Germany
Hannes studied animation & visual effects at Filmakademie’s Institute of Animation & Visual Effects in Baden Württemberg from 2004-2009. Prior to that he worked as a games journalist and editor for NBC Europe’s TV show GIGA GAMES. (A stint during which he reviewed approximately. every PC game ever made). Apart from his work as a cinematic director, digital artist and vfx supervisor, Hannes Appell loves to venture between the worlds of film and games technologies. He is currently Director of Cinematics at Foundry 42 / Cloud Imperium Games, working on Chris Roberts' STAR CITIZEN universe and its singleplayer campaign SQUADRON 42. Hannes directed STAR CITIZEN's crowdfunding reveal trailer in 2012, as well as multiple STAR CITIZEN commercials. His job at CRYTEK involved directing the pre-rendered intro for CRYSIS 2, staging the story intro cinematic for CRYSIS 3, as well as multiple cinematics & CryENGINE trailers He helped shape CRYTEK’s CINEBOX project for Previs, Postvis and Virtual Production Hannes’ projects have been featured at festivals around the world, i.e. Annecy, Imagina, ITFS & Siggraph His graduation short MOTHERLAND was nominated at the Visual Effects Society Awards He has held talks for conferences such as Siggraph, Siggraph Asia, FMX, FITA, Quo Vadis, won a Karl-Steinbuch Stipend for VFX R&D and is lecturing at Filmakademie about Virtual Production.