Based on the vector illustrations we did the character animation in Adobe Flash and created the environment in Adobe After Effects. The newspaper itself was requested to be a real footage element, so we did a 2 day stop-motion shoot in house to get the necessary style and footage for our final product.

The three TV spots were first aired in August 2008 on Austria’s broadcast station ORF. The extended version for movie theatres premiered in September 2008 and is shown across Austria.

Der Standard Theatrical commercial:

Der Standard TV commercials:

Stills from the TV commercials:

We displayed eight animated spots on a double-sided 4×3 meter plasma wall at the entrance of the KUKA booth. The spots were planned, shot in the studio and 3D-animated in tight production schedule and on location. The technical solution was developed in cooperation with satis&fy, Frankfurt, Germany.

After creating full-length 3D-visulizations we shot the pantomimes in green-screen studio. The silhuettes were combined with 3D-animations of robots. We then created the outlines and added comic-like effects to get the desired look.

Additional animations were produced for the four horizontal plasma screens sporting 2xHD resolution in width, which were located behind the two bars.

The music for this montage is by Groove Armada. The original was shown without audio.

At the EnBW SmartFactory visitors of the Hannover Messe were informed about energy saving potentials in factories. With an interactive terminal the users could access various interviews and animations, which were shown on a 3-screen video wall.

The project was realised using Adobe Flash for the interface and vvvv for video playback, using several networked computers. Strukt also worked on the continuous video installation on five plasma screens around the SmartFactory.

By selecting an item on the touchscreen the visitor could access various interviews.

NODE08 is dedicated to digital arts and implies an exhibition and a lecture day with talks of Herbert W. Franke (computer graphics pioneer), Casey Reas (developer of Processing), Paul Prudence (creator of dataisnature.com, computational artist), Régine Debatty (creator of we-make-money-not-art.com) plus many more, and an impressive amount of workshops (with focus on vvvv).

Strukt realised the event design including the logo, key visual and motion design, and was involved in the organisation of the event. The print materials were created by Sebastian Huber. The organisation commitee consisted of David Brüll, Patrick Raddatz, Eno Henze, Alexander Graf, Sebastian Huber and Thomas Hitthaler (Strukt).

The key visual of the event was used for print, motion and web design, e.g. for the posters above.

The workshops were held by vvvv-experienced users and professionals.

More impressions of the one-week conference, the exhibition and the workshops (and some behind-the-scenes pictures) can be found on the NODE08 flickr group and on the official website of NODE08.

Tagtool artists Matthias Fritz and Markus Dorninger were painting over the animation, which was projected on a self illuminated cube.

After the intro animations the cube split and built two towers. A screen which showed animations explaining the functionality of the new boot was revealed.

The show closed with well known soccer players like Lionel Messi, David Villa and Johan Vonlanthen personally presenting the shoe once more.

The 3D-animation in the closing film consists of up-to-date photographs from the event and a dynamic swarm of all 1100 participants, who were photographed during the conference. All portraits finally build the motto of the conference: “360°”.

Stills from opening film

The opening film for the corporate conference adresses the main topics of the conference. This montage shows a shorter version of the opening film.

Strukt was commissioned by circ corporate experience to develop the event design and a part of the motion design.

Together with circ, Strukt coordinated visual designs and worked closely with interior designers to create a consistent experience throughout the conference and dinner party.

The projections on stage were fitted into the architecture of the venue, a former railway station in Berlin. All 2D- and 3D-animations for the evening party were produced by Strukt in-house. The visitors were taken on a journey looking through the virtual windows in the arches of the hall.

The party included an opera performance, contemporary dance and a performance by a young beat box artist.

Strukt was commisioned to create 6 TV-Commercials for IAA, Europe’s biggest auto show, by Berlin based agency Zum goldenen Hirschen. Strukt provided motion design based on an already established layout and supervised the green screen shoot at Havel Studios, Berlin.

