Ronny Schmidt — 3d Artist

Ronny Schmidt is a 3d Artist based in Germany, featured in the Art of Styleframe library. The selections below link to the artist's own portfolio for verified work history and credits.

Who he is and what he does

Schmidt is a 3D designer and director based in Berlin. His own site sums up fifteen years of work in a sentence about bridging the early design stage and final 3D production, and that's an accurate description of how he gets hired. Studios bring him in to turn a concept into styleframes, then keep him on to model, shade and light the thing for real.

He studied media design at the University of Art and Design Halle and graphic design at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. Since 2009 he's taught workshops at Burg Giebichenstein, Martin Luther University and various media companies. He currently works as Operations Director for Colors and the Kids in Berlin.

Client and studio work

The collaborator list is a who's who of German and international motion houses: CATK, Zeitguised, Onformative, Sehsucht, WaltzBinaire, bus.group, TBIK Design, Uhsless and Schnellebuntebilder all appear across the archive below. Brands include Apple, Google, Nike, Adidas, Balenciaga and Red Bull.

Red Bull Beauty of the Moment sits at the top of his Behance gallery. Vorwerk Mite City is the other clearly branded commercial entry, and the Better Save Soil animated short, made with Uhsless and Schnellebuntebilder for the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, has its own project page alongside the earlier Let's Talk About Soil.

Personal projects

The self-initiated pieces are where the urban obsession shows. Satellites transforms two-dimensional satellite photographs back into three-dimensional worlds using displacement, and Drones continues that idea. City Experiments explores the same territory from the concept-art side. His 2017 run at the 36 Days of Type challenge, one letter a day for thirty-six days, is documented as a single project.

Boat Ahoy and the Styleframes and 3D Illustrations set collect looser work that never belonged to one client.

Portfolio highlights

• In 2017 I took part in the annual 36 Days of Type challenge, which is about illustrating one letter of the alphabet each day for 36 days in a row.
• Adidas Predator-RS In 2017 I worked with Berlin based studio WaltzBinaire on an teaser for Adidas' latest soccer shoe.
• Balenciaga Triple S In 2017 Berlin-based studio bus.group asked me to collaborate with them for the release trailer of Balenciaga's fashion sneaker Triple S.
• Better Save Soil In 2015 I worked with studios Uhsless and Schnellebuntebilder on a 3D animated short for the IASS (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies).
• City Experiments During my personal projects I love to explore everything around the theme of the city or urban landscapes while bridging the gap between concept art and 3D.
• In 2014 I was working with Sehsucht on a couple of styleframes for their 3D animation "Don't Text and Drive"
• "Drones" is a ongoing free series about the exploration of the shapes of the city in the 3rd dimension and based on my earlier series "Satellites". Everything was done in C4D, 3DCoat and Redshift.
• Flip The Script In 2017 I worked with TBIK Design on a modular design package for a new HBO format. My role was to develop the initial styleframes including all the 3D modeling, shading and lighting.
• In 2015 I collaborated with studios Uhsless and Schnellebuntebilder on a 3D animated short for the German NGO "Junge Helden" (Young Heroes) which advocates for a better understanding of the process of
• In 2016 I did a collaboration with artist duo LowBros and Editude Pictures for the teaser of their latest exhibition in Hamburg.
• In 2016 I worked with Onformative on a series of still images and short films for the fall 2016 launch of the Nike Strike Series apparel collection.
• Redbull 20Before17 In 2016 I worked with CATK on a series of 3D animated teasers for Red Bull's anual year in music through abstract visual representations.
• Satellites is a free 3D experiment which plays with the surreal, but yet familiar urban shapes of two-dimensional satellite photos, which were transformed back into three-dimensional worlds using disp
• Various Styleframes 2013 to 2017 Various styleframes that I did for multiple commercial projects from 2014 to 2017. My role was everything from 3D modeling to lighting, shading , rendering and post production.

Where to see more

His own site is rosch.xyz, full project pages with process shots are on Behance, and he posts stills on Instagram.