Video production with a vision

I've worked in film and television production since 2010. Today, that experience meets new and changing production with artificial intelligence.

I can take on a complete with a team mixed of real human experts and AI tools. Or I join exactly where your team needs support.

From the first idea to the finished film, you deal with me.

Hannes Dollinger working on a video production with a camera
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Launching a new product? Launch it! Literally!

‘Doesn't this ignition coil look like a rocket?’ The product-launch idea was there almost the moment I saw it.

The client wanted a social-media teaser for a new product: an ignition coil. The first time I saw it, I noticed the holes in its metal casing. That looks like a rocket engine, I thought.

So I prepared a presentation that took a rather generous detour via the historic Apollo 11 mission, just to build the necessary tension. I wanted to fire this thing into the sky like a rocket. My only worry was whether the client would let me turn the product into a huge exploding object. The team at Nissens loved the idea of literally ‘launching’ the ignition coil.

Nano Banana was new at the time and made it fairly easy to turn the perspective from a tiny ignition coil into a large rocket. Most of the video was made with Veo 3, then the latest video model. Sora 2 had also just arrived in November 2025 — the first model that could create multi-cut clips from one prompt. Perfect for a run of detailed B-roll shots.

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Porsche Carrera Cup Asia

The film follows the Official Test Days of the 2015 Porsche Carrera Cup Asia.

For two seasons, I was part of the media production team for the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia. I was responsible for highlight videos that had to be edited and published on race day. We also produced a live link from the pit lane before each race, the Carrera Cup Asia motorsport magazine with English and Chinese presenters, and social clips with the drivers.

I was living in Shanghai and travelled to races on some of Asia's most exciting circuits: in Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, China and Singapore. From the outside, it often looked like a jet-set life with racing drivers. Inside the team, it felt much more like a family — a genuinely good group working closely under enormous time pressure throughout each race weekend.

That period was an experience I'll never forget. I learnt a lot about Porsche's standard of precision. Every centimetre matters on the car, and the same accuracy mattered in the films. I also got an immediate view of motorsport, the cars, and the lives of drivers and pit crews who regularly work at the limit.

The Porsche Carrera Cup Asia is still the reference I'm proudest of. The production was fast, demanding and very real. It taught me more about video production than almost any other project.

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Isometric explainer films

Making complex processes easy to see and understand.

An isometric graphic style is very good at explaining technical processes, logistics chains and industrial workflows. Looking diagonally down creates spatial depth without losing clarity: viewers can take in the whole system and several sides at once. In the film about the Liebherr Reman programme, that perspective makes the industrial cycle of remanufacturing used components easy to follow.

A photorealistic 3D model can be too much for a clear explainer. It may distract from the point, raise production costs and add rendering time. Isometric vector graphics keep the minimal, modern quality of flat design while adding enough dimension to make depth and movement clear. Even with AI, I work with experienced motion designers when the tools aren't precise enough for technical detail, invent components or introduce errors into the geometry. That keeps the details accurate and consistent with the company's visual identity.

Bye-bye stock footage: images and sound

Do you also spend far too much time searching stock-video sites for the perfect clip?

One of AI's biggest advantages is that it can bring very specific images and scenes to life. I started replacing stock searches with AI images and video quite early. When the result looks convincing, it can do more than a traditional stock library. Suddenly the image I actually need is possible.

The same goes for sound effects and music. A good film lives through its atmosphere and the way image and sound work together. AI can give me far more specific options than buying another generic stock track or effect.

Have we already invented the Matrix?

Does Hannes ever dare to go in front of the camera? Yes. Especially when a subject needs a little more time.

In this video, I look at the future of entertainment. Virtual reality still feels like a flop to many people. But perhaps AI is about to change everything.

Will we live in photorealistic, AI-generated worlds like The Matrix? Or will it all end in a dystopian advertising nightmare? I look at what Google, Nvidia and other companies are working on — and the questions that work raises.

Sometimes less is more

In an explainer film, the message comes first. The style should support it, not get in its way.

AI avatars often do the opposite. People stare at the face, wonder about the way it speaks and wait for the tiny moment when the person stops looking quite human. The content disappears into the background.

Sometimes less is more. A simple animated style can make a point more precisely because it shows only what the story needs.

For this demo, I created an animated Hannes to explain what AI can do.