You need a 360° film for VR devices or 2D screens? A fresh animation style for your new product or company identity? Check out our portfolio. You are at the right place!
Give your audience an unforgettable experience! We paint live on a big screen for events like concerts, festivals and conferences.
We give masterclasses for small and larger groups from beginner to expert. Online & local. The participants learn how to use state of the art VR equipment and professional VR art tools.
PORTFOLIO
All our artworks are available as mono/stereoscopic (with depht) 360° films for VR headsets and can also be viewed on 2D screens:
PINOCCHIO IN STROMBOLI INC.
Immune System Cosmonaut
Fire Golem - SKETCHFAB
VR LIVE PAINTING
What is a VR Live Painting?
We will paint live on a big screen for events like concerts, theatres and festivals. Our VR Live Paintings will massivly intensify your main act in a perfect symbiose.
How can you use live paintings?
Event/Festival
Event/Festival
Theatre
Concert
Concert
Theatre
Graphic Recording
Graphic Recording
Ready to refresh your audience?
VR Workshops
We arrived in the future. A new profession has emerged: the VR-Artist. During our workshops we will teach you the various techniques and methodes of virtual painting and animation.
become one withyour vision
Online Courses
Basic
VR Painting Webinar
The LAVAMUSEUM is the first easy access virtual museum that offers space for artists to present their work to a wide audience. During the VR Webinar we introduce you to VR art & animation and take you on a virtual tour through the museum. Finally everyone will create their own virtual artpiece.
✔ No VR headset required!✔ Just join with your browser or tablet!
Create your virtual Space
In this basic course, you will learn how to create your own virtual meeting room (VMR) or exhibition space. As an example, we will together join a virtual museum with artworks from Studio LAVAMACHINE. There we will learn about the tools available. You create your first VR painting and finally your own virtual environment.
✔ No VR headset required!✔ Just join with your browser or tablet!
Advanced
VR Design Masterclass
In this Masterclass we teach you the different techniques and methods of virtual design. The course contains practical exercises which will be discussed individually on a weekly basis. VR Design gives you the ability to create and assess your design in VR in a much faster way while having strong intuitive sets of tools to directly modify it.
✔ Encourage innovation!✔ Team mentorship & networking!
VR Animation Masterclass
In the VR Painting Masterclass we teach you the different techniques and methods of virtual painting and animation as well as a high level of expertise about VR art techniques in general. This course is suitable for VR beginners as well as for media industry professionals and results in your first entirely in VR animated artwork.
✔ Several Days Program!✔ Individual Support!
note: no VR headset needed. Also working inside your browser.
Upcoming Events
New courses are currently being prepared. Until then, take a look at https://www.facebook.com/Lavamachine/. Here we also make some announcements.
THE LAVAMACHINE TEAM
Award winning Germany based LAVAMACHINE combines the power of two independent short film animators & illustrators creating and teaching VR experiences with a powerful message and brand new style.
Eric Giessmann
Director, 3D/VR Artist
Multiple international award-winning director for animated short film and specialized in VR content. With the founding of Studio LAVAMACHINE, he combined his passion for classical painting with the digitalization of this century.
Eric Giessmann
Am Latourshof 66
41542 Dormagen
Germany
+49 (0)157 8741 1203
Piers Goffart
Art Director, Animator
Freelance illustrator and animator with a passion for storytelling, comedy and character acting. In 2015 he won the POS Award for best Artwork. Since 2017 he shifted his craft more and more into VR painting and animation.
Piers Goffart
Bargteheider Str. 147a
22143 Hamburg
Germany
+49 (0)157 79484085
TESTIMONIALS
Lavamachine was a great way to wrap up our meeting. You have visually processed the content aspects of the event and created an impressive three-dimensional closure.
Team weiter gelernt der k.o.s GmbH
Awesome, You created the mood of this scene very well! It resembles traveling through a painting. Master of spatial storytelling, beyond just beautiful brush painting!
Life Painting of Moby Dick
The implementation of our ideas was very professional and the result of high quality. The participants of the conference were enthusiastic. You more than exceeded our expectations.
Nationale Agentur Bildung für Europa beim Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung -
We would like to thank you once again for the great seminar on the weekend, the exciting experiences we had with a special world and way of implementation.
VR Workshop participant
LAVAMACHINE was a pleasure to work with. They showed up with value in their initial proposal, were highly proactive communicators and consistently delivered on agreed-upon work with exceptional quality on-time.
Tomas Quinonez-Riegos, koat.io
CLIENTS
Privacy
Tax:
Piers Goffart: VAT Nr.: DE317305919
Eric Giessmann: VAT Nr.: DE304928502
Impressum
Website: Piers Goffart
Fotos & Illustrations: Eric Giessmann