The story of the tragedy on board the Scandinavian Star in 1990, is still the biggest unsolved murder mystery in Scandinavia in recent times. 30 years after the disaster, a new Danish documentary series tells the entire story.

I co-directed a series of animated sequences, working together with the talents at Tumblehead in Viborg. We used silhouettes, smoke, camera mapping and photogrammetry to re-tell the story.

Home Grown is about a girl evacuated from a nuclear accident, who returns to look for her father. But when she gets there, things are not like they used to be.

It's a 20-minute short film about leaving the past behind, and accepting that nature finds a way.

The film uses a combination of animation techniques. Backgrounds are composed of photos that have been 'camera mapped' onto 3D surfaces, and the characters have then been animated on top.

Watch the trailer below. 

darya: ALBA HEYDENREICH
guard: SIMON BENNEBJERG
father: THOMAS GABRIELSSON
director: WILLIAM REYNISH
script: SIMON ODED WEIL
idea: WILLIAM REYNISH / CARINA KAMPER

producer: LINA FLINT
production lead: MADS-AUGUST HERTZ
casting: ANJA PHILIP / CASTERIET
dop: LOUISE MCLAUGHLIN
storyboards: SUNE ELSKÆR
production design: MARIE BOYE
props: CHRISTINA KOUSGAARD

editor: SIRID GARFF
sound design: PHILIP FLINDT
composer: ESBEN VALLØE
animators: RASMUS NYHUS HANSEN / NIKOLAJ MARCHER / GEMMA ALIAGA COSTA / CAMILLA GUNBORG PEDERSEN
foley artist: TORBEN GREVE

Whole is a 12-minute short film I created and directed at The National Film School of Denmark. It's a combination of puppet sets and 3D-animated characters, shot in stereoscopic cinemascope.

The film is inspired by how shamans are able to travel between two worlds and help regain your inner power.

The story revolves around MIRA, a 23 year old girl who has a heartache and feels empty inside. Her friend INGEBORG attempts to fill out Mira’s hole with vodka and parties, but they meet the 500 year old shaman ULRIK, a more holistic solution arises: Mira must find her inner power animal to regain her strength. But after being put into a drum-induced trance, Mira meets something entirely unexpected.

Directed by William Reynish Produced by Lina Flint Screenplay by Carina Kamper & William Reynish DOP Louise McLaughlin Production Design by Rasmus Trustrup Sound Design by Philip Flindt Music by Eske Nørholm Editing by Carla Luffe Starring Molly Blixt Egelind, Stephania Potaliv, Baard Owe, Anne Marie Helger & Benjamin Hasselflug Set Design by Anne Dorthe Vester 

Tunnel Design by Marie Boye Thomsen Character Design by My Buemann & Sara Main Lindemann Character Animation by Lea Bøje, Anne Moth, Steffen Christensen & Kirsten Bay Construction by Anne Dorthe Vester, Rasmus Trustrup, Marianne Femerling, Mette Jakobsen, Kristina Olesen Drumming by B-Joe & Anette Høst Music Recording by David Springborg

Whole was created over a period of a year, from script writing, to storyboards and animation production.

We started off by being inspired by how shamans communicate with power animals and fleshed out the story from there.

In production, we used a combination of techniques to create the film, including photo's, camera mapping, sterescopic 3D and 3D-printing. We made use of Blender for animation, it's render engine Cycles for rendering, as well as Shapeways for 3D printing and the Renderstreet.st as an online renderfarm.

Lost in the Funhouse is a puppet-avant-garde- animation experiment. It is a journey into a hypnotic twisted universe with mirrors, shadows and confusing spatial illusions.

MEDIUM: Hand-made puppets, 3D scanned and cgi-animated characters with projected patterns. Presented in stereoscopic 3D.
TONE: Twisted, Surreal, spacy madhouse journey
TARGET AUDIENCE: 14+

Directed by William Reynish Produced by Lina Flint Written by Mads Rosenkrantz Grage & William Reynish Audio Design by Phillip Flindt Edited by Carla Luffe Starring Elliott Hove, Viktoria Carmen Sonne, Nanna Voss & Alexander Clement Production Design by Adrielle Buus Storyboards by Casper Høg Set Construction by Katrine Lyn Andersen & Sofie Lerche Props by Amalie Moesgaard

Set Painting by Marie Boye Thomsen Character Animation by Drude Mangaard, Jonas Bastrup Mikkelsen, Andreea Jebejean & Mads Bjerregaard Modeling by Jacob Berhndtz, René Juul Madsen, Nina van Veldhuizen & Aneeka Khan Rigging by Nathan Vegdahl 3D-Stereoscopic Supervisor Toke Rasmussen Poster & Logo design by Rasmus Michaelis Renderfarm RenderFlow.com

Everybody knows that sleepwalkers die when you wake them up. The shock they get from waking up while sleepwalking is mortal. 

So what do you do if you encounter a sleepwalker? You have to guide them safely back to bed without waking them up. 

And that's exactly what our game is about. 

Because it's a game about sleeping, we present the world as seen through the mind of the sleepwalker. Escher-style illusion puzzles and nightmares have to be overcome to find your way back to bed.

I directed the initial version of the game, set the vision, scope and style. Bedtime Gaming is heading up the completion of the game, which will premiere on iOS this year.