Artist, Illustrator, Animation director/designer, and animator on feature film projects, commercials, and title sequences. Traditional animation background, 20 + years experience in Europe and the United States. Owner of Studio Graenitz & NoisiBoi, partner in Pickle House USA. Clients include DreamWorks, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Disney, and more.
2021 to present
The Lasters – Back In Blech | Futilitarian Records | Album Cover Illustration
The Flow | The Flow World | Animated Promo – design/SB/edit/animation
Cake Zine, Humble Pie | Cake Zine | Illustration
Floura | Beneficial Bakery | Illustration
Annual Calendar 23 | TAG | Illustration
Mouthpiece | Bang Zoom! | Animated Promo – design/SB/edit/animation
Baby Einstein -New Classics | Bang Zoom!| Shorts – animation
CLOG x FEEDS – windows | CLOG Zine | Illustration
FaceBook – Meta | Not To Scale | Ad – animation
2020 & beyond
Taco Bell – Quesalupa | Two Fresh Creative | Ad – design/animation
Münchner Museen |Sonnervallée | Ad – design/animation
Sidibe-Place for you and I | Moxie Joe | Music Video – animation
Northwell Health | EightVFX MJZ | Ad – animation
Caribbean Gourmet | T-shirt -design/illustration/printing
GIL-SP – Dreamcatcher | CAMIX | Album Cover – design/final art
GIL-SP – One On One | CAMIX | Album Cover – design/final art
GIL-SP – Radical | CAMIX | Music Video – design/animation
Hyper X | Brand New Scholl | Ad – animation
Claro | Pickle House | Ad – animation
Nutcracker | Pickle House | Ad – animatic
Apple – Celebrate Creativity | Psyop | In-store Display/Ad campaign – design/animation
Botox – Take a Stand | Psyop | Ad – animation
Welfy Q. Deederhoth | Laster Media | Book Cover – design/illustrations
Fanta Remix – Mike Will | Moxie Joe | Ad – animation
Super School Project | Los York | Ad – design/animation
Intuit – Grasshopper Blue Green | Response Shop | Ad – animation
Dylan Gardner – Sign Language | Warner Brothers | Album Cover – design/final art
Nick CCI | HouseSpecial | Ad – animation
DOTA 2 | HouseSpecial | Ad – animation
Xbox – Recore | Psyop | Ad – design/animation
Oreo – French Bread | Psyop | Ad – design/animation
First Friends | FristSecond, Macmillan Books | Graphic Novel – color design
Oculus Rift – Kismet | Psyop | VR Experience – animation
FX – Simpsons | Royale | Ad – animation
Oreo – Wonder | Psyop | Ad – design/animation
CVS Pharmacy | Standard Time LA | Ad – animation
Cupa Engage | Integrated Worldwide | Online Game – design/concept/animation
Erasmus Twiddle | Laster Media | Book – cover design/illustrations
Google | Royale | Ad – animation
Egoli Tossel | Animated Logo ID – design/concept/animation
Faith No More – Sunny Side Up | Ipecac Records | Music Video Pitch – co-director/storyboard
Suntory Water | Acme Filmworks | Ad – animation
Sprite | Pickle House | End tag – design/animation
Toyota | Royale | Ad – animation
2020 to present
Kensuke’s Kingdom | Lupus Films | Animator
The Find | Anvil Entertainment | concept/development: Horror Movie
Rugrats | Paramount Pictures | animation: game
2020 & beyond
Smallfoot | Warner Brothers Animation | animation: musical sequence, game
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul | 20th Century Fox | directing/design/storyboard: animated sequences, opening, and end credits, game sections
Shiverstone Castle | TMG | animation/design/storyboard: opening sequence, end title sequence
The Lego Ninjago Movie | Warner Brothers Animation | storyboard: “Ninjago Chicken” short
Kidnap | Di Bonaventura Pictures | directing/design/storyboard: animated sequences
Full In | Storyboard/poster design
Kirby Buckets | Disney XD | directing/design/storyboard: intro sequence, animated sequences
Torrente 5 | Antena 3 Films | animation: animated sequence
The Boxtrolls | Laika Entertainment | animation: end title sequence
The Process | Mayrae Productions | animation: title
300 Worte Deutsch | ZDF/Arte | animation/design: title sequence
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days | 20th Century Fox | directing/design/storyboard: animated sequences, opening, and end credits
Woman in Love | Universal Pictures International | animation/design: title sequence
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules | 20th Century Fox | directing/design/storyboard: animated sequences, opening, and end credits
Neighbors from Hell | DreamWorks Animation | animation: 6 episodes
Astro Boy | Imagi Animation Studios | animation: “Our Friends The Robots”
Hands off Mississippi | Boje Buck Produktion | animation/design: title sequence
Simon Bloom | Walden Media | storyboard
Sunday Pants | Cartoon Network | animation: segment “The Topside Rag”
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Jersey Films | visual development/storyboard
Catwoman | Warner Brothers | visual development/storyboard
Down with Love | Fox 2000 Pictures | animation: title sequence
The Road to El Dorado | DreamWorks Animation | animator: “Chief”
The Prince of Egypt | DreamWorks Animation | animator: “Moses”
Balto | Amblin, Universal Pictures | animator: “Jenna”
We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story | Amblin, Universal Pictures | animator
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West | Amblin, Universal Pictures | animator
education
FOS School of Graphic and Communication Design, Munich, Germany – Bachelor Diploma 1986
IFOG Academy of Design and Illustration, Munich, Germany – 1987
skills
Directing, 2-D animation, storyboarding, drawing, illustration, Photoshop, After Effects, Adobe Animate, silkscreen printing, bilingual (German-English)
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