animago CONFERENCE: Speakers

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Speakers 2019

Here is a selection of speakers during the animago 2019. All lectures will be in English language. We are updating this list on a regular basis.

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Gleb Alexandrov

3D Artist
Creative Shrimp, Poland

Gleb Alexandrov is an award-winning 3D artist, running the Creative Shrimp blog with tips and tricks for aspiring artists with Aidy Burrows.
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Calvin Bacon

Product Specialist
InstaLOD, Germany

Experienced Animator with a demonstrated history of working in the 3D industry.
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Melanie Beisswenger

Animator, Director and Educator
Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Melanie Beisswenger has animated almost all around the world and in different animation styles and formats, occasionally also directing her own short form projects.
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Josh Beveridge

Animation Supervisor
Sony Pictures Imageworks, USA

Joshua Beveridge is an animation supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks, most recently completing work on the Academy Award®-winning SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE.
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Marieke Blaauw

Director
Job, Joris & Marieke, The Netherlands

Job, Joris & Marieke is a Dutch animation studio. Their work can be described as both cute and absurd.
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Matthias Buehler

Founder & CTO
vrbn studios AG, Switzerland

After graduating from ETH Zurich (MSc Arch ETH), Matthias has worked in landscape architecture, architectural visualization and then has been part of the CityEngine development team for almost five years.
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Jan Burda

Lead Compositing Artist
Mackevision, Germany

Jan started working as a VFX professional in 2003. During the course of his career, he’s worked with many great artists, supervisors, directors, and DOPs. Even after all this time, he still loves his job.
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Nils Calles

Producer
postproduction-tutorials.net, Germany

Nils Calles runs a media agency, where he produces trailers, motion graphics, imagefilms, 360° content, tutorials and music.
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Carlo Carfora

Senior 3D Artist
The Mill, United Kingdom

Carlo is a Senior 3D Artist with extensive experience, having worked in the VFX industry for over 7 years.
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Francisco DeLaTorre

Sequence Lead
Pixar Animation Studios, USA

Francisco has been at Pixar Animation Studios for 11 years, as a shading and matte paint technical artist, a shading lead on The Blue Umbrella and Cars 3, and as a sequence lead on Toy Story 4.
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Sean Ellis

3D Artist
iCreate, England

After undergoing a complete career change, returning to education and graduating with a BA in Game Design, Sean Ellis is now a junior 3D artist working for a busy Architectural Visualisation studio.
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Arslan Elver

Animation Supervisor
Framestore, United Kingdom

A self-taught animator, Arslan specialises in creating realistic creature movement and has a passion for using animation to carve nuanced characters.
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Taisha Fabricius

3D Technology Evangelist
Esri, Switzerland

Taisha holds degrees in Geomatic Engineering and Arts from the University of Melbourne, as well as an MBA from RWTH Aachen/University of St. Gallen focusing on technology and innovation.
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Mauro Frau

Founder / Creative Director
Treehouse Ninjas, Hungary

In around twenty years working on cgi for movies, games and whatever in between, Mauro Frau collected a wealth of diverse experiences, most notably as a senior technical director, sequence lead, and art director at many leading studios around the world.
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Boyo Frederix

Head of Visual Effects
Postoffice Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Boyo has been a VFX supervisor in the ad industry for over 10 years.
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Mike Hermes

Professional YouTuber / 3D Artist / Educator
MH Tutorials, Netherlands

Mike Hermes YouTube channel is dedicated to 3D modeling, texturing, lighting, rigging and animation tutorials.
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Cornel Hillmann

Founder
STUDIO CGARTIST

Cornel runs a 3D visualization and VR development studio in Singapore and, since 2014, has been advocating B2B use cases for mobile and standalone VR headsets.
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Gottfried Hofmann

Founder
BlenderDiplom, Germany

Gottfried Hofmann is a Blender Foundation Certified Trainer and consultant.
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Robert Hranitzky

Creative Director
Freelancer, Germany

Robert works as a designer based in Munich, Germany, with a strong focus on motion graphics and animation for a wide range of projects from opening titles to showroom trailers and film projects.
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Will Jeffers

