BREAKFALL

Format: 3D Animated Short

Duration: 3:30 minutes

A person traverses a monotonous, abstract space and the more they rush, the more they stumble and fall. As they begin to embrace falling as a natural extension of movement, they progress, and the space around them shifts. They loose themselves so strongly in the joy of movement that the space around them dissolves completely and their falling transforms into flying. During this transformation, their body also dissolves more and more into pure motion and changes its form. As their energy decreases, the motion slows, their body reforms, and they return to where they began, exhausted and happy, transformed by the journey.

The Team

Meet the graduates behind BREAKFALL!

Director, Comp & FX Artist

RAPHAEL TONN

Raphael Tonn is an experimental artist based in Germany. With his works recently shifting from the analogue to the digital and now finding the cross section in the world of 3D animation and interactive installations. His main interests lie in the microscopic world, human–machine failure and the search for intersubjective truths.

Producer

FREDERIK STAPF

Frederik Stapf is a German transmedia producer. With a background in communication design, he explores new forms of storytelling at the intersection of emerging technologies, with a focus on immersive formats.

Lead Animation & Rigging

MALTE FASOLD

Malte Fasold, born in 1998 in Hameln, completed his studies in Media Design at Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts from 2019 to 2023. After an internship at Woodblock Animation Studio, he began his studies as a Character Animator at the Animationsinstitut. Alongside freelance work, Malte contributed as a Character Animator to several projects at the Animationsinstitut, including PamPamPam, A Sparrow’s Song, and Kitsune. He graduated as the Lead Animator for the project Breakfall.

Technical Director & Look Development Lead

MICHAEL WEIGL

Artist turned Look-Development, Tool- & Pipeline TD looking for hot challenges in your area.

Animation

IVÁN BECKER GURREA

Iván studied Industrial Design Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, building a strong foundation in creativity and problem-solving. During an exchange semester, he discovered animation, starting in 2D and later transitioning to 3D while preserving clarity and expressiveness.