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Iron-Man pitch 2011

2012-01-30T03:36:00.000-07:00

... done by Animationsfabrik GmbH. I was animating this except the last 2 scenes. Was super fun! Thanks to Seb for getting me in!

"FlatFrog" animation sneak peaks

2011-11-22T03:44:00.001-07:00

here we go ... first animation sneak peaks from our latest project i'd been working on. those shots were animated by my good buddy Rodrigo Huerta (Dreamworks) and me. I'm super proud of the finish look and the quality we we able to create. Sure there is always something you can do better next time though. Anyways ... get you a cozy seat, popcorn and wait for the final!!!

first "FlatFrog" renderings

2011-11-21T06:50:00.001-07:00

YAY!!! These are the first official renderings of "FlatFrog" a 6 min tv-pilot where i supervised animation, modeled and rigged all characters. It was such a great project and i had the pleasure having Dana Boadway (Animation-Mentor), Rodrigo Huerta (Dreamworks-animator) and Jonas Manke (awesome German anim-pro-buddy delyxe) in my team. Margherita Premuroso was directing, Luca da Rios was producing and William Lorenzetti did those amazing renderings. Can't wait to see and show the final!!!!

Iscream - Trailer 2010

2011-10-21T04:14:00.000-06:00

Graduation-Short made by Cindy Fröhlich and my beloved lady Marie Jo. During that time we felt in love and i still do love you for your crazy thoughts and incredible creativity! Big respect for your great work!

my babygirl

2011-09-30T13:03:00.003-06:00

2011-09-27T13:45:00.002-06:00

cintiq doodles

"Four" by Margherita Promuroso

2011-09-08T05:11:00.007-06:00

Four by InkyMind on Vimeo.

Oh boy ... it's been ages that i have posted something. But i was too busy with life. So sorry for this but look at this shortfilm i worked on with and met Margherita Promuroso. She's an incredible artist and even more such a great person that it was a pure pleaure the whole way down the road till finishing this baby. We are aware of the fact that we could have polished and pushed things even more but that's what you get out of such small projects "experience"! Anyways ... i translated the 2D-design into 3D, rigged the character, animated the first half till he rests on top of the tree and the end when he jumps back into the cave (my good buddy Emanuel Amler was doin the rest). Have fun watching!

doodles

2010-11-07T04:27:00.005-07:00

wacom / photoshop

pencil / photoshop

cotton candy andy :D

2010-11-03T03:29:00.001-06:00

portfolio

2010-06-06T13:41:00.009-06:00

(click on the image to watch my reel)

::Resume
::Reel Breakdown List

Please check also my ...

:: Illustrations
:: Scribbles
:: Sculptures
:: 3Dmodels

::my linkedin-profile

Thank you very much!

superFreak - update - final render

2010-05-22T17:22:00.002-06:00

there we go with the "final" ... really quick and dirty rendered and alot of things i could tweak forever. i'm still not satisfied with leading the eye by the individual actions. too busy overall. but i had learned alot from it ... anyways ... thanks so much for all the critique and comments!!!

superFreak - update - second spline

2010-05-16T11:27:00.001-06:00

little update on my superFreak-shot ... it's the second spline pass and i start loosing the eye a bit so comments and critique are really appreciated! Thanks alot!

ISCREAM - Teaser Trailer

2010-05-14T14:52:00.006-06:00

(click image for watching)

Check this out folks!!! That's the graduation-short-film from my beloved girlfriend Marie-Jo and the incredible Cindy Fröhlich. I love it so much, because it's full of great traditional hand-drawn animations, surrounded by shocking backgrounds and accoustic awesomeness by Clemens Endreß! Get you a drink, a cozy chair and lean back for ... ISCREAM!!!

"Dirty Olli" - concepts

2010-05-01T07:11:00.006-06:00

that's the very first concept i did for my new short-film "Dirty Olli" (that hopefully get produced by TRIKK17

a light-mood-concept based on my 3D-design and coloured with photoshop.

superFreak

2010-05-01T06:49:00.005-06:00

"final" blocking of a multi-character shot of mine. if you like to please leave me critiques! thank you and have fun!

some updated and new animations (click the picture for watching)

2010-05-01T02:23:00.019-06:00

"how deep is your ..."

