JOHANNES KOLLENDER . 3D MOTION GRAPHICS DESIGN

Forza Motorsport 6

Client: Turn 10 Studios/Microsoft Studios
Art Director: Rory Reich
Concept Art Director: Nic Johnson
Producer: Shay Goldenberg
Production Company: Joinery
Executive Producer: Gerard Cantor, Andreas Lampe
Director: weareflink@Joinery
Creative Lead: Niko Tziopanos
CG Lead: Daniel Balzer
Head of Production: Ross Girard
Production: Claudius Gebele, Torben Kliefoth
CG Artists: Lasse Clausen, Alex Heyer, Myrna Kinnman, Johannes Kollender, Florian Weyh
Compositing: Martin Hess, Myrna Kinnman, Mitra Navab-Pour, Johannes Kollender

Showreel 2014

Current reel of projects I worked on up until 2014.

The work displayed is used courtesy of Sehsucht GmbH, Frame.dk, Harvest Digital Agriculture GmbH, Mutabor Design GmbH, Optix Digital Pictures, Infected Postproduction GmbH and others.

Auto Bild

3D: Kay Tennemann
3D / Compositing: Johannes Kollender
Production: HUMMELWERK FILM Hamburg

Quant / Genesis Teaser

The nice folks at Havest Digital Agriculture invited me to help with the production of this super slick teaser for this NanaoFlowCell driven behemoth from the future, namely the Quant.
A car this powerful (whooping 653 PS) needed to be announced with some equally epic imagery, so me and the team pulled all stops and summoned all earthly and unearthly elements to grant a seasonable entrance.

Client: Feit Film / Quant
Post Production : HARVEST Hamburg
Head of Animation: Filip Lange
Creation / Design / Direction: Kay Tennemann
3D: Kay Tennemann, Peter Balicki, Johannes Kollender, Filip Lange
Compositing : Filip Lange, Peter Balicki, Rafael Ahamad
Additional 3D : Oliver Weingarten, Oliver Boateng
Additional Comp : Christopher Kollar
SFX: German Wahnsinn

Micha Moor / Phunk!

Did this little teaser for Micha Moor‘s single “Phunk!’ (Out on ScreamAndShout). All me except for the music.

Check out more of Micha here:

https://www.facebook.com/Micha.Moor.Official
http://www.twitter.com/michamoor
http://www.michamoor.de

VW / Shanghai 2013

Giant production for the Shanghai Autosalon 2013 Trade fair. The 3D animation was synced to a dance performance on the center stage of the Volkswagen booth.

Unfortunately no final video on this one, but you can find out more about the project here.

Client: Volkswagen AG
Agency: Vok Dams
Production: Markenfilm Crossing
Choreography: Wolf Productions

Volkswagen GTI / Dream

Apparat Hamburg joined forces with me to do the post work on this vfx intensive spot. The video originally served as a backwall projection on Volkswagen stand at the Autosalon 2012 trade fair in Geneva.

Clinet: Volkswagen AG
Producing:C.M. Gardeweg, C.Heinemann
Compositing / VFX : Apparat Hamburg
3D / Set Supervision: Apparat Hamburg / Johannes Kollender
Agency / Production: Markenfilm Crossing
Sound: Stylophon
Director: Lino Russell

FFHH 2011 Opener

The short (but fun) opener to the 2011 Filmfest in Hamburg. Screeching seagulls included.

Client: Filmfest Hamburg gGmbH
Agency/Production: nhb video GmbH
3D / Compositing: Apparat Hamburg / Johannes Kollender

BMW Vision ConnectedDrive

The 2011 BMW Geneva Motorshow Stand was all about their new ConnectedDrive technology. Mutabor Design was in charge of the whole presentation and asked me to be part of their animation team for the media wall.

As always with trade fair stands made by Mutabor the wall had a special catch: When opened the BMW Vision ConnectedDrive prototype was actually attached to the wall and would guide the viewer through the different aspects of the technology.

To get an impression of the wall in action visit the project page at Mutabor or check out the coplete version here.

Audi A1 Automobilsalon

On this project Mutabor invited me to help them animate the visuals that would serve as the backdrop of the Audi A1 booth at the 2010 Automobilsalon trade fair in Geneva. Three real models of the Audi A1 where placed within the gigantic highlight wall. The visuals would then optically extend the boxes containing the cars and give a false perspective of them floating in space.
I was responsible for 3D animation and rendering, whereas Mitra Navab-Pour and Mutabor’s Alexander Hanowski did the 2D Motion Design and Compositing. Additional renderings of the A1 have been done by Carl Dixon. The sound design was done by Bauhouse.

