beyond vision

There is one project that I was working on, but never found the time to tell you about: beyond vision. It is the largest project that I have done so far and it required so much time that I didn’t have any time left to write about it. πŸ™‚ But in December it was finally […]

Step-by-Step Video of a Matte Painting by James McWilliams / Digital Animosity

A matte painting commonly refers to a painted or drawn piece of scenery used in movies or animations. They belong more or less to the standard repertoire of special effects. James McWilliams created an interesting short video which shows the progress of such a painting. In several steps he first paints the scenery of an […]

Legal and Free Southpark Videos for Streaming

Most of you probably already heard of this, but for those who didn’t: Southpark is now available as fully legal streaming videos. The archive on the Southpark website contains all existing episodes, except the most recently broadcasted. Each episode is interrupted by three short commercials. The commercials aren’t that annoying and not comparable in length […]

Experiences Shooting with a “Red One”

A new camera is causing quite a stir in the market for digital cinema cameras. The Red One is a digital video camera with a 4k resolution (~12 megapixels) and a 35mm sensor. These specs are good enough for use in cinematography. It gets much attention because it is impudently cheap for a movie camera. […]

Rain Effects with Plugins for After Effects and Automated Rotoscoping

Rain in movies is always a tricky thing. Natural rain is so subtle that it is hardly noticable in the picture. It is also usually not available on command and one has to worry about drowning the expensive equipment. Therefore, natural rain is usually substituted by large raining devices which create especially large streams of […]

Elementary Zombie Survival Strategies

In times of global terrorism you can easily overlook the real danger in the world which threatens us all: Zombies. The urgently needed information to this topic can be supplied by the important propaganda documentary β€œWhat To Do In A Zombie Attack (2006)”. It gives important instructions how a responsible citizen should behave in case […]

DivX Pro for free

DivX, a video codec, is usually available in a free basic version and a pro version for 19,99€. At the moment, the pro version is also available for free. The DivX website doesn’t tell for how long the offer will be available. It only says “for a limited time”. The catch is that one has […]

Space Night – Alpha Centauri

There once was a time when I would stay up deep into the night just to watch “Space Night”, a show featuring endless video footage of the earth recorded by astronauts during their flights. While this alone – despite being interesting – wouldn’t be enough to keep me up for so long regularly, there was […]

Dave: The Interactive Music Video Installation

Last semester, Erik and myself created an interactive music video installation called “Dave“. It was the – so far – most intense project I have done. Well, it was worth it. πŸ™‚ We created the first installation of this kind that I know of. The recipient, surrounded by displays, can alter the course of the […]

Experimental Documentary: “Stuttgart in Ton”

I uploaded a new video project: Stuttgart in Ton (length: 4min). Stuttgart in Ton is an audiovisual portrait of Stuttgart’s acoustics. Following the course of a day, the documentary shows the four themes traffic, work, recreation and night. Visual and auditive impressions get interwoven to become the rhythm of the city. It does not contain […]