About

I am Daniel “LyCheSis” Kürsten and I work for Demodern in Cologne as creative technologist.

This is the place where I showcase my stuff, that may include anything from web scripts to 3D animations.

I am using (and have been using) many tools for my work. Here is a list of them:

3D Applications Art Applications Game Development Web Development
  • Luxology Modo
  • Autodesk Maya
  • Newtek Lightwave3D
  • Autodesk Softimage
  • Impulse Imagine
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • GrafX2
  • Newtek Aura/TV-Paint
  • Cloanto Personal Paint
  • Electronic Arts Deluxe Paint
  • Unity3D (C#)
  • XNA Game Studio
  • BlitzBasic
  • AMOS / AMOS Pro
  • DevPac Assembler (68k)
  • GFA-Basic
  • Amiga Basic
  • TurboPascal
  • VBASICA
  • Three.js
  • JavaScript
  • Zend PHP
  • Oracle MySQL
  • fuelPHP Framework
  • jQuery Library
  • AngularJS Framework
  • ExtJS
  • script.aculo.us
  • Perl

I have several sites live around the web.

Site Description Technology
Amiga Graphics Archive Archive for pixel art created with the Commodore Amiga Self developed and hosted system powered by fuelPHP framework
Google+ page Page on Google+ for the Amiga Graphics Archive Google+
Twitter page Page on Twitter for the Amiga Graphics Archive Twitter
AnimA TV News site centered around VFX. Inactive since 2008. Self hosted WordPress installation
L. Kluth & Co. Small corporate site for a ship broker Self developed system powered by Yii framework

I have (and have been using) computers since 1988. When networks became popular I started giving them names based on characters from the anime series Tenchi Muyo. All PCs have been hand built by myself and even the Amiga 4000 was seriously upgraded during its lifetime.

Sakuya Windows 10 PC Intel i7 6700K 4GHz
Yuzuha Windows 10 PC Intel Core2 Quad 2.4GHz
Zero Windows XP PC Intel Pentium IV 3.0GHz
Tokimi Windows 2000 PC Intel Celeron 333 (later PIII 500MHz, 1.0GHz)
Tsunami Windows 95 PC Intel Pentium 100MHz (later AMD K6 400MHz)
Funaho Commodore Amiga 4000 (Kickstart v3.1) 68030 25MHz (later 68040 40MHz)
— Commodore Amiga 2000 (Kickstart v2.04) 68000 7.14MHz
— Commodore Amiga 500 (Kickstart v1.2) 68000 7.14MHz
— MS-DOS PC Intel XT 4.77MHz