Head of 3D
Ambassadors, The Netherlands

Will Jeffers brings over a decade of experience at London studios to head up the 3D department of creative production studio Ambassadors in Amsterdam.
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Alejandro Jimenez

Co-founder & Director
Blow Studio, Spain

Alejandro Jimenez is co founder at Blow, the animation studio that recently made the animation production of Three Robots and When the yogurt took over episodes from Netflix’s animation anthology "Love, death + robots".
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Reka Kaloczy

Line producer
Caligari Film, Germany

Reka has been working internationally as producer, VFX-post producer, creative-development producer, consultant, production manager, outsource manager in 2D-3D animation, VFX, post production, game industry in the past 20 years.
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Tanja Kerner

3D and Visual Effects
Neverest GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

Tanja always loved drawing and storytelling, and when she began studying Multimedia and Communication in Ansbach, she discovered a new passion: animation.
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Jonas Kluger

Machine Learning Artist
das element, Germany

Starting out as an artist and moving to work as a VFX Editor and Pipeline TD for feature films like Marvel's The Avengers, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Transformers: The Last Knight, Jonas knows both the creative and also technical side to the VFX industry. For years he has been building tools to make the artists life easier.
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Thomas Knop

Head of Studio
TRIXTER, Germany

Thomas Knop is the Head of Studio at TRIXTER since 2018.
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Cristian Koch Rumpf

3D generalist
Freelancer, Germany

Cris is a self-taught 3D generalist and compositor based in Germany. He has studied Cinematography and Advertising in Lima, Peru.
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Manuel Kotulla

Creative Director
Neverest GmbH & Co KG, Germany

Manuel started his way towards 3D as a classic advertising art director, looking at his layouts long enough until he could see them start moving.
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Stefan Kreutzer

Video Game Producer
remote control productions, Germany

Stefan Kreutzer works as a video game producer and director of business development for remote control productions GmbH (rcp), an international active production house for video games and mother to Europe’s biggest developer family.
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Lars Krüger

Co-Founder, 3D animator and generalist
LUMATIC Animation & VFX, Germany

Lars co-founded LUMATIC in 2014 after working for several years as a freelance 3D animator and generalist.
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Benedikt Laubenthal

CEO and VFX Supervisor
BigHugFX GmbH, Germany

Benedikt Laubenthal is working in visual effects for 15 years now.
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Nicolas Leu

VFX Supervisor
Freelance, Germany

Nicolas Leu has been working in the TV and Film industry since 2007 before fully dedicating himself to Visual Effects in 2010.
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Oliver Markowski

CG Supervisor
RISE Visual Effects Studios, Germany

Oliver Markowski is the CG Supervisor at RISE | Visual Effects Studios’ Munich facility.
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Samuel Martino

CEO
Dogwood Gaming, USA

Dogwood Gaming is committed to bring fun, engaging, and creatively driven video games to gamers, made by gamers.
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Isabell Mayrhofer

Film Communication Manager
Freelance Producer , Austria/USA

Isabell Mayrhofer has been working behind the scenes of film and other creative ﬁelds for almost 10 years. She’s skilled in production, project management as well as marketing. 2018 was her ﬁrst time as a visitor of the yearly animago in Munich and she is participating as a judging member in 2019.
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Stina McNicholas

CEO
Filmproduktion Seminar, Germany

Stina McNicholas studied at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and the Animation Institut.
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Ralph Meijer

3D Artist
Ambassadors, The Netherlands

As a 3D artist at Ambassadors in Amsterdam, Ralph looks after creative problem solving and dynamics for the creative production studio’s brand and agency clients such as Philips, Jaguar and TBWA.
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Martin van der Molen & Silas Nout

Founders
Studio Mals, The Netherlands

Studio Mals crafts high quality eye-catching images and film. Their work is very tangible, preferably handmade, and has a playful attitude to it. The result is clever, playful and ridiculously sexy handcrafted eye candy!
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Susanne Molter

Freelance Animator
Suelution, Germany

Susanne Molter lives in Hamburg and works as a freelance animator for short films and as a producer for e-learning courses.
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Mohsen Mousavi

VFX Supervisor
Scanline VFX, Canada

The monumental scope of the VFX work on "Game of thrones" presented Scanline’s VFX supervisor, Mohsen Mousavi, and his team many challenges.
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Yvonne Muinde