That's my current very short film. All the pigeons, the set-buildings and props (except the car and the man-character, which are one of my designs and rigs) are designed, modeled and rigged by Adrian Walt and Ringo Klapschinsky (some of my former students) Great job and thank you very much for permission to use them. I have animated the shot in 8 weeks and finished the whole short in 12 weeks. What a run but it was so much fun!

"Dirty Olli"

It's a test-render-scene for my current project "Dirty Olli". This shot is part of a teaser-trailer. Design. modeling, rigging, animation and rendering are done by me.

"Psycho"

It's been done in 3 days as a test-animation for more subtle acting. For this i've used the AnimationMentor-rig Bishop.

"Tobsen"

Re-rendered and polished again. Design. modeling, rigging, animation and rendering are done by me.

"Stuiseppe"

My old body-mechanis-shot for Animation-Mentor. I re-polished the whole shot and added the arms. For this i've used the AnimationMentor-rig Stuwie.

"Don Quichote"

My old push-pull-excercise from Term 2 at Animation-Mentor ... just rendered. For this i've used the AnimationMentor-rig Stuwie.

finally graduated ... yay!!!!

2010-02-08T01:08:00.000-07:00

now it's official! Dr. anim. Fränk Spalteholz! Waaahhoooooooooo ... thank you so much AnimationMentor and all the awesome people i had the huge pleasure to met and learn from

bad day

2010-02-02T07:41:00.002-07:00

MarieJo's PunkCat

2010-01-01T03:49:00.002-07:00

Birthday-present for my beloved girlfriend. I'd made this during August 09 and it's based one of her incredible character-designs / friends.

Tobsen Final!!!

2009-12-30T14:38:00.004-07:00

click on the image to watch the movie

My final rendered short film "Tobsen". Have fun! (Thank you Luke for the render-insanity-support)

some inspirational designs

2009-10-29T04:20:00.002-06:00

these are some inspirational designs i made for a Tobsen-story-pitch ... more is coming ... aehm ... really soon :) wish you all a great rest of a week!

Frankster

Tobsen - final animation

2009-10-05T00:29:00.003-06:00

Check this out folks ... this is the first final animation of my new short "Tobsen" i'd animated during the last 3 weeks. I also designed modeled and rigged the little fella. Still no sound ... not rendered and composed. Have fun and leave me critiques if you like ... Have a nice week ererybody!

PinkyGuido vs. BrainMerkel

2009-09-30T06:56:00.003-06:00

Arielle

2009-09-28T05:42:00.000-06:00

little miss sunshine

2009-09-21T01:15:00.002-06:00

(coloured with mouse)

monk vs. joseph de escagot

2009-09-18T08:19:00.003-06:00

2009-09-17T07:18:00.000-06:00

my grandfather

2009-09-12T07:47:00.006-06:00

montags morgens ...

2009-09-08T04:41:00.002-06:00

für mein ♥

2009-09-03T12:55:00.004-06:00

häppi burzeldäi best sister ever!

2009-08-04T00:56:00.001-06:00

KOMMEN!

2009-07-21T10:52:00.002-06:00

my current anim-reel

2009-07-05T11:41:00.004-06:00

I'd forgotten to add that the pigeons are designed, modeled and rigged by Ringo Klapschinsky and Adrian Walt. Sorry guys and great work!!!

Tobson - character study

2009-07-05T11:34:00.004-06:00

Hey folks! This is Tobson ... a fish-character i made for short summer short i'm still working on. He is as simple as fun! Yay!!!

Pigeons-Anim-Tests

2009-06-18T14:26:00.007-06:00

These are some quick! (1 week for all) animation-tests i've made some weeks ago for testing the rigs of some characters that my students are working on for their graduation short ... Have fun :)

dude

2009-06-18T14:22:00.005-06:00

super-freak

2009-06-15T09:12:00.004-06:00

wird schon

2009-06-15T07:58:00.002-06:00

some concepts

2009-06-15T04:39:00.003-06:00

up :) (hour)

clubbing (half hour)

... (half hour)

get well soon!

