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June 2010

CG Overdrive

Talk time at CG Overdrive in Singapore on June 20, my topic is ‘Character Animation – From the 12 Principles to Advanced Concepts

May 2010

Festivals and Awards for ‘There’s Bliss in the Kiss’

I’m so excited, my animated short film 'There’s Bliss in the Kiss’ has been screened at many festivals around the world in the last few months and received a couple of awards already, among them a Gold Remi Award from the WorldFest Houston, an Award of Merit in Animation from the Accolade, a Certificate of Appreciation from the AniMazing Spotlight! and I have just received notice that it has won First Place at the Reno Film Festival in the One-Minute Movie category – bring out the champagne! *and many thanks to everyone who helped me realize it!

February 2010

Photography on the cover of Itch e.05

My ‘Floating Series’ has been selected for the cover of the online magazine Itch e.05.

October 2009

View Conference

I’ll be at View Conference in Italy giving a talk on character animation.

October 2009

SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 – Mascot Animation

My mascot animation ‘Do The Robot’ will be screened at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 Computer Animation Festival in Japan. You can see it here in a tiny version as the opening of the CAF trailer.

Or watch it full size on youtube.

September 2009

Workshop at ReAnimania – Cancelled

Unfortunately the workshop on 3D Character Animation at ReAnimania in Yerevan, Armenia had to be cancelled due to organisational problems. Wishing them a great festival.

June 2009

Annecy Animation Festival

I will be in Annecy! Finally again after a few years of abstinence…

May 2009

It’s time for fmx again – fmx/09

In addition to presenting my school and my student’s work, I was part of the panel I got a Job Abroad [elation]... Now What [panic]? which was put together and moderated so well by Jan Sjovall. Here are some of the slides and additional information Jan assembled, useful if you aspire to world travelling in animation.

And I had the honour to present a screening of the fantastic SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Computer Animation Festival Electronic Theatre program.

December 2008

Read my article about SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 on AWN / VFXWorld

The inaugural SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 in Singapore was great. Read interviews, reports and my take on it on AWN / VFXWorld

November 2008

Real Eyes on Stop Motion Puppet

As there has been a revived interested in the technique of combining stop motion puppets with live action eyes, I have decided to post a video of my process. The video shows the pipeline of creating a 3D character extension for stop motion puppets. I developed this work flow in 2002-03 for the graduating project "Puca" at the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.

At SIGGRAPH 2004, I presented the character extension process with film excerpts in the Sketches program, uploaded here.

October 2008

SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008 Computer Animation Festival

It will be a great show, I am working hard on it as Computer Animation Festival Producer. Check out the CAF trailer here.

May 2008

fmx

I will be at fmx in Stuttgart, Germany. Drop me an email if you’ll be there as well.

December 2007

Mel @ Byteme!

I was invited as guest speaker at Byteme! Digital Content Festival in Perth, giving a talk about my experiences working on Happy Feet and the BioShock TVC.

I met many great and inspiring artists down under, check out the amazing work by VJs and live cinema performers Solu and Jean Poole.

October 2007

Bioshock made it onto the Stash 37 DVD

There is even a making of included!

September 2007

The Bioshock TV commercial went on air

It was great fun animating with the guys and gals in New York.

July 2007

Moved to Singapore

I took on a job as Asst. Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media at NTU. I am teaching 3D Character Animation there.