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About

I rebuild
what’s already there.

hochformat is my studio for ad films and websites. I don’t shoot, I build: from your photos, plans, menus and screenshots – with 3D, motion design, code and sound.

  1. The house as a line drawing on paper
  2. The house as a white model in the garden
  3. Half model, half photoreal house: the transition
  4. The finished house in the garden, in late-afternoon light
From plan to film: Brakenhoff Wohnbau · New-build marketing

Who builds

Hi, I’m
Chakir.

Chakir El Yafchi
Chakir El YafchiFounder · Bergheim

I love design, technology and animation – and most of all, building things. It started as a hobby. With hochformat it has become a service for businesses – with one standard I measure every piece of work by:

If something only looks “okay”, it isn’t finished.

When you get in touch, you talk to me. I listen, design, build and deliver myself – no agency chain, no handing on.

What I commit to is fixed in advance: a fixed price before I start, a draft you approve before I produce, and the usage rights stay with you.

Principles

What I
stand by.

  1. 01

    You buy attention, not technology.

    Whether 3D, code or AI: the tools are my business. Yours is the result – people who stop scrolling and remember your brand.

  2. 02

    Transform, don’t crossfade.

    With me, nothing simply disappears. A photo turns into an ad, a line on the menu into a burger. The eye stays with it, because it wants to know what it will become.

  3. 03

    Your material is where it starts.

    Photos, plans, menu, screenshots, logo: that is what I build from. No shoot day, no camera crew.

  4. 04

    See it first, then produce.

    Every film starts as a storyboard. You see every key frame before production begins – changes cost nothing at that stage.

Workshop

What I build with.

A studio full of tools, not cameras. For every image I pick whatever does it best.

3D and CGI
Products, houses and rooms, built and lit in Blender.
Motion design
Type, shapes and transitions with weight and rhythm.
Programmed animation
Films and pages made from code: precise, recomposed for every format, quick to change.
Sound design
The sound is made with the picture, not after it.
AI tools
Where they make an image more realistic. Idea, design, editing and sound I do myself.
Web development
Fast, mobile sites that you can look after yourself.

Contact

Send me what you have.

I reply with an idea, not a slide deck.

I’ll get back to you within one working day.

What happens next

  1. I call or email you – whichever you prefer.
  2. You get an idea and a fixed price.
  3. Only then do you decide. The first conversation is free and without obligation.

Your contact

Chakir El Yafchi, Founder · Bergheim

You talk directly to me – the person who builds your project.

Prefer to go direct?

ENQUIRY

Step 1 of 3

What’s it about?

Send me what you have.

What’s it about?

Images or PDF, as many as you like.

By when?

By when?
What do you already have?

Your contact details

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