Marijan Schedler

Marijan Schedler

Lead Animator / 14 yrs

Vienna, Austria

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I am an experienced Senior/Lead Animator based in Vienna with over 14 years of professional experience in animated features, VFX productions, and popular series such as House Of The Dragon 1+2, Shazam 2, and Mounbound. I have led animation teams of up to 12 animators on three movies/series and supervised teams of up to five animators on three advertising projects. I played a key role in securing approvals for pitches of two web/TV series and contributed to the remarkable success of promotional videos on YouTube, garnering 350 million views. Additionally, I have four years of professional experience in multimedia art and advertising.
Since 2019, I am located in Vienna and working remotely.
Work History
  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Senior Animator

    Aixsponza

    February 2021 - March 2021

    Commercial for Capri "Superfriends"

  • Senior Animator

    Aixsponza

    November 2020 - December 2020

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Senior Animator

    Pixomondo

    April 2018 - November 2018
    Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany

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

    Series: "Carnival Row"

  • Senior Animator

    Eat My Dear

    March 2018 - April 2018
    Vienna, Austria

    TV-Spot for SimpliTV

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Senior Animator

    Edisen

    July 2015 - February 2016
    Frankfurt und Umgebung, Deutschland

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Education
  • Animation Mentor

    2008 - 2010
  • FH Joanneum

    2001 - 2005
  • FH St.Pölten

    1999 - 2000