Time is hunting me again. After some busy days, i finally got some spare time to continue with my short.

i started modelling out “Joe Average” - one of my two characters. Not final textured yet, but i just have to get the rig done first. As it´s my first time rigging a character, it´s little time consuming.

and some pictures from the rig and the user data controllers:

Hope to get Joe into motion as soon as possible. Exciting time …

We are online! After a little prep-time, we finally made it. Our companiebs motion Blog went online these days. We´re goin´to post latest productions and some behind the scenes material so stay tuned and check it out here.

“The Big Step”. I started working on an animated short movie about 2 weeks ago. The short will probably be named “The Big Step” in regard to the storyline, but it will be a Big Step for me aswell. I am working as a 2D/3D Motion Graphics Artist for quite a while now, but i ´ve never done such a big project in the past. I will have to learn a lot to get this short movie happen, but i will!

I´m sending in this short to the CGTalk.com Challenge “B-Movie”. As for that the story will be kinda b-movie-like aswell.

Average Joe sits on his sofa, watching TV. Breaking news on the screen about landing UFOs. One of this will land in his garden, and there the fight between the alien and Joe will start and probably even end.

I started out modelling Joe´s home from time to time in the last 14 days, here and there some hours. So here´s what i came up with so far:

Here´s a new project i realized with a Friend of mine.

We shot this spec infomercial for a course at the university he studies at.

Topic : Doping!

The story is about Friedrich Schiller, a well known german writer, who was used to sniff at rotten apples to increase his spirit while writing.

director: Markus Braun
DOP(camera +onset lightning)/ Cutter/ Grading: Alexander Lehnert

We shot it in about 5 hours, 5 more for Postproduction.

It was shot on a Canon 7D with Canon lenses: 50mm T1.4, 16-35 mm T2.8, with a little 800 W janiero lightcase

Ode an die Freude - Doping Schiller from Alexander Lehnert on Vimeo.

Today i started to clean up my HDDs, to get some extra space. A Little While ago i posted here about my first try to matchmove a shot to entry a contest.

Unfortunatly i ran out of time and did not get the time to finish/clean up the shot 100%.

Here´s what i came up with. Tracked in PfTrack, 3d Environment in Cinema 4D and Compositing done in Nuke.

final entry -ran out of time Green Soda Challenge from Alexander Lehnert on Vimeo.

Little work i did on a saturday morning to get some wishes to friends and blog readers!

All the best to you all !

Happy New Year (2010). from Alexander Lehnert on Vimeo.

I shot a little Dance Movie for a Friend of mine. He used it to document his gym course at the university. Further, it will (probably )be used in a national TV Show in Germany.

Shot on a Canon 7D with Canon lenses: 50mm T1.4, 24-35mm T2.8

Short 15 min test with the Mograph Tracer Object in Cinema 4D. Rendered with AO and GI at around 8 min per 720p frame on a 2.4 GHZ macbook pro

simple mograph Tracer test. from Alexander Lehnert on Vimeo.

So nach einiger Zeit des davor-drückens habe ich mich endlich anlässich eines wettbewerbs dazu entschlossen, mich in das thema 3d-tracking einzuarbeiten.

Nützlicher Weise steht mir durch Fxphd.com eine VPN-Version von PfTrack zur Verfügung …

Bei diesem Contest geht es darum, den Hintergrund zu ersetzen und im Vordergrund ein Element zu schaffen, auf das der Blick der Schauspielerin gerichtet ist … Im Laufe des Wettbewerbs werde ich hier dann weitere Eindrücke posten. Hier erstmal der 3d Track der Szene …

pftrack 3d tracking test from Alexander Lehnert on Vimeo.

sooo, nach einer etwas längeren Pause melde ich mich nun auch einmal zurück. Aufgrund einiger Prüfungen bezüglich meiner Ausbildung und etwas Termindruck bei der alltäglichen Arbeit, gab es hier schon lange keinen neuen Post mehr.

Anlässlich meiner Abschlussprüfung musste ich eine Reportage/MagazinBeitrag zum Thema “Stadtportrait - Saarbrücken einmal anders” realisieren.

Nach einiger Recherche stieß ich auf die Jungs des Teams Saar Traceurs, die sich dem Parkour verschrieben haben. Freundlicherweise haben diese Jungs sich auch bereit erklärt, sich 2 Tage von mir durch Saarbrücken jagen und quälen zu lassen ;) Vielen Dank an das ganze Team, vor allem aber an die 3 Akteure, Hans Christine, Alex Stojkov und Jo Denzer!

Facts:

Duration 4:40 min

Production Time: 18 h

Editing: 5h

Grading: 3h

Authoring: 1h

Shooting: 9 h

Disk Space: 65 GB

PARKOUR de KULTUR from Alexander Lehnert on Vimeo.