THE ANIMAL

alexander-pohl

alexander-pohl

Animation Director, 3D Artist

Born 1978 in Munich Alexander Pohl moved to Berlin in 2001 to study at the Filmacademy HFF Konrad Wolf in Potsdam. With his backround in handmade drawings and paintings he specialized in 3D computeranimation to achieve new image creation techniques. 2008 he graduated with his shortfilm Trickster which was part of over 50 festivals worldwide and won several awards. Since then he primarily has been worked in the filmindustry and on own projects which he has been realized in his co-founded Talking Animals Animationstudio.

FILMOGRAPHY
  • 1999
    Time

    Director,3D Animation,colour,5 min

  • 2002
    Errare Humanum Est

    Director,3D Animation,colour,5 min

  • 2008
    Trickster

    Director,3D Animation,colour,15 min

WORK SAMPLES

NIKE JUST BE

SHORT FILMCOMPUTER ANIMATION3D1 MIN© 2010 adNAU
Directed  by Tino Schaedler VFX by Alexander Pohl
The energy flow generated through yoga asanas becomes spatially & visually manifest in increasing scale, from molecular level blood cells to the distinctive surrounding architecture, in this Nike spec commercial.  
Director: Tino Schaedler
Live Action Director: Matthew Coleman
Production Designer: Tino Schaedler
Creative Consultant: Oliver Zeller
Music: Steven Chand

VFX Artist: Alexander Pohl
Modeling: Danilo Arsic
Camera: Mark Tew
Graphic Design: Ken Leung

TRICKSTER

SHORT FILMCOMPUTER ANIMATION3D15 MIN© 2008 HFF KONRAD WOLF
Realized by Alexander Pohl The Protagonist, the Auguste, projected onto a huge screen of a pitoresque cinema as a metaphor for the subconscious mind of the audience undergoes an existantial development dreaming of his counterpart the whiteface clown and finally finding his true identity the immortal archetype of the Trickster.
 
screenplay, design, modelling, rigging, texturing, animation, shading, rendering, VFX: Alexander Pohl
virtual acting/ voice: Florian Hertweck
producer Fabian: Pöhlmann
camera: Till Vielrose
editor: Florian Metzner
music composed and orchestrated by: Stefan Maria Schneider
conductor: Stefan Maria Schneider
music performed by: Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg
solo trumpet: Jan Sebastian Melzer
sound design: Tilman Hopf
sound re-recording mixer: Alexej Ashkenazy
foley artist: Günter Röhn
line producer: Holger Lochau
technical support: Dennis Rettkowski

QU´ EST-CE QUE MONSIEUR TESTE? extract

VIDEO INSTALLATIONCOMPUTER ANIMATION3D30 SEK© 2011
Written and directed  by Frank Gessner VFX realisation by Alexander Pohl
VFX sequence for the art videoinstalation QU´ EST-CE QUE MONSIEUR TESTE?  
Written and directed by: Prof. Frank Gessner
VFX realisation: Alexander Pohl
IMAGE GALLERY