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Urs
Moritz Mayerhofer
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“Urs” is the graduation film of Moritz Mayerhofer at the Institute of Animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg. For almost three years he drew thousands of mountains, characters and villages. He began the pre-production during an exchange program at les Gobelins, Paris. When he came back to the Filmakademie he joined the class of acclaimed animation director Andreas Hykade (“The Runt”, “Ring of Fire”) to produce his film. He worked day and night to create a deep atmospheric film where he would find the fragile relationship of a man to his mother in the middle of a gigantic set of mountains. His goal was to combine the beauty of 2D matte paintings with 3D character animation and 2D classical effects animation into a painterly unity.
Director, Design, Animation: Moritz Mayerhofer; Producer: Stina McNicholas, Jakob von Moers; Character TD: Jonas Jarvers; Matte Paintings: Moritz Mayerhofer, Julia Ocker, Leszek Plichta, Martin Puttkammer, Felix Mertikat, Johannes Schiehsl; Effect Animation: Jan Locher, Stefan Habel, Hendrik Panz, Benjamin Swiczinsky; Shading: Michael Lederhuber; Lighting: Thomas Moser; Sound Design: Michael J. Diehl; Foley Artist: Marcus Neuberger
Moritz Mayerhofer (DE), born in 1981, successfully applied to study animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2003. He created a couple of award-winning shorts such as "CAPs", "The Christmas Hitler" and "The Last Tree". In 2005 Moritz was a jury member of Zlin International Film Festival (Czech Republic) and of the Roshd International Film Festival (Iran). He participated in an exchange program at GOBELINS, Paris, to learn more about animation, design and layout.