stuff one here, dammit..

The Mummy Returns Typo for Trailer

2009-02-13T10:20:00.002+01:00

A Typo Animation that I think turned out quite nicely. The hieroglyphics are all hand-drawn.

Mental Cabaret

2009-02-06T19:09:00.013+01:00

Click on image to watch the whole thing on Youtube.
This is Polyphonic Spree's "Mental Cabaret". I've been working on this music video during my internship with Yukfoo in New Zealand. I've mentionned this project in a previous post. It's been great fun and experience designing the backgrounds and characters (I did the beardog, the horse, the deer and the chicken). It's been directed by Glen Real and made in collaboration with Virginie Lynn (aka Shoo) and Theo Veltman.

Birthday Illustration

2009-01-20T13:00:00.007+01:00

A little illustration I made yesterday for my collegue's birthday.

Aprés Ski Hits 2009

2009-01-17T21:20:00.004+01:00

Here comes another project from work. This one's a new packaging for an old show. Unfortunately, they wanted to keep the old logo (I just cleaned it up a little) and the mascot (a white dog) had to be integrated in the opener somewhere. I developed a very specific look for the graphical elements. I started off with the mountains that are basically reduced to rounded triangles with a wavy line to indicate the snow line. The trees are also built from these triangles and the wavy lines repeat in the form of the cottage's snow cover. I didn't get to animate the whole thing though as I was on holiday back then.

Die Chaotischsten Familienfeste

2009-01-02T16:19:00.007+01:00

This one is another clip show packaging. This time about chaotic family celebrations. A really nice opportunity to do a few illustrations although there wasn't much time (so no chance to paint over them in Photoshop), but still they turned out quite nice. It's a real pity that they can hardly be seen in the Opener, but the focus had to be on those clips from the show...

I animated the Logo and the whole Opener, also did the post splits.

Tierische Weihnachten

2008-12-26T17:57:00.003+01:00

... and even more stuff from work. That's the logo I made for a clip show called "Tierische Weihnachten" (transl.: "Animalistic Christmas"). The font is from the former logo of the show, the editors didn't want to change it. I drew the cat and put it all back together. The snow flake is a loan from my collegue Andrea. The show has been on telly on Christmas eve.

Time to post some stuff from work..

2008-12-23T21:09:00.003+01:00

I think it's really time to finally post some stuff from work, now that I've been with RTL2 for about 5 months. The problem is that most of the series that I've made logos and packagings for haven't been on Air yet, so I need to wait.
Anyway, this is a logo I made for "Heroes in Series" which has been used in the Genre-Openers for "Heroes", "Smallville" and "Flash Gordon".
This was one of the first things I made at work, so I was pretty stoked to see it on the telly.

so what's been happening..

2008-09-07T21:03:00.006+02:00

For everyone reading my blog and being curious what's been happening to me and my film:
Me and "das Wartezimmer" got a really good grade, that's to say an A+! And I was really stoked - well actually thrilled is a better word, when I got 2 awards on top of that!! One for "best bachelor project" and another one for "best overall grade", each worth 1000€. And of course I have an official title now: Marina Friedl Bachelor of Arts in Media Design.
The fotograph above shows me getting one of my awards from the governing mayor of Schäbisch Hall :)
And I think this is the right place and time to thank once again all the lovely people who have been supporting me: Prof. Guido Kühn, Prof. Beate Ehrmann and Christian M. Fischer, who have been advising my project, Steffen Mayer, Ingo Schaefer, Simon Barr, Rose Bond, Kim Collmer, Chrissie Spiess and first of all my family.

das Wartezimmer online!

2008-07-07T18:40:00.003+02:00

Finally, I managed to upload the whole thing.
"das Wartezimmer" has had its World Premiere at our Bachelor exhibition the 2. July '08 - and it's been absolutely great!! There where loads of people at our exhibition and they actually laughed when they watched my animation! That was a real great feeling, especially cause I was hoping for them to smile every now and then, but I was totally thrilled when I heard them laugh!! I'm so stoked :)
So here's the link to my short on Youtube:
das Wartezimmer
I'll have my final presentation tomorrow, so wish me luck to get a good grade...

