Whenever I hear a big engine, I think TRACTOR - no matter if I live in the middle of Los Angeles!

I had to dedicate the license plate to my dad, who recently became a proud first time tractor owner :)

PROJECT INSIGHTS:

Private Project

Just a small private project that reminded me of home and allowed me to discover more areas of blender and substance painter.

Personal Project

Finding time for personal artwork can be quite the balancing act :)

I couldn't resist to see the epic fall of the elephant pyramid finally from Dumbo's perspective! (Sculpted in VR-Adobe Medium)

Personal Project

Study - Oculus Medium

Maquette interpretation of the fabulous design by Tom Booth. I tried to translate the vintage photo vibes I got from his original design into 3 dimensions.

Once again, I was glad to support the team of Salon Alpin for the stopmotion-project "The Magic of Craft". Within this traditional animation technique, it was our main focus to strike a balance between free artistic interpretation and the actual representation of the charming world of Montblanc.

My task in this wonderful endeavor was finding the design language and creating the characters. It was a treat to work with such a dedicated team.

PRODUCTION INSIGHTS:

Client: Montblanc Int.

Agency: Scholz & Friends Berlin

Release Date: Nov 2016

Production, direction, production design: Salon Alpin - Lip Comarella, Simon Griesser

Character design and painting: Daniela Leitner

Puppet construction, rig: Oldskull FX

Animation, setconstruction: COLA

Sounddesign and music: fifth music, Matthias Hacksteiner

CGI: Christoph Schindelar, Ricardo Manso

Making-Of: Rui Telmo Romão, Simon Griesser

Team Salon Alpin: Philipp Comarella, Simon Griesser, Daniela Leitner, João Faria, Simon Häggström

Team Oldskull: João Rapaz, Paula Sofia, Guilherme Gamito, Catarina Silva, Sergio Reis, Martha Viana

Team COLA: Bruno Caetano, Ana Bossa, Ricardo Mata, Telmo Romão

Motion control: Vitor Estudante, Mauricio Martins

AWARDS:

Cannes Silver Lion // Digital Craft - Video/Moving Image, 2017

CCA (Creative Club Austria): Gold Venus/category Animation, 2017

CCA (Creative Club Austria): Gold Venus/category Film Craft, 2017

CCA (Creative Club Austria): Silver Venus/category Music and Sound Design, 2017

CCP (Creative Club Portugal): Gold / Best Art Direction

CCP (Creative Club Portugal): Gold / Best Brand Film Entertainment

ADC Deutschland: Silver/category Animation, 2017

ADC Deutschland: Nomination Winner/categories Illustration, 2017

Tuna sculpture as keyvisual for an animated commercial made only of thin cans and steel.

I was commissioned to digitally design and later handcraft the key visual asset for for the project. Together with studio Salon Alpin and Sandra Reichl we executed this animated spot together with the ad agency reichl & partner. 

The key visual was crafted out completely of cans analog before it got translated into digital. It was an interesting project to learn how to best translate a digital 3d design into more challenging materials like steel and aluminium.

PRODUCTION INSIGHTS:

Client: Vier Diamanten

Agency: Reichl & Partner

Release Date: June 2017

Production: Salon Alpin

Design and analog Sculpture: Daniela Leiter

Animation and direction: Salon Alpin

Rendering: Christoph Schindelar

Production management: Sandra Reichl

AWARDS:

CCA (Creative Club Austria): Bronze Venus/category Animation, 2018

CCA (Creative Club Austria): Honorable Mention/category Illustration, 2018

CCA (Creative Club Austria): Honorable Mention/category Art Direction, 2018

CCA (Creative Club Austria): Honorable Mention/category Film Craft, 2018

Viennas nineteenth century architecture meets Papercraft. A unique team play and exceptional project for Hotel Sacher Vienna.

Together with Sandra Reichl we were contacted by Ars Electronica to help them execute a project for Sacher, the world famous inventor of the Sacher Cake as well as an established high end hotel and restaurant.

Ars Electronica was brought on board to bring in some fresh technological and interactive air without loosing the handmade touch of the brands heritage. We were asked to design and build a miniature of the Sacher building itself - all made by hand and out of paper. 

Within our handcrafted Paper framework Ars Electronica was able to tell little animated stories that can be seen through the windows. The overall set design is a permanent installation that will showcase different seasons throughout the year.

