Erik Wernquist

Erik Wernquist is a Swedish character animator, writer and director. He is best know for creating the character Crazy Frog. Erik first worked as a writer, director and producer of theatre plays before learning computer graphics in early 2000. He worked as freelance 3D artist/illustrator for a few years and started working as a character animator for Kaktus Film in 2004. In 2007, he took a break for animation to co-write the Swedish live action comedy television series Grotesco and direct three out of the eight episodes. He took another break in 2011 to co-write, co-direct and work on the visual effects of the Swedish live action skit show Pulver.

Works

One Revolution Per Minute

ONE REVOLUTION PER MINUTE is a short film I made to explore my fascination with artificial gravity in space. It takes place aboard the "SSPO Esperanta" - a planetary orbiter that spins around itself at a rate of one revolution per minute (1 RPM). With a radius of 450 meters, the spin generates artificial gravity with an effect of approximately 0.5 g along its main deck.

Release Date:2023-09-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

This World Is Not My Own

Chewing gum sculptures, a wealthy gallerist, a notorious murder case, and the segregated south - it's all part of Nellie Mae Rowe's boundless universe. This World Is Not My Own reimagines this self-taught artist's world and her life spanning the 20th century.

Release Date:2023-03-11

Department:Visual Effects

Job:Animation

Vote Count:2

GO INCREDIBLY FAST

The film is about the immense distances between stars and the long durations we would have to endure in order to traverse them, even if utilizing methods of propulsion at the very limits of scientific knowledge. Ultimately, it comes down to our understanding of physics and the fundamental laws that govern the Universe. If we ever want to travel to stellar destinations beyond our solar system, within the limits of a human lifetime - we will need to find ways to go incredibly fast.

Release Date:2022-04-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

The story of life on our planet by the man who has seen more of the natural world than any other. In more than 90 years, Attenborough has visited every continent on the globe, exploring the wild places of our planet and documenting the living world in all its variety and wonder. Addressing the biggest challenges facing life on our planet, the film offers a powerful message of hope for future generations.

Release Date:2020-09-28

Department:Visual Effects

Job:Visual Effects Producer

Vote Count:370

A Warm Place

Short, experimental clip of tall buildings, lots of them, plenty of vacant apartments and cosy weather - a warm place.

Release Date:2018-03-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Cassini's Grand Finale

To help visualize the dramatic final chapter in Cassini's remarkable story, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory produced this short film that features beautiful computer-generated animation, thoughtful narration and a rousing score. Producers at JPL worked with filmmaker Erik Wernquist, known for his 2014 short film "Wanderers," to create a stirring finale video befitting one of NASA's most successful missions of exploration.

Release Date:2017-04-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Grotesco - A Near Death Revue

Release Date:2016-05-28

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:3

New Horizons

A brief visualisation of NASA’s historic spacecrafts Mariner, Pioneer, Voyager, and Dawn, exploring the solar system, culminating in the New Horizons mission.

Release Date:2015-06-30

Department:Crew

Job:Visual Effects Art Director

Vote Count:1

Wanderers

Wanderers is a vision of humanity's expansion into the Solar System, based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our future in space might look like, if it ever happens. The locations depicted in the film are digital recreations of actual places in the Solar System, built from real photos and map data where available. Without any apparent story, other than what you may fill in by yourself, the idea with the film is primarily to show a glimpse of the fantastic and beautiful nature that surrounds us on our neighboring worlds - and above all, how it might appear to us if we were there.

Release Date:2014-10-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:59

Grotesco

Release Date:2007-10-31

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:11