Founder
Ikweta Arts, Nairobi (Kenya)

Yvonne Muinde is a fine artist and digital painter who has been living and working in Canada and is now relocated and based in Nairobi.
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Jonathan Stephan Nowak Delgado

Managing Director
SPREE Interactive, Germany

Jonathan’s passion is to build & scale successful companies globally. He is a serial entrepreneur in fields from natural resources to cyber security.
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Alexander Nicolas Ostermann

CG Supervisor
Baby Giant Hollyberg , Germany / USA

Alexander N. Ostermann studied animation and computer arts at the Academy of Art College.
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Leif Arne Petersen

CEO
HOLOGATE, Germany

Through his illustrious 20+ year career working for many of the top studios specializing in visual effects, animation, interactive and immersive media, as well as running his own company, Leif has become a leading expert in the field.
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Sebastian Pfeifer

Freelance 3D Generalist
everfresh, Germany

Sebastian is a freelance graphics and motion graphics designer, character modeller, rigger and animator from the Frankfurt area in Germany who specialises in toon shading, crazy transitions and in making as many short films in his life as possible.
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Fabien Polack

CG Supervisor
Illumination Mac Guff, France

Born in Paris, France in 1972, Fabien Polack is currently CG Supervisor at Illumination Mac Guff.
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Marc Potocnik

CEO
renderbaron, Germany

Marc Potocnik is a german designer and the founder of animation studio renderbaron. renderbaron produces high quality 3D animation and Visual Effects for a wide range of high profile companies including Intel, ZDF, Siemens, Audi, BMW, a.o.
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Dennis Rettkowski

Co-Founder, VFX and CG supervisor
LUMATIC Animation & VFX , Germany

Dennis has been working as a VFX and CG supervisor for almost two decades and is one of the co-founders of LUMATIC Animation & VFX.
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Cornelia Richter

Compositing Supervisor
Baby Giant Hollyberg , Germany / USA

Cornelia Richter received her diploma as a Digital Artist in 2010 from the Mediadesign Hochschule Berlin.
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Johannes Richter

Principal VFX Artist
Remedy Entertainment, Finland

Johannes Richter has had a varied and illustrious career in the VFX industry, with over 10 years’ experience in FX.
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Max Rieß

VFX Supervisor
PIXOMONDO, Germany

Max Rieß has been working in the vfx industry for over 10 years. After starting as a 3D generalist for Pixomondo - Commercials in Frankfurt he got into compositing and worked on his first feature films, Super 8 and Lars von Trier's Melancholia.
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Johannes Scholl

CEO
ICAROS, Germany

ICAROS GmbH was established in Munich, Germany in 2015 to revolutionize the way people exercise and play by combining fitness and virtual reality.
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Paolo Emilio Selva

Head of Software Engineering
Weta Digital, Neuseeland

As Head of Software Engineering, Paolo is a driving force behind the ever-evolving technology and innovation at Weta Digital.
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Simon Spielmann

R&D Department
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Simon Spielmann is part of the R&D Department at the Animationsinstitut with focus on software development and real-time graphics for media production.
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Mark Spindler

VFX Supervisor
PIXOMONDO, Germany

Mark Spindler was born in 1986 and grew up in Gummersbach, Germany. After completing his Master’s degree in Media Production at the Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe in 2012, he worked on many projects at PIXOMONDO Studios in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Stefan Salcher, Tobias Schererbauer, Martin Lorenz

Founder
LWZ , Austria

LWZ not only masters moving, but also quiet pictures - their designs are printed in internationally renowned magazines and books such as Page, Pickles, Print Matters, Gestalten Verlag and IDN Magazine.
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Lukas Stockner

Software Engineer
Genesis Cloud, Germany

Lukas is a software developer working on Blender’s Cycles rendering engine for the last five years, developing features such as the denoiser or light portals as well as a lot of internal improvements and speedups.
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Julia Strack

Compositing Supervisor
RISE | Visual Effects Studios, Germany

Julia Strack has been working in the field of Visual Effects for over 13 years. In addition to that Julia has been representing the Visual Effects Industry as an active board member of the German Section of the Visual Effects Society.
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