Our animation studio, Studio Lampion, has finally posted a teaser trailer for our short film “A Night at the Cathedral”. The complete film will soon be shown at film festivals.
Enjoy!
New version of Normality
I wasn’t intending to release another update of my Normality plug-ins for free… the software is being used intensely over at Studio Lampion, but we’re about 2 versions ahead of what’s publicly available.
The latest internal build includes cool features like subsurface scattering, image-based illumination, screenspace ambient occlusion and the toon-shading technology from Celulight.
Best of all, rotating and translating layers in 3D now results in accurate lighting, so it’s really possible to get away with much more in post than ever before.
But I’m rambling… our internal builds of Normality are unfortunately currently not available to the public for various reasons.
I have however fixed a number of bugs in the public version, in particular the one which broke pre-comping — if that kept you from implementing the software in your After Effects workflow, try the latest update to Normality.
Introducing Studio Lampion
At long last, I’ve found some time to post on my personal website again. Celulight and Floodgate have been finalized a long time ago, and so has a new version of Normality, with some amazing new features and much better integration of all its various effects.
I’ve also made a decision that will disappoint some readers and users of my software: The new versions of my After Effects plug-ins will not be released publicly. I have a variety of reasons for this decision; one being that my previous experiences with selling plug-ins for After Effects did not amount to anything that would have made the chores that go along with it worthwhile. At the same time, I put so much work and effort into the software that not using them would be not only a shame, but also foolish.
However, the main reason the plug-ins are not available to the public is that I spent the better part of this rainy summer preparing for the opening of our own animation shop, Studio Lampion. I believe that my software will benefit our work, pipeline and clients in more ways than one and giving this advantage out of our hands can’t be a clever move.
So there it is: I’m finally opening my own animation studio! Certainly a dream come true and something I’ve been thinking of for a very long time.
Studio Lampion is an animation studio in the heart of Berlin, Germany, founded by my good friend Matthias Koenig and myself. In the long term, we’ll be focusing our attention on non-photorealistic animation for film and TV, but for starters we’ll be bidding on anything we feel capable of producing. So if there’s anything you need done animation-wise… drop me a line!