The Wingfeather Saga is an epic fantasy tale about a family with a secret on the run from evil forces. It is the first time I work on a series and I absolutely love the project, from the art design to the animation style, the characters and creatures, the medieval fantasy setting.. The characters are 3d animated on two’s, the backgrounds are painted. These layers are combined and rendered with the Unreal Engine. Season one can be viewed at https://www.angel.com/watch/wingfeather-saga and we are currently working on season two!

This trailer features some of my shots: Nia from 0:21 to 0:23; Leeli, Slarb and Nugget from 0:31 to 0:34 and 0:37 to 0:38; the kids and the dragon from 1:09 to 1:11 and Janner at 1:25

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Hired as a freelancer to help finish the game in crunch time I only worked on this project for about two months. The scale and quality of the production was overwhelming. It was the most professional project I have worked on so far. I was in a team that worked on shots that had been motion captured, altering or changing the performances here and there, fixing contacts, handling props and removing jitter and errors. The facial animation was done by a different team. I also got the chance to entirely keyframe animate one shot with a Clawstrider fighting a human.

Unfortunately none of my shots made it into the trailer, so nothing that can bee seen in this video is my creation. I just linked it to show the style and scale of the project.

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This film about the austrian cartoonist Manfred Deix is the first animated feature that was ever produced in austria. I was involved in many stages of the production including rig testing, layout, animation and fix animation. Getting to animate these characters, that were derived from original Deix drawings, was an animators dream come true to me! It was an incredible journey from preproduction to the delayed premiere and has been my biggest, most challanging and rewarding project yet.

My shots in this trailer are at 0:07 – 0:10, 0:25, 0:40, 1:19, 1:28 and 1:29

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Since 2016 I have animated some of the Spar Stickermania spots for Digital Light Factory. The character was modelled by Roland Zeller and rigged by Helmuth Kriegseisen. Lighting, rendering and compositing were done by Julia Ostermann.

2020

In this one I only animated Oscar, not the owls and the mushrooms.

2017

2016

Spar Stickermania from Tom Stockinger on Vimeo.

I animated Oscar and the props in all the colored shots. I didn’t work on the greyed out shots which were animated by Julia Ostermann. I also modelled and rigged the map and the liana that pulls Oscar out of the boat.

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FrequencySpot_2017 from Tom Stockinger on Vimeo.

The partybots promote the “Hyper Space” area and the Flunkyball Championship at FM4 Frequency Festival 2017. I used my rigs from the previous spots and also lit and rendered it myself.

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Elimax Animation from Pipe-Studio on Vimeo.

The Characters were modelled by Pipe Studio who also did layout, rendering and everything else. I helped in the rigging process and did all of the character animation, except the part from 0:43 – 0:55, which was done by David Tousek.

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I got to animate this teaser for the Czech animated feature film “Hurvínek a kouzelné muzeum”. I am only responsible for the animation, everything else is done by other artists.

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WayToMadness from Tom Stockinger on Vimeo.

The story of the Partybots continues: Under the guidance of captain Spacecow the Partybots leave their home planet once again, heading for earth to bring the party and festival madness to the FM4 Frequency 2016. Distracted by their excessive party routine they fail to prepare for a safe landing.

I developed the story and layouted and animated the shots with the characters that I had already created and rigged for the previous shorts. The Spacecow character was modelled and rigged by Mauricio Porras. All the shots inside the spaceship where lit and rendered by Robin Herrmann.

In case you wondered what the partybots actually did on last years Frequency Festival, watch this exclusive coverage captured at the festival location during the FM4 Frequency 2015:

My shots from "Frequency Aftermovie 2015" from Tom Stockinger on Vimeo.

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I illustrated “Einfach zum Kennenlernen – Eine 24 Stunden Reise durch den Klinikalltag” for the childrens hospital “KJPP Hinterbrühl”. It is supposed to give patients and parents an overview of the facilities and an insight to the daily routine. The text was written by Friederike Jekat and Barbara Winzely. On more than 40 Pages the main characters experience one whole day at the hospital unfolding all the information relevant to the reader.

Markus, who is treated for depression, and Florian, who suffers from ADHS, meet Janine, who is offered to stay at the hospital to find a solution for her problems controlling her temper resulting in violent outbrakes. While Janine experiences the preliminary talk and admittance procedure the boys live through a normal day, go to school, interact with the other kids in their groups and the attendants and engage in leisure activities. Eventually the three of them become friends and the boys set out to show Janine around.

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Sternbrücke – Genius Loci Weimar from Tagtool on Vimeo.

I got to animate these characters for this lovely project by OMAI, who developed the idea, designed the characters and created all the other artwork and animation featured in this clip.

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FM4 Frequency 2015 Trailer from Tom Stockinger on Vimeo.

