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Eric Giessmann

Animator & director for animated short films.

.BIOGRAPHY
  • Born in March 1987 Germany.
  • 2009: Internship @ Parasol Island GmbH,  film interactive and animation studio in Düsseldorf.
  • Membership @ Galerie-Werkstatt Bayer Dormagen e.V.
  • 2015: Bachelor of Design cum laude @ Art and Design College AKV/St. Joost, Breda.
  • 2017: Direction: SAND WANDERER @ seriousFilm
  • 2018: Lavamachine VR Collaboration

.MY SKILLS

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Autodesk Maya
85%
Adobe Photoshop/ Premiere Pro/ After Effects
95%
Blackmagic Fusion
85%
VR: AnimVr, Quill, Medium, Blocks
90%

 

  • Animieren ist wie tanzen nach einer bestimmten Melodie im Kopf.

    - Eric Giessmann -

 

 

Filmography

.FILMOGRAPHY

2007  

  • Veteran

2008

  • Wrong bet  – Director: Dasja Drugaleva, Eric Giessmann, Dries Van Lommel
  • Mr. Tophat  – 3D-animation: Eric Giessmann
  • Vitrine
  • DreamSynphony – Director: Eric Giessmann, Nina Gantz

2009

  • Menschenbeifall – The approval of others
  • Maart – Editor: Eric Giessmann
  • The Hutch

 

2014 

  • Negentropy & Progression

2015 

  • TYPEWRITERHEAD

2017

  • SAND WANDERER

 

.HIGHLIGHTS

  • Dream Symphony: Playgrounds Best Student Award 2009 – „For an outstanding visual archievement.“
  • 1. Place @ D’Art 2013
  • 1. Place @ D’Art „Tempus Stasis” 2015
  • Vimeo Staffpick TYPEWRITERHEAD 2014
  • WILDCARD ANIMATION 2014 Nederlands Film Fonds
  • 2. Place @ D’Art „Sand Wanderer” 2016

 

 

News

www.Lavamachine.com

26. September 2018

Our brand new https://www.lavamachine.com/ Website is online!

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SAND WANDERER – Making of

23. April 2017

All about my new animated short movie „Sand Wanderer“. Produced by seriousFilm. Supported by the Nederlands Filmfonds as part…

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D’Art 2016

22. Mai 2016

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WILDCARD animation 2015 Winner!

22. Januar 2016

Het jury rapport luidt: De maker weet met een eenvoudig vormgegeven karakter, met een typemachine als hoofd, een volkomen…

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TYPEWRITERHEAD

17. Januar 2016

My latest film TYPEWRITERHEAD demonstrates how I created a 3D computer-animated short film with the appearance of an entirely…

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Raumzeit Exhibition 2015

22. Mai 2015

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Contact

  mail {at} ericgiessmann.com