Wolframs Speedpaintings

Pig papercraft

2010-04-12T09:03:00.012-01:00

Hello Folks,
couple of months ago I created a papercraft model, this little piggy!

Here at the Filmakademie we have this fancy new 3D printer, so I also printed it from my original 3D model. Have a look.

If you want this sweet always good-tempered piggy too, you can build it yourself! I offer it here at vondir.de or just write me a message and I send you the pdf (for a few $ or €) so you could print it out and start cutting and glueing :-)

12.Apr.2010

Schniebelschnee

2010-01-12T13:03:00.003-01:00

I just invented this word. It's when snow is falling in quite small flocks. You could say "Its schniebeling" :-)
It could also be a mix between snowing and raining.

Because Google does not return any results I want to post this beautiful word here and wait how long it takes google to find it.

Cheers Wolf

[edit] Almost immediately this article could be found in google. Maybe it's because blogspot.com belongs to google?

Demo Reel Online

2009-01-13T09:41:00.003-01:00

13.Jan.2009

Here's my brand new Demo Reel online :-)

Mobile Toy Test

2008-07-22T08:41:00.002-01:00

22.Jul.2008
Did a quick rig-test for Verena Fels' diploma project. A Toy-Mobile! Was really fun and I'm excited to animate a few shots for her when all rigs are ready.

Where the hell is Broccoli

2008-07-21T13:30:00.002-01:00

21.Jul.2008

Currently I'm animating for the Cartoon Forum Trailer, here at the Filmakademie. For an additional shot I animated this shot, a dancing broccoli monster.
As reference I watched "Where the hell is Matt" :-)

Storyboard-Practice

2008-07-08T12:24:00.003-01:00

08.Jul.2008
Please click on the picture to see the full resolution.
In the Animation Worshop (Florian Wagner) we had to do a storyboad for "A person reads a news paper, sees something and gets very angry about it".
I recycled my character from "Frog in the Throat".

Animation practice Wave-Boat-Sack-Hat

2008-07-08T12:19:00.002-01:00

08.Jul.2008
In an animation workshop we did the classical "Wave-Boat-Sack-Hat" practice. Here's my interpretation.
Done in TV-Paint

Drawn Animation Test - Cat Walk

2008-07-08T12:04:00.002-01:00

08.Jul.2008
Finally I did a short drawn animation. Done in TV Paint which proved to be a very good program for me.
On this walk cycle I tested how the bouncing ball principle works with walk cycle. I chose a quadrupled creature with three bouncing balls (Head, shoulders, hip) and the wave principle in the tail.

Aaand 3dtotal.com again

2008-05-27T12:57:00.003-01:00

27.May.2008
Yeah, our "FALLEN" is on www.3dtotal.com frontpage!
Till today I had a traffic of 3 TB on my website and FALLEN was downloaded some 30,000 times! Let's see how many visitors I'll get with the 3dtotal front page...

Frontpage II

2008-05-23T08:27:00.003-01:00

23.May.2008
Yeah, "FALLEN" on Frontpage CGTalk! Caused me 2,9 TB (!!) of traffic and ten thousands of downloads...
In case you haven't seen it... check it out on my website

Listed on Frontpage!

2008-04-16T11:02:00.002-01:00

16.April.2007
Woooow, I had 30GB Traffic in half a day... And did a little research till I found out that www.3dtotal.com listed my trailer "Frog in the Throat" on their Frontpage!
Im totally flashed and excited!

Speedpainting

2008-02-11T18:28:00.001-01:00

11.Feb.2008
Today I did a 30min speed painting.
Nice to paint again... :-)
The upper one is my painting, the lower one the photograph.

AnimationRound08

2008-01-21T10:52:00.000-01:00

20.Jan.2008

Again, Sunday's AnimationRound at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg.

"Jumping down from a box" was the topic.

Animated about 4 hours.

AnimationRound 07 - Jump

2008-01-13T23:35:00.000-01:00

13.Jan.2008
This Sunday we animated a character jumping from a diving board.
But see yourself.

Took about 5 hours.

Piano Improvisation

2008-01-08T22:42:00.000-01:00

Yesterday I improvised a little on my piano.
This piece I'll call Rhapsody because it hasn't got any structure... Just let my fingers play.
Here's the link to it:
Rhapsody
You're welcome to leave a comment :-)

AnimationRound06 - Sports

2007-11-25T16:57:00.000-01:00

This time we animated a tennis player.

Took about 4 hours.

High Resolution klick here.

