Sebastian Koenig

I am a Blender freelancer from Leipzig (Germany). I'm working at www.blendFX.com, a small VFX and 3D Studio here in Leipzig, where I am doing a wide range of general 3D work and animtion, VFX, project management and technical directing. 

I have several years of production experience for many different clients, among them Blender Instiute, for which I worked as VFX supervisor, matchmover and compositing artist for the Open Movie "Tears of Steel" 

Being a Blender Foundation Certified Trainer I also do training, for beginners and advanced users, for universities, private students as well as companies. I have given courses all over the world, in  Amsterdam, Sofia, Brasil, Leipzig and other places, so traveling is not a problem. If you or your company need training or consulting, you can contact me to arrange something. 

Trainingproducts

• Blender 2.72. Das umfassende Training German Blender Training by Galileo Press, 2014
• Das Blender-Training: Compositing & Rendering German Blender Training by Galileo Press, 2013
• Track, Match, Blend  Open Source Matchmoving. Blender Foundation Training DVD
• Blender 2.62. Das umfassende Training  German Blender Training by Galileo Press, 2012
• Several online tutorials for www.cmivfx.com
• Several tutorials for www.blendercookie.com
   

Training:

• 2013 Blender Institute Training, Lighting and Rendering
• 2012 Blender Institute Training, VFX Pipeline
• TOSMI 2011: Advanced Blender Course. Matchmoving and Greenscreen
• TOSMI 2010: Advanced Blender Course. Matchmoving and Compositing
• Blender courses for the Leipzig School of Design
• Courses for the HTWK and FAM Leipzig
• Company training and consulting
  
   

Some movies and projects:

• Matchmoving and compositing for Hunter's Bride (2010)
• Matchmoving, Layout and Compositing for Tears of Steel (2012)
• Matchmoving, Retouching and Rotoscoping for Simon Says (2014)
• VFX and Retouching for Herbert (2014)
• Project Management, VFX, Animation for two 45min documentaries Terra X (ZDF, 2014)
• VFX and Animations for several episodes of "Geschichte Mitteldeutschlands" (MDR 2013-2015)

Talks:

• 2014 Talk and Workshop at Loop Festival in Bogotá, Columbia
• 2014 "The Manikin" at LGM2014, Leipzig
• 2014 "Blender and Project Gooseberry", FMX 2014, Stuttgart
• 2013 "Tears of Steel - making a short VFX film with Blender",  FMX Stuttgart
• 2013 "Production of Tears of Steel", Polish Blender Conference YABC-2013, Danzig
• 2012 "Motion Tracking with Blender", Blender Pro Brasil
• 2012 "Introduction to Blender camera tracking", Blender Conference Amsterdam
• 2011 Blender Conference Amsterdam
• 2011 View Conference Turin
• 2010 Cava Conference Leipzig