Marijan Schedler

Work History

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  Lead Animator

  Pixomondo

  January 2024 - May 2024

  Series: "House Of The Dragon - Season 2"
  • Dragon animations with strong focus on the dragon fight scenes in the sky in the acclaimed EP4 “Battle Of Rooksrest”
  • Daily shot reviews and supporting artists with artistic and technical queries.
  • Troubleshooting technical issues with other departments and providing status reports to different teams in daily lead/sup calls in the absence of my supervisor
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  Senior Animator

  RISE | Visual Effects Studios

  September 2022 - April 2023

  Series: Currently under nda
  Feature: Currently under nda
  Series Currently under nda
  Feature: Currently under nda

  

  

  
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  Senior Animator

  Pixomondo

  July 2021 - July 2022

  Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  Series: "House Of The Dragon - Season 1"
  • Animated a complex shot with a dragon and DD taking off and a fire sequence
  
  
  Feature: "Shazam! Fury Of Gods"
  • Dragon animations and digi doubles
  
  Feature: "Magic Flute"
  • Worked on a sequence with a giant snake
  
  Series: "Carnival Row - Season 2"
  • Took over some shots with wing animations of fairies, ensuring the team meets the project deadline
  
  Series: "Upload"
  • Brought in to define the direction of some troublesome broken pigeon and exploding head shots that repeatedly got pushed back by client feedback

  

  
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  Lead Animator

  Mackevision

  May 2021 - July 2021

  Feature: "Hui Buh und das Hexenschloss"
  
  VFX Supervisor: Juri Stanossek
  Animation Supervisor: Bernd Nalbach
  
  • Facial anim of a punch of shots and supporting three animators by giving feedback to their animations and troubleshooting technical issues

  
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  Senior Animator

  Aixsponza

  February 2021 - March 2021

  Commercial for Capri "Superfriends"
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  Senior Animator

  Aixsponza

  November 2020 - December 2020

  Commercial for Capri: “Animal”: Animated a break-dance clip
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  Senior Animator

  Eat My Dear

  September 2020 - October 2020

  Commercial for TantoGrip
  Commercial for Tyrolia: Animated three shots of a skier running down the hill
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  Senior Animator

  Aixsponza

  June 2020 - September 2020

  Commercial for Capri: “Paper Straw”: Three animation clips
  Commercial for Penny: “Misfits”: Helped out with just two shots at the beginning
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  Senior Animator

  Vast

  June 2019 - April 2020

  Vienna, Austria

  Feature: “Moonbound” Directed by Ali Samadi Ahadi
  Animation Supervisor: Timo Berg
  • Involved in preproduction and production
  • Animated many shots from physical action to funny acting
  

  
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  Senior Animator

  Pixomondo

  April 2019 - May 2019

  Series: "Carnival Row"
  • Recreated and enhanced all flight cycles for the team, aiming to improve blurred shapes and volume of the wings for the second batch of the project in Season 1, and subsequently in Season 2. The original flight cycles were developed and tested by the project lead Philipp Winter
  • Did some more elf-wing fly and fight animation

  
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  Senior Animator

  Pixomondo

  January 2019 - February 2019

  Vienna, Austria

  Series: "Sprite Sisters"
  • Animated some shots with an elephant falling on a roof and a flying duck
  • Took over the sequence after various blocking versions from different animators were presented to the client, who ultimately chose my version
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  Senior Animator

  Pixomondo

  April 2018 - November 2018

  Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany

  Series: “Game Of Thrones Season 8 - The Iron Throne”
  
  Series: "Carnival Row"

  
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  Senior Animator

  Eat My Dear

  March 2018 - April 2018

  Vienna, Austria

  TV-Spot for SimpliTV
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  Senior Animator

  Expanse

  February 2018 - March 2018

  Oslo, Norway

  Game Trailers: "Legend Of Solgard" for King
  • Animation for the game trailer and character intro trailer
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  Senior Animator

  Eat My Dear

  November 2017 - January 2018

  Vienna, Austria

  Short: "UI - Soon we will all be One"
  • Animating a futuristic snow glider for a Sifi-Short in C4D
  
  Promo video for Mondi
  • Animated various shots with a fly in C4D
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  Lead Animator

  Edisen

  November 2016 - September 2017

  Frankfurt und Umgebung, Deutschland

  Feature: “Monky” Directed by Maria Blom (Live action / animation)
  • Animation review and team support
  • Mocap animation and keyframe animation, test animations and rig testing
  • Close collaboration with supervisor

  
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  Senior Animator

  Eat My Dear

  March 2016 - October 2016

  Vienna

  Web series for Henkel: "Dishwasher Diaries", Written & Directed by Toni Weiss & Michael Sokolar
  • Entertaining and instructional 40 sec videos for a YouTube series
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  Senior Animator

