I was born. I started to draw.
I have a diploma with “design” and “communication” in it.
Nobody ever asked for it.
I worked in advertising and quit to become a storyboard artist.
Here I am.
Me
I have been drawing since I can remember. Growing up in a household with various artistic interests it became a natural choice to enter a creative career. I studied Communication Design at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig and made my diploma there. Followed directly by a job in a startup agency in which I frequently used sketching as a design and visualisation tool in the creative process. Here I got to know advertising and it’s rules and requirements, making my first experiences in storyboards and commercial film concepts. From there it was only a small step into a full freelance career that lasts until this day.
As far as the feedback from my clients and friends goes, I seem to be working rather fast and efficient and I usually involve myself deeply into the task at hand. I grasp a treatment quickly and instantly work out it’s strengths and flaws and enable a dialogue with the director, the producer and the team. To me that is more important and creates more value in a project than “just” a number of frames. However, in the end, there will be frames!