"Back to Gaya" a.k.a. "Boo, Zino & the Snurks" (2004)

Role: Lead Texture Artist, Ambient Entertainment

quick facts

Own Work	Texture Painting & Lookdev of 43 sets and 350+ props over a 16 month period
	1 of 4 Texture Artists for entire movie

work samples

I was responsible for the texturing of the steel structures, the building itself and the foreground wall elements. Additional elements were provided by Agi Kruczek (watertower,large chimneys) and Oliver Kurth (mist, sky, compositing and Paintfix)

I was responsible for the texturing of the steel structures, the building itself and the foreground wall elements. Additional elements were provided by Agi Kruczek (watertower,chimneys), Lars Groeger (Flying thing),Oliver Kurth (mist, sky, compositing)

I was responsible for most of the texturing in this shot. The ground was done by Lars Groeger, the chimneys by Agi Kruczek. Lighting by Andre Schneider

I was responsible for the entire texturing of this shot.

Large chimneys in the back by Agi Kruczek, the rest was my work.

Responsible for ground and window area texturing as well as the bike. Didn't do the wall itself nor the pipe in the foreground.

I did the entire background texturing as well as the balloon the characters are hanging on to. Didn't do the Sky which I think was done by Jens Bennecke.

Texturing of the houses and streets, the train and truck as well as the roof area of the red lit building. The Hires-Fassade of that building was textured by Kay Poprawe.

Ground Texturing done by me. The car and some of the fassade elements were done by Joachim Kerkhoff.

I was responsible for the texturing of the set itself including the pipes on the wall. The junk floating around as well as the sticks in the water and the pod the characters are in were done by Kay Poprawe

Entire Texturing of the Set

Entire Texturing of the Set

Texturing of walls, trash container, ground, boxes on the ground, glass bottle, far background elements etc. Additional Texturing by Kay Poprawe and Michael Peter.

Texturing of dumpster, ground, trash on ground, glass bottle and wooden fence. Elements in the back (TV, shopping cart etc.) were done by Kay Poprawe and Michael Peter.

Texturing of set except lamp

Texturing of set except lamp and a few background elements (see images before)

Surfacing of car interior and entire street except white construction site.

Surfacing of the street, fence, buildings and car. The crane and ruins were done by Kay Poprawe

Entire Texturing of the Set

Entire Texturing of the Set except landing net.

Surfacing of entire set except crane and ruins in the back.

Entire Texturing of the Set

Texturing of all Props except the tv set. Please bear in mind, that the bottles aren't raytraced --- so they look a little shitty.

Entire Texturing of the Set

Entire Texturing of the Set including the liquid.

Entire Texturing of the Set

Texturing of window. Additional Texturing by Agi Kruczek,Dorota Gorksi (wall,lamp, pipe etc.). Additional Credit to Marek Binieda for Texturing not visible in this frame.

Entire Texturing of the Set except the bulls horns in the back which were textured by Kay Poprawe)

Production Renderings

This is the big bar shelf in the truckstop scene. It is largely overdone with details like dust, scratches broken edges etc. But I like my wood texturemap, in fact still use it occasionaly.

... as said: Pretty detailed and worn down.

In front of the bar shelf is the bar itself. Together with the glasses in the shelf it's one of maybe 5 things we used raytracing on.Someone even wiped the counter beforehand :)

A Closeup of the lower part of the bar and the wooden floor. The metal pipes weren't traced but used reflection maps. The whole floor is just one woodmap with uvs shifted to avoid tiling.

The fence in all its glory. Someone pittied me in the process and provided me with a lightsetup that actually matched the final output quite good which made it a lot easier.

A closeup of the fence. I really do like the way the metal structures react to the light.

One of my "look-development" renderings. for the entrance to the sewers. I did have to texture a whole lot of streets in the production ...

Another thing I did a lot was texturing of pipes of all sort...

A looktest I did for the sewer. I did most of the texturing in this one except a few wooden poles. Also did the lighting. Unfortunately it was not meant to be in the movie this way - but I still like it.

A setrendering of one floor of the department store. There were a whole lot of props in this thing and a lot of toy cases to design (I actually did most of them)

As you may have noticed we threw a lot of dirt and grime on things to keep it interesting. Another case of this even when it may not be actually right.

The car one of our characters drove around in. Since I wasn't allowed raytracing on this I painted a couple of scene matching environmentballs to fake the reflections. The license plate by the way isn't the final one, I only slapped it on for presentation