VFX Supervisor, Flame & Nuke Artist

Experience:
3 years as set supervision for VFX shots
15 years in 2D and 3D compositing
8 years in the 2 major broadcast institutions in Brazil
3 years in film and advertising
1 year testing new mini camera-systems for falcons and eagles

• Film / Fernsehen (allg.)
• Filmtechnik
• Spezialeffekte / Animation

Born & raised in Germany, Stefan graduated as a "film and media designer" in 2002 at the Lazi Akademie Stuttgart (Germany).

During a vacation in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), he started his career as a flame artist at Conspiração Filmes in 2003.
Among many commercials like Pepsi, Gatorate, VW, … he also worked on some video-clips and 3 feature films (o Redentor, Casa de Areia, 2 Filhos de Francisco).

From 2006 until 2011 he was a flame artist for TV Globo, the largest broadcast network in South America, producing countless novellas and series.
During that time he was also part of Globos R&D team exploring 360° digital set extension and stereoscopic compositing for a intern 3D presentation.

Back in Germany he worked as a flame artist at Screencraft Entertainment in Munich for clients such as Audi, BMW, P&G, LEGO,...

In 2013 he got self-employed and developed as an associate the first falcon camera with two friends and the Fraunhofer Institute.
With this very lightweight camera systems they were able to shoot the birds-eye perspective from much smaller birds than eagles, like owls and falcons. After 3 years Stefan had to give up his projects in Germany for personal reasons and move back to Brazil.
And since than he worked as VFX supervisor / producer at Recnov Studios and Casablanca in Rio de Janeiro for mostly biblical series like the Exodus, 10 commandments, Egypt, Babylon...

Now he is back in Germany for a fresh start.

Autodesk Flame, Smoke and combustion
The Foundry Nuke
Adobe Photoshop, AfterFx

compositing, croma keying, digital set extension, stereoscopic compositing
3D tracking, colour grading, relighting, rotoscoping, retouch,
creating art & concept