Resume:

EXPERIENCE:

08/2008 - present

PDI / Dreamworks

Redwood City / CA

www.dreamworks.com

USA

Character TD

I worked on Megamind, Kung Fu Panda 2 - The Kaboom of Doom
Most recently I am working on Madagascar 3
- Responsible for face setups which includes building shapes and controls
  for a broad variety of characters, develop tools and script custom setup
  parts in python.

11/2006 - 06/2008

Framestore CFC

London

www.framestore-cfc.com

United Kingdom

Character Rigger

I worked on the animated feature The Tale of Despereaux.
- Building and maintaining the Animation-Rig pipeline for the show
- Development of a fast and easy-to-use Animation-Rig (Two Prototypes).
- Creation of a procedural rigging system with MEL that automates the rigging
  process and allows easy porting of the Animation-Rigs to all characters
- Creating Animation-Rigs for about 30 biped and 4 quadruped characters,
  that are animated by approx. 50 animators.

06/2006 - 11/2006

Chris Creatures Film Effects

Berlin

www.chriscreatures.com

Germany

Lead Character Rigger

I worked on the feature film Rudi: The Return of the Racing Pig
- Responsible for the creation of an animation-setup and the animation
interface for a photorealistic pig that is the hero character in the movie.

08/1999 - 05/2006

Jangled Nerves

Stuttgart

www.jangled-nerves.com

Germany

Freelancer, CG Artist

I worked on commercials and visualisations for clients like Daimler-Chrysler,
Lexus, Porsche, BMW, Audi, Caterpillar and Bertelsmann. I worked there
as a cg-generalist.

TEACHING:

11/2010 - 11/2010

The Animation Workshop

Viborg

www.animwork.dk

Denmark

Rigging Workshop

Worked with a class of 22 students over the course of 2.5 weeks.
- Going over general rigging principles and more specific techniques.
- Supervised the rigging process of 22 bipedal character setups.

10/2009 - 12/2009

TD-College

online school

www.td-college.com

Mentor for MEL-Scripting

Mentored students over the course of 3 months in the Mel-Scripting,

EDUCATION:

10/2003 - 07/2006

Institute for Animation,

Ludwigsburg

Visual effects & Digital

Baden-Württemberg

Postproduction

Germany

www.animationsinstitut.de

Bachelor´s Degree

I worked independently as well as in groups on several short film projects,
where I did character rigging and lighting most of the time, but also animation
and modelling. I attended courses in computer graphics and screen writing.

10/2001 - 07/2003

Filmakademie

Ludwigsburg

Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg

www.filmakademie.de

Germany

Associate Degree

Foundation courses in film and media (scriptwriting, cinematography, editing,
directing and computer graphics). Worked in different positions on set.

09/1989 - 07/1998

Schelztor Gymnasium

Esslingen

Germany

High School or equivalent

CREDITS:

Madagascar 3

(animated feature film)

Character TD

(2012)

Kung Fu Panda 2

(animated feature film)

Character TD

(2011)

Megamind

(animated feature film)

Character TD

(2010)

(2008)

the Racing Pig

(2006)

Character Rigger

SHORT FILM CREDITS:

Agent Omicron

(animated short)

Character TD,

(2009)

Pipeline

House of Always

(animated short)

Character TD,

(2005)

Lighting TD, Director

Aal im Schaedel

(animated short)

Character TD

(2005)

make love

(2004)

Compositor, Pipeline

(2003)

Lighting, Director

(2002)

Editing

AWARDS:

Agent Omicron

(animated short)

CGChallenge

(Goro Fujita,

(2009)

CGSociety

Kory Heinzen,

Video Team

Nico Sanghrajka,

Master Award

Ryosuke Fujita)