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1LIVE - Dein Leben Lang

2010-07-16T19:13:28Z

In January the BTF Team produced a two minutes commercial for 1LIVE - the largest german youth radio station

1LIVE - Dein Leben Lang from bildundtonfabrik on Vimeo.

This film was the fastest project we ever worked on. From beginning to public release we only had two weeks. We shot on the RED One and did the editing with Final Cut Pro. Typography and animation was added with After Effect and 3d Studio Max.

The spot on the 1LIVE Website.

Björk »Wanderlust« in 3D

2009-03-17T18:37:26Z

Björk's music video of her single »Wanderlust« was produced stereoscopic and can be watched only in the internet.

This is already some time ago, but I decided to post this here anyway. Since we are planning to do some of our future project stereoscopic, we studied a lot about stereoscopic imagery and motion picture during the last few month.

You can watch the video here.

To watch the video you need to have a pair of red/cyan (blue) glasses, otherwise the two embedded images will not separate properly. You can get those glasses on ebay.

The Making of »Wanderlust«

Cheonan Architecture Visualization

2009-01-15T00:01:16Z

With Lichtkunstlicht we worked on an animated visualization of a complex, two layered media facade of a new Galleria store in Cheonan, South Korea.

Daniel, David, Julian and me met at our new production studio in Cologne. We had to complete the project within six days, so we had to start immediately. Fortunately Julian already worked on the 3d model of the building so we didn't lose too much time during our main production phase.

The idea was to previsualize a facade concept of the light design agency Licht Kunst Licht. The architects from UNStudio designed a facade consisting of two layers. Each layer has its own structural bearing so that the facade seems to be transforming while the spectator changes his perspective. LichtKunstLicht's concept was to seamlessly integrate an invisible media facade between the two layers. LEDs, placed on the inner side of the outer facade layer, projected their light onto the milky inner layer. Over the main entrances of the building a high resolution facade is also seamlessly composed into the architecture. There is also a smooth transition between the high resolution and the low resolution parts of the facade.

It was very important for the design concept that the integration of the facade would serve the art of the architecture rather than operating as a screen for information or advertisement.

CHEONAN production team

The final visualization:

Music Video »Wolke - Kleine Lichter«

2008-10-04T16:10:02Z

Together with Dino Korati and Reto Gnad I created this low budget video clip for the Cologne based band Wolke.

Making the Video:

The title of the song means small lights so we came to the idea to work with video projections of the two singers on walls around the city. Starting with miniature projections we wanted to let them grow during the video until they fill entire buildings.
We shot the projection video for our location shoot in the KHM studio. The two singers Oliver and Benedikt performed in white suits in front of black, so our projection will not have borders where the projection ends.
We shot two days at night in Düsseldorf and we were equipped with a 220V generator, a video projector, a macbook to play back our videos and DV Camcorder. Several location later we had a lot of footage of our band performing across walls, pipes, etc. .
The postproduction of this videos was actually very easy because we only had to edit it. People keep asking me about the amount of work, because it looks like a lot of tracking and compositing work. It's actually all captured directly with the camcorder, except the last three shots, where the singers perform on large buildings.

The Foundation Showreel 2008

2008-09-21T01:42:13Z

This showreel represents our visual effects and animation work of the past 3 years. It includes 3d work from David and animation and compositing work from Daniel and me.

In April I edited this showreel with nearly all the projects we finished during the past years. From short school projects to recent compositing jobs. It mainly contains non commercial work we did, but work with our most creative output.
I especially thank Jan for his crazy intro sound mix for my title displace animation. Excluded of this showreel are short films and recent projects we are working on right now. I hope to soon find the time to update this showreel because there are several visually interesting projects nearly finished.