AnimRound05 - Door

2007-11-18T21:05:00.000-01:00

This week's AnimationRound we opened doors.

about 3-4 hours, I didn't clean the curves or movements up, but you can see what I intended to animate :-)

Forgot the homework

2007-11-11T21:05:00.000-01:00

The homework for the animation round was "A guy throws a ball or sphere or whatever".

I wanted to try, how it looked if the guy throws the ball and the moment he lets the ball go, not the ball is thrown away but him!

Didn't work out that good, but funny anyways.

AnimationRound03 - sitting down

2007-11-11T19:12:00.000-01:00

Hi,
my newest short animation test, a guy sitting down and standing up again.

direct link
(800x600 Pixel for you pixel-lovers)

Or the embedded one here:

Took about 4 hours yesterday for animating plus one or two hours tweaking today.

AnimationRound!

2007-11-03T19:36:00.000-01:00

Sorry for not posting any new speedpaintings... But Haven't got time for it... Animation was more fun and here's my newest speed-animation piece... About 4 hours for the hammering guy.

Clich here for the HighQuality Version: high Quality

11 Second Club

2007-10-28T19:25:00.000-01:00

28.Okt.2007
finished my submission to the 11 Second Club (www.11secondclub.com).
I think I've learned a lot during the 8 days I've animated on it, and I surely will participate on the November's 11secondclub competition!

AnimationRound yesterday

2007-10-28T10:28:00.000-01:00

28.Okt.2007
Yesterday at the AnimationRound we animated a guy punching another. We animated 4 hours and that's what I achieved.

It's - an Orange!

2007-10-17T23:05:00.001-01:00

17.Okt.2007
today a quick 20min-Speedpainting from a picture I found on the AI-Server at the Filmakademie. Training for SubSurfaceScattering :-)

Woman Speed

2007-10-15T22:01:00.001-01:00

15.Okt.2007
Not really a speed painting, it took a bit more than an hour I think I tried to match the skin colors.

Color Test - CUBES

2007-10-15T21:49:00.001-01:00

15.Okt.07
I did this little color test to try out an easy way to pick the right colors for light and shadow. In Photoshop I picked a yellowish green from exactly the middle of the color choser (HSB-Color-Field), that would be my middle color of the foreground cube. Then I picked a color from above that, a saturated green for the light.
For the shadow side I picked a color down-and-left from the middle color.

The same for the background cube. Middle color something more desaturated, for the light side a color above that, for the dark side a color below the middle color.

The shadow is a darker color, below the middle and more to the grey-side.

Half-sunken House SpeedPaint

2007-10-15T21:46:00.000-01:00

15.Okt.2007
I'm back! In this 30min-Speedpaint we chose an easy motive and finally I've got the colors right again.

House Speedpainting

2007-10-15T21:40:00.000-01:00

24.09.07
This Speed Painting Round we painted a motive out of a Disney movie. My intern color detector is still a bit rusty, so I didn't match the colors very good.

Bridge Speedpainting

2007-09-12T14:07:00.000-01:00

12.Sept.2007
Well, it's been a while since I did a speedpainting and as you can see I didn't match the colours at all.

Boxer Speed Painting

2007-08-07T08:41:00.000-01:00

30.July.2007
Here's another one. A boxer. Again, 30min speed painting in our Monday's Sketch Round / Speed Painting Round.

Hot Babe Speedpainting

2007-08-07T08:38:00.000-01:00

14.May.2007
Sorry for posting it only now, but I've been quite busy with an 3D animated short film.
This picture was another 30min speedpainting, done with our Monday's speedpainting round at the Filmakademie.

By the way... This is my 50th Speed Painting!!

River Speedpainting

2007-05-09T06:11:00.000-01:00

07.Mai.2007
Another SpeedPainting in 30 minutes.
This time we've chosen an almost black and white picture. I wanted to be clever and thought I've had seen yellow in the picture... Turned out to be almost white-grey-yellow but I painted kind of sepia...

Bus Stop

2007-05-09T06:08:00.000-01:00

23.April.2007

This is an 30min speed painting we did in our last SpeedPaintingRound at the Filmakademie. I also tried to fit an egg into the scene within the 30 minutes for lighting exercise but time was up and I didn't get it very far.

Ohrwurm

2007-04-16T22:20:00.000-01:00

16.April.2007
My cute little brother asked me to paint a "Ohrwurm" for him (in English it would be a catchy tune, the German translation is Ear-Worm). So here you go, hope you like it, Roli :-)

Kitsch Landscape

2007-04-16T20:25:00.000-01:00

16.April.2007
This Monday's sketch round we painted a free painting. Subject was "Kitsch, morning mood, a landscape with a river and a bridge".

