As you noticed, I'm working on a full site update. New menu links, updates to the 3d work and game dev sections as well as some layout changes and minor additions.

Full news update as soon as everything is in place.

Like promised, here the update on what's happening. Friday was my last day at Sony Pictures Imageworks and that also marks the last weeks here in Los Angeles. It was quite a ride and I enjoyed to meet and work with so many talented and knowledgeable people. To bad they don't have an office in Europe.

We will be moving back home in the coming weeks to finally be closer to family and friends. I have to say it was a great experience to live in a different country for such a long time. It defiantly helped a great deal to understand the world as a whole and showed how very similar every single person is. It doesn't matter if they comes from Europe, Asia, America or any other place in the world, we all have the same hopes and fears.

On that subject, now that we will be going back... there is the question of what to do next. We will see, there are many paths to take, just not sure which one. But I will keep you posted on any developments. I will write a new update when we're situated back home.

First of, sorry for the massive lag of updates last year but the entire year went by just like that and honestly it wasn't very exciting. But there has been some major change in my personal plans which I will tell you more about in two weeks. But, just in case you haven't seen them yet, there are five G-Force images that where release in December.

You can check them out here:
http://sfluxe.com/2008/12/22/first-g-force-images-are-here/

Cute huh? I think kids will love it and I'm sure guinea pigs sales will go through the roof when the movie is release. And before I forget, this year better invest into guinea pigs. They are way more valuable then anything on the stock market right now and even in the case everything is going really ... really bad ... you can still eat them.

Happy New Year everyone!

Actually we have been back for a few weeks now but you know how it is and I'm already on a new project at Imageworks called G-Force. Some Disney family movie scheduled for release in 2009. It's about a specially trained squad of guinea pigs that take on an evil billionaire who wants to take over the world.

Sounds kinda silly doesn't it? But it's kinda cute, reminds me a lot of Disney's Chip N Dale. It's live-action so that's a nice change after all the full CG movies.

We just finished the last few shots this morning. Finally! I’m happy to be done, it was a monstrous amount of work and over all it turned out pretty good.
I hope you enjoy it when you see it on November 16^th.

Also the official website has been updated: http://www.beowulfmovie.com/

And now it’s time for a long vacation…

There is a new Beowulf TV spot available for download on the official movie site.
The site has also been updated with more stuff about the movie.

http://www.beowulfmovie.com/

This is more like a teaser, there is another trailer coming soon. Enjoy
Watch it here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/beowulf/

If you haven’t seen them yet: http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/
We just finished the first trailer and it should be out soon.

Just a quick clean up to the link section, removed dead links and added some new ones.

Finally Monster House was released to theater’s today, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did working on it.

Also there is a website with some Monster House concept designs you should check out: http://www.froghatstudios.com/mh/mh.html

After 10 months of hard work Monster House is done and the renderfarm, aka 'the cue', is still smoking. It was a fun show to work on, it's actually kind of sad that it came to an end. We had a great team of artists busting though all the shots in record time. As soon as the shots where ready for lighting they where lit and comped together faster then they could prepare new ones. What a ride!

Of course there also is a new trailer, if you haven't seen it yet, check it out at http://www.apple.com/ and make sure to mark July 21th in you calender to go see the movie in a theater near you!

But enough about Monster House, there is already new work lined up. On the next show, Beowulf another all CG feature film by Robert Zemeckis, I'll be leading one of the Lighting/Compositing TD Teams into battle. It's a big show and it will keep me busy until the end of 2007. There is lots of work to be done and I'm really excited to start on it.

Now it's time for some vacation, so stay tuned...

The Monster House trailer is online. We spend the last couple of weeks getting it ready and out the door, it is now online on http://www.apple.com/

Check it out here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/monster_house/

Time to give you an update on what’s going on in my world. Well what’s going on with Tenebrae2, pretty much the same, Charles and I are super busy with jobs and it may take a while until we have some more time to work on it again, but it’s not dead just on hold.

Beside that I also quit my job at Blur Studio three months ago and now work at Sony Pictures Imageworks as a Technical Director on Monster House doing lighting and compositing. It’s an all CG feature film produced by Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis and is scheduled to be release July 2006.

Also James Cameron’s Aliens of the Deep was release in IMAX theaters this August. I worked on the four final shots which show an underwater alien city on the moon europa. I did all the environment modeling, texturing, lighting and compositing as well as some particle effects, it was for sure one of the most enjoyable projects that I worked on last year.

So that’s it for now stay tuned.