  Edisen

  July 2015 - February 2016

  Frankfurt und Umgebung, Deutschland

  Feature: “Pettersson & Findus 2” Directed by Ali Ahadi (Live action / animation)
  • Animation

  
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  Freelance Animator

  Eat My Dear

  January 2015 - June 2015

  Vienna

  Animation for a web series
  • Under disclosure
  
  Commercial for BMW
  • Animation of a realistic insect
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  Animation Supervisor

  Arx Anima

  August 2014 - November 2014

  Vienna, Austria

  Trailer for the gaming App: "My Talking Angela"​, Directed by Rok Predin
  • Supervising 2 offsite animators, reviews and director calls together with the Owner Kris Staber
  • Shot preparation, shot fixing, animation and animation fixes
  • Over 74 Mio YouTube views (More than any other video on the channel, September 2015)
  
  Web series: "My Talking Tom Short - Who’s The Boss”, Directed by Sebastian Mayr
  • Animation
  • Over 41 Mio YouTube views (More than any other episode on the channel, July 2015)
  
  TV series: "Talking Tom And Friends"
  • Involved in the preproduction
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  Freelance Animator

  Eat My Dear

  June 2014 - August 2014

  Vienna, Austria

  Feature (under disclosure)
  • Previz animation
  
  Promotion video for Red Bull
  • Realistic run animation for a crowd simulation and close up shots in Cinema 4D

• Freelance Generalist

  Vizume

  May 2014 - August 2014

  Graz, Austria

  Product video for Agromed
  • Storyboard design, modeling a pig and bacterias, rigging, particles animation and animation in After Effects, C4D and Maya
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  Freelance Animator

  Arx Anima

  October 2013 - March 2014

  Pilot pitch for the TV-Series: "Talking Tom and Friends", Directed by Toni Weiss
  • Supervising 3 animators and animating myself (shots: full body acting & dialog)
  • The pilot was successful and the TV-Series went into production later on in the year
  
  Commercial (under disclosure)
  • Animation for an advertising video
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  Freelance Animator

  Pixomondo

  March 2013 - August 2013

  Feature: “Pettersson & Findus” Directed by Ali Ahadi (Live action / animation)
  • Animated a lot of acting heavy dialogue shots and full body action of a boyish cat character in Maya
  • My first assigned sequence was later selected and used for a press release

  

• Animator

  Epics Fx Studios

  September 2012 - February 2013

  Feature: “Savva - Heart of the warrior” Directed by Maxim Fadeev (Russian full CG fantasy feature)
  • Accomplished difficult shots and characters at a high level of quality in Maya
  • Screenshots of most of my shots went into a character bible which helps other animators stay on model
  • When a new character was introduced, my blocking (as well as one other one) was picked out by the director as a reference of the character

  

• Freelance Animator

  Raskoppdesign

  June 2012 - July 2012

  Medical instruction video for Neurotech
  • Rigging & animation (2 min) of woman and props in C4D
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  Freelance Animator

  Arx Anima

  January 2012 - May 2012

  Music video for Disney: “You Get Me” Directed by Toni Weiss (2:55 min)
  • Supervising animator: Managing and reviewing all shots in Shotgun / RV
  • Test animations, cycles and animation of 12 shots (29 sec) in Maya
  • The music video got over 200 Mio views on YouTube and was a huge success
  
  Promotion video for Outfit7: “Ben & Tom News - World Clean Up Day 2012”
  • Animated 8 dialogue shots in Maya (35 sec)
  
  Commercial Pitch for Orange: “Chitoi”
  • Animated a very cartoony character in 4 days in Maya (29 sec)

• Freelance Animator

  Vizume

  October 2011 - November 2011

  Image video for Smaxtec
  • Modeling, rigging and animation of humans and cows in C4D

• Freelance Animator

  Lemonaut Creations OG

  June 2011 - June 2011

  Web animation for Kraft Foods Philadelphia
  • Animated 8 shots (43 seconds)
  • Learned the new software and animated the shots in 2 weeks

• Freelance Graphic Designer

  Rubikon Werbeagentur GmbH

  November 2008 - June 2011

  • Design and layout of over 60 print media projects
  • Taking over projects and finishing them on time in close collaboration with the local team

• Freelance Motion Designer

  SignStudios Multimediaagentur

  October 2008 - October 2009

  Image film for Novutrack
  • Art direction and motion graphics in After Effects
  
  Illustrations for Improve
  • Illustrations for a lifestyle magazine

• Graphic Designer

  Denkbar&So; Projektkreation GmbH

  April 2006 - May 2008

  • Modeling, rigging and animation of all fishes on a project for 6 months
  • Design of print media and dealing with expensive materials and print techniques
  • Development of corporate identities
  • Marketing strategies and management of two large and many small projects