Production: Constantin Film
Directed by: Tomer Eshed

Firedrake is a young silver dragon, who has had enough of constantly having to hide in a wooded valley. He wants to show the older generations of dragons that he is a real dragon. When humans are about to destroy his family's very last refuge, Firedrake secretly sets off on an adventurous journey with forest brownie, Sorrel. He wants to find the "Rim of Heaven", the dragons' mysterious haven. On their quest Firedrake and Sorrel encounter Ben, an orphan and stray, who claims to be a dragon rider. While Ben and Firedrake make friends quickly, Sorrel becomes increasingly distrustful and tries to get rid of the orphan at every opportunity. But the unlikely trio have to learn to pull together, because they are being hunted by Nettlebrand, an evil, dragon-eating monster that was created by an alchemist with the aim of tracking down and destroying every dragon on Earth.

The story is based on Cornelia Funkes best-selling novel, and was produced by Constantin Film in co-production with Cyborn and Rise Pictures. It is being distributed by Timeless Films, and was released in October 2020 in cinemas worldwide. The original cast features top class actors such as Sir Patrick Stewart, Felicity Jones, and Thomas Brodie Sangster.

Dragon Rider was one of the most complex CG productions ever made in Germany, and the largest animated film production in the country during the time of its creation. Lumatic was in charge of the overall creative and technical aspects of the production, and also produced complete parts in house.

  BEHIND THE SCENES ▶

Directed by:
David Wnendt

Production companies:
Seven Elephants
Constantin Film

For David Wnendt's new film Sonne und Beton we created invisible effects as well as a fully animated sequence.
The film had it's premiere on the Berlin International Film Festival in 2023.

For the second part in the franchise, Lumatic took over the design, creation and animation of all digital characters. The animation was done in-house and a new lighting and compositing department was set up to produce the final images.

Lumatic, who won the German Film Award "Lola" for the VFX in part 1, reworked the established characters to increase the overall quality and added two new characters to the cast of talking animals. 371 shots (approximately 20 minutes) were animated, lit and composited in-house.

The movie had a very successful cinema release in September 2022.

Production Company:
Kordes & Kordes Film GmbH

Directed by: Sven Unterwaldt

Production Company: MOOVIE / Constantin Film
Directed by: David Wnendt

Lumatic provided visual effects and compositing for the episode "Ein hellblauer Tag" of the crime drama series "Strafe".

For this live action kid's movie franchise, based on one of Germany's best-selling children's book series, Lumatic created the magical, talking fox Rabbat from design to final animation.

Finding the right balance between realism and cartoon was a key aspect in this production.

Lumatic animated approximately 12 minutes in house, and also supervised part of other character animation by different vendors.

Big Hug FX in Munich were in charge of lighting and compositing under Lumatic's art direction.

The movie came to cinemas in October 2021 and was the most successful German film of the year.

In 2022 we won the German Film Award "Lola" / Deutscher Filmpreis in the category Best Visual Effects for our work on this movie.

For the second film in the franchise Lumatic took over the creation and animation of all five digital characters (approx. 20 min / 370 shots) and set up a new lighting and compositing department.

Production Company:
Kordes & Kordes Film GmbH

Directed by:
Gregor Schnitzler

Together with our Munich based partner studio Big Hug FX, Lumatic created a digital version of the robotic puppet Chucky for the 2019 reboot of Child's Play. The client aimed for a very limited range of motion for the character in the beginning of the movie and a more agile version in the final showdown. Lumatic was in charge of body rigging, facial setup and all of the character animation.

Production company: Orion Pictures
Directed by: Lars Klevberg

Teaming up with Wolkenlenker, Lumatic created an investment teaser for the series Spookies.

The clip was staged, lit, rendered and edited in the realtime Unreal engine to give the team more scheduling flexibility and creative freedom.

Production company: Seven Elephants
Directed by: Julia von Heinz

Lumatic was in charge of VFX for this political drama. For the 2021 Academy Awards the film was selected to represent Germany in the best international feature film category.

Investment teaser for the series Orbiteers Rescue Team (currently in development).

Production and life action shoot: Wolkenlenker UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Animation studio / post production: Lumatic Animation & VFX GmbH

Production Company: Beachside Films
Directed by: David Wnendt

Lumatic provided compositing and visual effects for this feature film drama. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2019.

Lumatic created the animated giraffe for this commercial for the newly opened cinema delphi LUX near the Berlin Zoo.

Lumatic created a commercial featuring an animated penguin pushing a trolley with a delicious digital breakfast.

Client: Sparwelt.de
Agency: Try No Agency

Fully animated TV commercial (20 seconds).

Client: Companisto.com
Agency: Try No Agency

Lumatic was in charge of art direction, design and animation.