2009-06-14T13:07:00.002-06:00

Padre

2009-03-28T18:40:00.003-06:00

I was doodling this while whatching The Godfather ... maybe that's why he seams to look a bit like the old Marlon Brando ...

topic springtime II

2009-03-26T22:12:00.003-06:00

topic springtime

2009-03-24T15:57:00.001-06:00

bad girl

2009-03-20T13:34:00.004-06:00

Laurel_gold_version

2009-03-15T15:32:00.009-06:00

Just a quick rendering-test i was playing around with. No texturing at all also too clean and soft but i like it as test. Looks like the toy-version. mhm .. it is! Order right away! ... just kidding. Have a great week everybody!

2009-03-03T10:52:00.000-07:00

concept

2009-02-21T04:09:00.003-07:00

some concepts

2009-02-08T16:54:00.004-07:00

These are some concepts coloured in photoshop for my shoemanfoe short. Still work in progress but would be nice getting some feedback! Thank you guys and have a sunny week!

Frank

AniSculpt

2009-01-24T06:52:00.015-07:00

Thanks to my buddy Swag i've found this on pepeland.com . It's not brand new but maybe you have missed it like me. I've checked this out and i must say it's awesome! It's for free and it's finally one of those missing links to get as close as possible to an equal level of traditional animation. Nowadays everybody wants only 3D-movies to watch. All those new cartoon TV-series are made in 3D. It seams to be the state of the art. But it's totally not! It's a shame! The quality of design, of animation even of the stories are so low that i couln't watch it more than a second. It's so ugly it's so cheep ... ah ... it simply hurts. Have you seen Whinnie Puh in 3D? Bah! Get rid of it! Look out for your old video-cassettes put them in and enjoy the good old stuff.
For those who are not so involved into 3D animation i shortly explain how this works. In 3D-world you have similiar to stop-motion a character with several controls for moving the limbs, the facial-expressions and so on. This manipulation-system is called "rig". But the limitation of that is, that you have a given anatomy and only the high-professional-3D-characters can be pushed in any kind of pose and are adjustable on every body-part. A traditional 2D-animator has to "reinvent" the character on every single sheed of paper. But that gives him totally freedom concerning the proportions of the character to get the strongest pose possible. Watch Tarzan sliding through the wood on those branches. Step through each single frame and measure the lengths of arms, legs and the body. (You don't have to it's just to get the idea of what i'm talking about) You would see that Glen Keane (the animator of that stunning sequence) changes the Tarzan's anatomy so much, but not because he can ... no .. because to provide locomotion in combination with a strong siluette! That's the main reason why 3D animation looks often alot weaker than 2D. Because it's simply impossible to do so if your rig isn't build that way. But with this method (watch the videos below) you can finally go through each single frame of your shot and push things without any limitation of the rig. I'm so curious about it because for me it's a new way of 3D-animation and if you do it right it can rise the level of perfection alot! So ... Happy me happy you! Have fun!

Frank

AniSculpt -- Maya Connection Script from pepeland on Vimeo.

AniSculpt Tutorial -- Pepeland from psl on Vimeo.

Animation-Mentor Progress Reel Term04

2009-01-23T03:22:00.005-07:00

click on the image to watch the reel

Me again! Yay!!! ... i've missed to show you my progress reel for the previous term at Animation Mentor ... So here we go. But i have to say that i'm not happy with it. Term 04 was during the last summer and i was so not in an animation-mood that i just tried to keep all things as simple as possible. Yes everything could be pushed alot more and the facials are weak. Especially in the first shot. After that term i've taken a needed break and got finally my passion back so be aware! The current term 5 is for pre-production for our graduation-shorts and as you can see below i already worked pretty hard on it and i really gonna push things as far as i can. Comments and critique are appreciated of course! Thank you very much and have fun watching!

