thomas Gugel.
three seconds.

Büro für Gestaltung & Animation

Three-seconds is the portfolio of Award winning Digital Artist & Motion Designer Thomas Gugel. He is currently working as a Freelancer with a studio in Cologne, Germany. Available worldwide.

Thomas Gugel is a design-driven Art-Director and Digital Artist based on a firm believe in the importance of concept and meaning. With almost ten years of experience in broadcast and brand-design he offers a strong foundation in the process of developing and layouting an entire crossmedia design-package & design-system. In every project he offers a deep Artistic-Research providing the client with compiled insights to help for a better communication of their message. Paired with a diploma-degree in Design, his affinity for technical details in the Animation/Production process and his increased awareness of economically & ecologically worthwhile project management, he is able to accompany projects throughout the entire process – from the first idea to the last frame rendered.

Working philosophy & project management

In addition to years of practical experience in the Design-Thinking ideation process I am a certified Scrum-Master (PSM-I) for agile project management, to add a variety of tools to the classical PM within a design-driven environment.

Although I am not available for pure project management, this knowledge serves my belief in the importance of a content-aware PM to support the creative process and aim towards a time and cost efficient, respectful, satisfying and sustainable design development – for all participants involved.

Scalable Network

Depending on the project size, I often team up with a few very talented folks & friends with their own and unique design superpowers, I very much appreciate. Not only for the better overall outcome of the final Design & Animation – rather because design is always a team effort. And it is just more fun playing ping pong with ideas.

Tools used

3D: Maxon Cinema 4D, Side FX Houdini
Render: Redshift, Octane
Design & Layout, Animation: Illustrator, After Effects, Indesign, Photoshop
Concept & Feedback: Miro, Frame.io
Editing: DaVinci Resolve
Scripting: Visual Studio, PyCharm
Languages: phyton (C4D), vex (Houdini), Javascript (AE), php, C# (basics)

I’m always fond of new software to get a job done, but not using it on daily basis like such as Unreal Engine, Marvelous Designer or Figma & Adobe XD. For driving my Axidraw 2D Plotter I use Inkscape – what’s a hell lot of fun!

Press

Projects realised for

What about the name “three seconds”

Developed from the research while working on my graduation short film in 2010. There is a whole story behind it and a lot of explanation about the purely astonishing topic time – how humans percept it, philosophical theories, physical phenomena – but basically, three seconds is the maximum duration our brain can consider as timeless.