Production company: Constantin Film
Directed by: Tomer Eshed

Lumatic was commissioned by Constantin Film to create an investment teaser for the movie Dragon Rider, with the aim of convincing potential buyers to make an initial investment in the film.

The teaser was created entirely in-house, was screened at the American Film Market (AFM), and successfully helped in financing the project.

Directed by: David Wnendt

For an internet crime episode of the famous German TV series Tatort, Lumatic provided visual effects and animated sequences, as well as interactive screen content for office PCs, tablets and browsers to be used by the actors on set.

Look Who's Back

Production company: Constantin Film
Directed by: David Wnendt

For the film adaptation, Lumatic contributed extensive visual effects work.

The tasks included set supervision, digital set extensions, on screen graphics, gLitch effects, compositing and character animation.

Client: Direct Line Versicherung AG
Agency / Art Direction: Shanghai Berlin

For this animated online spot for Direct Line automobile insurance, Lumatic worked in collaboration with the animation collective Talking Animals in Berlin.

Client: BNP Paribas Cardif
Agency: Supersaga / www.supersaga.be

Lumatic was in charge of direction and 3D animation on this animated online spot for Belgian mobile insurance company Mobi Protect.

Production company: Rommel Film
Directed by: David Wnendt

The Lumatic team created the visual effects and animated main title sequence for this feature film adaptation.

The second part of the "Our Wonderful Nature" short film series, portrays the eating habits of the common chameleon.

Besides its entertaining qualities the film deals with greedy behavior and its unfortunate consequences. With a similar fable attitude, this one-shot short was also a good opportunity to display Lumatic's artistic and technical abilities in the field of character animation, and was the first short produced independently by Lumatic.

Like the first short in the series, the film was well received worldwide and had a very successful festival run.

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This ambitious animated short tells the story of the only heterosexual flamingo, and his desperate attempt to find love.

The film deals ironically with sensitive social issues, and offers a portrait of society from an unusual point of view. The short was artistically and technically challenging, and required the collaboration of many team members and a long development time. It was very well received after its release.

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Chump and Clump meet at a bus stop. While waiting for the bus, which arrives only once a week, a bizarre and wonderful friendship develops, which prevails even when all odds turn against our heroes.

Chump and Clump is at the same time both a satire on and a love declaration to contemporary hollywood cinema, wrapped in tale of hilarious comedy.

In a surreal world the Protagonist, a clown projected onto a huge screen of a picturesque cinema as a metaphor for the subconscious mind of the audience, undergoes an existential development. He dreams of his counterpart, the white-face clown, and finally finds his true identity in the immortal archetype of the Trickster.

Character Design and Development

Trickster is a full CG-animated short film that was written and realized by Alexander Pohl in 2008. At this time the Reyes Renderman renderer was the most efficient renderer on the market developed by PIXAR Animation Studios. The advantage was the possibility to use a nearly unlimited polycount at very short rendering times. In return the user had to give up physical based lighting techniques such as global illumination or ambient occlusion.

World Building with Reyes Renderman

In order to reach a maximum detailed surface within a minimum render time the advantages of the Renderman REYES renderer were used to create the digital assets. The trick was to use displacement maps on very lowres base meshes that created the illusion of very fine and detailed sculptings. This technique saved al lot of modeling and rendering time.

In this animated nature film parody, the mating habits of the water shrew are portrayed as never seen before.

The concept allowed us to ironically combine the nature documentary genre with cinematic action and romance. The short was the first part of the humerous "Our Wonderful Nature" short film series. It was very successful after its release, was screened in many international festivals, won multiple awards, and received a nomination for an ACADEMY AWARD.

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Director: Tomer Eshed
Production: Lumatic

"Irwins love song" is an original animated short, based on a music piece composed by Tomer Eshed, who also developed the characters and story. It is a short Italian opera, set in a big fictive city. Unlike a traditional workflow, in this case the music was composed prior to the script, and provided the foundation for the story development.

The short tells the story of Irwin (WT), a male street rat, who sings a love serenade to a dark window in a small dark ally. Unexpectedly he is being backed up by three mice friends, who show up unannounced with the intention of supporting him. Embarrassed and confused he continues singing, and eventually finishes his song with a proud bow. As he hopefully looks up to the window he realises that despite his honest love declaration no reaction was produced through his efforts. Disappointed, he turns to leave, but on the way undergoes an internal emotional crisis, unable to accept his defeat. In a desperate attempt he attempts to climb up the window and gets injured in result. After getting knocked out he slowly recovers with the aid of his loyal friends and returns to his senses, but as he attempts to leave the ally with his friends and return to the city, he realises that he is unable to go brake the force that initially brought him there.