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Welcome to my portfolio!
My name is Manuel Weiss and I'm studying interactive media at the University of applied sciences in Augsburg, Germany.
On this page I'd like to present some of my most recent work.
Currently my main focus lies on 3d graphics and I'm working with a friend and colleague on a 3d short. You can see the main character in the '3D' category. He's a fat programmer, trying to pick up a pencil which has fallen to the ground without getting out of his chair because he is so lazy :)
I've been working with computers for several years now and my first steps in the 3d world were made in 3ds Max. After a while I switched to Maya and stayed there. Currently I'm expanding my knowledge about rigging and rendering techniques.
Of course I'm familiar with programs like Photoshop, Illustrator and the likes as well and I have basic programming skills.
I really like to draw what's in my head and in some cases I really love seeing my ideas in 3d as they come alive.
Woman
A quick sketch of a more mature woman.
Female soldier
Sketch of a female soldier. I just wanted to draw a girl with a hat and thats the result.
Mascot
Additional sketches for my mascot.
Mascot + Misc
Some of the early sketches for my mascot and some random policemen designs.
Nameless girl
Just a quick sketch of a girl.
Samurai and geisha
Sketches i made for a future CG project about a samurai, his entourage and his beloved geisha.
Pyramid Head
A sketch of the character 'Pyramid Head' from the game 'Silent Hill'. Done with a brush-pen.
Warrior
Quick sketch of an asian warrior. Colored with Copic markers, lined with Copic Multiliner.
Monsters pt2
A second page full of quickly-drawn monsters.
Monsters pt1
A page full of monsters which i have drawn quickly in one line with a copic liner.
Nameless girl
A quick sketch of a girls head. I'm still not satisfied with the upper body and her mouth.
Assassins Creed fanart
A sketch i made after the game 'Assassins Creed' was announced.
Knight
A quick sketch of a knight. A very experienced knight.
Boy with lollipop
A third sketch for the 'Sketch of the week' competition at cgsociety.com.
The librarian
Another sketch for the 'Sketch of the week' competition at cgsociety.com.
Rascals
Sketch for the 'Sketch of the week' competition at cgsociety.com.
Barbarian
A barbarian. Inspired by the artstyle of the game 'Odin Sphere'.
ZIPunZIP magazine
Homework for multimedia class. We had to design and layout a brochure.
Wanted Website
A quick website with some information about me i did last year.
Internet Design IAM3 website
Homework for 'Internet-Design' class. The homework consisted of modifying images and css of an existing site
XIOScreen website
A website for the XIOScreen which we were supposed to design as a homework.
d'Artiste Cover
A cover i had to do for school. Painted using fonts as brushes in Photoshop.
SNK Arcadecabinet
Made in Illustrator and Photoshop. A graphical representation of the classic SNK cabinet found in arcades.
Sphere
Just a test i did in Photoshop on how to achieve a 'glassy' effect.
Ben-Shirt
This was done in Illustrator, i drawed a picture of a schoolfriend, traced it and put it on a t-shirt.
Back
Part of my portfolio for art class qualification.
Rendered in aquarell.
Squirrel and elephant 2
Page 2 of the childrens book project.
These were rendered in acrylic colors.
Squirrel and elephant 1
Page 1 of the childrens book project i did at school. Every pupil had to paint two pages of a given story which were then put togeter to a finished book.
Shiki
Fanart of a 'Samurai Shodown' Character.
Freehand drawing except for the swords using a Wacom and Photoshop.
Elven woman
Lineart of a female elf.
Freehand drawing in Photoshop.
FMA Eyecatcher
Custom-drawn eyecatcher for the anime 'Full Metal Alchemist' which i made for a fansub group.
Ivy
Fanart of the Character 'Ivy' of the game 'Soul Calibur'.
Vaders helmet
Currently i'm working on a accurate model of Vaders helmet. It's almost finished but some of the proportions still are a bit off. Yes, the dents under the eyes are supposed to be there :) Modelled, as everything else, with Maya.
Vaders helmet
The full helmet.
Female
Another project i'm working on right now is a full human female. My main goal here was to create a nice clean mesh as you can see below.
Female
Sideview of the head.
Female
The full body so far. Still needs more work.
Female
The wireframe so far.
Fatguy facial rig
The final facerig to be used with this character.
Fatguy model
Final untextured model of the main character in a cg project i'm doing in partnership with a friend of mine.
Chair
The chair for the fatguy character. It has a simple rig for tilt and rotation purposes.
Vampire
Model for an old cg project. A young vampire visits a bedroom for the first time in his immortal life.
Vampire
A close-up of the head.
Alien
This is the alien for the space project. He may not look like it but he is the bad guy :)
Astronaut
An astronaut i modeled for a schoolproject.
Lamp
A simple lamp i did for homework.
Orc
An old model of an orc's head.
Church
Low-poly church i modeled for a 3d-viewer browser plugin.
Fatguy Animation: Blockings
These are some rough blockings of the final animations for the fatguy. The first Video is actually a more refined version which is still not final. I've been
working on that for three days in total. There's still a lot more work to be done until we have a presentable version of it. Please note that the charactermodel
gets more controls for his belly later on which allows us to eliminate these penetrations of his belly and his feet for example.
You can leave your hat on
A stop motion movie which i made in the second semester together with 4 other people in teamwork. My responsibilities consisted mainly in directing the movie, animation supervising and art direction.
It is about a day in the life of a mushroom and his family. The movie took us about 3 month to finish.
Vlad the Vampire
The short 'Vlad the Vampire' (Production title) was supposed to be released at the end of the third semester.
Unfortunately due to some technical problems the movie was never finished and because we didn't have much time either, everything was animated
in 2 days only. The background will be replaced by a more dynamic one. I also noticed several problems with the lighting, some materials and of course the animation itself because of the extreme time limit. Scene animation, lighting, modelling, texturing and rendering were done by me.
Standard walk
These walkcycles were done as a homework for 'Timebased-Media' class. I made several variations of any of the walkcycles. What you see here are the first version of each walkcycle which are the hand-drawn frames.
Confident walk
Melancholic walk
Jumpy walk
Photek music visualisation 1
In this project we had to produce rhytmical animations just by using rectancles with a ratio of 5:1 and 3 colours. Overlapping of the shapes was allowed. 25 of these were made.
Photek music visualisation 2
Just the same as the first visualisation, but only the use of 2 colors was allowed. Overlapping of the shapes was not allowed. There were 25 of these as well.
