Christian Retzlaff

Comic Artist

Stenarts Ltd.

Animation industry

August 2011 – present 2011

Working on Storyboard poses until the final Clean up for the Comic „Ria- Power of the seal“

2d Character Animator

Schesch Filmkreation

Animation industry

April 2011 – August2011 (4 months) Berlin Area, Germany

Animating traditionally directly in TVPaint for feature Film "the Mondmann".

2d Character Animator

Studio 352, Luxemburg

Privately Held; Motion Pictures and Film industry

October 2010 – April 2011 (7 months)

working as a fulltime 2D traditional Animator on feature film "Le Jour des Corneilles"

2D Character Animator

Accio, Barcelona

Animation industry

April 2010 – June 2010 (3 months)

Animating main characters for feature film ''Little big panda''

2d Animator

Freelance (Self-employed)

January 2010 – March 2010 (3 months)

Commercial work for Mediamarkt a german Tech-store.
Lineart animated digitally in TVPaint.

Assistant Character Designer

Stenarts Ltd.

Animation industry

June 2009 – September 2009 (4 months)

Assistant Character Designer of Thorsten Kiecker designing Characters for german 2d feature "Little Big Panda"

Assistant Animator

Django Films

Animation industry

April 2007 – April 2009 (2 years 1 month)

Animating and cleaning main characters for Silvain Chomet's 2D animation feature "L'Illusioniste".

2d Character Animator

MotionWorks Halle

Privately Held; Think Tanks industry

August 2006 – November 2006 (4 months)

Animation of main characters on 2D feature "Dodo"

Freelance Character Designer

Stenarts Ltd.

Animation industry

January 2005 – February 2006 (1 year 2 months)

-Creating Illustrations with given characters for several projects
-Creating character model packs with given characters
-Designing characters for several projects

Freelance Illustrator

Axel Springer (Berliner Morgenpost)

Public Company; Publishing industry

January 1998 – April 2004 (6 years 4 months)

"Berliner Morgenpost" is a local daily newspaper.
I did monthly based Illustrations for different departments.

Freelance Illustrator

VOSS PUBLISHING eK

Printing industry

April 2003 – January 2004 (10 months)

Illustrations with "Vossi" the self designed mascot of the magazin

Education

School 4 Games

Concept art & Design

2011-2011

One week crash course.

Future Training & Consulting

3d Animation with 3ds Max

2009 – 2009

2 months full time class to learn the basics of 3d Animation in 3ds Max.

Viborg Animation Workshop

2d Animation

2006 – 2006

Film & Television Academy (HFF) “Konrad Wolf”

Graduate Animator, Animation

2002 – 2006

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Visual Communication

2000 – 2002

Recommendations For Christian Stephan

Assistant Character Designer

Stenarts Ltd.

“From Character Design at the early stages of initial concepts up to final design work, Christian Retzlaffs service is on exceptional high level. His wide range of service for Character Design and Pre Production even so animation are always a great help for our team. Working with Christian for us means to stay on schedule with the best possible results. We recommend Christian for every other production.” September 30, 2009

Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, Creative

1^st Thorsten Kiecker,
hired Christian Stephan as a Character Design, Development in 2009, and hired Christian Stephan more than once

Assistant Animator

Django Films

“Christian is an important member of the animation team and has been key in getting some of the most difficult (and funny) characters on screen. I would recommend him for an animation position on any future projects.” March 11, 2009

1^st Paul Dutton, Assistant Director / Animation Director, Django Films
managed Christian Stephan at Django Films