I collaborated with Nick and Chloé for the music video “Couché Sur Le Sable” for the band “Le Roi Angus”. My job was to produce a looping 3D sequence about what’s was first? The chicken or the egg?
Credits:
Directed by: Nick and Chloé
Director Of Photography: Corentin Kopp
3D Design, Animation, Lighting, Shading: Moritz Reichartz
Executive Producer: Benjämin Przespolewski – Collectif ensemlbe
Editor: Tanguy Lavabre – DKFT
Colorist: Mathieu – DKFT
After being involved in heavy pre-production and testing early 2020 the pandemic hit and this project brought me through 8 full months of that year. Pure luck! A wonderful experience with loads of R&D and a brilliant product at the end.
Text by Farhouse Media:
Each melody of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s “Tierkreis” characterizes the particular qualities of those people born under the respective zodiac sign. Originally conceived for music boxes, the work can be performed with any instrumentation. Conductor Lin Liao has developed a new version together with members of the WDR Symphony Orchestra. Farhouse Media has created a separate virtual world for each sign of the zodiac, thus creating an audiovisual concept. For the soloists of the WDR Symphony Orchestra it was a very special experience to play music in a green TV studio with tracking markings on their bodies and instruments.
Credits:
Production: FARHOUSE MEDIA
Art Director, 3D Artist, Animation, Compositing: Moritz Reichartz
VFX Supervisor, Keying, Titles: Sebastian Gimmel
Aluminum bottle visualisation (still and animation) for web. https://drinkeverandever.com
Fully parametric and 100% controlable bottle melt rig for clients CAD-bottle.
Credits:
Production: Sparrow Studio.
Direction: Stacie Plassche
3D Lighting, Shading, Aniamtion: Moritz Reichartz
With a fixed budget I was free to do what I wanted for Mr. Asbo and Soulspeak and their song “Dimple Cup”. Fictional non language blubber lyrics meet superb musical sounds.
Credits:
Music: Mr.Asbo and Soulspeak
Story, Direction, Design, Animation and Images: Moritz Reichartz
Music video for the song “Made Of Love” by OY.
AFRO PUNK (US) writes:
Ghanaian-Swiss singer Joy Frempong and producer & musician Lleluja-Ha are back from outer space, and they’ve brought a new sound with them that might make the future a little more colorful—if we listen. Making up the duo OY, the video to their latest single is as catchy and eye-popping as the message is powerful. In the experimental clip directed by Moritz Reichartz, Frempong chants off different nationalities as head-like shapes of various colors gyrate against each other while floating on a clear sea, leading to a climax where the heads congregate in front of a giant wall, making so much love that the partition is destroyed.
Credits:
Music: OY
Direction, Art Directorion, 3D Artist, Design, Animation: Moritz Reichartz
Story: Moritz Reichartz, Joy Frempong and Lleluja-Ha
This is the music video for the song “Space Diaspora” of OY’s new album bearing the same name.
The musicians Joy & Lleluja – about the clip & song:
On our new album we tell the story of mankind’s future on a imaginary planet called Space Diaspora. So Space Diaspora is the second single and the title track of our new album. The song is the beginning of this space opera and tells the story of the departure & transformation of planet Earth in and onto Space Diaspora. We couldn’t have been more lucky than to have Moritz Reichartz illustrate and interpret this story for us. The clip allows further imagination and interpretation.. and so we invite people to participate and build their own story. ‘After all, in spite of all technological inventions, the farthest we can travel is still with our minds.’
The label sais:
Life on Space Diaspora is a reflection and a distortion of our own struggling world, conveying sentiments of modern alienation and transnational identity. OY’s thoughtful and humorous, tongue-in-cheek approach looks back at current times from the vantage point of a chaos-driven but blooming society in our own future. A vision which elicits tears as well as smiles, and praises the huge potential of the in-between.
The director Moritz Reichartz about the clip:
Technically speaking, the video is generated almost without keyframes, which are traditionally an essential tool for computer based animation. I work with these nokeyframe techniques for the last two years (latest publised result is “Hands Off [AI]” www.momade.de/hands-off-a-i) as i found they often produce unforseable, better than imagination results that are filled with a lot more life and provide a wide spectrum of outcome to choose from.
Dynamic simulations, noise and time driven animations and textures, hair systems, formula based deformers, force and turbulence guided particle systems and many caches baked in specefic chronological orders brig this story to life.
The process for the video was more the one of a labrotory rather that the one of inbetweening classical storyboard images in squares. Probably not more that 40 keyframes, mostly used for the camera work where used in this project.
Creators Project
Booooooom
Noisey (CH)
FLOOD Magazine
Dezeen
Nominated for “Best Swiss Video Clip 2017”.
Nominated for “Webvideopreis Deutschland – Category: ArtHouse”.
Credits:
Music: OY
Direction, Design, Animation and Images: Moritz Reichartz
Story: Moritz Reichartz, Joy Frempong and Lleluja-Ha
On one hand »Hands Off [A.I.]« is a collection of automated animations generated over the last year for R&D reasons and out of interest for automated motion design. Automated means, there are no keyframes used what so ever for any of the clips in this piece.
On the other hand »Hands Off [A.I.]« is an artistic comment to Tim Urbans writing on A.I. “The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence” [bit.ly/1L3HONu] on www.waitbutwhy.com, as I developed a heavy mental vertigo after reading the article with all that it implies.
Maybe the outcomes of my visual experiment might be estetically appealing to some of us, so might A.I. be. But what will awaits us, once these automated creatures become self aware and procreate in an uncontrolled manner / overpover us in intelligence? Will you get scared?
It’s Nice That
Vice – The Creators Project
tv.booooooom.com
Credits:
Design, Animation and Sound Mixing: Moritz Reichartz
Speaker: www.fromtexttospeech.com / British English, Harry, slow
Sounds: www.freesound.org Sound IDs (IOOA): 342169, 342219, 341761, 320142, 336718, 342132, 336720, 342191, 341763, 342096, 341814, 342177
Credits:
Agency: Elastique
Lighting and shading: Moritz Reichartz
This is my 3rd prize winning entry to the ‘Render the Metaverse’ VR competition, held by OTOY and OCULUS in 2015.
It is a colorful spatial mashup of objects that were created throughout the first year of working with OTOY’S Octane Render.
Credits: Thanks to Matt and Henrik. Sound Design for the video: cebraband.com
Write-Ups:
Vice – The Creators Project
Kill Screen
