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ABOUT ME.
I would describe myself as an experienced 3D generalist, but I think I’d benefit the team best in areas of shading, lighting, rendering and corresponding tool development. Coming from a computer science background with a large interest in arts I’ve extended my skill set during my studies at the Animation Institute of Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg and during production of Animation and VFX movies. Having been a lead pipeline TD with a specialisation in Lighting, my objective is to become a Look Development Technical Director on feature film projects where I could combine my technical experience and skills with a more artistic focus.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • 11/2009 – present >> Lead-Pipeline TD on “Your Highness. Providing tools and workflows for all aspects of the production. Working very closely to CG supervisor – Framestore UK, London
  • 03/2009 – 11/2009 >> Co-Lead Pipeline TD on “Avatar”. Co Pipeline TD, providing full 2D and 3D lighting pipeline – Framestore UK, London
  • 11/2008 – 03/2009 >> Lighting and Pipeline TD on “Where The Wild Things Are”. Providing automated compositing pipeline and shot lighting – Framestore UK, London
  • 12/2007 – 12/2008 >> Assistant Lighting/Pipeline TD on “The Tale of Despereaux”, Framestore’s first animated feature. Provided on the floor tools for lighters, developed and maintained render submission tools, introduced pointbased ambient occlusion workflow – Framestore UK, London
  • 07/2007 – 08/2007 >> Rigging TD for COMBOTS CHARACTERS, providing comprehensive biped rigs for a set of six characters from the animation feature “Lissi und der wilde Kaiser” – STUDIO SOI, Ludwigsburg
  • 06/2007 – 08/2007 >> Shading/Lighting/Rendering TD for KINSKI REVISITED – DYNAMIC REALTIME RESEARCH PROJECT OF THE ANIMATION INSTITUTE, FILMAKADEMIE BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG, Ludwigsburg
  • 03/2007 – 07/2007 >> Visiting Lecturer at the UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AUGSBURG giving 4th semester design students a diversified insight to 3D ANIMATION IN VISUAL EFFECTS. Support for master students during game design and 3D animation projects
  • 02/2007 – 04/2007 >> Rigging TD for COMBOTS CHARACTERS, providing comprehensive biped rigs for a set of four characters from the batman series – STUDIO SOI, Ludwigsburg
  • 03/2006 – 07/2006 >> Visiting Lecturer at the UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AUGSBURG giving 4th semester design students a diversified insight to 3D ANIMATION IN VISUAL EFFECTS, Augsburg
  • 12/2005 – 01/2006 >> Shading/Lighting/Rendering TD for INCREASE YOUR IMPACT AND INFLUENCE (client: ABN Amro Bank) – ARTIFICIAL ACTORS RESEARCH PROJECT OF THE ANIMATION INSTITUTE, FILMAKADEMIE BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG, Ludwigsburg
  • 02/2004 – 03/2005 >> Shading/Lighting/Rendering TD for 3D visualization of skeletal mechanics for SWR TV documentary VON NULL AUF 42 – ANIMATION INSTITUTE OF FILMAKADEMIE BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG, Ludwigsburg
  • 09/2000 – 09/2002 >> 3D artist trainee, provided modeling, shading, lighting and pipelining with Softimage 3D, SoftMan and PRMan during production of full CG animated series JELLY BEAN TOWN – Asset Media International, Munich

EDUCATION

  • 10/2003 – 02/2006 >> DIPLOM DER FILMAKADEMIE BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG – Two and a half year postgraduate technical director studies at the ANIMATION INSTITUTE of the FILMAKADEMIE BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG, Ludwigsburg
  • 03/1999 – 09/2003 >> DIPLOMINGENEUR DER MEDIENINFORMATIK (FH) – Graduate engineer in COMPUTER SCIENCE IN MEDIA at STUTTGART MEDIA UNIVERSITY, Stuttgart

CREDITS, AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

  • KINSKI REVISITED – Contribution for Animation Theater at SIGGRAPH 2007, San Diego, with KINSKI REVISITED. Provided modeling, shading, lighting, rendering and supervision for dynamic displacement tool development and hair rendering – SHADING, LIGHTING, RENDERING TD, SUPERVISION
  • ABN AMRO BANK – ANIMAGO 2006, 2nd place in category Documentation/Infotainment with INCREASE YOUR IMPACT AND INFLUENCE – SHADING, LIGHTING, RENDERING TD
  • AFS TOOLSET – ANIMAGO 2005, 2nd place in category Education/Animation with POEM FOR MY 42RD BIRTHDAY – SHADING, LIGHTING, RENDERING TD
  • AOL JUMP – PORSCHE NACHWUCHSPREIS 2005, 3rd prize. Provided all aspects of Postproduction like setsupervision, modeling, lighting, shading, compositing – SHADING, LIGHTING, RENDERING TD
  • DAS WEIHNACHTSESSEN – ANIMAMUNDI 2005 Sao Paolo (1st prize) and Rio de Janeiro (3rd prize), Animation Short by Masterclass project at Filmakademie Baden Wuerttemberg – RIGGING TD
  • INFILTRATORS $1,000,000 MAKE SOMETHING UNREAL CONTEST (EPIC & NVIDIA) – 3rd place in phase 4 with INFILTRATORS. Provided lighting and particle effects in Unreal Engine – LIGHTING TD

CONFERENCES & PRESS

  • KINSKI REVISITED 05/2007, STERN Online – feature about the developing process of digital recreation of Klaus Kinski >> goto Stern Online article
  • 07/2007, LIFT – feature about the developing process of digital recreation of Klaus Kinski
  • 05/2007 – fmx 2007 – Talk at the Virtual Humans Forum about rendering KINSKI REVISITED (further speakers: Christophe Hery, George Borshukov, Steven Stahlberg, Thomas Kang) >> goto fmx 2007 website
  • ARTIFIACIAL ACTORS 05/2006, fmx 2006 – Conference talk about rendering INCREASE YOUR INFLUENCE AND IMPACT
  • ARTIFIACIAL ACTORS 04/2005, fmx 2005 – Conference talk about rendering POEM FOR MY 42RD BIRTHDAY

TOOLS & SKILLS
Maya, 3DSMax, Softimage 3D, Mudbox
2D Shake, Combustion, AfterFX, Photoshop
CODE MEL, Python, Java, C
OPSYS Windows, Mac OSX, LINUX

PERSONALIA
Birth December 21st, 1973
Citizenship: German
Resident: Stuttgart, Germany
Languages: German (native speaker), English (fluent, written and oral), Slovenian
(basics)

Besides sharing and gaining knowledge I love things like literature, photography, movies, travel and cooking. Naturally I will send you a reference letter upon request.