Thorsten Kuttig

Current

• Freelancer / 3D Artist at "wherever you need me"
• Founder & Owner at e·Sence® - digital department

Past

• 3D Artist (General) at Madness GmbH
• 3D Artist (General) at Soulpix
• Designer at PRS (Professional Racing Simulation)

• Lead Artist at Theory 7 (Maidstone, UK)
• Director at GL Consult GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany)
• Senior 3D-Artist at Stoll.von Gati GmbH (Crailsheim, Germany)
• Animator at Mackevision (Sindelfingen, Germany)
• 3D Lead & Animator at Galerie Der Medien (Munich, Germany)
• Technical Consultant Character Pipeline at 263 Films Spa (Milan, Italy)
• Head Of 3D at GL Consult GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany)
• Additional Financial Co-Producer at Ambient Entertainment GmbH & Co. KG (Hannover, Germany)
• Technical Director MoCap at Ambient Entertainment Gmbh & Co.KG (Hannover, Germany)
• Character Animation Supervisor at Ambient Entertainment GmbH & Co.KG (Hannover, Germany)
• Character Modeler at Ambient Entertainment GmbH & Co.KG (Hannover, Germany)
• Character Setup Supervisor (Skinning) at Ambient Entertainment GmbH & Co.KG (Hannover, Germany)
• Character Animator, Modeler & Facial Animation Artist at I-D Media GmbH & Co. KG (Aalen, Germany)
• Character Modeler & Rigger at electronic colors (Malta)
• 3D Artist at Creative Illusions And Art (Wildeshausen, Germany)

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Education

• LAZI Akademie
• ILS Hamburg
• AVID Technology, Hamburg

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Motion Pictures and Film

Websites

• My Portfolio
• My Company
• My Website

Thorsten Kuttig’s Summary

20 years experience in computer graphics.
Specialized in character- and prop animation
(traditional and mocap), skinning, modeling,
also experienced in texturing, lighting and rendering
in Autodesk Maya or 3DS Max as well as Supervision and Producing.

Thorsten Kuttig’s Specialties:

See my full descriptions at http://www.virtual-characters.de
and http://www.e-Sence.de.
Here you´ll find my vitae, skills, references and my showReel

Thorsten Kuttig’s Experience

• Freelancer / 3D Artist

  "wherever you need me"

  (Animation industry)

  January 2009 — Present (7 months)

  Just for you to know, that you can book me in advance (from July 2009 on)

• Founder & Owner

  e·Sence® - digital department

  (Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  April 1999 — Present (10 years 4 months)

  Character Animatior, Digital Artist, Compositor, Motion Capture Artist, Technical Director

• 3D Artist (General)

  Madness GmbH

  (Media Production industry)

  January 2009 — June 2009 (6 months)

  May-June 2009:
  Working on a multi-screen animation about a "N40 Necking Station" (technical vis., shading, animation) and a 3D stereoscopic teaser
  
  May 2009: Working on a 1:30min long 3D stereoscopic movie
  (visual FX, modeling, shading, animation)
  
  Jan- April 2009:
  Working on several visualization projects and a corporate video, including 5 "Transformer"-Animations.

• 3D Artist (General)

  Soulpix

  (Animation industry)

  October 2008 — December 2008 (3 months)

  General 3D Artist for several projects and clients

• Designer

  PRS (Professional Racing Simulation)

  (Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  October 2008 — November 2008 (2 months)

  Working on graphical content for a new 1:1 Racing Simulation Prototype...more information to come!

• Lead Artist

  Theory 7 (Maidstone, UK)

  (Animation industry)

  July 2008 — September 2008 (3 months)

  For the new "Ford Fiesta - This Is Now" website, Theory 7 built the "Zeitgeist"-City (production name), where I was responsible for creating photorealistic environments, buildings, props etc. as well as texturing, lighting, rendering in 3DS Max.
  Furthermore I animated the cars and cameras for 6 shots and did the
  complete shading and lighting of the city.

• Director

  GL Consult GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany)

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2008 — June 2008 (6 months)

  I directed the Mid-Budget production "30 Years of Küchen-QUELLE", which was filmed in HD on Panasonic and JVC cameras. I also animated the Küchen-QUELLE mascot "Anton" for r.a. 60 Shots
  (motion capture) . Later on I did the compositing and editing of this 20 min. long movie.

• Senior 3D-Artist

  Stoll.von Gati GmbH (Crailsheim, Germany)

  (Animation industry)

  August 2007 — December 2007 (5 months)

  Mainly responsible for industrial visualization content,
  incl. modeling, texturing, shading, lighting and rendering,
  as well as post production and trainee education.

