Welcome to my Website

Here you find some of my personal works








» Update March 14th 2010: Cityscape Making Of / News

It`s been quite some time since my last entry.
A 6-page Making of Cityscape is featured in Issue 12 of 3D Artist magazine.

I am pretty busy these days; My concept "The Hangar" is planned to
be in progress as personal matte painting this year.
Just bought the new Canon 550D. What a great camera !
I`m going to experiment with it`s movie capabilities for sure and
maybe post something online.






» Update September 3rd 2009: Digital Painting Techniques / Prints available

I`m proud to be featured as Tutor Artist in the new Focal Press title:
Masters Collection: Volume 1 - Digital Painting techniques.

Additionally to that, various prints of my works are now available.
Click the respective images for more details!








» Update June 7th 2009

I`ve been very busy these months,
but finally updated the 2D section with paintings that were done in the past.
The 3D section is getting very dusty on the personal level,
but the About section now gives a glimpse on the professional CGI work
that I`m doing these days.
Additionally theres a little update in the WIP section.




» Update April 16th 2009: Expose 7 + 3D Total Excellence Award



My Cityscape painting has been awarded by
being published in this years collection of the best digital art in Expose 7
and the 3D Excellence Award by 3DTotal !

More updates coming soon ...




» Update December 31st 2008

I hope you all had great holidays and wish you a happy new year 2009.

A few weeks ago I finished the cityscape that you can see on the startpage,
now I`m looking forward to get into shader writing in 2009.




» Update October 7th 2008: Photography

I thought the photogallery needs an update and
added some new impressions that I just gathered.






» Update May 12th 2008: Expose 6

My painting "Renaissance" has been honored with the inclusion in Expose 6.




I`m still concentrating on compositing and scripting at the moment,
but new paintings are in progress.




» Update April 5th 2008: Vue Spotlight

One of the production jobs I worked on is featured in a Spotlight on the
website of e-onSoftware. Check it out.






» Update March 3rd 2008: MEL-Scripts in Downloads

Two of my MEL-Scripts have been added to the Download Section.
Feel free to give me some feedback.





» Update January 22th 2008: Happy New Year / Making of in Downloads

These days I'm very busy to get into compositing with Nuke.
Beside I'm still learning and experimenting in MEL and Python.
In the end of december I took some hours to paint a "Winter Wonderland" for the
Gnomon Contest.





» Update October 21th: Featured in 2DArtist Magazine ...what is going on?

I'm a little late on this now, but a more detailed description of
the Renaissance Project was featured in the August Issue of 2DArtist Magazine.
Click on the image for a link to the mag.





At the moment I'm concentrating more on CGI and am taking a deep
dive into MEL-scripting. I'm planning to offer some scripts for download
in the future.



» Update July 27th: 3D Total Excellence Award



I feel honored to say that my piece Renaissance was awarded
with excellence by 3DTotal.



» Update June 10th: NHM Matte Painting Challenge

Long time no update, because I was very occupied learning Maya.
I took part in the NHM CGTalk Matte Painting Challenge and posted my
Entry in the 2D Section. Did an Animation of the Scene aswell.



» Update January 30th: 3 new Panoramas

I went out to shoot some Fotos of Hamburg.
There are 3 new Panoramas that you can find in the Photos section.



» Update December 31th: 4 new additions

As promised heres a quick update: The last in 2006.
Added the Jungle sketch to the 2D section which I'm planning to turn into
a 3D Matte Painting. In the 3D section I posted an older render
that I found on my harddrive. I also found a panorama and another
photo in my archive that I decided to put up aswell.


I wish you all a happy new year !



» Update December 28th: New stuff coming soon

i'm through with the written exams ... will try to update
more frequently in the future. I reorganized the 2D section and kicked out some stuff.
Forgot to announce the "Ballon Canyon" Sketch.
More sketches to come



» Update August 23th: Chrysler rendering

I finished a rendering of a Chrysler 300c. It's uploaded to the 3D Section
A few photos were added aswell. Please write, if you have problems with the scrollarrows or when any alignment looks wrong.
I still need to debug, thanx !



» Update August 6th: New Matte Painting

I added my CGTalk Unofficial Matte Painting Atlantis Challenge Entry
to the 2D Gallery



» Update June 5th: Buggy scrolling, New Matte, Panorama Tutorial, Photos

There's still a big bug in the java script that controls the horizontal
scrolling of the panoramas. Please try to open it in Safari or IE,
if it doesn't work in firefox
I added my newest Matte Painting to the 2D Gallery
I finished a tutorial on how to create panoramas with Photoshop
Some photos were added, too



» Update May 7th: Everythings scrolling

I implemented imagebased scrolling that fits alot better into the site.
The panoramas I already uploaded, now are in a special environment.
You can scroll through them in almost fullscreen size.
I added some new panoramas to this area. enjoy