Frank

FoeManShoe-Designs

2009-01-23T02:13:00.009-07:00

Jo there!

Here is just a simple movie to show some extreme facials of my main-character Laurel i'm able to do with the facial-controls. It's pretty cool and a combination of blendshapes, joint-clusters, cluster- & wire-deformers! The other characters are part of a "remembering-the-childhood-sequence" and they are just modeled in pose (modeling-time: 2 days each model) . They won't be animated. I have used Maya for blocking out the rough proportions and zBrush & Blender for refining. Anyways ...
I'm almost finished with the body-rig, which is awesome! I gonna make a little show-reel of that too the next weeks so feel free to drop by sometimes for updates!

click on the image to watch the reel

Have a nice weekend everybody!

Frank

i wish you all ...

2008-12-20T14:55:00.002-07:00

Frank :)

...

2008-12-17T17:34:00.012-07:00

Hey gang!

Bah ... so dark outside. The whole day long ... No fun i can tell. But it's like that every year so pretty much the right time for eating cookies and preparing my AnimationMentor-graduation-short. Yay!!! It's movie-time! As you can see it's gonna be dark ... it's gonna be painful but at the end ... ahh ... how could i tell?! You have to watch it yourself ... No it's not gonna be a splatter. No blood no violence. It's just a concept. I hopefully will be finish next year so enough time for organizing popcorn and stuff :) ... But drop by sometimes. Some animation-tests and stuff will be showing up!

occlusion-render

Whoopeeeee!

2008-11-08T02:51:00.006-07:00

Yes it's finally Dom-time again and for all those who are not so familiar with Hamburg's attractions The Dom is definitly one of them. I just love it and can't wait to lay bare my teeth up on the 60m free-fall-tower or try to keep my underpants with me while breaking through the sound-barrier. Whoopeee! Go there! It's fun!

click on the image to watch them all

beautifall '08

2008-10-27T16:01:00.011-06:00

There are just some impressions from my last weekend trying to find something likeable while it's being fall. Click here to watch them all. Have a nice week everybody!

Best wishes

Frank

Tour de Franck - 2008

2008-10-04T09:10:00.015-06:00

Yes folks ... back again! First things first i'll stop saying "sorry for not posting so long" but ... sorry ... for not posting so long! AnimationMentor and my job had kept me too busy. So i took a break from my study and was off to vacation for over 2 weeks. Amazing i can tell. I did a 650km tour through Germany from Hamburg to Frankfurt/Main by bike to my family (actually Niederreifenberg near Frankfurt). That was the hardest fun i ever had. Enjoy the visual impressions by clicking here ... (just click on the single images for enlarging them)

Take care all of you!

Frank

Air-Annika :)

2008-08-21T13:21:00.000-06:00

finally 3+

2008-07-22T09:59:00.003-06:00

Yes! It's my birthday ... and yes i reached the magic 30. Finally ... On Saturday the 26th i gonna celebrate it at my flat, so if you want to join feel free to come around! Just write me mail ... Till then ... Take care all of you!

Frank

granny on fire

2008-07-12T15:47:00.004-06:00

Progress Reel - Term03

2008-07-04T09:11:00.005-06:00

Hey folks,

big sorry for not posting for so long, but you know it's summer-time and alot of things besides the boring computer are to enjoy :) ... here is my actual reel for Animation-Mentor-Term 03. I hope you all enjoy watching. You got to know that for the very first shot just the body-mechanics are animated and polished, but still work in progress, so in case you would like to leave me critics please concentrate on the body language. Other then this .. Have fun watching i'll promiss to be more communicative in the future!

Best wishes and a great weekend all of you!

Frank

click on the image above to watch the reel

Barbery Sheep Nicci

2008-04-24T17:50:00.005-06:00

The last Hero ...