Sam Toft imitate

2007-04-15T22:02:00.000-01:00

06.April.2007
Recently I arranged my flat and bought a print collection of Sam Toft (an Artist who lives in Brighton with his rabbit Sweet Pea and his dog Moses .-) ). I liked the drawing style very much and tried it myself. Unfortunately it is more a copy of a motive (although I drew it from memory) than a copy of the certain style (what I actually intended to achieve), but I think I will get further with it.

Robot Moods VI

2007-04-15T21:26:00.000-01:00

Here is a painting of the end of the short. Both the hero and the antagonist are sitting besides each others and are unable to move. But they are blinking furiously at each other, until their energy decreases and the glowing gets darker and both shapes are black and identical.

Robot Moods V

2007-04-14T23:00:00.000-01:00

14.April.2007
Here's a morning Mood, the sun is about to rise, our Main Character is waiting to charge his batteries with his solar panels.

Robot Moods IV

2007-04-14T22:58:00.000-01:00

14.April.2007
This is the main character again, this time quite close to the (current) final design, Max Lang developed.
The world is deserted, with some metal junk and old mechanic pieces around.

Robot Moods III

2007-04-14T22:56:00.000-01:00

06.April.2007
Here the bad guy appears behind the main character.
This was a quick painting and I didn't bother integrating the bad guy in the picture. So the colours don't match very well.

Robot Moods II

2007-04-14T22:55:00.000-01:00

06.April.2007
In this picture I tried some designs on the main character (sitting on the stone) and a small windmill-character.

Robot Moods I

2007-04-14T22:53:00.000-01:00

For our next project at the Filmakademie I did several Mood Paintings. The Story is about Robots in a post-human world...

Sketch Round - Highlands

2007-04-14T22:51:00.000-01:00

02.April.2007
This weeks Sketch Round I painted this picture in 30 minutes.

Sketch Round

2007-03-26T20:50:00.000-01:00

In today's sketch round we all painted this kitsch. Except for the anatomy (gosh- I HAVE to practice more anatomy!!) I matched the photograph quite well. A bit too saturated, but at least constant all over the picture.

In the Woods

2007-03-26T20:46:00.000-01:00

22.03.2007
For this 30min Speedpainting I grabbed a frame out of "Lost". I'm quite satisfied with the colors and because there is no perspective and anatomy I matched the picture quite well :-) Ok, I left out the people...

Landscape, 30min

2007-03-22T09:38:00.000-01:00

21. March 2007
Because I noticed that I need much more practice on painting landscapes, I captured a frame out of "Bandidas" (with the so sweet Penelope Cruz). And this is what came out. 30 minutes.
Trees too green, Background not detailed enough.

Speedpainting 30min (IV)

2007-03-19T12:36:00.000-01:00

Finally a human eye. I think I've matched the colors quite good.

Speedpainting 30min (III)

2007-03-19T12:34:00.000-01:00

Kinda freeky looking cat, the eyes are too close. And some other stuff isn't right. But I'm satisfied with the nose and the eyes though :-)

Speedpainting 30min (II)

2007-03-19T12:33:00.000-01:00

The second one, a horse's eye. 30 minutes.

Speedpainting 30min (I)

2007-03-19T12:31:00.000-01:00

This week's speedpainting session: Eyes!
The first attempt, a frog's eye.

Landscape IV

2007-03-19T12:30:00.000-01:00

And another one. Kind of post-civilization city besides a river with lots of fog and mood.

Landscape III

2007-03-19T12:29:00.000-01:00

My new custom Brush "Rock-Brush" in action :-) This picture is best when watched from faaar away...

Landscape II

2007-03-19T12:19:00.000-01:00

Another try with custom brushes. Not finished, because I had a new idea and left this painting unfinished :-)

Landscape I

2007-03-19T12:13:00.000-01:00

I played around with creating custom brushes in Photoshop and this is what came out. Speedpainting, maybe an hour of time.

Chicken II

2007-03-12T08:53:00.000-01:00

11. March 2007
I did the chicken again, because I thought that 5 hours where definitely too long and I could do it much faster.
So I gave myself an hour and painted the chicken again. This is what came out. A speedpainting...

