Where the nasty things happen
In one of my recent posts, I mentioned a scene from The Wendigo Effect, a sci-fi-horror movie I am working on, which needed a creepy look. As it was very […]
Category Archives: Echoes
Back to the Scribble Board with the Backgrounds
As I was not pleased with the results of the second round of 3 D tests, I had to find another way of creating my backgrounds. Simply sticking some painted […]
A 3D Disaster
As I was very happy with the outcome of the 3D test cubes, I went on and tested my painted textures inside a 3D corridor I had modelled for another […]
Why Akira won´t cut it
From the very beginning, Echoes was planned having moving backgrounds. As the the usual parallax-trick with moving flat planes (like seen in the intro of the kult movie Akira) was […]
The Birth of Echoes
Very soon after I had decided to run a concept test for my full lenght feature, I knew that I wanted a story that takes place on a desolated frontier […]
A Peek into my Sketchbook – The Colours of Echoes
As I was quite happy with my first texture tests for Echoes, I went on to the next step – creating sample textures. As mentioned in an earlier post, I […]
Echoes – Rusty Watercolours
At an very early stage of the conception of Echoes I knew, that I wanted the backgrounds to looks like painted pictures. So indeed, all backgrounds were planned to be […]
Echoes – The Look of the Animated Character
As mentioned in one of my earlier posts, one of the core ideas of Echoes, my animated science fiction short film, was “teaching” my computer to draw the way I […]
Echoes – An Animated Science Fiction Short Film
In January 2010 I finished my script for The Wendigo Effect, my full length science fiction horror movie. I realized that it would be very difficult for an unknown filmmaker […]
Echoes – Storyboard Part I
In Summer 2011, I shot the life action part of my animated science fiction short film, Echoes. I storyboarded the whole shoot beforehand in the studio I had back then. […]
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