PRODUCTION INSIGHTS:

Client: Hotel Sacher

Agency: Ars Electronica Solutions

Installation Date: Dec. 2017

Digital Design and Animation: Ars Electronica Solutions

Design and Papercraft: Daniela Leitner, Sandra Reichl

This online film is part of a Christmas campaign of the brand Montblanc. It embodies their core message “Made by Hand” and tells a tale of a Parisian winter wonderland.

The movie came out in 4 episodes the weeks before Christmas. It is set in a handcrafted scenery made entirely out of paper and, except for a few minor effects, makes no use of computer animation.

PRODUCTION INSIGHTS:

Project: Parision Wintertale – Montblanc

Release Date: Dec 2014

Agency: Scholz & Friends Berlin

Production: Salon Alpin

Direction: Philipp Comarella, Simon Griesser

Design/Papercraft: Daniela Leitner

Story: Tatiana de Rosnay

Team: Phillip Comarella ,Simon Griesser, Daniela Leitner, Joao Faria, Ana Oliveira, Anna Bertsch, Vito Estudante

Music and Sounddesign: undisclosed, Making of Music: Peter Nanasi

AWARDS:

CCA Vienna: Gold Venus/category Illustration, 2015

CCA Vienna: Gold Venus/category Art Direction, 2015

Reddot Award: Winner in Advertising Illustration, Advertising Film and Digital Campain, 2015

Shortlisted Cannes Lions, 2015

ADC Deutschland: Silver/category Illustration, 2x Nomination Winner/categories Film and Animation, 2015

ADC Europe: Silver/category Illustration and Photography, 2x Nomination Winner/categories Graphic Design and Film & Radio, 2015

ADC Nachwuchswettbewerb – Daniela Leitner: Silver/category Illustration, 2016

We are very honored that this project was part of the exhibition "AT FIRST SIGHT" in the Vienniese Art Museum "Wien Museum Karlsplatz".

Tribute design to Hellboy. Working with geometrical shapes, combined with my experiences in wood work.

PROJECT INSIGHTS:

Free Project

LOGLINE:
An elderly couple seem to have lost their affections for one another. One day at the beach, after falling asleep, something incredible happens with them - something that rekindles their long lost romantic feelings.

PRODUCTION INSIGHTS:

Written, directed and produced by: Daniela Leitner

Design: Daniela Leitner

Camera and Editing: Christian Leitner, Daniela Leitner

Music - composed and performed by: Fabian Baumgartner, Marina Viotti, Silvia Ponce Marti, Anna Isabel Chan Flores
recorded and mixed by: Silvio Canazei

Sound Design and Editing: Silvio Canazei

Rigging: Christopher Hofmann

Animation: Christian Leitner, Martin Lorenz, Markus Wagner

Additional Animation: Simon Griesser

Coloring: Daniela Leitner, Lip Comarella

Compositing: Simon Griesser, Daniela Leitner

Special Thanks:

Conrad Tambour, Benjamin Swiczinsky, Anthony Guedes, Matthias Brandstätter, Bernhard Handler, Martin Maximilian Michl, Oliver Kartak, Modular Plus, Maria und Leopold Leitner, Anna Grabner, Matthias Spaetgens

Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien - MA7 

Land Niederösterreich

A handcrafted interactive newspaper sculpture made out of over 100 critical Tagesspiegel articles concerning the controversial Presidency of Donald J. Trump.

For the Berlin Newspaper Tagesspiegel I was asked to concept design and produce a bust of Donald J. Trump using 1 year worth of newsprint paper. 

After using 80 kg of paper and over different 100 articles, I am happy to see the final result digitalised for an interactive web experience online, check the link below -> https://trump365.r.worldssl.net/

PRODUCTION INSIGHTS:

Client: Tagesspiegel

Agency: Scholz & Friends

Release Date: Jan 2018

Design and Sculpture: Daniela Leitner

Photogrammetry: Christoph Schindelar 

Web dev.: Stefan Paul Kernjak

Photos: Belle & Sass - Photography for real people

PRESS:

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/trump-365/

http://www.horizont.net/agenturen/nachrichten/Trump

https://www.wuv.de/agenturen/365_tage_trump_fiction

http://www.new-business.de/trump365

AWARDS:

CCA (Creative Club Austria): Silver Venus/category Art Direction, 2018

CCA (Creative Club Austria): Bronze Venus/category Digital Websites, Microsites, 2018

CCA (Creative Club Austria): Honorable Mention/category Digital-Craft, 2018

Online Loop-Animation for karriere.at
Papercraft and digital Illustration. 
In teamwork with the Animation Studio Salon Alpin.

