martin "martinland" schemitsch | |
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walking the earth | since 197? |
held captive by various educational systems | 1976-1997 |
creating musically (violin, guitar, keys, vocals, computer, Theremin) | since 1978 |
creating graphically (cartoons, comics, flip books, covers, web, etc.) | since 1984 |
coding (pascal, fortran, c[++], java[script], asp, php, assembly, etc.) | since 1985 |
[3d/character] animation (illusion of life, symbiotic picture & sound) | since 1993 |
[interactive] new media (featuring almost all of the above) | since 1997 |
Curriculum Vitae - The Whole Story [almost]
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Martin "Martinland" Schemitsch * June 7, 1970 Graz, Austria |
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1999- | professional interdisciplinary operator/animator/developer using Mayatm animation software | ||
1997-96 | diploma thesis in technical mathematics | ||
1996-95 | academical emphasis on world wide web | ||
1992 | literature on special effects and computer graphics suggested by north american fx-companies, self-taught | ||
1991 | academic emphasis on computer graphics | ||
1988 | highschool graduation, in psychology and informatics | ||
1988-87 | attending symphony orchestra courses | ||
1990-86 | ongoing violin studies w/ private teacher | ||
1982- | piano, self-taught | ||
1985-78 | violin education | ||
19??-7? | self-taught drawing of cartoons, comic strips, flip books, you name it… | ||
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german, english, french (pas de pratique, malheureusement), italian |
animation/ gaming |
character animation, illusion of life, traditional 2d animation, 3d short films especially Pixar's, Aardman, Industrial Light & Magic's golden "analogue" years - this blurs right into my favourite video game genre: adventure games! i like them all, you name it: the classic LucasArts 256-colour, animated graphic adventures as well as Cyan's Myst series, Syberia series, the whacky Toonstruck, right now it's Vampyre Story, and many, many more… i'd say there's a fondness for special gaming concepts here in Martinland; never looked into consoles so far, but interesting console games keep piling up: "Rez", "Vib Ribbon", "Killer7", "Shadow of the Colossus", meaning sooner or later I'll buy (or emulate) one… ;) |
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film | films blurring dreams/phantasy and reality like the marvelous "A Scanner Darkly", "Stay", "Identity", "The Machinist", "Donnie Darko", or - my favourite - "Brazil"; then there are those strange ones: "Barbarella", "Attack of the 50 Feet Woman", "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes", "The Host" (a modern monster movie, made in Korea!) i adore the wondrous animated worlds of Hayao Miyazaki and i'm also into quiet, intelligent fare like "Before Sunrise", "Before Sunset"; furthermore frame editing animation, the ever-fascinating relationship between film and music, frame composition (especially w/ -now- Panavision or -then- CinemaScope photography), "industrial" special effects (meaning optics & models), Harrison Ford [his classic Indiana Jones/Rick Deckard/Han Solo period], Kubrick, old Spielberg movies, David Lynch, the classic Hitchcock-Herrmann vehicles, ILM (again), special screenings [in film museums, e.g. european premiere of re-printed "2001: A Space Odyssey" projected onto the glorious Cinerama screen in Bradford, or watching "Blade Runner Final Cut" together with 734 other cinephiles in the largest movie theatre in Vienna] |
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graphics | electronic manipulation, creation of cartoons/comic strips/flip books/characters, layout, design, Giger, Franquin, hmmmm - and two virtually extinct arts: hand painted film posters (e.g. by Drew) and analogue matte paintings! (and those hand-drawn, pixelated background graphics in old adventure games of course!) | |
"HAL" | the electronic machine, the computer: the ultimate interdisciplinary artistic tool (for me it still is something special, despite its mainstream acceptance nowadays, since i grew up seeing the advent of the whole thing ;-D) | |
informatics   | endless possibilities [as creator as well as spectator] in the digital realm involving interactive installations in the broadest sense and artistically created games, Ars Electronica Festival, the (retro) demo scene, etc., etc.! simply put: food for thought and inspiration | |
cuisine | [quickly] arranging/inventing never-before-seen and never-to-be-eat*er*never-to-be-duplicated meals (mostly italian style cuisine)… | |
literature | typing text fragments and calling them 'short stories', writing about writing, reading fascinating stuff about the disciplines i'm working in [big volumes on animation, film composing, etc.], reading the last books by Stanislaw Lem (whom we paid a posthumous visit in Kraków, 2006) that are missing in my extensive collection… …hosting a radio show on literature [that's history right now] and writing for a magazine… | |
music | first and foremost: performing/improvising/composing - nowadays mainly on the mesmerizing Theremin as well as w/ keys and vocals, classic symphonic scores for motion pictures [John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Ennio Morricone, Michael Kamen, Bernard Herrmann, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, Erich Wolfgang Korngold - see also Martinland's library of film music literature], in consequence: attending (and - on a much smaller scale - performing) film music concerts, jazzy stuff [Mike Stern, David Sanborn, Dirty Dozen Brass Band], classical [Gustav Mahler's slow movements, Holst, Tchaikovsky], electronics [Wendy Carlos, Tomita, Vangelis], retro electronic music [Commodore 64 SID-Chip music!], various popular artists [Peter Gabriel, Yes, Lewis Taylor - who is a very special find indeed…] | |
sports | biking, inline skating, skating, skiing [formerly abandoned by me due to years and years of poor snow conditions and overly crowded alpine regions, now re-discovered again on small but beautifully lonely slopes], swimming [should be history by now, but has been revived thanks to our daughter ;-)], tennis [ancient history], carambol [fondly remembered history] |