Chicken I

2007-03-12T08:44:00.000-01:00

10. March 2007
Finally I did another painting. This one took really long. The first one hour or so I needed for the sketching and getting the shapes and proportions right.
For the lighting reference I painted the mirror sphere, which made it easier to understand how the light hit the surface of the chicken.
The next 4 hours I did the coloring and fine tuning... Much too long...

Sketchround V

2007-01-20T12:42:00.000-01:00

15. Jan 2007
I finally made it to the sketch round again! This time I painted a skull from reference as usually in 30min.

Here you go:

What's that?

2007-01-20T12:39:00.000-01:00

23. Dez 2006
Another practice piece. I just started to test some brushes and added some colors - and this is what came out. Don't know what it is, maybe a gate to another world, but I like the colors...

Really fast landscape

2007-01-20T12:37:00.000-01:00

23. Dez 2006
Here I just tried to get the colors of a landscape with hazy atmosphere right. About 10min I guess.

In the woods

2007-01-20T12:23:00.000-01:00

23. Dez 2006
Here's a free painting. Time about 30min. As you can see, anatomy isn't my thing :-) and I didn't focus on that for this painting.

Sketchround IV

2007-01-20T12:19:00.000-01:00

12. Dez. 2006
This time we looked at a picture of a cat for about two minutes and then painted it from memory. This is what came out...

Pretty creepy.

Clients Work

2006-12-07T22:26:00.000-01:00

This is the first attempt for a fellow student's Project.
It hat to be fast so I admit I used the eyedroper and three reference photos. Shame on me... :-)

Clouds!

2006-12-05T19:52:00.000-01:00

Couldn't leave it and did another cloud speed painting.
This time I think I matched the colours better. But there must be a way to get daylight clouds right...

Kitten

2006-12-05T18:55:00.000-01:00

No more clouds today...
I gave a try on the kitten instead. This is where I got...

Oops, I did it again...

2006-12-04T08:48:00.000-01:00

Here's another try for clouds. Used 30 minutes. Still not that realistic.

A quick one...

2006-12-03T14:43:00.000-01:00

This one I did in 15 minutes.
Not enough contrast... I have done better before.

Free Speedpainting

2006-11-23T22:44:00.000-01:00

I tried to paint a motive without reference - but after one and a half hours I lost patience. Spent too much time on finding the motive and the shapes.
For now I'm quite satisfied with the light situation but couldn't add more details. I've got to get faster.

Sketch Round III

2006-11-20T23:29:00.000-01:00

This week's topic was painting an white egg either in an existing photograph or paint the motiv of the photo plus painting an egg in it. We practiced with that to recognize colours and use them to combine a photograph with and imaginative object.

I chose to use the 30 minutes we had to concentrate only on the egg and painted one in the photo.
That's how it looks like:

Nice Try, Noob...

2006-11-19T12:10:00.000-01:00

Goro told me to also post the speed paintings I did without a photo reference. Ok, here you go. I did this on 08.Nov.2006. As you can easily see I should continue to look at photos because I just totally forgot the right colours to use :-)

I will.

Bright

2006-11-19T00:00:00.000-01:00

Also found in Croatia this summer. Here I practiced the colours of bright day. Done on 18.Nov.2006
This one took me about 1,5h.

The green Door

2006-11-18T23:53:00.000-01:00

In September I've been in Croatia where I started to take pictures of green doors :-) This one (18.Nov.2006) I used as sample to practice shadow colours.

Autumn at Asperg

2006-11-18T23:47:00.000-01:00

This is the view out of my window. It's so beautyful in autumn. The painting (15.Nov.2006) took me around 45 minutes.

Sketch Round II

2006-11-18T23:45:00.000-01:00

Like every Monday we do 30min sketches at the filmakademie sketch round. This one was on 13.Nov.2006

Autumn

2006-11-18T23:42:00.000-01:00

Also on 08.Nov.2006 I did this fast one, I wanted to get the colours for hazy autumn atmosphere. As you can see, I missed the right colours completely, but it looks nice anyways.

It's snow!

2006-11-18T23:36:00.000-01:00

Also done on 08.Nov.2006

Translucency...

2006-11-18T23:32:00.000-01:00

With this one (08.Nov.2006) I tried to get the colors for subsurface scattering, when the sun shines through skin or other translucent objects. It's bright red :-)

Barn - sketch round

2006-11-18T22:21:00.000-01:00

This one I painted in Photoshop (06.Nov.2006) with the photo next to the painting, by not using the eye dropper :-)
This painting I did at the Sketch Round at the Filmakademie made me buy a Wacom Graphire4 (A5) immediately afterwards.