Tobias Staerk | Realtime/XR/VFX/VirtualProduction

Wunderland

I had the privilege to be invited on set as a VFX supervisor for the documentary about one of Hamburgs iconic Miniature Exhibition. It cinemas now. Go watch it if you can.
Aston Martin Sphere

All cars were rendered in Unreal - cool project with lots of head scratching how to create content for a spherical screen. Hint: the sock is inside out.
I am Lij

Together with the Miss Germany Organization we created this realtime rendered virtual influencer using Rokoko Suits, iClone and Unreal
CUPRA x Parookaville

We created a virtual character for CUPRA during an elaborate cocreation process. For the reveal we mocapped the French EDM DJ Hugel and let him pupeteer his virtual alter ego for a full 30min set at the Parookaville Festival immersed in a 270° LED stage on a holographic display..
Assassins Creed Nexus VR Trailer

Rendered in Unreal Engine 5, I was co-lead for the first half of the production to facilitate the project setup and data migration from Unity.
Audi @ OMR Hamburg 2023

An interactive, realtime rendered immersive experience for Audi's booth at OMR Hamburg 2023 controlled by emotion detection and heartbeat sensors.
Lij - Virtual Character/Streamer

A live mocapped virtual alter ego for the Miss Germany Organization. Streaming live bi-weekly on twitch. Teaser was rendered in Unreal Engine 5.
Mercedes EQS SUV - This is for the Pioneers

VP shoot at Dark Bay with the great people from Spellwork
Creative Tech Lead & Virtual Production Supervisor
Behind the scenes from the upcoming Netflix show 1899

I worked on this show as a Virtual Production TD & TA for VR scouting, as a realtime environment artist in the virtual art department & as an Onset TA during production
Sigmund Freud Chatbot

Interactive chatbot, speech recognition & synthesis, fed by machine learning. UE4
#byebear

Director: Jan Bitzer of Polynoid, Lookdev & Fur RnD in UE4
SYFY "The Rock" Special TVC

Made in UE4
DOGHUT Virtual Camera

Designed for full CG real-time filmmaking and virtual production
BMWi & Samsung VR Experience

Stereoscopic VR Experience: set supervision, stitching, stereo alignment. Studio: INVR & Effekt-Etage
revolting rhymes (2-part TV Series)

Compositing & Look Development
Die Orsons – Schneeweiss (Music Video)

A one week project together with Berlin based artist Vincenz Neuhaus
Arena Tour Opener for J-Pop Band The Rampage

CG Environments for 60+ shots in 3 weeks = Unreal Engine to the rescue. Studio: bEpic
Model Photogrammetry

Scan of model house built by Raindogs Berlin for an upcoming TV series. Preview Render in Unreal.
Extrapolar

I helped VR Artist Tobias Wüstefeld with some UE4 programming. Sound: Von Sallwitz, Photogrammetry: Uwe Zahn
Mazda 3 (TVC)

Compositing: Keying, Retouching, Screen Inserts
Happy Accident

Forgot to delete some keyframes in Nuke while doing lookdev and ended up with these cool shapes
Dr. Hauschka (TVC)

Compositing, Retouching
AOK

Compositing: Set Extension, Keying, Retouching, Wire Removals
VR Darkroom

My own VR project I am working on in my spare time: a virtual darkroom/photolab as a roomscale experience/sandbox for the HTC Vive
King

Facial Motion Capture Test
Freddie Mercury – Love Me Like There’s No Tomorrow

Compositing of 2D Animations
Blob

Raymarching Implementation in Unity
Procedural Tripple-Double-Helix made in Houdini