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Yeah, blogging! Whoop! Whoop! I'm an animation student at Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst (CH) ...See what I'm doing...

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Some fire I made this weekend. Parents house luckily isn’t in flames, but my laptop lately seems to burn at the smallest tasks. Shouldn’t render so often.

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I made this film analyse a view weeks ago. The film will be screened at Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) and Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy. On Kilian Vilims blog you can already watch a teaser.

Blog of Kilian Vilim: https://kilian-vilim.jimdo.com/

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If they hear him, they would also see him immediately.

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I made this walk cycle without references, just on the basis of the last one. I’m not satisfied about it and will try to find references to get a more diva-like walk.

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I hope it’s getting easier at some point... I’ll do the same walk again over the weekend.

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Another one of these oraculous people... What do they want from me?

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Weird dude is walking on my screen... very weirdly.

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This is a sketch of a virtual popstar I designed for the innovation lab of a motion capturing pilot project with the ZHdK (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste). Our group of animators from Luzern work together with students from Film, Game Design and Contemporary Dance. We approach to define a world where each discipline can find a unique way to express themselfs with a project and probabely find intersting cross over possibilities. In the end there will be an exposition with all the different products.

My character is inspired by HATSUNE MIKU, a japanese virtual popstar that fills concert halls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhYaX01NOfA

In my idea she could be the NPC in an arcade hall game like DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION. It would give the Game Designers the possibility to develop cool new and suffisticated game mechanics with full body motion capture data. (The classic DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION game is limited on the buttons on the floor.)

The Contemporary Dancers can come up with a game player supporting choregraphy. A completely different approach to there normal dance studies, working hand in hand with the Game Designers.

For the film departement the theme of the asian pop business opens up a diversity of unprocessed themes. Is it normal to go to a concert with no real artist, but only a digital character? Can it be improfed as an artificial intelligence? Is it possible for an artificial intelligence to make art? Where are the limits? But also a topic is the asian pop business itself.  They singers and dancers stand under very hard contracts. For exemple they are not allow to go on dates, as this video shows: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35368705

I was also insoired by the fact that there is a world inside the game, where the game characters interact and an outside world where we, the players are. And probabely there would also be an interaction between this two worlds. In Japan many men don’t have time for a real girlfried, so they have already virtual girlfried. What if, the player falls in love with the NPC AI. The movie Wreck-It Ralph inspired me to think in this direction. Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87E6N7ToCxs

And here are more sketches of my process to find an outfit for my character. I call her Arcadia. I wanted to make a bit of a punk out of her just to imply, she could be rebelling against her determination, to be only an NPC in a video game. How long will it go until AI’s fight for there rights?

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Zur kalten Jahreszeit prallt die Sonne von Beton und Asphalt ab. Sie bringt Licht, jedoch keine Wärme. Als wäre sie aus dem Winterschlaf erwacht starrt sie aus müden Augen auf die Stadt herab. Sie blinzelt in Pfüzen, kriecht in Häuserritzen. Sie gähnt uns kurz ins Gesicht, bevor sie wieder schlafen geht. In der Nacht sehnen sich nach ihr die Menschenlichter.

Here is a little photo series I made recently. Wasn’t too sure, if it fits to my blog, but then I thought ‘so what’ and here is it anyway. The sun came out only once or twice this winter. I tried to catch the mood and added also some night shots.

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I started to write a short story and ended up drawing a picture of me trying to write a short story. Does anybody feel with me?

At least I could gain some experience with digital drawing, where I’m not very experienced.

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For those who enjoy random visuals, this is the most random in the whole internet. It's as random as seq5cQV3'WBQÖKBJ W41.

Music is from this dude: http://nickkdropkick.wixsite.com/wutzumteufel

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Look at my brand new digital business card. Contact me, if you need something like this too. I’ll make it with much pleasure!

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Say hello to Captain Artilleg! It’s been a while since you’ve heard from him. The sea was rough and stormy during the last months but over new year the wind died down and our captain had time for a photo shooting for us.

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After a short holiday break I’m back at school. I really enjoyed making this little animation. It was a very intuitive process: Once the ball had a direction to roll, I added the path elements until the ball finally found his way back to the start. The animation of the physcis still looks a bit sloppy sometimes. I’d love to work with real physics in the future to make some nice simulations.