For even more info check Mutabor’s project page.

Mutabor Multichannel Film

I was asked by Mutabor Design GmbH to help them with the 3D execution of this lush self promotional film to go along with the relaunch of their homepage.

Apart from the intro, the objective was to create three distinct worlds that represent the spirit of the divisions white, black and the newly installed silver.

Be sure to check out more of their projects on their site.

Nissan / Soft City

To show off the superior safety standards of the Nissan Tilda Sehsucht asked me to help them on the challenging task to give the rough streets of Buenos Aires a soft padding.

The job involved a lot of 3D tracking, Cinema 4D Hair and a big bag of tricks from the compositing guys. From my part I was mainly concerned with the hairy wall and some of the wool roads.
Now wrap yourself in your favorite blanket and enjoy.

UniCredit

The good folks at Sehsucht hired me as part of of their team to produce this large scale commercial for the 2010 Champions League sponsor UniCredit.
Apart from animating the logo ending, I was largely involved with creating many of the 3D environments that would serve as a backdrop for the soccer players.

Nike iD

Nike iD was a fun little project that I worked on with the swell guys at Frame.dk. I’m responsible for the logo ending and some of the website animations, the rest is all Frame.

For more info visit the project page on their site or check out their tumblr blog for some inspirational goodness.

MTV Hits

The production this bumper for MTV Italy was my first encounter with the Danish Motion Graphics force Frame.dk.
I delivered the logo buildup, everything else is slick Danish craftsmanship.

Talent 09

I was asked by Frame.dk to produce this opener for a Danish TV show on-site at their Copenhagen office. Concept and Direction was done by Anders Schroder of Frame.dk.

Inlingua

Typographic war games at Optix Digital Pictures. You can find some additional info on the making of this in the Inlingua episode on mostyle.tv.

Producing – Steffi Beck, Tobias Ziegler
Grading – Anna Schornig
Kreation – Johannes Kollender, Vitor Hugo Aguiar, Carsten Böhnert, Kay Tennemann, Christian Iskandar, Christian Dorn
Agency – Kolle Rebbe Werbeagentur
Production – Optix kreation
Director – Andreas Pohl

VW Sunfuel

This neuronal network was developed for the Volkswagen Olympics 2008 in China. The whole spot can be seen at the Optix Digital project page.

Producing – Dorothee Wolter
Grading – Anna Schorning
Avid – Bo Ismono
Compositing / VFX – Marcel Lemme
Kreation – Andreas Pohl, Petra Delitsch, Johannes Kollender, Christian Iskandar, Vitor Hugo Aguiar
3D – Florian Weyh, Markus Geerts, Michael Gottschalk, Marc Goecke
Agency – Kolle Rebbe Werbeagentur
Production – OPTIX Digital Pictures GmbH
Director – Andreas Pohl

Opodo

Three fun and psychedelic commercials for the online travel portal Opodo.de. For further information visit the projects page at Optix.

Producing – Steffi Beck
Compositing / VFX – Michael Welz
Kreation – Andreas Pohl, Mitra Navab-Pour, Johannes Kollender, Carsten Böhnert, Birke Behr, Florian Weyh
Agency – Leagas Delaney Hamburg GmbH
Production – Optix kreation
Director – Andreas Pohl

Davidoff Neon

Kreation – Andreas Pohl, Johannes Kollender, Mitra Navab-Pour, Steffen Bärenfänger, Mik Rahner
Producing – Steffi Beck, Dorothee Wolter, Julian Büchner
Agency – Deepblue Networks GmbH
Production – OPTIX kreation
Director – Andreas Pohl

Osram / DOT-It’s

Producing – Julian Büchner
Grading – Andreas Piecha
Avid – Bo Ismono
Compositing – Daniel Brylka
Kreation – Andreas Pohl, Mitra Navab-Pour, Linus Brandes, Johannes Kollender, Petra Delitsch, Vitor Hugo Aguiar, Birke Behr, Mik Rahner, Christian Iskandar
3D – Markus Geerts, Michael Gottschalk
Agency – Springer & Jacoby
Production – Optix kreation
Director – Andreas Pohl

Showreel 2009

Includes work from Opix Digital Pictures and Sehsucht.