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WHO I AM
I am an Artist specialized in photorealistic physically based computer generated imagery / animation based in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

My work ranges from art direction to creation of logo animations, packshots and CG shorts.

I’m currently working as a trainer / tutor and freelancer but I am also open to in-house work whenever I’m available.
  
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WHAT I DO   TRAINING / SEMINARS: Pipeline and workflow building / Physically plausible shading - texturing / Rendering. As well as other areas of my expertise.

MOTION DESIGN: Logo animation / opener animation / trailer text / opening titles and credits.

PHYSICALLY PLAUSIBLE WORKFLOW:
Physically accurate shading / lighting / rendering.

VFX: Full CG shots / lighting, shading, rendering / compositing / hard surface modeling.

VISUALIZATION: Photorealistic product- and architecture-visualization.		  
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QUALITY
Through 15 years of experience as a 3D generalist as well as a compositor and being specialized on motion design besides visual effects, it's possible for me to realize high end solutions which fit the customers individual vision and needs.

To deliver the highest level of quality, I take constant training in the newest techniques and software.		  
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CONTACT
PREFERABLY BY E-MAIL:

mail@silverwing-vfx.de


OR BY PHONE:

Mobil: +49 (0)174 33 14 717
Office: +49 (0)7141 48 75 061


Please do not contact me via any messenger.
If you decide to reach me via written word, be so kind and write an e-mail.
  
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Feb 13th 2019   Finally the landline is working again.
So we are available wia our office phone number again (if you scroll down on the left)

I apologize for any inconvenience!

Cheers Raphael
 
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Feb 13th 2019   There were several "newsworthy" things in the past that I somehow missed to put on here. So I am bundeling those together in this post :-)


Shading for LAMY:
LAMY PICO

Being tasked with the shading of LAMYs 2019
pen series  I was a small part of an amazing team at Büro Achter April. You can see some of the final videos on the Vimeo Page aswell as my Bahnace.



Interview:
BETTER DIGITAL ARTIST

I was honored to do an interview for Better Digital Artist, that you can read here.



Maxon SuperMeet Talk:
SPERMEET TALK

Its a while back, but I was giving a Talk at Maxons SuperMeet in October last Year.

The talk was about my StillLife "WorkLife" includiing a huge making of, some insights in UV-Unwrapping in RizomUV aswell as the shading workflow with Octane and SubstancePainter. You can watch the whole talk online here on YouTube
  
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Jan 31st 2019   We´re unfortunately experiencing a phone line outage at the moment. If you want to contact us, please do it via mail or via mobile.

mail@silverwing-vfx.de
Mobil: +49 (0)174 33 14 717

I apologize for any inconvenience!

Cheers Raphael
 
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Oct 11th 2018   And another update to the WORK 3D section. I finally put my new still "SLV - SA Keyboard" on my site.

You might have noticed that I have started to show my new works on Behance first most of the time. And then migrate them to my site later. So if you want to stay up to date, then just check Behance first.

Cheers Raphael
 
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Aug 24th 2018   Industry Workshops was a blast. I met really cool and massively talented people and personally learned a lot from the talks!

I am really happy to finally publish what I have been working on the last month to present at IW. "Work Life" my second still life and a good experience going forward in my art driven career can now be watched in the WORK 3D section.

Cheers Raphael
 
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Jul 16th 2018   INDUSTRY WORKSHOPS 2018

I am honored and delighted to announce that I have been invited to speak at Industy Workshops 2018
17th-19th August 2018.

I will hold a talk on physically plausible materials there and lecture about tips and tricks of getting more realistic results in your shading process.
Hope to see you there!

Cheers Raphael
 
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Jul 15th 2018   I updated WORK 2D with some new photos of my Spain vacation 2018.

I also added my latest TUTS & TIPS about the Octane Adaprive Sampling function.

As well as updated my WORK 3D with a Glass I rendered with Maxwell Render.

I hope you enjoy!


If you are tired of waiting for page updates, you can check out my Twitter, Behance, Facebook and my new Instagram account, where I am usually more active then on here :-)

Cheers Raphael		  
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Apr 3rd 2018   I updated the WORK 3D page with my latest artwork "ARTIFACT 2018". It includes a couple of still renders as well as an animation. I also updated the WORK 2D partion of the site with four new photos I took in the Dolomites last Year.
I hope you like it!

Cheers Raphael		  
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Mar 14th 2018   Wow, I can´t believe that I haven´t updated this section for almost 4 months.

Now finally there is a new quick tip online about how to use the "Metal Material" in Octane 3.08.
TUTS & TIPS I hope you enjoy!

Cheers Raphael		  
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Dec 24th 2017   I wish all of you a merry Christmas and a happy new Year. I hope everyone is having a great time with family and friends!

Cheers Raphael		  
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Sep 23rd 2017   Hi there everyone.

I just updated the site to a new page TUTS & TIPS where you can find my recent branch of Tutorials and Quick Tips that I started recently and do from time to time.

I hope you enjoy that new section and get some information out of the tuts.