PRODUCTION INSIGHTS:

Client: karriere.at

Agency: Heimat Wien

Release Date: Sept. 2017

Design and Paper-Art: Daniela Leitner

Coloring and Animation: Salon Alpin

On Okt 30th the Annual Austrian Conference on Computer Graphics and Animation – PIXELvienna 10th edition took place. Salon Alpin created the keyvisuals and a brief opening intro. I was very honored to have been asked to transfer the key art design into an analog 3d-sculpture.

After that Simon Griesser and his companion Joao Faria worked their Magic: Every shot was recorded around 10 times with the same cameramotion and different light setups including projections with a beamer. The combination of the footage through a matte that resembles a render process reveals piece by piece the final model.

PRODUCTION INSIGHTS:

Project: PIXEL VIENNA X Titles

Client: PIXEL VIENNA

Date: 2015

Production: Salon Alpin

Direction and Art Direction: Philipp Comarella, Simon Griesser, Daniela Leitner

Team: Philipp Comarella, Simon Griesser, Daniela Leitner, Joao Faria

Music and Sounddesign: fifth music

Paper sculpture commissioned by agency mama said no for the ALFA ROMEO launch event at the Italian Embassy in Vienna.

I was asked to artistically interpret some of the brands values into a paper and wood design. Together with four other designs the exhibiton framed the event for ALFA ROMEO's new car model Stelvio.

PRODUCTION INSIGHTS:

Client: Alfa Romeo

Agency: mama said no

Date: Feb 2017

Distorted self portrait of my hula hoop experience during holidays. I guess, I wanted to put my poorly developed hula-hooping skills to good use and started having fun with some clay.

PROJECT INSIGHTS:

Free Project: Hula Hoop

I was asked to sculpt the new Image Campaign "SONNTAG IST ANDERS" for the Austrian Newspaper "Die Presse am Sonntag".
Together with Salon Alpin we designed the key-visual.

Rudolf Schwarz (Managing Director at "Die Presse"): "Journalism is a craft, thats why in this project in particular we valued real handcraft. The scene was exclusivly created out of paper. The campaign is as genuine, as our standards of quality. It not only visualises our passion for the craft of journalism but also combiends tradition and innovation."

PROJECT INSIGHTS:

Project: DIE PRESSE - "Sonntag ist Anders"

Date: July 2015

Papercraft: Daniela Leitner

Design: Daniela Leitner, Philipp Comarella/Salonalpin

Agency: Traktor Wien

Photographer: Bernd Preiml

Making Of: Philipp Comarella, Simon Griesser, Daniela Leitner

AWARDS:

CCA Vienna: “Bronze Venus”/category Illustration, 2016

CCA Vienna: “Bronze Venus”/cat. Art Direction, 2016

We are very honored that this project was part of the exhibition "AT FIRST SIGHT" in the Vienniese Art Museum "Wien Museum Karlsplatz".

I was asked by Studio Riebenbauer to support them on their breathtaking Interior Design Project for a new cocktail bar for a famous restauranteur in Vienna, as part of an invitation-only pitch.

“One must not spare on dreams. Dreams are meant to be grandiose.”

Riebenbauer: “In the spirit of Franca Sozzani the bar is inspired by Italian design tradition that subtly plays with a dream theme. The centerpiece of the whole concept is a wall with ten Dream Bottles. With each bottle being an Art piece in itself, they play with concept and imagery of dreams and present it in unique bottle-like glass objects.”

My task was to bring those Bottle-Sculptures to life in 3D, to later in the process produce the final art piece in collaboration with the glass artist Robert Comploj.

PRODUCTION INSIGHTS:

Client: Fabios Dream (invitation only Pitch)

Agency: Studio Riebenbauer

Date: April 2017

Design and Modeling: Daniela Leitner

Clean up and Rendering: Christian Leitner, Andrea Chiampo