Although you might not see it, but there is a lot of work going on at the moment - on my beloved localhost. Well, because of various reasons I will dive into next week, I am in a complete redesign process of madmind.de at the moment. And this time I mean it. Not only the design will change but the site structure will change as well.

Expect an awesomly new design with some awesomly great ideas.

For the time being (because of…

I know, this sounds quit silly but I have seen far bigger corporations stumble into problems before than Dreamworks Animation. The reason I come up with this assumption is because I have noticed something unbelievable: a Photoshop Disaster. Made by Dreamworks. Or is it a (C)? I don't know.

The movie I am talking about is the upcoming MONSTERS VS: ALIENS, due in 2009. For this seemingly interesting movie they started to create first promo materials - or better: one which…

Let's check the time. Yes, okay, it has been a while since the last update. And hence, besides some shame on me, it is finally time to give a status report about A ROBOT'S DREAM, my precious little 3D animation project.

Real Life

I think everyone of you noticed some lack of new content regarding this movie project. The simple and harsh truth is that I didn't continue because real life has struck me with work. During the last weeks I was…

Yesterday I went into a movie. It was an Italian movie whose title I don't remember anymore. I think I never knew it to begin with. It was about some guitarist guy who seemed to be in a midlife crisis sort of situation and therefore visited his family full of psychos and problems. After the movie was over, I left the cinema with my friends. But didn't talk very much because I was puzzled.

About what was this movie about? This…

It is truly mind blowing what the lastest installement of the Bat achieved in the last few days. And boy, this one really sneaked up on me, I really didn't see that one coming - in many ways.

I knew this movie would make some big money. This was no hard guess at all. Spiderman 1 to 3, X-Men, Hulk and all the others movies/franchises managed to earn some money - most of the time big money. While The Incredible Hulk only…

It seems that the experiment called THE ANIMATRIX paid of somehow, as the powers that be made another joint effort, combining again the writing power of the west with the animation power of the east. The result is GOTHAM KNIGHT, a movie consisting of six separate segments, each one with a different take on Batman.

As with The Animatrix, GOTHAM KNIGHT is a bridge between the first movie BATMAN RETURNS and its upcoming sequel THE DARK KNIGHT. Besides the hints in…

Today I had the chance to watch Dreamworks newest 3D animated movie KUNG FU PANDA in a sneak preview. I was a little bit reluctant after watching some trailers and reading some reviews and due to the fact it was a 3D animated movie. The last years were not the best for 3D animated flicks in my eyes as most studios (with exception for Pixar) went with the standard story flow and didn't try something new. Was this assumption regarding…

Sometimes time can be like those times. It's when you know for sure "Damn, it is this time again." Those times, when you think back to those times when time was not like that time.

Anyone who ever had this "Moment Of The Sometimes Time" knows that I am writing about the black hole of scriptwriting called I-Have-No-Idea.

Despite the missing updates in this electronic personal space of mine (aka blog) I worked on my 3D animated short movie "A Robot's Dream".…

Ok, before I write about MNS and his movie I have to admit that I have broken the one big rule of blogging: never stop doing it. Well, I tried. I really wanted to write something in this blog. Yet I had so many projects to fulfill that I couldn't stand the keyboard anymore after long days hitting them with my finger. Each and every time I was SO glad to move away from everything electronic that you almost won't…

To say I was working on "A Robot's Dream" would be the same as to say that models look wonderful. A huge, and I mean HUGE, exaggeration.

Although I managed to find a cool idea for the story (this once in a while lucky ray of brilliance you mistake for talent) there are at least three other things stacked up in my queue right now - finding the appropriate genre for my short movie, for example.

But there is another thing that…