Manuel Macha | CG-Artist


	Please download my latest demo reel.
	27 Mb,DIVX


	27 Mb, H.264 Quicktime


	Streaming Reel


	CV/Shot-Breakdown
	422 kB, PDF



	Category: Company: Client:	TV-Commercial Fin Design&Effects Hyundai
	The new Hyundai Sonata is born.



	Category: Company: Client:	TV-Commercial Fiftyeight 3D LU
	Animation and Lighting



	Category:	Shortfilm
	The robot soldier of the future turns against it´s inventor.



	Category:	Shortfilm
	Stupid aliens in an even more stupid short-movie.



	Category:	Shortfilm
	This was my first 3d-animated short movie.



	Category:	Shortfilm
	A combination of 2D-animated characters and CG-backgrounds



	Category:	Music Video
	A music video, which I directed and edited some years ago.


	08/12/07
	I went back to Sydney to join Animal Logic as a Lighting-TD.


	20/03/07
	I switched over to a different department within my company. I'm now working as a Technical Director.


	01/03/07
	Finally a new demo reel.


	03/12/06
	An interview with me, published in this months 3D Creative Magazine.
	4.17 MB, PDF


	29/11/06
	Squash'N'Stretch with Utility Nodes & CG-Overdrive/Singapore.


	17/01/06
	Check this months "digital production" for my hard-surface modeling article.


	07/10/05
	I have a new job as a Character Animator at Lucasfilm Animation Singapore.


	10/07/05
	I updated the projects page with some tvc´s on which I worked at Fin Design: Hyundai, Mirinda, HCF and Visa.


	16/03/05
	I have a new job at "Fin Design & Effects" in Sydney / Australia.


	21/02/05
	For the latest issue of "digital production", I wrote an article on how to reduce render times by baking occlusion information into vertex colors and applying motion blur as a post-process.


	31/05/04
	You might want to grab a copy of this months "digital production" magazine, in order to read my article about polygon modeling tools for maya.


	02/05/04
	Demo reel and CV/Shot-breakdown updated.


	09/04/04
	I´m currently staying in Bangalore/India, where I am working as a Modeling-Supervisor for an italian Full CG-Movie.


	02/04 – 04/04
	I worked at Black Mountain as a modeler/texturer on “A Sound of Thunder” . It´s a sci-fi movie, produced by Warner Bros. to be released in 2005.


	15/02/03
	If you manage to grab a copy of the current issue of the "digital production" magazine, be sure to check out my article about "Multipass-Rendering with Maya and Mental Ray".


	18/12/03
	I´ve been working at FIFTYEIGHT 3D on the production of a commercial, called "Pepito \| Choco Pepites".


	22/10/03
	Dronez wins 3rd prize at "kurz & schön" festival.


	02/06/03
	Ratman won the third prize at the april/march CGTalk-challenge.


	05/20/03
	Dronez was amongst the five nominees for best student film at this year`s 3D Awards.


	20/05/03
	Alias \| wavefront has a customer-story about the making of "Dronez"


	20/05/03
	I also went to this year`s fmx conference in Stuttgart, where I won 4 prizes at the animago awards. Dronez: 1st prize, education / shortfilm / science-fiction. Bokksakk: 1st prize, education / supershort film & 2nd prize, education / still / virtual characters The Gift: 1st prize, education / compositing / special effects


	04/04/03
	Be sure to check out this "behind the scenes" interview with my teammates from Dronez on 3DFestival.com.

Marble Temple WIP
This is a model of the so-called "marble-temple" in Bangkok/Thailand. Initially, the model was created for an article about hard-surface modeling for the german dcc-magazine "digital prodruction". I finally found some time to model some fore- and background elements. I'm planning to refine the lighting a bit and then render a short sequence of this scene for my reel within the next weeks.

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Coming soon!
Well - propably not so soon. But at least, I finally managed to start working on a new short-movie during my spare time. Even though I'm trying to keep it simple with only a single character and one background, I still have a looong way to go. Here are some testrenders of the set. More to be revealed within the coming months...

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