Welcome

Welcome to my Portfolio. Here you will find different examples of my working skills. Beneath there are my posts in chronological order. On the right side you will find a column of links representing my CV and below you will have some specials and illustrations sorted thematically.

I am working as Animation-Director in an Online Advertising Agency in Düsseldorf. Here I'm doing Visual Development, Storyboarding, Illustration and Flash-Animation for Online-Ads and Microsites.

I hope you enjoy your tour through this site and I'd appreciate it if you leave a comment. Thank You!

BLOGO-Competition

Barely here, I already sent my Blog-Header into a competition.

smoox until now

More to come...

going online @ planetactive

Then I had the chance to get into the world of online advertisement. At planetactive, an online-advertising-agency in Düsseldorf, now part of neo-ogilvy, I started as a trainee, doing illustrations for ads and microsites. I got into different dtp-applications like Photoshop, Image Ready, illustrator and Freehand and I learned to do Flash-Animation. I was there for about 20 months and these are some of the things I did there:

some of those images are concept-layouts and part of visual development and have not been launched as seen.

Koffergeschichten

For JEP (Jürgen Egenolf Productions) in Cologne I made a classical storyboard for a 2D-children tv-show called "Koffergeschichten" which means "The suitcases histories" in which a suitcase (a character of the Rudi Rabe-show) is part of historic events. In this case he was the companion of Whimsical Walker, a clown at the age of queen Victoria:

here are a view pages of the board:

At the VW-Autostadt

Then I had a little job for planb-media (now part of mindmatics). The purpose was to produce a christmas-motion-ride for the simulator at the theme park of VW. The Art-Director was Bolle Bollmann who now owns the daywalker-studios. So for the presentation we went to VW in Wolfsburg with the Volvo of plan b. After the presentation I took a little tour through the theme park and had one of the famous factory-homemade currywursts - very fine :)

I had to do a character-design of Santa Clause. I thougt he should be more of an originary nordish type wearing archaic and natural clothes:

on the other hand, he should have a modern slight made out of dark and white chocolate with orange-flavoured spots on it and which doesn't need deers:

But finally they went for the standard Coca-Cola-Version and a nostalgique slight:

no problem

GUM

My first job I had after I moved to Oberhausen was in Cologne at the GUM-Studios.

GUM means "Gesellschaft für Unterhaltung und moderne Medien" which means something like "Society for entertainment and modern media". Since years they were making the german version of Spitting Image, "Hurra Deutschland", which was very successful in Germany. The idea of doing this was intitiated by Alfred Biolek, an extraordinary and wellknown german talkmaster since the beginning of german talk-shows and tv-cook and the Brothers Andreas and Stefan Lichter. Three years later Stefan took the enterprise to run it on his own. When I came there, they were starting with a 3D-animated serial for TV-Loonland called "Dragons-Rock". For doing things like this, Lichter founded a second studio, which was in the same rooms as GUM, called Tevox. With tevox he already did different small projects for trade-exhibitions. Tevox developed techniques for virtual speakers by motion-tracking. Now they intended to use their experiences to produce a tv-show. When I was at the Trickompany in Hamburg working on Junior they offered their knowledge to produce the Junior-Shows. They made some proofs but didn't succeed. Finally the canadian studio Klik got the deal to do the animation.

So for Dragons Rock they got two directors: Greg Manwaring and Roy Wilson

I was there mainly for storyboarding. But I also did the prop-design and a bit of set-design that have then been modeled by most talented Christoph Gaudl

Here are some results of my work:















After one year of production they stopped it because they got into trouble with the producer TV-Loonland about the property-rights of the Show. TV-Loonland stopped the paiements and GUM locked the doors for insolvency.

The co-producer and german tv-broadcaster SuperRTL showed the first five or six episodes, then they cancelled it and replaced it by "Sponge Bob".