Cheers Raphael		  
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Sep 19th 2017   MAXON USERMEETING 2015

I am delighted to tell you that I will be part of the Maxon Usermeetings at:

Cologne, September 29th,
Hamburg, October 6th,
and Munich, October 13th.

In my talk "Photorealism with Silverwing" will be about photorealism in general (you know me) and provide some hands on shading examples for different kind of materials.

If you are interested and for more information pleas head to the MAXON WEBSITE (German)

Cheers Raphael		  
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Jul 7th 2017   Hi there everyone. I had a great vacation in Spain and made some nice photographs. I updated the WORK 2D page with a small best of selection.

As always I hope you like them.

Cheers Raphael		  
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May 24th 2017   I finally will be off the grid (on vacation) for a while. If you have requests suggestions or just want to talk, I am happy to answer once I am back in Office on Monday 12th of June.

Cheers Raphael		  
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May 24th 2017   Good news everyone:
I have updated my "SMALL CYCLES-4D MATERIAL LIBRARY" since most of the materials looked different due to gamma corrections in the latest service update.

 If you update to Cycles 4D 1.0.0202 and use materials of that library you might want to use the new updated materials.

Cheers Raphael		  
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Apr 25th 2017   I proudly present my newest artwork. A Still Life made with Cinema 4D, Substance Painter and Octane. You can find it on the WORK 3D page.
As always I hope you like it.

Cheers Raphael		  
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Jan 8th 2017   Happy 2017 everyone!

All the best to all of you going through this brand new Year.

Cheers Raphael		  
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Oct 25th 2016   I finally had time to update the video section technical specs.

I am happy to announce that videos are now finally HTML5 compatible and also load in FullHD 1920x1080 if your screen dimensions allow it.

Have fun going though my vids (old and new) on the WORK 3D page.

Cheers Raphael		  
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Aug 22nd 2016   KEYS - A Visual Experiment:

Please watch fullscreen and with sound if possible!



Making Of:


Keys - A visual Experiment is a experimental short film by Silverwing aka Raphael Rau with the amazing help of composer and sound designer Simon Damborg. The aim of Keys is it to create a mix between the known everyday environment and something strange and mysterious.

Huge shout out to Simon Damborg

Behance Link

Art Station Link

Tech specs:
Modeled, UV-unwrapped, simulated etc in C4D R18
Rendered with Octane Render 3
Color correction and postwork in Adobe After-Effects
Resolution Full HD 1920 x 1080 px / HD Cinemascope 1920 x 800 px / Stills 4K 4096 X 2160 px
Rendertime ranging from 3 Min (Lock Shot) to 60min (Pillar Shot) on one GTX 980 TI
The film was rendered using a cluster of 14 GPU´s

Cheers Raphael

  
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Aug 3rd 2016   INDUSTRY WORKSHOPS TALK:

INDUSTRY WORKSHOPS


HERE´S A SNEAK PEEK:

KEY SCENE

For all of you who are interested in seeing a couple of nice renders that I created especially for INDUSTRY WORKSHOPS, also a making of and of course for those of you who are interested in physically based materials: Feel warmly INVITED to come by my talk on August 19th (which also happens to be my birthday) 5pm in Lecture A


Cheers Raphael		  
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May 2nd 2016   OCTANE FOR CINEMA 4D

MUNICH 7th / 8th of MAY 2016

I´m proud to announce that because of the success of the other seminars I will be holding the 4th Octane for Cinema 4D workshop at AIXCADEMY

AIXCADEMY

Octane for Cinema4D gives you an overview over the versatile possibilites that a GPU renderer offers in a fast paced production environment.

We'll be looking at the various rendering methods that Octane offers as well as the lighting and material system.

The target of this course is to enable you to create highly realistic highend results in the shortest amount of time.

Cheers Raphael		  
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May 2nd 2016   I updated my site again with the newest artwork of mine.

A spare time design / modeling / texturing / shading project. this is the 2nd version and evolution of the pyramid that was cast as lead in my reel 2014 intro / outro.

Enjoy: WORK 3D		  
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Apr 28th 2016   AXIS ANIMATION
In case you were wondering... yes I am actually still alive. I have been working for Axis Animation the last couple of months and was really busy.

I also opened a BEHANCE portfolio that seems to florish really well. I really appreciate it!

And last but not least I updated my WORK 2D gallery with some nice photos of Glasgow. I hope you enjoy!

Cheers Raphael
 
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Sep 31th 2015   I just updated the address and the phone number on the site - because I moved to a new shared office with Royalize within the beautiful Ludwigsburg Film und Medienzentrum - FMZ

If you are passing by please feel encouraged to step in and say hello ;-)

Cheers Raphael		  
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Sep 7th 2015   OCTANE FOR CINEMA 4D

MUNICH 17th / 18th of OCOBER 2015

I´m proud to announce that because of the success of the first seminar I will be holding the 2nd Octane for Cinema 4D workshop at AIXCADEMY

AIXCADEMY

Octane for Cinema4D gives you an overview over the versatile possibilites that a GPU renderer offers in a fast paced production environment.

We'll be looking at the various rendering methods that Octane offers as well as the lighting and material system.