Animation still

All spots were completed within 14 days. The commercials aired on German TV-Stations such as ARD, ZDF, Premiere, Sat.1 or RTL and in several arenas of the German soccer “Bundesliga”.

The agency Zum goldenen Hirschen made use of Strukt’s Rent-the-team option.

“Schlosshof” by day (image source: www.schlosshof.at).

Drawing with light on the facade of the castle.

As students of Stefan Sagmeister at the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg, Philipp Steinweber of kon.txt and Strukt’s Andreas Koller worked on the topic “Is it possible to touch someone’s heart with design?”. Together they created an information graphic visualizing the text in the Holy Books of the five world religions.

In june 2007 the original 7×3-meter (23×10-foot) artwork was exhibited for the first time at Hangar-7 in Salzburg, Austria. It is also shown at the c.stem festival in Milan, Italy, and on the Processing.org online exhibition, on visualcomplexity.com and infosthetics.com. “Similar Diversity” was mentioned in EYE magazine #64 and PAGE magazine 12/2007.

Details on the project and an explanation of the creation process can be found on similardiversity.net. The image was created using vvvv and Processing.

Additional to the 30-second intro animation, which features a mix of athletes and graphic elements in a 3D-collage, Strukt created several bumpers for the various sections of the DVD, one styleguide for animated photo collages, and the DVD cover.

Intro animation (sound in this version by RJD2 - The Horror)

Logo design

Animated photo collage mixing various sport disciplines (sound in this version by Flying Lotus feat. Dreya - Tea Leaf Dancers)

Still from intro and logo animation

Strukt was asked to design the whole evening’s projections inside the club, working with two visual designers, one director of photography and two Tagtool-Artists creating content for five projectors and a three-projector wide screen behind the DJs.

The visual concept was to provide a diversity of styles with an interactive participation of the crowd. We installed a Tagtool for an open-to-public session in the center of the room, where everybody could join and be part of the projections. These were mixed with generative content, programmed to be reactive to the sound. For the DJ set of Markus Kavka two Tagtool-Artists worked out visual stories, combined with cut-out-animation and video clips. A third part involved more classical visual techniques like video loops and live video from cameras in the crowd.

Two days after the event the over 5-minute long video documentation for in-store presentations was finished.

DJ Julietta (female pressure) and Markus Kavka (MTV)

Flyer for the event on May 12th, 2007 (design by caligula)

The presentation of the new soccer ball was realised with a fully projected sphere (by Strukt’s technical director Thomas Hitthaler, produced by Meso Digital Interiors) with a diameter of 4 meters.

Animations by Strukt presenting the new F50 Tunit, Pure and Predator and jersey designs for the team players of Germany, Denmark, Greece, France and Spain.

The stage consisted of three triangular canvases, for which Strukt provided the content.

The Hangar-7 in Salzburg, Austria provided a perfect location for this trade event (photo by Johannes Löberbauer).

It’s like a video game that’s all about drawing as a team.

We use it for interactive drawing, stage design, music visualisation and performances with live musicians and street artists.

The aim is a) to explore the experience of drawing with 21st century tools, and b) to create an instrument for spontaneous real-time animation.

More information can be found on tagtool.org.

List all Tagtool projects by Strukt

Tagtool at Southbank Centre in London (image by Markus Dorninger)

Projections on the facade of a castle for a corporate event in Austria. The Tagtool illuminated the architecture and interpreted the building in a completely new way.

Realtime drawings for an adidas press conference in Barcelona.

Open-to-public session at ARGE Kultur before the TNT Jackson concert.

This project was presented at the TNT Jackson concert at ARGE Kultur Salzburg on March 3rd 2007. It was a non-profit project. The Tagtool is an interactive digital drawing tool by our partners Office for Media and Arts International that explores new ways of expressions and visualization. It is closely related to graffiti, street-art and illustration, and unifies these art forms in a new way.

