I am an experienced Senior/Lead Animator based in Vienna with over 14 years of professional experience in animated features, VFX productions, and popular series such as House Of The Dragon 1+2, Shazam 2, and Mounbound. I have led animation teams of up to 12 animators on three movies/series and supervised teams of up to five animators on three advertising projects. I played a key role in securing approvals for pitches of two web/TV series and contributed to the remarkable success of promotional videos on YouTube, garnering 350 million views. Additionally, I have four years of professional experience in multimedia art and advertising.
Since 2019, I am located in Vienna and working remotely.
Work History
Lead Animator
Pixomondo
January 2024 - May 2024
Series: "House Of The Dragon - Season 2"
• Dragon animations with strong focus on the dragon fight scenes in the sky in the acclaimed EP4 “Battle Of Rooksrest”
• Daily shot reviews and supporting artists with artistic and technical queries.
• Troubleshooting technical issues with other departments and providing status reports to different teams in daily lead/sup calls in the absence of my supervisor
Senior Animator
RISE | Visual Effects Studios
September 2022 - April 2023
Series: Currently under nda
Feature: Currently under nda
Series Currently under nda
Feature: Currently under nda
Senior Animator
Pixomondo
July 2021 - July 2022
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Series: "House Of The Dragon - Season 1"
• Animated a complex shot with a dragon and DD taking off and a fire sequence
Feature: "Shazam! Fury Of Gods"
• Dragon animations and digi doubles
Feature: "Magic Flute"
• Worked on a sequence with a giant snake
Series: "Carnival Row - Season 2"
• Took over some shots with wing animations of fairies, ensuring the team meets the project deadline
Series: "Upload"
• Brought in to define the direction of some troublesome broken pigeon and exploding head shots that repeatedly got pushed back by client feedback
Lead Animator
Mackevision
May 2021 - July 2021
Feature: "Hui Buh und das Hexenschloss"
VFX Supervisor: Juri Stanossek
Animation Supervisor: Bernd Nalbach
• Facial anim of a punch of shots and supporting three animators by giving feedback to their animations and troubleshooting technical issues
Senior Animator
Aixsponza
February 2021 - March 2021
Commercial for Capri "Superfriends"
Senior Animator
Aixsponza
November 2020 - December 2020
Commercial for Capri: “Animal”: Animated a break-dance clip
Senior Animator
Eat My Dear
September 2020 - October 2020
Commercial for TantoGrip
Commercial for Tyrolia: Animated three shots of a skier running down the hill
Senior Animator
Aixsponza
June 2020 - September 2020
Commercial for Capri: “Paper Straw”: Three animation clips
Commercial for Penny: “Misfits”: Helped out with just two shots at the beginning
Senior Animator
Vast
June 2019 - April 2020
Vienna, Austria
Feature: “Moonbound” Directed by Ali Samadi Ahadi
Animation Supervisor: Timo Berg
• Involved in preproduction and production
• Animated many shots from physical action to funny acting
Senior Animator
Pixomondo
April 2019 - May 2019
Series: "Carnival Row"
• Recreated and enhanced all flight cycles for the team, aiming to improve blurred shapes and volume of the wings for the second batch of the project in Season 1, and subsequently in Season 2. The original flight cycles were developed and tested by the project lead Philipp Winter
• Did some more elf-wing fly and fight animation
Senior Animator
Pixomondo
January 2019 - February 2019
Vienna, Austria
Series: "Sprite Sisters"
• Animated some shots with an elephant falling on a roof and a flying duck
• Took over the sequence after various blocking versions from different animators were presented to the client, who ultimately chose my version
Senior Animator
Pixomondo
April 2018 - November 2018
Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany
Series: “Game Of Thrones Season 8 - The Iron Throne”
Series: "Carnival Row"
Senior Animator
Eat My Dear
March 2018 - April 2018
Vienna, Austria
TV-Spot for SimpliTV
Senior Animator
Expanse
February 2018 - March 2018
Oslo, Norway
Game Trailers: "Legend Of Solgard" for King
• Animation for the game trailer and character intro trailer
Senior Animator
Eat My Dear
November 2017 - January 2018
Vienna, Austria
Short: "UI - Soon we will all be One"
• Animating a futuristic snow glider for a Sifi-Short in C4D
Promo video for Mondi
• Animated various shots with a fly in C4D
Lead Animator
Edisen
November 2016 - September 2017
Frankfurt und Umgebung, Deutschland
Feature: “Monky” Directed by Maria Blom (Live action / animation)
• Animation review and team support
• Mocap animation and keyframe animation, test animations and rig testing
