Macro Design. Legwork Reel 2011. Cinemagia. Australi Image Like Minded Studio. Deutsche Fernsehlotterie Paper World « SEHSUCHT™ DeutschexFernsehlotteriexPaperxWorld Follow the paper plane into Sehsucht’s latest origami-style world of helping hands and improved communities. We produced the 30 sec. TVC “Paper” full CG for Deutsche Fernsehlotterie, a charitable lottery, and their agency Zum Goldenen Hirschen, all three companies from Hamburg/Germany. Director Hans-Christoph Schultheiss and his team walked the tightrope between reduction and complexity, aiming to create the characters as human as possible but with a realistically foldable look that carries the complex textures of paper.
Client: Deutsche Fernsehlotterie GmbH, Hamburg/GermanyHead of Marketing: Stefanie OhnemusMarketing Manager: Bastian Gruhne Agency: Zum Goldenen Hirschen, Hamburg/GermanyAccount: Ralf GessnerCD: Jutta MeinholdCopy: Eric RehdersAD: Anne HardersConsulting: Julia SoeffingHead of TV: Dietmar Zielke Music: Supreme Music, Hamburg/Germany (Florian Lakenmacher) Software3D: XSI, Rendering auf ArnoldCompositing: NukeOnline: Flint. Work « SEHSUCHT™ Melted Ego – Fragments of Paradise No finger exercise, but a megaton of work and computing time: In his second life as a robotics engineer our very own Mr Timo von Wittken - Sehsucht's lead 3D artist and thoroughbred headbanger - brought this steel monster of an independent music video to life.
Guided by the hard rock guitar riffs of his band 'Melted Ego' Timo (aka Optimo Prime) and an elite division of 24 senior CG masterminds from all over Germany assembled the 'Fragments of Paradise' to convey the songs disturbing vision of an uncertain future in a large-scale cgi video project. 270 shots, 14,000 hours of rendering time and one hell of iron will. The will that Timo always brings in at ease ... Creative Direction: Timo von Wittken Producing: Stephan Reinsch DOP: Neels Feil Light, Grip: Markenfilm Hamburg Camera Assistance: Phillip Schöttner Make-Up: Stephanie Kelting Concept Art: Timo von Wittken, Anja von Harsdorf Edit: Christoph Senn Sound Design: Jochen Mader (Audionerve) Software.