Melted Ego – Musicvideo “Fragments Of Paradise”

Giant Rocking Robots on a futuristic stage perform Melted Ego’s “Fragments of Paradise”. The musicians were filmed in a greenscreen-studio, each bandmember playing the whole song. The footage was then comped with the cg-backgrounds and served as a guideline for the animation of the cg-robots.
The whole thing started as a one-man-project of Timo von Wittken (Melted Ego’s drummer and Head-of-3D at Sehsucht) who was already modeling the robots when I first met him in 2009. I animated Schnapp, the yellow bass-robot.
Timo, thanks for the ride – and congratulations to finishing this incredible mountain of work, it rocks! 🙂

Credits:

Production Company: Sehsucht, Hamburg

Direction: Timo von Wittken
Creative Direction: Timo von Wittken
Producing: Stephan Reinsch

DOP: Neels Feil
Light, Grip: Markenfilm Hamburg
Camera Assistance: Phillip Schöttner
Make-Up: Stephanie Kelting

Concept Art : Timo von Wittken, Anja von Harsdorf

Edit: Christoph Senn

Modeling: Timo von Wittken, Alexander Siquans, Felix Geremus
Texturing/ UV-Unfold : Timo von Wittken, Eva Kuehlmann, Sebastian Welti, Joern Engelke, Rafael Vicente
3D-Camera Animation: Timo von Wittken
Tracking: Heinrich Löwe
Character Rigging: Martin Chatterjee
Character Animation: Jakob Schulze-Rohr, Markus Geerts, Norbert Kiehne, Jan Hoffman, Joern Engelke
Shading/Lighting/Rendering: Timo von Wittken

Lead Compositing: Yacoob Essack
Compositing Artists: Florian Zachau, Timo von Wittken
Digital Matte Painting: Julius Brockelmann
Motion Design: Beatrice Wellenbrock , Timo von Wittken, Vitaly Grossmann

Sound Design: Jochen Mader (Audionerve)