macht alle mit beim gruppenfoto!

wenn jeder sein jahrbuchfoto hochlädt haben wir ein schönes participants gruppenfoto.

reeel

my showreel of the passed schoolyear is online. i mixed evrything up, the battleblog, my internship and my exam. looking back i produced quite a lot in one year i think, hadn't felt so until i stuffed all the files into a single project and watched them again. you can see it either here or on my fancy website.
the song is "banquet" by bloc party. nice one.

website!

i made a first version of my portfolio-website. i still needs some fine tuning and more content, but i am pretty satisfied with how it's going to be. check it out:
janreineke.com

done! nearly...

the red riding hood animation is nearly ready. i have rendered a preview and now i am looking for errors to be fixed, and work on the sound. i'll talk with some teachers about it and then upload it. beneath you find another short preview, that doesn't spoil the plot.
i am also busy with my website by now. i'll keep it simple and flashy.

'codename red' preview

so, here is another preview, what the atmosphere and style will be like. this is pretty much what it's going to be in the final version. actualy, i was done with this scene a little earlier already, but i don't want to spoil something of the story, it should be a little surprising.
by the way, i programmed flash to rewind the movie once it's played. sounds easy, but try it yourself and you'll see that there is NO such action as "playRewind();".

looking forward

working on red riding hood again. i am really satisfied with what's it's going to look like, especially the visual style and movement. i am going to render an excerpt tonight to show you what the movements looks like.
i am making progress fast by now, only timing is a little problematic, as my computer takes AGES to ram-preview even short scenes. when i am done with the scenes on their own i could better render them on multiple computers in the AKI, and edit the quicktimes together to a movie i guess.

finally final

this time i mean it. i dont't think i'll chnage anything else, as i just don't have time for it. busy with red riding hood again from now on.

Hans Head-In-Air from Jan Reineke on Vimeo.

last changes. i swear.

ok, so on tuesday i had a chat with Jelliche about the animation. she thought it may be not "deep" enough, and then we came to the great idea, that i could illustrate what the boy thinks. like that he gets a lot more understandable and likeable. he should think about flying of course, as he looks to the sky all the time.
i know i am running out of time, but it's not that much to change, and the animation get's a lot better by this.

hans_final online

it's done. the render REALLY took about 27 hours. i thought my computer was just joking...
however, this is the final version of the "hans guck-in-die-luft" animtion. sound also made especially for it, by Jacob van de Water. unfortunately, the compression makes it look a bit strange.

you got to be kidding...

i don't know what went wrong. ok, i activated motion blur for some layers but 19 hours? c'mon!
i guess i have to stop the render and change some preferences. i fiddled around there to prevent that "image buffer" error that haunts me all the time.

hans improvement

i added some details to the hans animation. like the one beneath for example, which is gonna work as the background for the titles at the end. also added some motion blur here and there, and tried some other effects. a new, full render with new sound is coming up soon.
additionally i am working on red riding hood, but i don't want to spoil anything, there is going to be a surprise.

yearbook stuff

i just delivered my stuff for the yearbook.
it's excerpts of my exam-project and a photo of mine. we were supposed, to make averange webcam-photos. i would have liked to make another, a bit more special photo, but i did not have the time. this one's fine aswell i guess...

the horror

working on some creepy horror-effects for the animation mentioned in the last posts. they shall serve as a sort of title sequence or introduction later. making progress.

again

ok. i rendered it again with some more trees and depth of field and stuff, so it should have taken even longer than before, but it hasn't. i found out it was "shadow diffusion" in the light settings that made rendering so hard.
however, nearly the same but even nicer:

sneaky peaky

i just couldn't keep my hands off one of the best known fairytales in the world (probably). you should be able to guess from the little preview here what it's going to be.
rendering took about 2 hours - for 16 seconds of animation goddammit. probably because of lights, camera and stuff.

Hans Guck-In-Die-Luft (ver 1.1)

ok, the first render of the complete animation was done after only 8 hours and 49 minutes. i have already corrected some errors, but some details are still missing. new sound is in the making aswell. you're welcome to leave a comment about what you think of it.

rendering...

i am done with most of the animation and now rendering it in one piece for the first time. last time it took several hours, and now it's a lot longer so my computer will be busy all night i guess.
i'll probably have to fix some errors and stuff when it's done, and i will add some more details here and there, so i'll have to render some parts again afterwards. anyways, tomorow you can already see the render of tonight, a sort of preview though.
additionally, new sound will be added, but that is something for later aswell.

consider it done...

i've been making great steps this week, working on the animation i am busy with since a while. i think it'll be finished by the end of this week. just a little more patience.

a day in the life of hans.

