Erik Wernquist

Erik Wernquist

Birth : 1977-08-01, Lidingö, Stockholms län, Sweden

History

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.

Profile

Erik Wernquist

Movies

This World Is Not My Own
Animation
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.
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
Visual Effects Compositor
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.
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
Visual Effects Producer
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.
A Warm Place
Visual Effects
Short, experimental clip of tall buildings, lots of them, plenty of vacant apartments and cosy weather - a warm place.
A Warm Place
Director
Short, experimental clip of tall buildings, lots of them, plenty of vacant apartments and cosy weather - a warm place.
Crazy Frog - The Not So Crazy Frog
Official Video Documentary
Cassini's Grand Finale
Director
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.
Grotesco - A Near Death Revue
Writer
New Horizons
Director
A brief visualisation of NASA’s historic spacecrafts Mariner, Pioneer, Voyager, and Dawn, exploring the solar system, culminating in the New Horizons mission.
New Horizons
Visual Effects
A brief visualisation of NASA’s historic spacecrafts Mariner, Pioneer, Voyager, and Dawn, exploring the solar system, culminating in the New Horizons mission.
New Horizons
Visual Effects Art Director
A brief visualisation of NASA’s historic spacecrafts Mariner, Pioneer, Voyager, and Dawn, exploring the solar system, culminating in the New Horizons mission.
Wanderers
Director
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.
Wanderers
Visual Effects
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.