Strukt created a live visual performance with combination of different design styles and techniques for TNT Jackson on stage.

After the TNT Jackson concert we worked with generative graphics and sound-reactive particle systems to visualize the DJ set of Michael Fakesch (who used to be one half of Funkstörung).[/lang_en][lang_de]Mit analogen und digitalen Medien gestaltete Strukt eine interaktive visuelle Installation für die Bühnengestaltung von TNT Jackson. Mit dem Zeicheninstrument Tagtool wurden Legetrickanimationen (mit Fotos aus Zeitschriften, Zeitungen und selbst erstellen Scribbles) kombiniert mit Stop-Motion Puppenanimation und damit Geschichten erzählt, die perfekt zur live Performance von TNT Jackson passten.Das Tagtool ist ein interaktives digitales Zeichen- und Animationsinstrument, das von unseren Partnern im Office for Media and Arts International entwickelt wird.[/lang_de]

Each project is linked to the corresponding description page at meso.net, providing more images, a description and video clips.

BMW MINI booth at the Tokyo Motor Show 2007

Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden: Information terminals and a light installation for the Salt Museum.

A fully projected sphere for the BASF Hauptversammlung 2006 and 2007

Projected dome with surrounding information terminals about climate change for EnBW

Touch-sensitive and VJ-drums for Amstel Pulse

UBS Photo Field: 32 screens showing pictures uploaded by UBS employees

V+W Memory Room: A video jukebox controlled by a billiard table

All images on this page are © by MESO Digital Interiors or by the individuals credited on the meso webpage.

We worked with audio-visual installations, generative content and pre-produced video loops. In 2005 at Arena Vienna we worked with projectors and a TV wall built out of 20 individual monitors. In 2006 we additionally hosted an open-to-public Tagtool session. The Red Bull Brandwagen BBQ parties were organised by dvsn.at.

These annual parties celebrated the journeys of the Brandwagen, a decked out Mercedes bus, that is available for young and upcoming bands for their tours.

The Brandwagen at Arena Vienna in 2005, illuminated with generative visuals by Strukt.

The animation was created by Andreas Koller, now Strukt’s creative director, while being employed as motion graphics designer at Sony DADC Austria AG in Salzburg, Austria.
© Sony DADC Austria AG

Five hours of live tagging and drawing

We invited writer AKIM from “Jazzstylecorner Berlin” to draw the visuals with the Tagtool. The stage was built completely out of several bigger and smaller white cubes to have a large and lively space for projections. We also worked with pre-produced video loops for the Red Bull Music Academy session that took place before Kool Keith’s show.

Music: Karzima “K3″

Kool Keith on stage, while AKIM writes digital tags on the white cubes.

45 King (producer for Queen Latifah, DJ Kool, Jay Z, Eminem, Eric B. & Rakim, GangStarr) dropping his tunes, AKIM (Jazzstylecorner Berlin) writing.

The whole stage setup with three beamers and 12 flat-screen monitors.

The clients included Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, EIV, Prisvideo, TF1, Studio Canal and KTM.

These projects have been realised at Sony DVD Center Europe or Sony DADC Austria AG prior to the foundation of Strukt GmbH. The content is © by Sony DVD Center Europe or their clients.

The work of Andreas Koller included film intros, logo animations, screen design and background animations for international DVD, UMD and BluRay titles. Above: Blade Trinity UMD intro animation for Metropolitain, EIV and Village Roadshow.

Andreas Koller’s reel from work up to June 2007 contains most of these animations for Sony DVD Center Europe, but also other commercial and personal projects.

Additional to motion design Strukt’s activities at the festival itself included organising a conference on VJing tools and generative graphics. Both the trailer design and the conference organisation were non-profit projects.

The trailer extends the corporate design of the Schmiede into 3d-space, where the big amboss is constructed from abstract elements. Additional typographical animations inform about the artists participating at the workshops.

The logo is being constructed in 3D-space