I finnished the first scene. Here is an example how I organized the renderpasses for composeting. I only used a beauty, occlusion pass, motion vectors and a lot of masks.
Archive for February, 2010
Busstop Scene 001_01
Monday, February 15th, 2010
Busstop first concept drawings
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Rababa character design
Friday, February 12th, 2010This is an old character design from 2007. I tired to creat a small girl who never takes her costume off.
Catwalk plane image drawings
Friday, February 12th, 2010Some people asked for more making of stuff. Here’re some examples how I drew and organized the characters, buildings and props.
Busstop character turntable
Friday, February 12th, 2010
George, character for an animated short.
Tools: Maya, Modo, Photoshop, Modbux
Busstop character WIP
Friday, February 12th, 2010These are wip images. It was my first character development in Maya.
Movies and Stills festival in Frankfurt Main
Friday, February 12th, 2010These are two of three images that made the 2th at the festival. Printed on A1 they did look very awesome 
Busstop environment WIP
Friday, February 12th, 2010My current project is very far right now. This is one old environment Wip I did. I tried to show my progress and how I developed the design.
Catwalk scene example
Friday, February 12th, 2010catwalk scene example from no name party on Vimeo.
Creator: Manuel Ritter
Some poeple asked me about the workflow. Here is an example.
Catwalk 3D Animation from 2007
Friday, February 12th, 2010‘Catwalk – Black Cat Crossing’ is a humorous animated short film that takes the viewer into a lovely and detailed designed comic city. There you’re going to witness a row of odd incidents that are obviously related to Matilda, a quite inconspicuous old lady.
Awards
Nominated at Bitfilm Festival Stuttgart / Hamburg
2nd at the Movies & Stills Award Frankfurt M. / Category Stills
1nd at the eClips Filmfestival Hannover / Kaiserslautern
2009 added to Vimeo HD Channel
2010.1 HD content Chip Magazine
animation // concept
Dennis Beckstein, Patrick Kayser, Marian Sander, Manuel Ritter
music
Benjamin Hühne, Michael Immer, Lars Ehrhardt
profs
Hanno Beathe, Markus Fischmann
University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hanover
Fachhochschule Hannover / Kommunikationsdesign / Multimedia