Thomas Grummt is going to Dreamworks!!!

Its incredibly awesome! Another AMer at Dreamworks!
Thomas Grummt will start working on his first project next week...
This is so inspiring and motivating... i wish him all the best... and im sure he will prove that AMers are the best Animators in the world :-)

Check out his Reel...


Thomas Grummt Animation Reel 2010 from Thomas Grummt on Vimeo.

Jeffs WETA-Blog

Jeffrey Engel... one of the coolest AMers ive ever met has started a new blog about his adventures in New Zealand...

 

Really worth reading... keeps you motivated if you dont know what you are working for :-)

David Martinez - Chronicles of an animator

This is one of the best Blogs i found on the net...
David is a fellow AM Alumni and posts so many great articles that it gets pretty hard to keep track of everything hes posting :-)

But there is a lot of amazing and inspirational Stuff on it!
Check it out here

Cheers
Luke

Goodbye Switzerland

Hey everyone... currently im working hard on my demoreel, and actually i wanted to book some flights for next summer to go to Siggraph etc.

But now... i have to change a lot...

I got hired by Pixomondo to do a 6-12 Month Traineeship as Animator and Generalist at their brand new studio in Toronto.

This is like Christmas and Birthday together... its such a big chance to get the foot in the door... im still a bit speechless because i totally didnt expect to get hired that soon after graduation.

So... wish me luck fellas! And i hope to see some of you soon :-)

Summer Program

Im thinking about doing a summer course in 2011...

This one sounds awesome:
http://www.gobelins.fr/~summerschool/en/

but this one too (and i could stay after the course to attend Siggraph):
http://www.vanarts.com/courses/character-animation-intensive

wich one would YOU choose?

The unseen sea

Seems like im a big fan of Simons work huh?
But what should i say... its just amazing what he did here

The unseen sea

Nothing more to say...

Simon Christen... one of the few swiss Pioneers...

Its just amazing to see what Simon is doing over there at Pixar.
Its even more amazing because its maybe 3 weeks ago since i was there... at Pixar, walking around with Simon, Thiago and Yann, driving with a scooter through the animation department and having such a BLAST that it almost seems surreal to me now.

And now there is this interview... amazing to know the person behind these lines and to know how passionate he is about this amazing art form/craft...

Go and read the interview

Thanks to you Simon and Jess (and of course cody and zoe) for being amazing hosts, and showing us your world...
it was amazingly inspiring! :-)