Polyphonic Spree at LA Film Festival

2008-07-07T17:16:00.007+02:00

freakin' check it out: There is MY NAME beside the colon after animation!
http://www.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2008/filmguide/eventnote.php?EventNumber=6769
how cool is that?!

The Polyphonic Spree music video animation "Mental Cabaret" that I have been working on at Yukfoo in New Zealand has had its World Premiere at the LA Film Festival.
I've designed 4 of the characters and all the backgrounds and did loads of animation :) I'm so glad Yukfoo gave me the opportunity to work and learn on this great project!

It's done, done, done!!!

2008-07-01T11:16:00.006+02:00

What an incredible feeling: a mixture between satisfaction, pride, total happiness and exhaustion. "das Wartezimmer" is all done!! .. and I handed it in this morning together with my theory. I'm sure I must have overseen a few quirky little mistakes, but hey: whatever! Considering the magnitude of the project and my level of experience, I've done an awesome job and am giving myself a pat on the back in this very moment :)
My film will be shown in our Bachelor exhibition which starts tomorrow in the Fachhochschule, the final exam presentation will be on the 8th of July and then we'll have the Bachelor ceremony on the 12th.
I'll upload the film shortly on Youtube for everyone to see. I'll post a note here as soon as it is online. And hey: thanks heaps for looking at my stuff! :)

Screenshots...

2008-05-31T19:58:00.004+02:00

so.. it's been a while.. I've been really busy and got about 4 minutes of animation done now. Can't upload movies right now as it takes too much precious working time ;)
Here are two screenshots anyway with the final look and background.
I think (and very much hope so) that I will be done with all the animation next weekend. That gives me enough time to write my theory to put sound under the movie and maybe to work over weak parts.
Ok, now back to work..

Animatic on Youtube

2008-05-19T09:29:00.003+02:00

I've uploaded my animatic on Youtube. Don't watch it, if you don't want to know the end of the story yet!!
Watch the Animatic>>
What happened on the weekend: I've caught a cold... awesome. But I still got another 20 sec of animation done... and Ingo has just shown me a way of organizing my files faster - thanks Ingo!
By the way: help Ingo with his project and vote for his evolution boooks on www.boooks.org!!!

Intro Animation

2008-05-15T13:11:00.003+02:00

Ladies and gentlemen: let me introduce the intro of my animation short. I'll probably change a few things again, tweak things a bit and stuff, but generally this is what it's gonna look like. I haven't put any sound underneath it yet but I'm working on it. Hopefully more will come soon...

look refined

2008-05-13T10:47:00.002+02:00

I've been refining the look of my backgrounds and have been playing around with lighting also over the weekend. I've applied textures and a bit of shading. In addition to that I've got my first scene animated. I'm quite happy with it but it took way to long, so I really need to speed up a little now...

awww

2008-05-07T16:23:00.004+02:00

aww... poor baby...
What's been happening: I'm up to version 3 of my animatic now and am starting to develop an intentense relationship with my characters and the story. It's been a great decision to do the animatic with the illustrator files directly in the computer cause now I'm all familiar with how I can move the little buggers around, what's working and what's not quite there yet.
I still need to paint up the backgrounds a bit in photoshop so they are getting more grip.

Fräulein Meier-Willbrich

2008-05-05T17:26:00.000+02:00

And yet another smashing character featured in my little bachelor animation: Fräulein Meier-Willbrich. She is the mistress of her realm and the most caring human being when it comes to potted plants. But in case your no Ficus Benjamini you better watch out, as you'll officially be labeled a disturber of the peace!

Product animation

2008-04-29T09:28:00.000+02:00

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

2008-04-28T20:10:00.000+02:00

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

2008-04-28T17:26:00.000+02:00

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

2008-04-25T14:53:00.000+02:00

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

2008-04-17T19:36:00.000+02:00

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

2008-04-17T16:38:00.000+02:00

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

2008-04-15T20:25:00.000+02:00

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!!

2008-04-14T17:36:00.000+02:00

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