I animated this teaser with the characters I had rigged for the TV and cinema commercial. It was spread via facebook and also shown as a projection at the festival itself. The individual shots also served as introduction clips for the bands on the main stage. Character design, motion graphics and the very first shot of the UFO rising were done by Kristof Tarisznyas. Rendering and Lighting by Martin Michl .

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I modelled, rigged, animated and rendered the intro and outro sequence and composited the 3D Text into the video footage using motion tracking and animated masks.

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We were 3 animators working on this project. I animated shots 10, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 16. From where they get blown away to the end, with exception of shot 14 where they look at the fridge.

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I created these animations for a slot game machine called “Reef Of Riches”. They are displayed on a 3D screen and accompany the game with lots of animations like these.

ReefOfRiches_Animations from Tom Stockinger on Vimeo.

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These pictures are made out of plastic trash that I collected in vienna and croatia. It can be found everywhere, on the street, in the woods or on the beach. On holiday in croatia I discovered that the whole beach was full of plastic debris in all colors and shapes. I decided to collect it and recycle it into pictures.

“Plastic Beach 01″, 76 x 81 cm

“Plastic Beach 02″, 112 x 51 cm

“Plastic Forest 01″, 70 x 45 cm

“Godzilla”, 133 x 110 cm

“Plastic Sunset 01″, 50 x 150 cm

“Plastic Scream”, 55 x 30 cm

“We Are The World”, 30 x 30 x 40 cm

“Take Away 01″, 170 x 50 cm

“White Trash 01″, 47 x 74 cm

“White Trash 02″, 37 x 48 cm

“Wasted Head 01″, 44 x 59 cm

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In the short film class of Anomalia 2014 we created this film that was written and directed by our mentor Keith Lango. It was animated in two weeks using 12 frames per second, which served the traditional look and saved a lot of time animating. It was the first time I worked on a film with other animators and I’m really glad I took this opportunity to practice and learn from my mentor and fellow students.

POUTNÍK Short Film (original) from ANOMALIA on Vimeo.

These are the shots I got to animate:

My shots from "Poutnik" from Tom Stockinger on Vimeo.

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These are the animations I created during the summer course Anomalia in the Czeck Republic. They were produced in six weeks under the supervision of highly professional Animators from Valve, Pixar and Dreamworks. It was an amazing experience to meet my mentors Mike Belzer, Niel Helm, Jason Schleifer and Keith Lango and I want to thank them for their critiques, lectures and talks!

SomeoneLikeYou from Tom Stockinger on Vimeo.

ShySmile from Tom Stockinger on Vimeo.

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While others where actually out there in the snow, I was at home, animating these stunning tricks for the “Sochi2014: Ski Slopestyle” App by Bongfish. I had to do a lot of research to figure out those rotations and I often had to fight the animation curves to get them smooth. One thing that helped me a lot was an extra controll I created for the center of gravity that I could move around, according to the pose, and use as a pivot for the rotations.

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This is the work I have done at Animation Mentor. All the rigs were provided by Animation Mentor.

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A game by Bongfish

I animated most of the in-game-animations and all of the cutscenes, including spectators. Animation blending and game interaction were done by Jörg Meyer.

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A game by Bongfish

I animated all characters, including spectators. Stumbles, player versus player interaction, animation blending and game integration were done by Jörg Meyer.

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I did this Character for my entry of the 11secondsClub may competition.

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This is an overview of the work i have done at Avaloop for the online game Papermint, including a music video for Mono&Nikitaman in papermint-style.

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Regie: Lev Ledit

Edit: Wolfram Meyer

Design: Barbara Lippe

Musik: Mono & Nikitaman

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Regie: Lev Ledit

Design: Barbara Lippe, Brad

Musik: Wolfram Meyer

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Konzept, Performance: Lisa Hinterreithner

Regie: Danielle Ana Füglistaller

Musik: Hüseyn Evirgen

The installation was shown at the “Sommerszene 2006″ at the ARGEkultur Gelände Salzburg, at the “Crossbreeds” Festival 2007 in the WUK in Vienna and at the “Sztuki Tanecznej” Festival in Bytom, Poland 2008. The performance was modified a little each time and the setup had to be changed according to the location.

The projection, a walk-through of some stylized 3D environments, was animated by me in realtime with a gamepad, interacting with the performance of Lisa Hinterreithner.

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Betreuer: Florian Ledermann, IMS TU Wien

Zweitbetreuer: Michael Großauer, FH Salzburg

Tänzerin: Kathrin Weinhuber

Musik: Daft Punk

This project, the practical part of my diploma thesis, was realized in the virtual reality lab of the technical university of Vienna. I used the A.R.T. Tracker to capture the motion of the dancers hip, head and hands. The visuals were projected over the dancer in realtime, she could trigger different modes with certain poses. It was an attempt to create a body driven interface for the visualization of music.

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