RISE FX

I spent 1 year working for RISE FX as a junior Pipeline TD and generalist in the 3D department, where I worked on the projects like "Jim Button" and "The Avengers: Invinity War". This was in combination with my bachelor thesis (BA). Right now I am Lead Pipeline Developer for Autosek Maya at Rise.

• Pipeline Features

  One feature main Part in this time period was to develop an shot sculp pipeline for the Avengers project. Main challange was to update Shapes from assets and animations. As the Alembic export got to time expensive, I optimiced the export to an 60% speed up.

• Arist and Project Tools

  Smal snipes of code with an ui to speedup productivity, like an Randomicer, implementing mayas MASH into the pipeline, optimize exporters and many more.

• Ticket Requests

  Basic daily Artists support like fixing scenes, check renders, debug the pipeline ore give Artists knowledge that they need for there current work.

5/6th semester student film production "Lampion"

Directed by Jannik Paul Weisse, "Lampion" is a 90-minute film, split in three parts. We developed the first part in these two semesters. The movie is about a worst case scenario of Germanys Berlin in 20 years, where consumption, monitoring and terrorism got at his highest point.

We had to rebuild the entire "Potzdamer Platz" and put a lot of full CGI stuff inside the movie. Overall we handed 150 compositing shots, with eight post-people in one year.

• VFX Supervisor

  I planned the compositing shots and managed the VFX artist team throgh the planning, filming and postproduction. Beside that I was responsive for a lot of movie input.

• Technical Director

  As a technical director I created an entire inhouse pipeline tool (for Maya, Houdini, Nuke connected with an own external program) - that managed all art responsive departments an VFX-Shots. Besides that I created a lot of small scriptinh tools that made some progress steps a lot faster. Last but not least I managed three crowed shots, a few explusions and some destructions with houdini.

• 3D Generalist

  As a 3D Generalist I moddelt 15 Humans, 1 Cybersoldier and a lot of photorealistic mechanic objects (aircraft, cars etc.). I Build 15 Shaders for the Potzdamer Platz and rigged the entire models.

RISE FX

I spent six months working for RISE FX as a trainee and became the generalist in the 3D department, where I worked on the projects "Renegades" and "The First Avenger: Civil War". The trainee program was in context of my 4th semester and helped me greatly in improving my skills in the featured film industry.

• Generalist

  I had a lot of moddeling, texturing and shading tasks and was responsible for the matchmove-alignments. As a generalist I worked with Maya, Houdini, Mari and NukeX.

• Rigging

  One of my specialties at the internship was rigging.I lerned to create an autoRigger with Python, and did a lot of human rigs, airplains, cars and mechanics. Besides that I created a lot of small scriptinh tools for the other department.

• Houdini FX

  At the end of my trainee program I got the task of working on a Houdini crowd shot. I improved the older version by adding additional features such as cloth sim and more variations and automated the crowd setup via python scripts.

3rd semester student film production "Oktober"

Directed by Maximilian Förstner and Sascha Schmidt, "Oktober" is a 10-minute short film about a person sitting on a tree and looking into a panorama shot while two people are talking about ordinary things off-camera. The panorama as well as the human on the tree and the CG bird sitting next to him are a VFX-Shot.

• VFX Supervisor

  I planned the compositing shots and managed the VFX artist team. We made a 3D protection plane of a tree to create a digital camera zoom and to realign the tree on the panorama shot. Furthermore, we built a full CG bird and a lot of set extensions into the panorama scene.

• 3D Generalist and Technical Director

  As generalist, I textured the bird, built a rig for it and helped the artists with modelling. I also built a full setup for the bird with xGen and at the end took care of the rendering.

• Composititing

  Amongst other things, I created some set extensions for the main compositor Milena König, animated a hang-glider and rotoscoped some parts of the tree.

3rd semester fictitious advertisement "Mercedes Vision GT "

A 1:30 min. fictitious commercial for Mercedes-Benz focusing on the full CG-Car "AMG Vision GT" which is morphing into a female transformer.

• Director and Idee

  I came up with the idea for the spot and then later directed it.

• Team Coordinator and VFX Supervisor

  Apart from directing, I also coordinated the postproduction team and the film and VFX crew. We did some driving shots in the Alps and some story telling shots in Offenburg. The rest of the work was done in postproduction.

• 3D Generalist and Compositor

  I had responsibility over all CG elements and - modelled, textured and rigged them. Besides that I worked in the compositing team.

2nd Semester student full CGI animation movie "2020"

An interdisciplinary project by students at the universities of Offenburg, Tübingen and Stuttgart, developed and produced between 2013 nd 2015. "2020" is a 14-minute full CG animation movie. The plot takes place in a parallel universe which resembles the world we live in, in time and appearance. It's an end time animation influenced by the style of "Mad Max".

• Executive Producer

  I was head of the team and - managed all financial aspects and the timing for the movie. For example, I was able to get Red Bull as a sponsor and recruited the Band "Black Sun Empire" as a music partner for our project.

• Production Manager

  I - built a timeline for all 3D artists to get the project done in one semester. In addition, I was responsible for the communication between the students of the different universities involved in the project.

• Technical Director and Generalist

  I built the rig for 16 different models as well as a snake with dynamics, a talisman and three faces. Moreover, I made a setup for nCloth, modelled the main actors and directed the motion captur and faceshift (face captur) team.

JKV Managment

JKV Management is a business which is specialised in setting up festivals and club events. During my internship, they organized the "Freischwimmer" festival and "Freischwimmer" events.

• • Film team and Postproduction Coordinator

  at the Freischwimmer Events and the Freischwimmer Festival.

• Social Media

  responsible for the internet presence on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

• Web Development

  I built the homepage for the Freischwimmer festival with a team of artists.

Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns

American football master 2011 & 2012 in Germany founded in November 1983 by the "Turn- und Sportgemeinde Schwäbisch Hall e.V. 1844".

• Film team

  of the Movies " Unicorns - GermanBowl2012 FanTrainTrailer", "Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns - German Bowl XXXIV Impressions", "Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns - Saison Eröffnungs Teaser 2013" and "One Day with the UNICORNS".

• Posproduction Manager

  of the Movies " Unicorns - GermanBowl2012 FanTrainTrailer", "Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns - German Bowl XXXIV Impressions", "Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns - Saison Eröffnungs Teaser 2013" and "One Day with the UNICORNS".

• Social Media

  I set up and established a YouTube Cannel for the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns

Hallywood-Productions

Hallywood-Productions was founded in 2004, are working on national and international advertisements and movie Blockbuster such as "James Bond 007 - Quantum of Solace" and "Rush" (directed by Ron Howard).

• VFX Supervisor

  of the movie "Statistisch gesehen ist der Weihnachtsmann eine Frau".

• Postproduction Coordinator

  of the movie "Statistisch gesehen ist der Weihnachtsmann eine Frau" and the documentary about the opening of "Schwimmband Schwäbisch Gmünd".

• Set Runner

  at the set of the movie "Rush" in Öhringen and "Statistisch gesehen ist der Weihnachtsmann eine Frau" in Schwäbisch Hall.