2008-04-22T11:03:00.015-06:00

Frank & Ollie

Pathetic titel i know but it's the truth. Ollie Johnston (the right one on the image above) passed away last week and for those who are not so involved into animation, he was one of the 9 Disney-"Einsteins" which have found the principles of animation. It is for sure not overstating comparing them with Einstein 'course like he found initial formulas for physics they gave all animators the tools for "creating life" anyways if they are animating stop-motion, traditional or 3D.

Like so many others i grew up with Mickey Mouse, The Lady and the Tramp, Jungle Book and all the other great old Disney Movies. Remember that sequence in Jungle book where Baloo was performing the Song "Bare Necessities" or that just breathtaking sequence in "The Rescuers" where Rufus tries to comfort Penny on the bed? These two and many more are animated by Ollie Johnston. They made me laugh, they made me cry and they made me reflecting things since i was a kid and when i had never thought about becoming an animator later on. During the years when i was deeping into the world of animating myself my gratefullness was getting stronger and stronger. None of them are left but i guess it's never too late to say "Thank you!" ... so ...

THANK YOU!

just another wacky AM-doodle ;)

2008-04-07T15:20:00.001-06:00

Dr. much more evil

2008-04-04T07:51:00.003-06:00

concept for my new shot ...

Dr. GreenThumb

2008-03-30T16:38:00.005-06:00

Little wacky stop-motion shot i did ... just for fun. I animated this straight ahead without testing/editing. Anyways ... enjoy!

click on the image to watch it

Acting - References Part I - Mime

2008-03-29T07:15:00.017-06:00

Hey Folks,

My new term gonna start next week with the topic "introduction to acting". This means for me personaly things are getting more seriously, complicated and at the same moment much more interesting. My first shot that i'll have to animate shell visualize a transition of emotions like from being curious to sad/happy or something similar. I know this yet for a while and sometimes when nothing more important had to be done i watched out for references. So i've found on YouTube these great mime-performances by Johann Lippowitz. He's just marvelous. Pay attention how strong and at the same time clear and simple all his poses and facial-expressions are. You will get the idea of what's going on immediatly without missing the text of the song at the same time. It looks so easy and entertaining. I have big respect of that guy. Great caricature and just true art!
Enjoy and have a nice weekend all of you!

Frank

Animation-Mentor Progress Reel Term02

2008-03-25T16:24:00.003-06:00

click on the image to watch the reel

Wow ... what a ride. I've finished term 2 this week and i had a real blast! It's so nice that we have only little limitations in terms of what the assignments should look like and i can freak out like crazy. I know that each shot could get polished alot more but i'm happy with them and i've learned so much during the last 3 months. Next term we gonna start acting and can bearly wait. Fortunatly there is no real break between the terms so i can go on next week. I want to say thank you to all my incredible class-mates and AM-buddies. So many amazing people i've allready met. Special thanks are going to Dana Boadway my mentor for term 2. I miss her yet and i wish her the very best. Have a nice week all of you and have fun watching the reel!

Best wishes

Frank

some more AM-doodles

2008-03-24T13:14:00.003-06:00

Happy Easter everybody!

2008-03-22T19:58:00.000-06:00

For Ninsha

2008-03-21T17:38:00.008-06:00

This week one of my closest friends was visiting me. She is an amazing artist and inspires me since the first time we met. We haven't seen each other for years but for me personaly a good friendship means not to bother each other each single day ... no .. its more the way that a long time without being together means nothing like "uh .. what did you do actually yesterday? ..." So ... we had a lot of fun and i'm quite thankful knowing her!

Thanks again and take care Nina!

AnimationMentor Term02 - Shot03

2008-03-10T09:36:00.004-06:00

in progress ;)

AnimationMentor Term02 - Shot02

2008-03-10T09:23:00.003-06:00

click on the image to watch the shot

AnimationMentor Term02 - Shot01

2008-02-14T11:35:00.006-07:00

click on the image to watch the shot

Hey Folks ... busy busy hustle bustle ... Just some weekly sketches and my "final" first shot for Term 2. Have fun and take care!

