minning.de - Stefan Minning: CG Artist and Developer

Well, it’s been a long time with­out updates! But I wasn’t idle all this time; for one, it’s just another week until I’ll finally receive my diploma in Media Design. My desser­ta­tion on non­pho­to­re­al­is­tic ren­der­ing was handed in two weeks ago, which left me a lit­tle time to update Minning.de’s design and con­tent.
This is a rather large leap in terms of design and func­tion­al­ity and I hope that every­thing works fine now. Some areas are still a lit­tle rough, but that’ll be fixed soon… I just wanted to get the update out before any­thing gets in the way again.
The whole site is based on a highly cus­tomized ver­sion of Word­Press, unlike my pre­vi­ous site, which incor­po­rated Word­Press only in the Pro­duc­tion Log. I’m not some kind of XHTML/​CSS-​​zealot and, quite frankly, I couldn’t care less if my code val­i­dates or if every­thing is done the “right” way. For me all that counts is that it just works. So the site’s been tested up and down in var­i­ous browsers, but bear with me if I missed a bug or two along the way — should you encouter any­thing weird on your visit, please let me know!

As men­tioned above, my desser­ta­tion on non­pho­to­re­al­is­tic ren­der­ing is com­pleted. If all goes well I’ll post some sam­ples of what my ren­derer Panda is capa­ble of. Let me just say that Panda is suited for a vari­ety of dif­fer­ent styles and the result­ing look is very painterly.

So now that I’m more or less fin­ished with my stud­ies, I’m look­ing for a job in the CG indus­try. Con­tact me if you’re interested!