Thomas Stellmach

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Thomas Stellmach (* 1965 in Straubing ) is an animation film director, producer, author and animator . For his independent productions, in addition to around 50 international awards, he received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oscar in 1997 for the stop-motion film Quest , which was awarded the SDR Audience Award, today's SWR Audience Award , in 1996 at the Stuttgart Animated Film Festival was awarded. He also took part in the workshop for young filmmakers (now the workshop of the young film scene ) with the films Ätsch and Gulp .

He studied animation with the animated film artist and professor Paul Driessen at the Kassel Art College . After completing his artistic degree, he founded the Lichthof - Film & Animation studio in Kassel with two partners in 2000 and produced for television and advertising until 2008. Stellmach gave up his share in the company in 2009 and has since concentrated on artistic projects again. The productions include computer animation , stop motion , animation and pixilation . In his latest animated abstract experimental film Virtuos Virtuell , he and his director partner and artist Maja Oschmann visualized the overture to the opera The Alchymist by Louis Spohr in black ink and in stereoscopy. The 3D version of the film has been integrated into the permanent exhibition of the Spohr Museum since 2013 . In the same year the film was also released on DVD.

Stellmach is a jury member at festivals and holds workshops at the following schools and institutions:

Filmography

Stellmach worked as a writer, director, animator and producer for the following films, unless otherwise stated for the respective film titles.

Before the study
  • 1982: Domino Play , 5 min, stop motion
  • 1984: plasticine , 5 min, plasticine trick
  • 1984: competition without a winner , 12 min, stop motion
  • 1985: The great labyrinth , 5 min, stop motion
  • 1985: The last sheet , 6 min, stop motion
  • 1986: Rome and Jul , 14 min, stop motion
  • 1986: Let me live too , 6 min, stop motion
  • 1987: Weiss (application film for the course), 11 min, stop motion
During the study
  • 1988: Ätsch , 2 min, animation
  • 1988: Gulp , 3 min, experimental film / real film , (actors: T. Stellmach; idea, direction, animation, production: Mark Feuerstake)
  • 1990: Weeds , 5 min, animation
  • 1994: Filmladen trailer, 2:15 min pixilation, client: Filmladen Kassel
  • 1994: small talk , 5 min, pixilation, (animation: students of the art college Kassel)
  • 1994: Old Super Lady , 0:30 min, animation, client: MTV -Europe
  • 1995: 100 years of cinema , 3 min, animation, (idea, direction, animation, production: students of the Kassel Art College)
  • 1996: Quest , 11 min, stop-motion, (Director: Tyron Montgomery )
  • 1998: Lebenshilfe spot, 0:30 min, animation, (idea, direction, animation: Monika Stellmach), client: Lebenshilfe eV
  • 2000: Chicken Kiev (graduation film), 9 min, animation
After graduation
  • 2001: MTV-Idents , animation / computer animation, (idea, direction, animation, production: Lichthof, Film & Animation), client: MTV-Germany
  • 2002: Dreamland , music video with surreal image compositions based on music by DJ Ross, (animation, production: Lichthof, Film & Animation), client: Polydor
  • 2002: Logo, TV intro and separator for the children's news program, animation, (animation, production: Lichthof, Film & Animation), client: ZDF / KI.KA
  • 2002: The day I was dad (TV feature film), trick sequences with computer animation, (animation, production: Lichthof, Film & Animation), client: Bavaria Film
  • 2002–2008: various commercials, stop motion / animation / computer animation, (direction, animation, production: Lichthof, film & animation), clients: Wrigley / BBDO-Düsseldorf, Premiere / Goldammer, LBS / BBDO-Berlin, Lindt & Sprüngli / FCB Wilkens
  • 2013: Virtuoso Virtual , 7:22 min, animated experimental film, ink on paper, glass and in water, (director partner: Maja Oschmann)

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personal data
SURNAME Stellmach, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German animation director, producer, writer and animator
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Straubing