Frank

Little Dodo

2008-01-23T09:34:00.001-07:00

Yeah! Finally i've seen "Little Dodo". Little late but i was quite busy the weeks with my study. It was great! Nice colours, great 2D-animations and honestly said it's quite worthy to work such a long time and sitting at the end in a huge cinema to enjoy the work. I've animated the water-drop-journey at the beginning and the compositing was well done, so i liked what i've seen! The rest of the 18 minutes i've animated were actually lot of things you don't pay attention to ;) like trees, brunches, fishes, birds, leaves (oh i hate animating leaves). But it was great basics-practicing and i've learned so much during that production. Thanks to Sebastian Hofmann, Swag, Florian Westermann, Jens Kämper, Luk and all other great colleagues i had the pleasure to work with!

Frank

AnimationMentor - WinterTerm

2008-01-09T16:07:00.000-07:00

Yeah!!!

Finally next term has started this week. I have a lot of new fellas in my class und fortunatly a lot of well known faces from my last class. My new Mentor is Dana Boadway and she seems to be quite straight forward. Gonna be harder then last time to get good marks but that's not so important anyways. One thing (and that's the only one) at AM what i don't like are these US-like super-extremes. Everything is "awesome" "super-cool" and so forth but hey if something is not good you should say so. Maybe it's a common German-thing that we actually just want to hear the mistakes first, but i think you can grow and get better only that way by focusing on the mistakes so for me i'm quite happy with Dana and it will keep me working harder as before. So feel invited everytime to drop by by my AM-blog and see what i did so far. Have fun and take care all of you!

Frank

SculptureScribbles

2008-01-09T15:15:00.001-07:00

Hey everyone!

Hope you've enjoyed free time and have all reloaded batteries! Here are some of my clay-scultptures i did over the last days. I've called them "scribbles" 'course i made them quite quick and tried don't be to picky on details. Each of them (except the pillow, which is an older work) just took me not more then 2-3 hours. But just have a look yourself ...

Best wishes

Frank

Whistle Snake
(length: ca 43cm)

Happy Pillow

(hight: ca 28cm)

Excited Evil

(hight: ca 40cm)

BigBoyBuddha
(hight: ca 32cm)

Merry Christmas and a great New Year 2008!!!!

2007-12-18T17:19:00.001-07:00

AnimationMentor - Progress Reel Class01

2007-12-17T10:56:00.001-07:00

click on image to watch the reel

Unbelievable ... 3 months over, means my first term is finished. I've worked hard and all the shots, Stu (the Ball-head-character) - poses and some scribbles can be seen by watching my reel above. For all assignments and works just visit my Animation-Mentor-blog (see right). I just want to add that this school is fantastic and although i'm really looking forward for the next 2 weeks which are free i'm really curious about the next term. So thanks to all my class-mates and my incredible mentor Chris Chua! I also want to say special thanks to Sebastian Hofmann, a really gifted animation-supervisor and my first mentor at Animationsfabrik GmbH. You rock man! So have fun watching the reel and leave me unmercyful kind critiques and comments ;) ...

Cheers Frank

2007 ... almost done

2007-12-14T18:02:00.001-07:00

Winter time - sentimental time ;) Just 2 more weeks and 2007 is almost done. For me i had a great year. Full of ups and thanks god very less downs. A lot of thankful things happened to me and i really hope to you too! This is my ... uh ... fourth year in Hamburg and i'm pretty sure next year i'll stay else well. But ... i can barely wait for Spring 'course honestly said it's not the best town for Winter and Fall and very often i miss the sun so much that i'm feeling like leaving and that feeling gets stronger and stronger each Winter. So maybe next year gonna be the last. Ofcourse i will finish my Animation-Mentor-study first but who knows what will come next. Anyways ... that town inspires me as much as from the first day on and so there are some snap-shots from my picture-diary (click) ... have fun watching them and i wish you all a great Christmas and Happy New Year in advance with the people you love the most!

Take care!

Frank

Persepolis

2007-12-01T09:49:00.001-07:00

Yesterday i've watched "Persepolis" and boy that is one piece of a great great great movie! You must watch it! It's funny, it's well animated, it's a great story so .. it's just art! I had a lot of fun and i will tell nothing about the story. Just enjoy it yourself and i will defintily do the same at least once more!

