How did that all work out for you?

I read, you started working in 3D animation in 1994.

As I remember at this time hardly anyone worked in 3D animation in Germany and if they did, it meant perhaps using Poweranimator and SGIs. So where did the impact come from? Friends, family?

Well, what I did in 94 can hardly be called work. All I did was playing around with Cinema4D and LightWave, modelling a little dragon, or planning out a skatepark in 3D. It was a hobby for me and my parents were worried that I waste too much time playing with my Amiga. Just to calm them down I started to study Media Technology, so I can officially keep playing. "Yes mom, I have to do this for my school!" is what I kept saying. And, in fact, there were some SGIs at my school. They were still in boxes, and my professor was happy to see me set them up and install all the software. In return, she ordered me Lightwave for SGI, and so I kept playing at school. Nobody was using them, so they were basically mine. Later we did have some Poweranimator classes there, but honestly, I was nothing but disappointed and rather kept doing Lightwave on my own.

You defenitely were a lucky guy and I guess you learned something about system administration.;-)

In 1995 you started working with LightWave 3D and it seems you still like it. Am I right? So I suppose you even worked with LightWave 3D on some of your award winning projects. And you are using infiniMap from db&w GbR for your daily work.

Yes, I still do LightWave. Nothing else than I did all the time before, but now its called work, and people pay me to do it. Which is cool.