When I was six years old, I made my own animated films and VFX using PowerPoint, my scanner, my webcam, Microsoft Paint and Moviemaker. Ever since then, I put all my effort into making my dream of becoming a lighting artist come true. I love to tell stories with colour and light and help viewers dive into a new world for a few minutes. This passion resulted in me becoming a Lighting Lead at Dneg, playing a pivotal role in the USD brain trust, and even writing and maintaining my own ray tracer for a feature film while working on the project as lighting lead and supervisor.

My belief is that like a traditional artist should know their tools, canvas and pigments, a digital artist should know what’s going on in the computation and should be able to understand and manipulate as much as they can to achieve the vision in their head.

I began my journey helping out as a gaffer at Filmschule Baden and later as a lighting technician for theatres in Vienna at the age of 14. For my high school thesis, I explored "Global Illumination as a stylistic device" and developed shaders in OSL and C++ to achieve the look of the impressionistic visual development artworks for my graduation film. This eventually led to writing my own pathtracer from scratch, which is now also a hydra render delegate. It frustrates me to see artists doing anything other than working on creative challenges, so I'm constantly looking to improve workflows. 

Here is the link to my CURRENT SHOWREEL: (PW: loremIpsum ): https://vimeo.com/864030428