Frank

AM-week 009

2007-12-01T09:08:00.001-07:00

Stu-pose for "concerned"

Hey everyone! Sorry for not posting for such a long time. But as i said before i'm damn busy with AM and work so. Time flies by that fast and i'm almost trough the first term. But the excitment is still alive and that school is ass-kicking great that i can barely wait for the next term. So check out my AM-Blog (click) for the works i've done so far! Leave me unmercyful critiques and comments if you want. They are always appreciated. Thank you and have a nice weekend!

Frank

AM-week 004

2007-10-24T00:39:00.000-06:00

Dr. Spike missunderstood me, when i asked for an additional bouncing-ball-ctrl. Hehehehe ... Wish you all a great week and good luck with assignments, video-refs
and stuff!

Cheers Frankenstein

Finally!!!

2007-09-30T07:50:00.001-06:00

Guess what happened: YEAH! My Animation-Mentor-Study finally gonna start today and boy i'm so curious! From now on my AM-blog will get filled and cramed with all of my assignments and stuff. Feel welcome coming around and leave me comments and critics!

See you buddies!

Fränk

Felipe - old-man-version

2007-09-28T11:59:00.000-06:00

Felipe as an old-man-version and with a more "animateable" topology and proportions. I like that version a lot more. Hope you too ;) ... Wish a bright weekend everyone!

Cheers Frank

SAM - Character Design

2007-09-22T15:20:00.000-06:00

There we go ... Super-Action-Mann aka SAM ... still work in progress (2days), the triceps isn't correct, but i like him yet. Cheers Frank :)

Felipe - Character Design

2007-09-19T15:53:00.001-06:00

I`m still in a model-temper. That's Felipe, actually a 2D-Character from my former Shortmovie "Bühnenwechsel". He still looking like a stupid monkey, but that's because you model allways a kind of "base-position" where all bodyparts including the facials are in a relaxed postion. In terms of the face it is easier to get all the emotions and stuff from this "slack" position. Modeling-time: 1,5day. Maybe Super-Action-Mann is going to follow.

Niculai Constantinescu - Photo Exhibition

2007-09-08T10:13:00.000-06:00

One the most talented newcomer photographer Niculai Constantinescu finally opens his first exhibition in Hamburg. Please don't miss it!
Nic's Website (click)

Buttler Bucket - Character Design

2007-09-08T08:56:00.001-06:00

This is "Buttler Bucket" the second main-character for my next short-film for Animation-Mentor "Bell and Bucket". Modeling-time: 4days.

Bell - Character Design

2007-08-30T12:36:00.001-06:00

That's a work-in-progress version of "Bell". Modeling-time: 2days

Boris' workout

2007-08-22T14:56:00.001-06:00

just a quick finger-exercise. modeling and rendering time: 1day.

Practice-Saucage

2007-08-12T14:38:00.001-06:00

"Hans-Peter Wurst" aka "Übungswurst" (Mr. Practice-Saucage) informes you that my 3D-all-over-course will start tomorrow and you are all invited to come around! While preparing my lessons i unfortunatly had absolutly no time for my Olli-production. But now i have and so i will be absent for a while. (probably) ...

best wishes fränk

octopus

2007-08-10T16:46:00.001-06:00

A good friend of mine asked me if i could help him modeling an octopus. So i did and got inspired for an own version (1,5 day practice). Hope you like it.

low-wireframe

Tom - render test

2007-08-07T09:19:00.000-06:00

Toy-Version :)

That's a mental-ray-render with final gather. I know it's not the greatest render and Tom's still looking very cg-like, but it's made only for illustrating subsurface-scattering. All bumps, displacements and textures are procedural for a quicker workflow ... i gonna paint now my textures and all the maps. Cheers Fränk

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2007-08-05T13:09:00.000-06:00

sweet smiling sunday dude i made today ... he is 3D-modeled and a little bit 2D-tweaked

Yeah!!!

