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While many of the products we at denkwerk and our clients develop are not physical, there were still times when we created product renderings either as prototypes, illustrations, or full virtual photoshoots.
$ProductRendering
Games invite the user to engage deeper with the systems and mechanics of interaction. In the context of my work, games are often vertical slices that have laid the groundwork to be built on top of.
$Games
During the summer of 2024 I started to use cables.gl for the creation of my realtime VJ sets. I keep comming back to the tool, using it for various tasks and exploring new possibilities. Often the projects incorporate low poly assets modeled and animated in blender. Other projects include Blender Conference 2024, Modularfield 2025, denoised and Pygmy Tyrant.
cables.gl
This small animation was created for the motion meetup in Cologne, hosted by Axel Ketz and Tim Piotrowski. The motion meetup design, font, and colors were provided as an Illustrator file and After Effects project. I then used Blender to create the 3D parts with additional cloth simulation, also done in Blender. This was then brought back to After Effects for final tweaks and adding tracking markers.
Motion Meetup
Poisson Steve is a creation by Vigz with Music by Tomo. Their Video has blown up on Instagram with a very catchy song and super cute Illustration as well as Animation. Inspiring a huge crowd of creators online to put their own spin on the Steve the Fish in orange with arms as well as legs. And a song so catchy it won’t leave your brain.
Remaking Poisson Steve
During the summer of 2024, a friend suggested we each should enter a small work to the Design in Motion festival, also known as DEMO Festival. I wanted to add something that mostly focuses on metaball surfaces, with small details and refractive elements. The finished piece is a bunch of simulated spheres controlled by elements around them to reveal a few vague shapes in the center of the screen during the 10s of time. Part of the DEMO festival is a nationwide festival screening, utilizing digital out-of-home screens to convert public spaces into venues. As I was not able to attend this public festival screening in the Netherlands, I had some fun and recreated a screen from a photo I found. Now whenever I feel bored, I have a backlog of photos from the festival day to replicate and put my own work in. >
Design in Motion Festival
On the second night of Blender Conference 2024, I played a 2-hour set of modular madness with live-rendered visuals. I had so much fun that night and had so many good responses the following days.
Blender Conference 2024
With some free time in the end of 2023 I looked into creating full experiences with three.js and TypeScript. This was to learn how to handle import of multiple gltf assets, state management of multiple states in the game, mouse input, continuous level generation, setup of a clean seamless background with shadows, smooth transition between game states and user customizable game skins by dragging and dropping replacement textures.
three.js Racer
A simple Importer with multi file support to read routes in the GPS Exchange Format for Blender.
GPX Importer
This talk is available on Youtube The Quest for Round Cap Curves. Big thank you to the Blender Conference Team for giving me the opportunity to speak at the famous Amsterdam Conference.
BCON22 – Round Caps
Nodevember is a yearly community challenge, where the participants all work on the same prompts at once. The focus of this challenge revolves around procedural generation, which often is is done in a node based interface, hence the name “Nodevember”. For more info about the community check out the nodevember.io website. For a closer look at procedural generation techniques you can check out the article in my knowledge base.
Nodevember 2021
This is a series of so called tweets from the microblogging plattform twitter which I am archiving here to make sure they do not get lost in the enshittification of social media. These tweets appear in chronological order.
Learning Geometry Nodes
From time to time I take small pieces from my Sketchbook and bring them to life. Sometimes as full 3D renderings, other times as animated version of like here. This rat scribble was a lot of fun, the animation is focusing to be very economic, so it’s just little to no redrawn frames, and a lot of wiggle effects.
Sketchbook Rat
I spent some time in April building a mesh and surface generator for spaceships. The abstract baseshapes are combined with predefined symmetries, but can also show asymmetrical features. A greeble shader displaces the surfaces and helps define the scale of the spaceships.
Spaceship Generator
This is a series of daily illustrations for the community event 36daysoftype. Each illustration is designed as a Eurorack module.
36 Days of Type
This is the brainchild of some friendly people at the Blender Conference 2019 and was then hosted by Jonas Dichelle and Luca Rood on nodevember.io. Every illustration is based around a single shader, built inside the Blender Nodesystem.
Nodevember 2019
This talk is available on Youtube Metaballism 2: Going deeper with Metaballs and Shaders.
BCON19 – Metaballism II
This talk is available on YouTube Make it Move – Illustration with Animation in Mind.
BCON18 – Make it Move
During the 2013 installment of 36daysoftype, I did dive into creating randomized but pleasing illustrations via automated processes. Little did I know that this kind of procedural generation would not only be used in my private projects but would also become more and more important at work.
36daysoftype2018
Sculptjanuary
This talk is available on YouTube: Metaballism: Metaballs as Swiss Army Knife. Big thank you to the Blender Conference Team for giving me the opportunity to speak at the famous Amsterdam Conference.
BCON17 – Metaballism
This has been an incredibly fun project for All About Space Magazine. Art Direction by the fantastic Jonathan Wells. Thank you for the opportunity, Jonathan.
Darkmatter
This is a series of daily illustrations for the community event 36daysoftype. Each illustration was done within my available free time after work, sleep, and bachelor studies.
36daysoftype2017
This is collection of gifs and images I uploaded to the micro blogging service tumblr in 2017. Some things are inspired by other creators, others ideas are taken from university projects. All done in Blender showcasing how I use the software for different art styles and levels of realism.
Tumblr / GIFs
While I overall enjoyed my Studies in Cologne, I was not the best in keeping or even archiving all the practial work or the papers we had to write. Something I now dearly regrett as I often would love to skimm through a chronological order of works and classes. So this is less of a Portfolio entry and more a way for me to archive some of the things I did back then.
Studies 2016
This is a series of daily illustrations for the community event 36daysoftype. Each illustration was done within my available free time after work, sleep, and bachelor studies.
36 Days of Type
Art Director Jan Lankisch and frontman Bid approached me in again in 2015 to help them create the Visuals for the latest The Monochrome Set release. This time Bending metallic rings in a shape of Bids portrait. It was a vial aspect to weld the bust onto a plane, to make the portrait pop more out of the circles. The bust is a mix of a photogrammetry scan of myself, sculpting Bids head and face form onto it.
Spaces Everywhere
Tiny Illustration series that was once planed to be printed on 100x100cm acrylics.
Neon
Tentacle
vimeo.com Self initated demoreel based on projects I completed between January and April in 2013. Featuring 3D illustration, simulation, animation, texturing, rendering and editing.
Demoreel 2013
In 2013 I was still studying electrical engineering. I still set out to follow some of the most creative people I found online and create an Everyday project. Planning, creating, rendering, and publishing an image made with the 3D software Blender and other tools. This project allowed me to enter a professional creative career.
Daily Blender Render
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