Claus Helfenschneider

Freelance 3D Artist
Direction, Design, Animation, Programming

Category: Animation

Repair / Updates

Date:
2010/09/06

Whow, quite some time of inactivity here… Yet, stuff has happened. Alexandra and me are blogging Berlin-Updates and -Experiences on blog.alexandrafried.com.

We just came back from the ARS Electronica Festival (Tagline “Repair”), which was great this year. Be shure to check it out if you can. It was great to see Dorian Concept and James Blake there, two guys whose music I really love (former I have worked with once, latter I have taken music from for another piece of animation). David O’Reilly is about to release his new short, The External World, which I am eagerly awaiting to watch. Mount Kimbie in Session at Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide show this week, also really enjoyed this one. Seen Nosaj Thing at the Icon Club a week before, was nice too. Musicwise, so to say, everything is fine, and I’m also looking forward to some big dates in Berlin, too.

PP-P4\~# @ ARS Electronica 2010

Date:
2010/07/20

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!

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Risks of Emerging Technology

Date:
2010/06/03

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

FMX 2010

Date:
2010/05/10

Just got back from the FMX 2010 and the ITFS in Stuttgart. Had a great time, great talks and masterclasses, nice parties, and met some colleagues from Berlin as well. Looking forward to FMX 2011.

Mesmerized by the Magnum Gold TV ad I was forced to try this magical brand new alchemy-type ice cream creation. It really tastes like gold.

ARS ELECTRONICA animation festival 2009 — Trailer

Date:
2009/08/01

In 2009 me and my colleague Alexander Piringer were asked to create a trailer for the Animation Festival accompanying the Ars Electronica Festival. The main topic was »Human Nature«, and the brief for the trailer basically was »come up with what you like« — how cool was that.

Prix Ars Electronica Animation Festival
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