Jan-Hilmar Petersen has been working professionally in visual effects for features and television for more than 15 years, most notably with „Scanline VFX“, „Farm Studios“ and „Trixter Film“. He began his career studying Computer Science in Media from 1998-2003 in Flensburg. He continued his training during internships with „schoewingmedia“ and „H5B5 Media“ where he discovered a way of combining his passion of camera work with the creation of digital manipulated moving pictures.Hilmar moved to munich in 2004 to work for Trixter as an employed Technical Director. He managed to become a freelance VFX Supervisor in a short period of time. The following years he was booked as a VFX Supervisor, Camera Operator and Editor by professional companies. As a VFX Supervisor he was responsible for planning, set supervising and producing thousands of VFX shots. In 2007 he moved back to Lindau in the beautiful north of germany where he founded the „Farm Studios GmbH“ in Oktober 2009 and sucessfully produced visual effects and animated characters for several films. Hilmars specialties are the creative supervision of complex visual effects sequences and leading large teams of different vendors to meet high demands of directors, producers and himself.
Listed skills include Visual Effects, Maya, Feature Films, Producing, and 13 others.