• Close collaboration with supervisor
Senior Animator
Eat My Dear
March 2016 - October 2016
Vienna
Web series for Henkel: "Dishwasher Diaries", Written & Directed by Toni Weiss & Michael Sokolar
• Entertaining and instructional 40 sec videos for a YouTube series
Senior Animator
Edisen
July 2015 - February 2016
Frankfurt und Umgebung, Deutschland
Feature: “Pettersson & Findus 2” Directed by Ali Ahadi (Live action / animation)
• Animation
Freelance Animator
Eat My Dear
January 2015 - June 2015
Vienna
Animation for a web series
• Under disclosure
Commercial for BMW
• Animation of a realistic insect
Animation Supervisor
Arx Anima
August 2014 - November 2014
Vienna, Austria
Trailer for the gaming App: "My Talking Angela", Directed by Rok Predin
• Supervising 2 offsite animators, reviews and director calls together with the Owner Kris Staber
• Shot preparation, shot fixing, animation and animation fixes
• Over 74 Mio YouTube views (More than any other video on the channel, September 2015)
Web series: "My Talking Tom Short - Who’s The Boss”, Directed by Sebastian Mayr
• Animation
• Over 41 Mio YouTube views (More than any other episode on the channel, July 2015)
TV series: "Talking Tom And Friends"
• Involved in the preproduction
Freelance Animator
Eat My Dear
June 2014 - August 2014
Vienna, Austria
Feature (under disclosure)
• Previz animation
Promotion video for Red Bull
• Realistic run animation for a crowd simulation and close up shots in Cinema 4D
Freelance Generalist
Vizume
May 2014 - August 2014
Graz, Austria
Product video for Agromed
• Storyboard design, modeling a pig and bacterias, rigging, particles animation and animation in After Effects, C4D and Maya
Freelance Animator
Arx Anima
October 2013 - March 2014
Pilot pitch for the TV-Series: "Talking Tom and Friends", Directed by Toni Weiss
• Supervising 3 animators and animating myself (shots: full body acting & dialog)
• The pilot was successful and the TV-Series went into production later on in the year
Commercial (under disclosure)
• Animation for an advertising video
Freelance Animator
Pixomondo
March 2013 - August 2013
Feature: “Pettersson & Findus” Directed by Ali Ahadi (Live action / animation)
• Animated a lot of acting heavy dialogue shots and full body action of a boyish cat character in Maya
• My first assigned sequence was later selected and used for a press release
Animator
Epics Fx Studios
September 2012 - February 2013
Feature: “Savva - Heart of the warrior” Directed by Maxim Fadeev (Russian full CG fantasy feature)
• Accomplished difficult shots and characters at a high level of quality in Maya
• Screenshots of most of my shots went into a character bible which helps other animators stay on model
• When a new character was introduced, my blocking (as well as one other one) was picked out by the director as a reference of the character
Freelance Animator
Raskoppdesign
June 2012 - July 2012
Medical instruction video for Neurotech
• Rigging & animation (2 min) of woman and props in C4D
Freelance Animator
Arx Anima
January 2012 - May 2012
Music video for Disney: “You Get Me” Directed by Toni Weiss (2:55 min)
• Supervising animator: Managing and reviewing all shots in Shotgun / RV
• Test animations, cycles and animation of 12 shots (29 sec) in Maya
• The music video got over 200 Mio views on YouTube and was a huge success
Promotion video for Outfit7: “Ben & Tom News - World Clean Up Day 2012”
• Animated 8 dialogue shots in Maya (35 sec)
Commercial Pitch for Orange: “Chitoi”
• Animated a very cartoony character in 4 days in Maya (29 sec)
Freelance Animator
Vizume
October 2011 - November 2011
Image video for Smaxtec
• Modeling, rigging and animation of humans and cows in C4D
Freelance Animator
Lemonaut Creations OG
June 2011 - June 2011
Web animation for Kraft Foods Philadelphia
• Animated 8 shots (43 seconds)
• Learned the new software and animated the shots in 2 weeks
Freelance Graphic Designer
Rubikon Werbeagentur GmbH
November 2008 - June 2011
• Design and layout of over 60 print media projects
• Taking over projects and finishing them on time in close collaboration with the local team
Freelance Motion Designer
SignStudios Multimediaagentur
October 2008 - October 2009
Image film for Novutrack
• Art direction and motion graphics in After Effects
Illustrations for Improve
• Illustrations for a lifestyle magazine
Graphic Designer
Denkbar&So; Projektkreation GmbH
April 2006 - May 2008
• Modeling, rigging and animation of all fishes on a project for 6 months
• Design of print media and dealing with expensive materials and print techniques
• Development of corporate identities
• Marketing strategies and management of two large and many small projects