About
One person. One garage. Real light.
I'm Andreas Tumbrink. I studied aerospace engineering, programmed CNC mills for machines the size of houses, and built parts for orbital rockets at Rocket Factory Augsburg.
Then I chose film. Not the digital kind — the kind you can hold. Physical miniatures, real LEDs, motion-control cameras, and compositing that starts with an actual object under actual light.
Everything on this site was built by hand in a garage in Selm, Germany. The rig, the models, the electronics, the firmware, the speakers — all of it.
House rule: if a tool doesn't exist, build it. If it exists but costs €50,000, build it anyway — for €500.
The workshop · Selm, DE
Stations
- Aerospace engineeringStudies — Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik
- Computational engineeringStudies
- NSM MagnettechnikCNC programming, large-format milling
- Rocket Factory AugsburgMachined parts for orbital rockets
- TUMBRINKPractical effects, miniatures, films, machines
Capabilities
- CNC programming (Heidenhain)
- Manual machining
- Electronics design — ESP32, TMC2209, TLC5947, custom PCB
- Firmware — C++ / Python
- Inverse kinematics
- 3D printing — FDM + resin
- Resin casting
- Motion-control systems
- Lighting design
- Practical effects
- Miniature model making
- Compositing — Nuke / DaVinci Resolve
- Photogrammetry / Gaussian splatting
- Vacuum technology
- Plasma processes
- Sintering