Brummbaer

Brummbaer aka Grumpy / Bernd growler ( born August 18, 1945) is a German digital designer, who worked as an art director, illustrator and 3D designer. He produced several German television films, directed, and performed as an actor. In recent years, he directed his attention to the direction of computer graphics. He has produced several short films with the computer and was involved in the special effects of movies.

  • 4.1 Sony Pictures Imageworks
  • 4.2 Computer-generated films
  • 4.3 Games

Life

In the 1960s he painted and edited the underground journal Germania. With a small group of staff, he developed light shows for various pop groups like Amon Düül, Frank Zappa, The Fugs and Tangerine Dream. He was one of the computer animators who created the special effects for the Tristar movie Johnny Mnemonic. He also made the 1995 opener for the " Electronic Theater, " SIGGRAPH. He is one of the pioneers of digital animation, where it is characterized by its psychedelic, dissociative and hallucinogenic style.

In the fall of 2003 he became ill with cancer. During his illness he wrote a semi- biographical story entitled THE BUM, published by Werner Pieper's " The Green Branch ". The book describes his experiences with the psychedelic cough medicine Romilar in 1964. He survived chemo and radiation therapy and is recurrence-free after five years as cured. Meanwhile, he was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2007 and after two surgeries since then cancer free.

Career

Between 1964 and 1967 hitchhiked Brummbaer as paving painter through Europe. In 1967 he had his first exhibition of drawings in chalk Art's Lab in London. In 1968 he moved to Frankfurt, where he designed psychedelic posters. Brummbaer soon had a large collection in Europe even more rare underground comics or comix. He translated Robert Crumb's first book (Robert Crumb ) Head Comix and published it in March -Verlag. The success of this book encouraged him to start an own publishing series with underground comics and some classic comic strips, the " hum - Comix " in Melzer Verlag. From the profits he financed the Underground Magazine "Germania". During this time he became involved in the squatter scene and campaigned for the legalization of marijuana and other so-called 'soft drugs'.

1972-1973 he worked with Wolf Wondratschek and Georg Deuter in the radio play machine No.9.

Filmography

Director

  • Cyber ​​World ( 2000) ( IMAX )
  • The Last Trip to Harrisburg ( 1984) (aka " The last trip to Harrisburg " ) with R. W. Fassbinder, Udo Kier, Ed Lachman

Equipment

  • Klaus Lemke: Idols ( 1975) ( TV)
  • The Sweethearts ( 1977) ( TV)
  • Moto -Cross ( 1977) ( TV)
  • The Ultimate ( 1979) ( TV)
  • Arabian Nights ( 1979) ( "Arabian Nights" )
  • Dark Seed (1992) ( VG)

Actor

  • The Ultimate ( 1979) ( TV)
  • The Sweethearts ( 1977) ( TV)
  • Why the sky is not a plane

Others

  • Artist: Playboy, Penthouse, Transatlantic
  • Painter: solo exhibition gallery Klinzer, Munich, Magic Realism
  • Animator: Bavarian Television " XX, Clip Cafe ': Production Design, Openers, Bumpers, and stage designs for youth- oriented programs

Computer Graphics

1986 Brummbaer was invited by the International Synergy Institute in Los Angeles to work as an " Artist in Residence" with her Fairlight CVI Computer. During this period several ¾ "videos: " New Worlds "," Orient Ma Mind On Touch Ma Hal, "" Pretty Please ". Another reason to live in L.A. was his friendship with Timothy Leary, John Lilly and his wife, Tony. Since the introduction of the personal computer, he campaigned for digital design. He developed graphics for games and special effects for movies. In 1988 he was involved in Futique Inc. ' s " Cyberpunk Interscreen / The Mind Movie " in collaboration with Timothy Leary. He made book covers, CD covers, and covers for magazines exclusively to the computer and rejected the traditional graphic media.

From 1991 to 1993 Brummbaer worked as an art director for the game Darkseed in collaboration with H. R. Giger. For the movie Critters 4, he designed the computer graphics. The "Digital Be-In " in San Francisco and the Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles, showed his first exhibition of electronic images, organized by Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary's last book, " Chaos and Cyber ​​Culture" contains illustrations of Brummbaer.

Sony Pictures Imageworks

Computer-generated films

Games

Brummbaer has worked on a variety of games, including SimCity (1989 ), Wolf Pack (1990 ), Robo Sport ( 1991), Comanche (1992 ), Q * bert (1992 ), Shrek 2 (2004), True Crime: New York City (2005 ) and Kung Fu Panda ( 2007).

Awards

  • Imagina - Monte ' Carlo - Content graphics (1997)
  • International Monitor Award - Openers / Closers (1998)
Columbia Pictures Johnny Mnemonic (film) Dissociation (psychology) Wolfpack (video game) Comanche series
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