To help myself for future Projects, I developed a neat Gizmo for Foundry’s Nuke. Js Load Render Passes is a Gizmo for Foundry’s Nuke. It is basically a Sequence Loader using Python to load separately rendered AOVs at ease. There are no extra external Scripts needed, as it solely relies on the the files you rendered and the code integrated within the gizmo. Only select the Beauty Rendering and it will set up the rest for you.

Please see more details, how to use it and why this is the best of two worlds all at once.
You can also download the ‘Gizgroup’ if you want to try it for yourself.
I’d be glad for feedback of whatever kind, but be nice.
Cheers. JS

Hello. I was working on a little side project actually just to have some fun with friends on new years eve. But as I was able to use a lot of free open source stuff while doing it, I’d also like to give back a bit.

Nothing big, just an interactive vintage Bingo Board Display. If this sounds somehow interesting to you, feel free to follow the LINK and download it. It’s completely free to download and use. Have fun.

What you see here is an excerpt of some my works. For a more complete list, please see the vita page.

A project i spent most of my time 2022 can be seen below. It is called the Amazing Maurice and entered the cinemas in february 2023.

I had a blast working on it. I started out as Storyboarder and then seamlessly switched to Animation. In the end I could also do quite some compositing on it. I’m really grateful for this opportunity and to have been working with such a great team.

I finally found the time to cut a little Reel with some of the shots I have been working on. See the Video below. I added a frame to it and on the bottom of the frame you’ll see in which pipeline step I’ve been working. It was a fun movie to work on and i hope you can see that in the pictures as well.

And again, Thanks to Studio Rakete for considering me.

The music I used is by Soundstream. Go buy his music! It is very good!

If you like to see some more, you should of course buy the movie on Blue Ray, or look out if there are some screenings around your area. But you can also have a look at the official trailer above.

Have Fun!

And if you want some more, well, here is a nice little Making of, where the amazing cast talks about our little movie.

It was really an honor to animate to this well known voices. It really is a pleasure to see how it all comes together now and have the characters shape somehow a real persona.

Btw. Toby and Flo (Director and Co Director) ended up giving their voices to the two ugly rat-catchers. This part got us a bit confused from time to time. :-D

Together with the lovely Studio Rakete I had the opportunity to do some compositing on this colorful and funny kids movie. (Alongside i was layout artist, animation supervisor and animator as well.)

Here are some stills taken out of the sequences as examples of compositing. This was before the final grading though.

All shots are fully stereoscopic compositings. So there were basically no 2D masks or 2D touch ups used nor possible.

We used cryptos as well as 3D point clouds and normals to tweak the sequences. The normals didn’t work too well on the characters with fur though, so relighting had it’s limits. The comps were done in Nuke.

On the left you see a pre-comp of what the lighting department delivered. On the right you see what was approved after I comped it. You can move the wipe to see the improvements … (hopefully):