going on like before. atm i am busy with building his little hometown. it's not that far done, that i would already want to show you, so here's something else i did yesterday.

hartstikke bezig

working on the animation - no time for vacation! (nealry ;)
at least, i am making progress. i think it's not going to take THAT long till i'm done. just a little more patience...

london

after a really weird week, i spent the day uploading photos i took in london into the "London Gallery".
<-- this one is my favorite. a squirrel hiding a nut in hyde park (and i know where muhaha!).

hans guck-in-die-luft INTRO

this is the beginning of the animation i am busy with at the moment. i still requires some fine-tuning and, of course, sound. i'll go on when we're back from london.

this project eats me up

what was i thinking? these illustrator graphics take SO long to make, and i planned a lot more. i have to keep going. stay tuned...

still busy busy

...with the animation. well, im no that busy with animating actually, more with illustrating. i still have to produce a lot of graphics. guess the project becomes larger than expected again.
at the moment i am building a top view of hans' home. beneath you see him lying in bed, and an internal view again on mouse-over.

in the middle of something

at the moment i am working on a modern version of "hans guck-in-die-luft" (hans look-in-the-air?), for my final exam. it's gonna be all technical and analytic and stuff. i used illustrator to make the images and animated them. there still is a lot of work to do, and i am really busy right now.
here's a small preview, some kind of dress-up game i guess. have fun.

annie leibovitz in berlin

in berlin, nils and i visited the exhibition "a photogrpher's life" from annie leibovitz. the exhibition was highly recommended, and she is often called one of the best photographers of our time. after seeing her work, i considered her THE photographer of our time. maybe a bit exaggarating, but i think she is at least in the sector portait/people.
the exhibition itself was located in a beautiful old post office, a nice place, espacially for displaying art.
annie leibovitz' pictures, reached from panoramic landscapes to close ups, but most of them were portraits. many works were exposed she had produced in the 30 or more years she worked for different magazines, like the rolling stone, vogue or vanity fair. for them she had the chance to photograph many famous people all over the world and make a name. what i like about her portraits is, that they are simple, but powerful. she often uses simple, personal surroundings, and natural light. she doesn't use the studio so often, or stages her pictures, she says it would feel wrong, or fake then. using so simple means, she still manages to capture the character of the person she photographs, or pic out a special side or aspect of him or her.
she also exposed many personal pictures of family and friends, that are even more moving on an emotional level. for example she photographed a series of her dying companion in life, susan sontag. the pictures are really touching, and of great emotional power.
this is the only picture i took inside, photographing was not allowed (and i photographed anyways, shame on me).
when nils and i left the building, we were pretty surprised. the street in front of us was full of people (this time it was not the line for the exhibition, we had waited 45min in, earlier). it was a big political demonstartion of "die linke" (socialistic party in germany), with some extreme liberalists inbetween, against capitalism and for communism. i don't like communism, if we had planed economy, i would be rid of job ;)
anyways, still induced by the exhibition, i took the chance to take some documentary pictures.

berlin cross media

berlin was great. it was my first trip there, and i love it. i could write a lot about all the things i saw there in the past three days, but it's late now and i'm tired, so here's the short version.
except from the typical tourist attractions, like the reichstag, brandenburger tor, siegessäule and so on, we visited some interesting museums and exhibitions. it was the perfect tour for a cross media design student.
first, we were at the overwhealming photography exhibition of Annie Leibovitz. she's one of the most famous photographers of our time, and her work is really creative and emotional. i recommend the exhibition or her books to everyone.
then we were in the "haus der kulturen der welt" (house of world's cultures), in an exhibition about graphic design, and characters in media and advertisement. very interesting and funny, and also interactive sometimes. there were for example autoscooters with funny designs, like fluffy animals and stuff, that nils and i actually drove.
we also saw "deutschland 09", a compilation of 13 short movies by famous german directors, about the actual situation in germany. the project was initiated by tom tykwer, and the movies were really inspiring. many different opinions and styles.
so, summing up we covered graphic design, photography and moving picture, cross media design thouh. i'm going to upload some more pictures and write about some more things, like street art in berlin, or it's people, next week. now i'll catch up some sleep.

berlin, berlin

today, nils and i planned our trip to berlin, that we are going to go on tomorrow. we will stay there for three nights. we already have tickets, that can only be used until the end of this month, so it's about time. we are going to visit different museums, and the city itself. of course, we are going to work for our final exams there too. nils is going to film things and i want to photograph graffitis to animate.
i am very curious already, because it's gonna be my first trip to berlin, so that is about time aswell.
that also means, there probably won't be any new posts till sunday. sorry.

the junkie is done

today, i modified the OLD "blitzbattleplayer" i had created, to fit the NEW "junkie-battle", i was busy for the last few days. the player is dynamic and loads automatically the movies that it's fed, so if every battleblogger uploads his in time you won't see anymore black gaps with names on, on the screen.
i changed the design a little and had to edit the script. check it out on the BATTLEBLOG.

don't metion the background...

