Hi Friends!

I’m going freelance!

The last year has been really exciting for me. I’ve met new friends and had the opportunity to work with a lot of talented people. During the summer of 2009, I decided to leave my job and apply to the Motion Graphics Design program at Hyper Island. This took me on an interesting journey - and now, one year later, I’ve been living, learning and working in Sweden, Germany and the United States. Phew, what a ride!

Friday was my last day working at Digital Kitchen in New York City. Recently I’ve been thinking things through, and have decided to go freelance. I will relocate back to Scandinavia AND start freelancing beginning October 1st.
 

Available for work - remote or on location

Please contact me for availability, day-rates, if you want to collaborate, or have an exciting project for me to work on! I hope to hear from you soon!


Portfolio: steffenk.net
Showreel: showreel.steffenk.net

Inspiration: “Wine after Coffee” Vimeo Channel

JR Canest’s vimeo channel ”Wine after Coffee” has nearly 100 super inspiring videos now. I am co-moderating the channel and so far I’ve been sharing far to little. This collection of super inspiring works is growing fast so be sure to check it out! 

www.vimeo.com/channels/wineandcoffee

Motion Test 100426

I did this is a motion test last week. I wanted to check out some options when rendering a depth map and motion vectors from C4D.

It’s based on the same technique from the Quants video with lines and a centered sphere done in collaboration with Anton Boman: vimeo.com/8150830

After posting it, I got some questions about how to do the connected lines around the main object, so I thought I should share the technique here on the blog. It’s done with Cinema4D’s MoGraph module and is not too complicated to set up. Without going too technical, the basic idea is to use a Tracer Object to connect cloned elements. If you are familiar with Cinema4D this will make sense to you hopefully. Check out the screenshot below. The objects to generate the lines are highlighted..

Also, check out the comments about motion-blur issues and improvements on it at vimeo.com/11330269 

Hamburg!

Im back from a quick trip to Hamburg to visit the studio We Are Flink. I met with the executive producer and creative director and found it really interesting hearing about their approach and seeing their work. More info later on my hunt for internship..