THE ANIMAL

samuel-weikopf

samuel-weikopf

Director, Animator, Screenwriter

After finishing DISBELIEF WILL SAVE YOUR SOUL and thus graduating from HFF Potsdam Samuel Weikopf co-founded TALKING ANIMALS. Since then he has been working mostly as a commercial Screenwriter/Director and Producer for Short Films of the „Infotainment“ variety commissioned by FRAUNHOFER INSTITUT and DEUTSCHE TELEKOM and as a Designer/Animator for many other projects like PETER FOX: SCHWARZ ZU BLAU, ALIAS YEDERBECK and the DELTA RADIO Broadcasting Network. The Release of his first Live Action Film ROLF ERDOLCHEN is scheduled for 2012.

FILMOGRAPHY
  • 2002
    Rocky Raccoon

    Puppet Animation

  • 2008
    DISBELIEF WILL SAVE YOUR SOUL

    3D Computer Animation, Found Footage, Live Action

  • 2008
    Smarter than the Worm, commercial

    drwan animation

  • 2008
    Better than Frankenstein, commercial

    drawn animation

  • 2008
    Willie's World, commercial

    drawn animation

  • 2009 - 2012
    Looking Behind the scenes of Telekom Laboratories, commercial

    2D animated Series, Infotainment

  • 2012
    Rolf erdolchen

    Live Action, to be released

WORK SAMPLES

DISBELIEF WILL SAVE YOUR SOUL

SHORT FILM3D COMPUTER ANIMATION, FOUND FOOTAGE, LIVE ACTION11:30 MIN© 2008 HFF KONRAD WOLF
Directed  and animated by SAMUEL WEIKOPF
 The old one awakens alone in the dark and confounds the TV set for his long awaited children...  

T-Labs Trailer

SHORT FILM2D DRAWN ANIMATION2:05 MIN© 2012 Deutsche Telekom & Talking Animals
This is a trailer for the animated infotainment series LOOKING BEHIND THE SCENES OF DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES.

Written, directed and designed by Samuel Weikopf    
  • Animation by Annette Jung, Gregor Dashuber, Maxim Vassiliev, Frank Gerdes, Thorsten Egckert, Franck Pimenta, Martial Harrivel, Pauline Kortmann, Tomer Eshed, Samuel Weikopf
  • Compositing by Jan Koester & René Lange
  • Backgrounds by Jan Koester & Juanita Kellner
  • Voice Acting by Jesse Inman, Shawn Lawton, Danny Klein, Pete Littlewood, Kathleen Clancy
  • Sounddesign and Recording by Michał Krajczok
  • Music by Marian Mentrup
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