• Animator

  Mackevision (Sindelfingen, Germany)

  (Automotive industry)

  February 2007 — March 2007 (2 months)

  At Mackevision I animated r.a. 60 cameras and the new Mercedes AMG CLK 63 Black Series Sportscar, for roundabout 100 Shots.

• 3D Lead & Animator

  Galerie Der Medien (Munich, Germany)

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Automotive industry)

  February 2007 — February 2007 (1 month)

  I was 3D Lead for a fully CG-animated imagefilm of the new Mercedes AMG CLK 63 Black Series Sportscar, for which I also animated the cameras and the car in r.a. 100 Shots.

• Technical Consultant Character Pipeline

  263 Films Spa (Milan, Italy)

  (Partnership; 11-50 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  February 2006 — December 2006 (11 months)

  Consulting activity for the character pipeline and responsible for skinning and rigging of all characters, incl. mocap-facial setup for the italian featurefilm "Dear Anne - The Gift Of Hope"

• Head Of 3D

  GL Consult GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany)

  (Partnership; 11-50 employees; Animation industry)

  June 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 7 months)

  Responsible for setting up a 3D-Department and working for several clients like SIEMENS, Küchen-QUELLE, mister + lady jeans etc

• Additional Financial Co-Producer

  Ambient Entertainment GmbH & Co. KG (Hannover, Germany)

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  September 2001 — October 2003 (2 years 2 months)

  Germany´s first digital feature film "Back To Gaya" aka "Boo, Zino & The Snurks"

• Technical Director MoCap

  Ambient Entertainment Gmbh & Co.KG (Hannover, Germany)

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  September 2001 — October 2003 (2 years 2 months)

  Management of the whole motion-capture process from setting up the systems and leading a team of ca. 10 artists, to shoot the desired data in 14 days

• Character Animation Supervisor

  Ambient Entertainment GmbH & Co.KG (Hannover, Germany)

  (Partnership; 11-50 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  September 2001 — October 2003 (2 years 2 months)

  Responsible for leading the animation team for "Galger", "Brampf" and "Zeck", called "The Snurks" in germanys first digital feature film, called "Back To Gaya" aka "Boo, Zino and the Snurks"

• Character Modeler

  Ambient Entertainment GmbH & Co.KG (Hannover, Germany)

  (Partnership; 11-50 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  September 2001 — October 2003 (2 years 2 months)

  I´ve modeled the primary characters "Alanta" and "Zeck" and the secondary character "Billy" for germanys first digital feature film, called "Back To Gaya" aka "Boo, Zino and the Snurks"

• Character Setup Supervisor (Skinning)

  Ambient Entertainment GmbH & Co.KG (Hannover, Germany)

  (Partnership; 11-50 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  September 2001 — October 2003 (2 years 2 months)

  Responsibility for skinning all primary and secondary characters in germanys first digital feature film, called "Back To Gaya" aka "Boo, Zino and the Snurks"

• Character Animator, Modeler & Facial Animation Artist

  I-D Media GmbH & Co. KG (Aalen, Germany)

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Animation industry)

  1997 — April 1999 (2 years)

  I took responsibility for the facial animation of germanys first virtual popstar, called E-Cyas

• Character Modeler & Rigger

  electronic colors (Malta)

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)

  February 1998 — November 1998 (10 months)

  I modeled and rigged several characters and creatures for games and TV Shows

• 3D Artist

  Creative Illusions And Art (Wildeshausen, Germany)

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)

  January 1993 — January 1995 (2 years 1 month)

  One of my first companys I worked for as 3D Artist for several smaller projects

Thorsten Kuttig’s Education

• LAZI Akademie

  Film & Communicational Design 1997 — 2000

• ILS Hamburg

  Graphics Design January 1995 — January 1997

• AVID Technology, Hamburg

  certified AVID Media/Film Composer Artist 1995 — 1995

Additional Information

Thorsten Kuttig’s Websites:

• My Portfolio
• My Company
• My Website

Thorsten Kuttig’s Interests:

cinematography, my sportscar (Corvette C6), new zealand, music

Thorsten Kuttig’s Honors:

1998 - animago award - 2nd place - visualization
1999 - animago award - 1st place - product-design - AWARD
2000 - animago award - 3rd place - virtual characters
2001 - animago award - 1st place - virtual characters
2009 - IF Design award - category "Animation"

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