cv and project list of Daniel Renner
	- born 13.07.1973, forst/lausitz germany - 1980 - 1990 school in limbach-oberfrohna - 1990 - 1994 education engineer for industrial elektronics - 1994 - 1997 employee at bsk-engineering, graphic artist for documentation for industry - since february 1997 freelancer (independend) - sphere of activity: 3d-modeling, animation, morphing, lighting, scene setup, hdr, 2d-graphics, rendering / networkrendering, content-management, teaching, photography - capabilities: autodidactic (fast learning of new computer programs); fit's well in teams; works good under pressure; flexible; leading qualities (leadmodeling) - prefered applications: Windows based, Lightwave3d, The Gimp, Aura/Mirage, Cinema4d, Blender - hobbies: inline skating, swimming, mountainbike, dragonball, collecting old computers, history of computer games - www.dbki.de / www.industry-graphics.de / www.realtexture.de
following a list of projects which i was or still working on for several different purposes and clients.
1994 - 1997: I started my work as a graphic artist for documentation immediatelly after my 'ahed of schedule' completion of my apprenticeship as a elektronik engineer for industry. I was an employee at B-S-K Engineering and my job was to create illustrations and graphics for documentations for AEG Berlin. For this work i've used mostly Corel Draw and AutoCAD.
1997: I cancelled my employment and started as a freelancer, i started to work on several projects for property agency services. Some of my first jobs were the visualisation of buildings and real estates for advertising purposes like prints, newspapers, webpages and videos. I've used Lightwave3D for these projects and different hardware to record the videos to video tapes.
1999 - 2001: Due the fact that i was always interested in computer and elektroniks and that i'm a engineer for elektronik i came in contact with Firma Systeme Lauer in Unterensingen. My new job was the external support for customers and i had to explain the functions and tools to create projects for PC aided production processes. One part of this job was the design of graphical user interfaces and another part was teaching of costumers and employees. For special purposes, like start-ups of facilities or for teaching i travelled to poland, switzerland and austria and i was working for food companies like 'BWF Stützengrün', Daimler Chrysler in Berlin and 'Kompania Piwowarska' in Tichy. Unfortunately, after 2 years, the relationship was canceled due changes of the internal structure. so i was forced to look out for new business. During this time i've used my spare time to work with 3d applications and i began to work as full time 3d artist.
link: Kompania Piwowarska    link: BWF Stützengrün    link: Systeme Lauer
1999/2000: One of my first projects i did in this area was the design of CD covers for "Maz Sound Tools".
link: maz-sound-tools
2000: Since one of my major interests in my spare time is the history and the techniques of games i started to work on some 'fun'-projects. For example, i created several low-poly models for quake conversion and a complete building including this computer room for a software demo. The goal for this room was to build everything within a polycount of 600.
2001: For my 3d projects i was always in need of textures and photos and this was one reason to work as photographer for industry as well. To handle the huge amount of photos needed for documentation it is a good solution to use digital cameras for industry and product photos. The pictures shown below were used in a manual for a machine for the production of fabric.
2001: Beside my job as photographer for industry i started the project 'realtexture'. The main goal is to offer collections of photorealistical textures for the usage in 3d productions and other graphic related projects. This includes the post work on photos to get seamless textures with bump, material and clip maps. But also hdri and background images are a main part of realtexture. With the help of 2 coworkers, this project is still running.
2000-2002: to publish my capabilities i've created contributions for competions (Mekka Symposium, Dialogos, the party, animago). these scene parties are gatherings of artists in music, graphic and programming. since the amount of work was too much for one person some of those projects were done with the help of a team.
2002: this well known episode opener was recreated completely in 3d. this animation won the first place at the 'Wild Compo' at 'Mekka Symposium'.
2002: at the beginning of 2002 i did some low-poly spaceships for the game 'Earth Squad' (Fakt-Software GmbH)
link: fakt-software     link: kellas
2002: After this project i was working for 5 months in Grenoble/Frankreich for Galilea, a game company. i was in charge of creating complete 3D-sets for the adventure game 'Cameron Files - Pharaohs Curse' (published by Dreamcatcher/Adventure Company Canada)
link: pharaohs curse - adventure company     link: galilea
2002: for a tutorial contest on a german news page about lightwave related informations i've created a tutorial about modeling and lighting a car for compositing. i won the third place and this was the beginning of a series of other tutorials covering different areas of cg. some of these tutorials are posted on Newteks Lightwave page and on many other cg related pages. due my experience with developing techniques for productions i'm still working on new tutorials.
link: tutorial index at dbki
2002: chistmas time is always a great happening in germany and this was the reason for my idea of a christmas game. i asked 'Fakt-Software' if they want to do the programming part. i created all the models and my coworker was working on textures and renderings. the game was released as an advertising project and it was a success.
link: Das Weihnachtsmannspiel
2003: in februar and march i was working as a 3d modeller for low poly objects for the game 'Crazy Machines' by Fakt-Software GmbH (published by Peppergames Germany). we created over 50 different parts and machines, most of them animated for a puzzle game like 'the incredible machines'.
link: fakt-software     link: peppergames
2002: summertime and once again i travelled to france. my job for Galilea was not only modeling of 3d objects. i was also involved into level design and production techniques. so i developed several techniques for complex and realistical lighting methods. i was working for 6 months on this project. (coproduction Wanadoo/Adventure Company, publisher Dreamcatcher)
link: jack the ripper - adventure company     link: galilea
2003: during this time i was working on a 'fun' project in my spare time. i've created a trailer for the game 'Spacetanks' (Peppergames Germany) with full pal resolution and a length of nearly 3 minutes.
link: spacetanks     link: peppergames
2003: december 2003, christmas time again. Fakt-Software converted the 'Weihnachtsmannspiel' for several mobile phones and with a face lift and enhanced features the game was rereleased as 'xmas chaos deluxe'. the german content provider for mobile phones 'Jamba' published the game for several cellphone network provider.
link: xmas chaos deluxe     link: xmas chaos at jamba.de