early season's greetings
This was a fast project, it all started with the silly noise of that horn, and I developed the idea from that: a boring company tries to get into festive mood. I still hope somebody gets the hint and comissions me with some nice New Year's Greetings animation.
Boring Company's Season's Greetings from markus kempken on Vimeo.
"An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" by Terence Nance
Finally I can link to the feature film which I contributed some animation to earlier this year. I haven't seen anything besides this trailer and my own parts, but the film will premiere in the New Frontiers section of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, and I wish Terence all the best!
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty • Teaser from Terence Nance • Terence Etc. on Vimeo.
happy easter!
Can't show yet any of what I've been working on since December. In the meantime, I've sent Reginald on his well-earned holiday trip.
Click image for a short animation.
happy new year!
Click image for a short animation.
locomotive
My faithful PPC G5 Mac died. Fortunately I have a spare machine, but it took quite some time to set it up the way I'm used to. It's amazing how many drivers and settings you can forget.
I did this short animation after I set up TVPaint again. It's inspired by a scene from Yoji Kuri's "The Bathroom". The thick lines and bright colours should make it ideal content for small screens, like mobiles.
Click image for a short animation.
"2 Berge" now online
I just put my 2008 film 2 Berge on vimeo. The little TV symbol in the navigation bar at the right will tell you which of my films you can watch online. I plan to publish more of my old films as time allows.
schopeng
Back to my next project, a music clip with a sped up version of Chopin's Funeral March. The initial idea is quite old, but it wasn't until last year that all pieces fell in place. Besides, 2010 is Chopin's 200th birthday, so I need to finish this until summer.
The short animation shows the evolution of the character's movement and design and gives an impression of the direction I want to tweak the music.
Click image for a short animation.
music for easter film
Markus Wende (www.animationsfilm.de) just finished a very nice short easter greeting film, and he asked me to do music and sound FX for it. We had fun doing all the chicken voices. The banjo of course is not a real one. See the result here.
new film finished
I just uploaded my last job to youtube (english version). It's a 5'30" promotional film halfways between instruction and advertisement and was done in a very short production time all by myself: only 3 weeks from script to screen! The client is very happy with the result, as well as I am because I could work in one of my favourite styles, a reminiscence of the instructional films of the 50's.