The target of this course is to enable you to create highly realistic highend results in the shortest amount of time.

Cheers Raphael		  
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Sep 7th 2015   MAXON USERMEETING 2015

MAXON USERMEETING 2015

I will be presenting at the Maxon Usermeeting in Hamburg and Cologne again.

I´ll give a talk about the Reflectance Channel at the meeting in Hamburg and a talk about photorealism in general in Cologne.

If you are interested pleas head to the MAXON WEBSITE.

Cheres,
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Apr 28th 2015   I will be presenting on the ‪‎Maxon‬ booth at ‪‎IBC‬ this year.

If you ever wondered how my 2014 Demoreel Opener (made with C4D and rendered with Octane) came to be. My presentation will be exactly about that.

IN PRODUCTION

If you are interested you are very welcome at the Maxon booth 7.K30 in Hall 7

My presentation "In Production with Cinema 4D & OctaneRender" takes place:

Saturday September 12th - 11 a.m.
Sunday September 13th - 3 p.m.
Monday September 14th - 12 a.m.

and is also available as stream (links will be revealed later)

Full Title:
"In Production with Cinema 4D & OctaneRender"
Rapheal Rau gives a closer look at how he used Cinema 4D, along with OctaneRender, to create the much-praised "Silverwing Demoreel" opener. It´s an eye-opening walk through Raphael's dark science fiction creation during which he shows the complete texturing, lighting and shading processes.

Cheers,
Raphael		  
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Apr 25th 2015   As the past cuple of years I will be visiting the FMX in Stuttgart. Hope to see some of you there!

Cheers, Raphael		  
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Feb 5th 2015   Hello Everyone.

I updated my Portfolio with an animation:
"Moon Titlesequence" You can find it in the WORK 3D gallery.

Initially it was planned to make a photo real sequence where the UFO is built up bit by bit.
I already had built the entire UFO in shiny 3D when the decision was made that something else was needed.
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I began to trace all edges of my 3D model with splines and built my own animatable wire frame.
The Cartoon Renderer was not an option as the splines had to be animated in a very controlled matter. So I used the Edge to spline command quite a lot and rebuilt the contours of the UFO using Splines.
For the Animation of the splines I dropped them into a Sweep Nurbs object and animated the length parameter.
The Paper was rendered inside C4D with the Physical render. Some thicks with the Displace Deformer as extensive Texturing including C4D noise patterns were used to make the paper look reel and layered.

I also designed a font especially for the sequence that is animatable in After Effects.
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After deciding on a camera movement inside 3D the C4D Camera was exported to After Effects. There I matched the animations of my wire frame that I rendered with a static camera before and the text that I exported in After Effects as masks from Illustrator in 3D with the animated paper.

And as always I hope you like it!

Cheers Raphael 		 
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Dec 10th 2014   After a very successful C4DAPT I have put on line the Artwork I made for this event.
Its a hand full of pens rendered in Octane as photo realistic as possible.

Again you can find it in the WORK 2D section.
I hope you enjoy!

Cheers Raphael

  
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Sep 28th 2014   Finally after four years of waiting I proudly present the: SILVERWING DEMOREEL 2014.

I hope you enjoy!

Cheers Raphael		  
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Sep 9th 2014   C4D ADVANCED PRODUCTION TECHNQUES 2



Almost one year ago I kindly was invited by Pingo Van Der Brinkloev to take part at the "Cinema 4D Advanced Production Techniques" seminar to talk about photorealism in V-Ray.

This time my Course will be Called:
"Physics of Matter: From Reality to Shader"

My goal will be to teach the physics behind material creation with the purpose that everyone can make more physically accurate shaders independent of the render engine.

Interested?
VIMEO ON DEMAND

Cheers Raphael		  
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Jun 23rd 2014   C4D ADVANCED PRODUCTION TECHNQUES



I was invited as a speaker to the Cinema 4D Advanced Production Techniques Seminar in Copenhagen to speak about photorealistic lighting and shading in C4D using Vray.

If you are interested into new insights you now have the possibility to buy the whole Seminar with all its Speakers and almost 12h of footage on Vimeo on Demand:

Read the Article from MAXON

Or go directly to VIMEO ON DEMAND

Cheers Raphael		  
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Apr 1st 2013  

VRAY LIGHTING ESSENTIALS for C4D

IT`S FINALLY THERE!
VRAY LIGHTING ESSENTIALS for C4D

BUY NOW for only 99$


HD EXAMPLES:
Sexy Scene
Hard Light Scene
SCI FI Scene
Car Lighting Scene

"VLE" lets you place your model (product / object / text) in one of the various provided prelit VLE scenes. You just need to choose your render quality and hit render. Its easy as that to get great realistic renders within minutes.

For more information about the product take a look over at Alessandro´s site at Renderking.it

Cheers Raphael

  
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Jul 29th 2011
I added full popup support for videos and pictures as well as HD video playback within the video popups. Thanks to Shadowbox now all works great! I Also added some content to the 3D Work gallery. I hope you like the new functionality as well as the content.

Cheers Raphael Rau		  
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