... it's just illustrative. this movie is going to be embedded into another movie, in which all the clips from all the battlebloggers will be collected. the background will change then.
anyways, this movie is what i worked on so long for the past few days. it's for the "junkie-battle" i metioned in some earlier posts. it features real stop motion, what i had to build that robot for before, and all that took a while.
oh, and - BE WARNED, LARGE FILE - requires fast internet or a little patience

finish the animation already!

i'll make it short, i've been working on the same animation as the last few days. from the picture you might be able to guess what it's gonna be like.
i transformed my flat-share livingroom into green-screen stop-motion animation studio, but again, i misjudged how much work stop motion animations are. it's not like i'm doing his for the first time, but you start animating at about noon, and the next time you check your watch eight hours have passed. now it's nearly midnight and still i'm not done yet.
tomorrow there's gonna be results. have a good night.

hand work

today i was working fo the BATTLEBLOG again, same assignment as yesterday. still i will not show results until i'm finished, but from the picture you can already guess that it is a hand-made animation. i just wanted to make something by hand again, stop motion though.
i am not sure yet, how the result is going to look like exactly, but working on it is fun already.
tomorrow it's animation time!

junkie battle

today i did something for the BATTLEBLOG. we are having a "junkie battle" at the moment, in which every battleblogger makes a short animation for the same song from the Junkie XL workshop. it's a workshop about generating music and sounds that finds place at the aki since a week or something.
i am afraid that i am not authorized to show some results by now, because we are going to publish our work for by end of this week simultaneously, and i cannot let valuable information and ideas fall into the hands of the competing battlebloggers. sorry.
what i can state by now, is that i use stop-motion, and that it's gonna be a whole lot of work, and it's going to be totally awesome... i guess.

ruhrkultur

this weekend i visited my family in bochum. my grandmother celebrated her 92 birthday. she isn't that healthy anymore, but for her age she's doing good i think!
also i spent some time with my parents, and we visited "Henrichshütte", an industrial memorial. basically it's a over 60 years old balst furnace, with some explanations and a small museum. it's a typical example for the "industriekultur" (industrial-culture or whatever) in the area i grew up.
in the museum was a small exhibition about Leonardo Da Vinci, with replics of machines he invented, that you could actually operate. that was really interesting, as i am sort of an enthusiast for him.
i took the picture above at the museums premises. i like it somehow, i think it looks strange, with the reflections, and because the place is so unfamiliar...

read and write, read and write.

i am still busy with my scriptie, so i can't post that much new stuff. i have to say, that i am making progress with writing, and want to present a pre-version (still very raw) to Karin (the teacher who guides me with writing my essay) next week.
by the way, i upgraded my favorite BATTLEBLOG animation lately. i added some higher resoluted textures and changed timing a bit. in case you might wanna look at it again, click either the image or here.

scriptieing

i am busy with writing my scriptie (dutch for essay) at the moment (well, not on a typewriter, the photo is just illustrative). i want to finish it first of all and as soon as possible, for being able to fully concentrate on my final exam.
i am writing about James Nachtwey, a famous war photographer. i admire his courage to have risked his life several times, trying to better the world a little. additionally his photos have a strong atmosphere to them, and he manages to combine asthetics with the terrible substances he photographes, to bring over his message. i will focus on analysing how he achieves that in my essay.

battleblogging

yesterday and today i was busy for the battleblog again. we have had our first "blitzbattle", for which everyone makes a short animation about the same topic in only two days. the topic was generated randomly by wikipedia, this time it was "Derek de Solla Price".
i have also made the player, that loads the movies dynamicly, so that we can just exchange them every time we have a blitzbattle.
so, check out the BATTLEBLOG!

hangman 2.0

it's hangman time again, basically the same like last time, but now with level 3. it has a new animtion aswell, so take a look!
i'm gonna continue with making hangman-riddles when i'm done with my scriptie (essay) about james nachtway, what i have started with this week.
so, be patient!

hangman BETA

i have programmed a flashgame! everyone knows how it's played i think. it's just some sort of beta or test, with only one level/word, and an easy one too. i'm gonna see how i can improve it, got to learn some actionscript 3.0 or xml when there's time.
maybe i can connect it to a dictionary or something to get new words each time you play, but i will have to do it when i am not busy with my final exam anymore.


have fun, and watch the other ending (lose!) if you bet the game on first try!

new battlereaction

a screenshot from my latest BATTLEBLOG-reaction. for seeing more than just a picture, you will have to click here.