I updated the Gallery with a flyer I designed for my house-warming party.

My aim was to get all the party details implemented in a way where information and graphics are not seperated from each other. I also looked for a way to illustrate the relocation topic.

Make sure to check out the large version as well.

What a busy November / December.
It happend quite alot. I moved to a new apartment in Berlin. I now have more space for more creativity and a much better transport connection for my clients. I am still working on getting an internet and telephone line, this should be settled soon. Under "Contact" you can get my new address and my present phone number now.

Yesterday I came back from my holidays in Hong Kong. I had a real good time visiting my friend Roman there.

The Gallery will also be updated later this week.

I feel very refreshed and full of ideas for 2009.
If we don´t see or hear each other this year, I wish you a "Merry Christmas" and a "Happy New Year".

Finally I found some time to publish a short progress video regarding the Realflow script. I added some features & improved the algorithm.

Features: Visualization of the curved Maya path in Realflow (red line). Particles are behaving freely after reaching the end of path. Particles can collide with obstacles and return to path. Spread is controllable. Simulation time is reduced.

Next step will be refactoring the code and implement a GUI. I keep you posted.

With a lot of inspiration I am back from the "Hofer Filmtage". The film festival was held in a small bavarian city called Hof. From Friday to Sunday I was joining the film team which worked on the movie Glioblastom.
In the VFX shot I created, a goldfish had to die. I also did some image processing on the footage.

After Miss Bildung, this is my second movie on which I am working together with Tanja Bubbel and Axel Ranisch. Both are studying at the HFF Potsdam.

First picture is from the film itself and the second shows Tanja and Axel, lovely picture. :)

I am taking "class": Object-Oriented-Programming (OOP) with C++
My friend Mathias Mielitz, game programmer at Radon Labs, is giving me an inside in the world of headers, classes, pointers and the thinking behind OOP. I am working with Visual Studio Express
on that.

I hope to reprogram my brain from procedural thinking into thinking in classes. My goal is to start programming plug-ins for Maya soon.

This weekend I was developing the old way a python script for Realflow (RF). I managed to move particles along a path inside RF. The path itself can be created in Maya. I am still improving the algorithm.