2007-08-02T13:25:00.000-06:00

Yes from today on it is official:
Fränk goes Animation-Mentor (click)! That's a Animation-School where i will study (online) "Advanced Studies in Characters-
Animation". Yeah!!! Pixar i come!!! I can barely wait for October when my first term will begin, "Bouncing Balls". You might think "aehm ... yeah ... uh ... that might be a very interesting term! ... aehm ... for sure! ... " But you have to know, that this term is one of the most important including term 2 - "Body Mechanics". I know some Animation-Mentor-students and they all told me how hard it can be to animate just a simple ball and i can tell i saw incredible assignments yet! Although i'm indeed not a beginner-animator i maybe missed something with the basics-training and i think you can only get a damn good character-animator when you did all the basics over and over rightly.
Anyway ... i created a new Blog (click) where from October on i will post my assignments, impressions and stuff. Feel welcome to come around sometimes leaving me comments or critics.

Tom's world

2007-07-31T06:25:00.001-06:00

Welcome to Tom's world! Still boring grey but i hardly work on it. I'm trying to achieve a macro-world-optic with a strong "depth of field". For the background i gonna use real-life-footage from a forest with a strong blur. Will see if it's going to work.

Simpsons - The Movie

2007-07-31T05:16:00.001-06:00

The last 2 days i went to cinema to see "The Simpsons Movie" and boy that film rocks! Now i know that it was it worth waiting so long to see them in cinemescope! I was really curious about the style
and if they would change something visually compared to the series. But it is almost the same (except an additional shadow-level and really great backgrounds!) and it works! BUT ... there were so many 3D-elements. Almost every shot with a croud, vehicles, or camera-transitions were done in 3D (i don't mean the characters). The reason why i mention this is the fact that "The Simpsons Movie" was strongly announced as a 2D-movie, but that's not entirely true. Anyway ... the cell-animated characters and the 3D-elements were perfectly combined and think i will watch it again. So i advise you not to miss it!

older 3D-models

2007-07-27T04:43:00.000-06:00

copyrights Baedeker

St. Michaelis Church - Hamburg

Cap San Diego - Hamburg

Ferry MS-Silja - Finland

Cathedral "Palma de Mallorca" - Spain

"Santiago de Compostela" - Spain

These are some older 3D-models i did for Jangled-Nerves GmbH. They were shaded/rendered by Xox and i only modeled them.

Tom Colour-Design

2007-07-25T11:05:00.001-06:00

Last days i finished the rig and the uv's-layout (thank you very much Toni & Stephan) After that i quickly black&white rendered the model and overpainted it with Photoshop. It's not the final version just a reference for painting the textures. Maybe i should give him some freckles and bit more green mossy spots around the lower body.

Harry Potter V

2007-07-23T19:15:00.002-06:00

Tonight i saw "Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix" and i'm really disappointed. Yes there were nice special-fx and great pictures. The sets were full of great details and i could feel the wizzard-magic-world but several times unexpected things happend so fast after each other combined with such an hectic camera that i got confused over and over again. It was like a little kid is telling the story:" And and .. than happend this and then that, and that ..."
In my opinion David Yates (director) had no idea about the over-all-message: Is it a movie about "the first love", "war against the dark side", "the problems with being a teenager", "friendship" or what? So it became a strange mixture with all of these aspects. But they suspented each other and at the end none of them were strong enough for me so that i can say "..." is the message of that film. I had the same problem with the other parts too and i think one disadvantage is that every part were directed by another director just like the batman-movies. But the biggest problem is that the movies were done when the last part of the novel hasn't been finished. It is one of the first things i learned about writing a script:"Know your end and you can guide your actors/incidents" That's the initial part of a successful dramaturgy. In "Lord of the Rings" for example are three parts, the first is about "the fellowship", the second is about "war" and " nature" and the third is about "friendship". All three parts are fitting perfectly but also as indiviual stories. Fortunatly the last part of "Harry Potter"-novel is finished so let's see ...