thorsten.hary blog

Two nominations for German Design Award 2014

Thorsten Hary — Thu, 16 May 2013 07:53:23 +0000

The good news keeps coming: Two projects I directed are up for the German Design Award 2014. This sounds like news from the future, but it´s quite true. Exciting! Stay tuned for more on this...

Star Trek Into Darkness

Thorsten Hary — Sat, 04 May 2013 11:54:48 +0000

Star Trek Into Darkness is hitting theaters this week. I had the amazing opportunity to work on this movie at Bad Robot in Los Angeles and can´t speak highly enough about the whole experience, which still feels kind of surreal to me.
Not only did I get to meet and work with J.J. Abrams and the amazingly talented Andrew Kramer of Video Copilot,(BTW: Andrew did epic, mindblowing work on these maintitles - keep an eye on his blog for more!) but a whole bunch of really great people (Ben, Erin, Kerry, Josh, Marty, Andrew, Nate, Juan, Zack, Olaf - this list could go on forever...).

The Bad Robot offices really are geek heaven, bursting with energy and I´ve had an amazing time working there. Now go out and see the movie. In true summer blockbuster fashion, it is a big, fun and highly entertaining ride.

Off to Hollywood

Thorsten Hary — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:25:30 +0000

So excited to be heading to the US to help out at Bad Robot, working on a major summer blockbuster.

TSY - "A Campus, A Heart, A Star"

Thorsten Hary — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:07:00 +0000

Here´s my most VFX-heavy music video to date:
"A Campus, A Heart, A Star" by THE SATELLITE YEAR.

Shot entirely on greenscreen and featuring 4:30 min. of 3D, Compositing and VFX work. Not an easy task, especially since I was doing everything by myself: Director / DP / Edit / CGI / VFX / Colorgrading

Be sure to check out the SATELLITE YEARS terrific album MISSION POLARLIGHTS while you´re at it:
itunes.apple.com/de/album/mission-polarlights/id423313465 - it´s really great.

Making-of: A Campus, A Heart, A Star

Thorsten Hary — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:38:00 +0000

Lately Element 3D from VIDEO COPILOT has become one of the cornerstones of my work. Huge, daunting tasks like creating 4:30 minutes of 3D animation and composting (as a single artist) for a music video suddenly become manageable. Although Element 3D might not be as fully featured as a dedicated, established 3D program like Cinema4D, the speed and interactivity more than makes up for this. It has become my favorite way of doing 3D-stuff. So take a look at how some of the stuff was done in the above video.

Going out with a bang. and a trailer.

Thorsten Hary — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:06:01 +0000

This is the trailer for my last music video for the foreseeable future, since i´ll be moving on to other ventures in 2013. "A Campus, A Heart, A Star" by The Satellite Year will premiere at europes biggest computer arts festival REVISION 2013 on 30/03/2013 before going to broadcast on 31/03/2013.

Wunderlist 2 Product Trailer

Thorsten Hary — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:24:21 +0000

I recently had the wonderful opportunity to direct and animate the Wunderlist 2 launch video for the great folks at 6Wunderkinder.
Brisk in pace and done as 2D and 3D Animation, the trailer is all about giving you a taste for what it feels like to use the app. Since the level of attention and care present in the app (and the Wunderkinder marketing in general) is up there with the very best, coming up with a trailer matching the quality of the product was no mundane (but fun!) task.
And as someone who has spend the last couple of weeks using the near-final beta, let me tell you: Wunderlist2 is quite awesome. The guys really poured their heart and soul into making a great app and it shows in every pixel and every user interaction, If you don´t know this app yet, you should definitively check it out

"reactor burner brain"

Thorsten Hary — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:15:00 +0000

While my past promos always involved shooting a performance of some sort, this is much more of a graphical exploration of the track using macro-photography and 3D-graphics.

It was much more about finding images to fit the music and I animated roughly 100 different visual explorations, some of which didn´t make the cut of the final promo. I really enjoyed creating the imagery going into this video, but one should keep it away from children and epileptic people (I´m NOT kidding on this one...).

There´s a photoset of stills over at flickr, too.

This might also work as a title sequence for a David Fincher film. Just saying - drop me a line, David ;)
Please head over and watch the HD-Version on VIMEO since the tiny embedded version doesn´t do it justice...

baby lou "tennis"

Thorsten Hary — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 20:14:04 +0000

I went with a fun, kinda cheesy, meta-music video approach on this one.
The single is out 10/08/2012 - get it on itunes

Glazed Finish "It started with a smile"

Thorsten Hary — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:37:44 +0000

A hyperkinetic, restless promo shot on greenscreen utilizing 6 cameras and relying on a morph-and expression driven virtual camera to achive otherwise imposible hyperdynamic camera movement.

If this feels too fast, shaky or blurry to you - I´m sorry, it´s just kind of a fun experiment :)

See some behind the scenes stuff here