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CGI started two days ago and that’s actually a pile of specially duplicated spoons I created in Maya. Looks like something... I think.

Oh, and there’s this very important banana project I’m working on. It’s very complicated, that’s why I won’t bore you with technical details about the very sensitive dimensions of a banana.

It’s a room and there are lights and and stuff and for some reason there is a hole in the ceiling. Why would anybody but do that? – I don’t know. But the next time I will model an Emmentaler cheese from the very beginning.

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LUZIFREL

Luzifrel ist das Kind des Engels Gabriel und des Dämons Luzifer, die sich in einem Internetforum kennengelernt haben. Die Digitalisierung hat nämlich auch vor Himmel und Hölle keinen Halt gemacht. Um den Frevel zu vertuschen, den die Geburt des Zwitterwesens darstellt, bringen sie das Baby zum Dalai Lama nach Dharamsala. Unter dem Dach der Welt wird Luzifrel von Tenzin Gyatso zum Buddhisten erzogen. Mit sechzehn sehnt sich der Teenager danach, die Welt zu bereisen und Abenteuer zu bestehen. Dies ist ihm allerdings untersagt, solange er noch nicht die Erleuchtung erreicht hat. Trotzdem schafft es Luzifrel regelmässig unbemerkt das Kloster zu verlassen, während der Meister auf Reisen ist, und auf dem Rücken seines grünen Flamingofreundes Grog zu den Krisenherden der Menschheit zu fliegen. Mit seiner mächtigen Magie glaubt er die Probleme der Menschheit lösen zu können: In Washington verwandelt er Donald Trump in einen Mexikaner; in Tokyo lässt er die Leute schrumpfen, um der Überbevölkerung entgegenzuwirken; im Mittelmeer erschafft er ein neues fruchtbares Land, welches von Flüchtlingen bevölkert werden kann. Doch seine Pläne scheitern und schlussendlich wünschen sich die Leute die alten Zustände zurück. Bevor der Dalai Lama von seinen Reisen zurückkommt, herrscht wieder der alte Zustand auf der Welt und alles ist, als wäre nichts gewesen. Nur Luzifrel ist jedes Mal um eine Erfahrung reicher und findet heraus, dass gut und schlecht sehr nah beieinander liegen. Am Ende der Serie steht das letzte Gericht. Die Welt geht unter, und Luzifrels Existenz wird vor Gott und dem Teufel enthüllt. Im Gespräch überzeugt er Gott, dass es zwischen Himmel und Hölle keinen Unterschied gibt.

LUZIFREL – Between Heaven and Hell ist eine Zeichentrick-Animationsserie mit 13 Episoden à 40 Minuten. Detailreiche, von Hand gezeichnete Hintergründe getaucht in starke, ungewöhnliche Kontraste lassen den Zuschauer in eine magische Welt versinken, obwohl in der Geschichte aktuelle Weltthemen im Fokus stehen und auf bekannte Schauplätze und Personen zurückgegriffen wird. Eine verwirrende Mischung aus Realitätstreue und ausgestellter Abstraktion soll entstehen. Der Zeichnungsstil ist eckig und besitzt einen asiatischen Touch. Dies verleiht Kampfund Actionszenen eine zusätzliche härte. Ausserdem werden dadurch die hauptsächlich westlichen Themen des Films kontrastiert. Genau wie Luzifrel selbst, soll sich der Film weigern in ein Genre bzw. Gender zu passen. Um diese Serie umzusetzen würde ich ein Animationsteam organisieren müssen, da das Projekt sehr umfangreich ist und hohe Ansprüche an Character Design und Landscaping stellt.

Just looked at an idea for an animation series I made up. What do you think about it? Do you have aditional ideas or open questions?

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Some impressions of the tiny three weeks Stop Motion Project we are doing right at the moment. I really enjoy working in the group with Igor Kuzic and Marie-Christine Kenov. They do amazing, precise and tastefull work.

I designed the Metal-Man and did on my own the final storybord you can quickliy see in the video hanging on the wall. But I also helped Igor with the really big setting and made a wood and wire skeleton for Marie. She was responsilbe for the Paper-Woman.

But enough, I have to run down to help animating! There are still so many undone scenes...