Maya toon car driving test

just a cartoon shader test of a rigged car (craft 4wheeler ), created with Maya and rendered with mental ray outlines. Just a test, nothing special. www.animationandmore.com

Crazy train ride - Maya railway rigging test

created a very rough and sketchy train rig with Maya. This is just a test and the train behaviour is far from realistic. Also the scaling isnt correct and the speed of the train isnt correct either, especially in curves. But then it was just for fun and a test. Nothing else. its more of a rollercoaster ride to be honest. :D 3d models like the bullet train ICE and the bridges are from Google warehouse / Google Earth. ______ Bridges and Tunnel models: 1. Firth of Forth Bridge 2. some custom Brid...

Bus articulation system commercial

A commercial about the articulation system within a bendy bus, created 2010. Production company: Fiction films Gmbh www.fiction-films.com An x-ray look was chosen to reveal the inner workings of the articulation system. Producer: Fiction Films Gmbh Director: Christopher Schlierf Animation: Thomas Lauterjung, Andrej Eder Compositing: Marco Mayer , Thomas Lauterjung Rigging, 3d modelling: Thomas Lauterjung

Bendy Bus rigging demo 2011

This is a rig of a bendy bus created for a commercial done at www.fiction-films.com Did the CAD cleaning , modelling and the rigging as well as the final compositing. Not a perfect rig, but it did its job :) www.animationandmore.com

Thames barrier 3d model

Thames barrier 3d model 2009. Created for a Siemens ad.

WIP Maya snail rig - test animation

Created this Maya snail rig. This is just a test animation, nothing final. Just checking whether the blendshapes etc works correctly. Will use this character in my next animated short.

Walk and idle cycle animation

Maya rigging demo 2008 of a cartoon bird rig

My Maya rigging demonstration / showreel of a Maya cartoon bird rig with foldable feathers, FK / IK switch and face control GUI. created at University of Kent 2008 for the animated short "Ruffles".www.animationandmore.com

Mime exercise / sneezing character / University ...

A mime exercise of a character sneezing and cleaning his nose.

Swearing Philip Seymour Hoffman lip sync animation

Swearing Philip Seymour Hoffman lip sync animation from Charlie Wilson's war.