I am a Linz/Berlin based freelance 3D Artist.
I love animation and graphics. I love slick design. I love automating things and making operational sequences run fast and fluid.
I mostly work with Autodesk Maya, Eyeon Fusion, all kinds of Adobe software and pretty much every tool I need to get what I want. If tools or plugins required do not exist, I write them in an appropriate programming or scripting language.
I’m proud to announce that PP-P4#~\ made it into this years selection of the ARS Electronica Animation Festival. And, what I find cool too, is that when you search for “ARS electronica animation festival 2010″ on Google, the third entry is a link to my website (the ARS trailer 2009), and the fifth is a link to David O’Reillys site, who should have been the winner of the festival in 2008 (with Please Say Something), but did just get an honorary mention. What an underestimation of his work!
…suck, basicallly. But I didn’t take the time to take pictures and put them up, and I don’t really know what to take pictures of at the moment. I’m quite busy with gathering the load of impressions at the moment… From a nice party at berghain/panoramabar (even with passing by hundrets of people waiting to get in, because of being on the guestlist—my boss was djing there), going out to a hip gay bar in Kreuzberg (oh la la), to buying bikes in Moabit, shopping at the Alexanderplatz, watching Soccer and having a barbecue at a balcony in Neukölln, spending lunchtime and having lunch in Berlin Mitte, watching even more Soccer in the Kastanienallee/Schönhauser Allee at Prenzlauer Berg, buying an Emission Sticker for my car in Pankow, to having a great barbecue-party on the roof-terasse of our atelier/bureau with lots of people celebrating the successful finish of the previous projects, code-named Grid and Arabia, and meeting lots of nice people again and even more nice people for the first time, too. And thats the balance of 6 days in Berlin. Hope my english doesn’t suck too much, anyway. It’s great here, I like it.
My german telephone number is 0049 (0) 1578 / 4053085
[but don't delete the old one, it still remains active]
Ships Log, Stardate 20100630. I’ve moved to the big city! It’s hot, it’s active, it’s busy, it’s different — updates coming soon..
Just did a variation on the Kat Poster, changing the sign to Sit. It went to those very nice guys at a design atelier called »SIT Designbureau« in the center of Linz, where I was stationed for a few months in 2010. See more here.
Oh it’s just so nice here! But soon I’ll leave this beautiful place in favour of a big big town… I took this picture recently when walking my parent’s dog out. Note the cattle!
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Oh yes, the worldcup is so much fun! But instead of having just one favourite team, its even more fun to have a favourite team (or even a preferred result) for each and every game! So Alexandra and I decided to bet on each game. We set up a google spreadsheet (google docs are awesome anyway) and a simple rule: 1 Point for guessing right the winner or a draw, 3 Points for getting the result right. We just have to fill in our bets and a cool formula does the rest. Click the image for full-size view and formula.
To be honest, I am not a particular fan of politically or morally motivated films or documentaries. But this one, done by Alexander Piringer is really worth taking a look at. It conveyes a proper amount of information, stays quite objective (or maybe reflects my own opinion just right, hehe), includes a chronicle of sci-fi-classics (!!!), and is really nicely done, especially in consideration of the fact that it was a two man show (narrator: Remo Rauscher) without any budget at all. Fun to watch!
That’s truly a motto:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Science Fiction Movie
Risks of Emerging Technology – Part 1
Risks of Emerging Technology – Part 2 Science Fiction
Risks of Emerging Technology – Part 3 Robotics
Risks of Emerging Technology – Part 4 Genetics
Here’s a collection of websites I did between 2004 (my first personal website) and 2009. I don’t do websites anymore, and the reasons are clear: Neither am I a good web-designer, nor am I interested enough in web technologies. Nevertheless, the internet is a big, big, brain-like structure a big, big, forgetful cloud, and to avoid those websites to be completely lost in its vanishing memory, some screenshots of those websites shall be kept here.
Unfortunately, my next to last personal website disappeared somewhere in the ether… Hopefully I’m going to find it again some day.
Cleaning up some old stuff I came across something funny: Way back, when I was still in primary school, I created an 8-page How-To (I called it a »book«) on calligraphy, entitled »Die Schönste Handschrift« (»Most Beautiful Handwriting«).
Funnily enough, the front page was done on the computer, using these awkward squiggly fonts. The handwriting was done with a self-made bamboo-pen (and ink, of course). It deals with different types of fonts and font-stlyes, ornaments and decorations, a number of hints for a nicer writing and features two »Extras« on how to get a crisp line although the pen is blunt, and on bamboo-pen-drawing techniques. Take a look:
