Bernd Angerer is a film artist specialized in digital character animation and visual effects for feature film and tv-commercials. 

Bernd got in touch with computer graphics in the late 1980s during his study of sound engineering at the “Academy of Performing Arts” in Vienna / Austria.

In 1991 Bernd created the first 3d animated tv-commercial in Austria and his video projections of “Talking Paintings”  further earned him great recognition.

In 1996 Bernd joined the visual effects studio Digital Domain, where he continued his career as character animator on James Cameron’s "Titanic" and soon as lead animator and animation supervisor on such high profile projects like "I Robot" by Alex Proyas and the "Adidas - mechanical legs" tv-commercial by David  Fincher. (see filmography)

In 2005, after his 9 years run at Digtal Domain, Bernd accepted an invitation to contribute his skills to "Spiderman 3" by Sam Raimi as sequence animation supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks. He was deeply involved in the character development of the two villains "Sandman" and "Venom". Bernd also developed animation and camera for the alley chase sequence and, during shot production, lead a team of animation artists through several sequences of the movie.

In 2008 Bernd headed up the animation team to create the Paris chase sequence in "GI-Joe" by Stephen Sommers and currently is in the final stretch as one of the animation supervisors for Disney's spectacular "Tron - Legacy" , directed by Joseph Kosinski.

By now Bernd has two decades of experience in leading teams of various sizes. His hands-on, artistic approach has earned him an industry wide reputation. Bernd is skilled in communicating with clients and artists alike.

Bernd learned computer graphics from the ground up. From the first contact with this new media in 1988  Bernd has been focusing on how to use this new technology for character animation.
In 1988 Bernd started to produce motion graphics with the pc-based cubicomp system. Back then animating was  only possible through writing code. In the early 90s things got easier with the introduction of Softimage to the community.

Animation:

Bernd mainly focuses on the creation of digital characters, utilizing the techniques of classic keyframe animation and performance capture alike. This profession intrigues through the mix of acting and technical know how. Bernd always stayed close to the entire process, he knows the ins and outs of character rigging just as much as those of modeling. His experience in the commercials world always comes in handy as well. 

But his central passion is to bring those digital characters on the screen to life.

Performance Capture:

Over the years Bernd aquired much knowledge about performance (motion) capture, from how to plan it, to how to run a capture session  with actors and stunt people, to the implementation of that data onto the rigs of cg-characters up to the final product on screen.

Over the last two decades Bernd has been leading teams of computer graphics artists on large scale projects like "Spiderman3" or "Tron - Legacy".  Besides his artistic development he also continuously attends management seminars to broaden his horizon as manager and supervisor.

Besides the 3D computer graphics Bernd is also experienced in photography, compositing and digital painting. Digital Camera work and conceptual work in form of 3d pre-visualizations and 2d illustrations and sketches are his latest passions, and he welcomes opportunities to develop the beats of sequences for action movies just as much as to act as a digital director of photography.

Besides his demanding schedule Bernd always again finds some time to contribute to and support short films, like "Tightrope" by Daniel Roubichand,  "Splinter" by Wojtek, "Stairs" by Piotr Karwas, and "The Coin" by Giancarlo Lari.

• UCLA Certificate for "Producing" (currently in progress)
• UCLA Certificate for "Screenwriting" (currently in progress)
• Skillpath seminars for supervisors
• Several internal seminars for supervisors at Sony Imageworks.
• Academy of Performing Arts 1987-1989 - Sound engeneering
• Graduation HTL Innsbruck 1986 - information technology

Features:

• TRON - LEGACY ......Animation Supervisor (Digital Domain)
• MUMMY 3 .... Lead Animator (Digital Domain)
• GI-JOE......Animation Supervisor (Digital Domain)
• SPEED RACER .....Senior Animator (Rozar Pictures / Digital Domain)
• SPIDERMAN 3 ......... Sequence Animation Supervisor
• BEOWULF ............ Character Animator
• I AM LEGEND...... Team Lead / Charcter Animator
• SPLINTER (short) ..... Senior Character Animator
• I ROBOT .... Lead Character Animator (Digital Domain)
• LITTLE VAMPIRE ..... Animation Director (Digital Domain / Digital Renaissance)
• TIGHTROPE (short) ... Animation Supervisor (Digital Domain)
• LORD OF THE RINGS (Bruinen Sequence)... Lead Animator (Digital Domain)
• HOW GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS ... Character Animator (Digital Domain)
• TITANIC .... Animator / Digital Artist (Digital Domain)
• DARE DEVIL .... Animator / Digital Artist (Digital Domain)
• TIMEMACHINE .... Animator / Digital Artist (Digital Domain)
• WHAT DREAMS MAY COME .... Lead Setup / Animator (Digital Domain)
• AEON FLUX .... Character Animator (Digital Domain)
• THE COIN (short)........Character Animator
• LOONEY TOONS .... Previs / Animation Development (Digital Domain)

Commercials:

• Disney “Homecoming” .... animation supervisor
• Adidas “Mechanical Legs” .... animation supervisor
• EA games cinematics .... animation supervisor
• Sims2 .... animation supervisor
• Levis Jeans .... lead animator
• Coca Cola “Jitterbug” .... lead animator
• and many many more .....

• Der Winzer(1995) - animation director for this first fully cg short movie about wine in Austria.
• Talking Paintings - cg-supervisor / animator for video installations for the 1000 years anniversary of Austria.
• Jolly (1992) - animation director/ director for this first fully cg commercial in Austria.

• PL Studio .....video editing, blue box shoots, motion graphics
• Director of photography.....music videos, documentaries
• Pyramid Music .... start up music studio for commercials and documentaries
• Assistant animator .... cell animation for commercials

• 2002    VES Award for “best art direction for special effects” for “Adidas – Mechanical Legs”. This spot was nominated in three categories for best vfx in a commercial.
• 2000    Gold Clio Award 2000 for the “Invisible Man” Lewis jeans commercial for best visual effects.
• 1999    Gold Clio Award 99 for the “Jitterbug” Coca Cola commercial for best computer animation.
• 1999    Prix Ars Electronica 99 : “Honorable Prize for animation” for “Tightrope”.
• 1999    Imagina 99 Gold in the Category “ART” for “Tightrope”.
• 1998    AICP 1998 for the “Goose” Pepsi commercial for best cg animation.
• 1998    Silver Clio Award 98 for the “Goose” Pepsi commercial for best visual effects.
• 1997    Silberner Saturn for “Der Winzer im Jahreskreis” for Innovation in the field of Industriemovies.

• 2007    VES Award nomination  “Spiderman3” in the category “Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Motion Picture" for the Sandman character.
• 2003    D&AD Award (silver nomination)  “Adidas-mechanical legs” in the category “TV&Cinema advertising crafts” / special effects.