ABSTRACT
The German Oscar winner Volker Engel is certainly one of the most renowned visual effects experts worldwide: While still attending the animation film class with Professor Ade at the Kunstakademie Stuttgart (Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design), he formed an artistic partnership with the German director Roland Emmerich, which continues to this day. Milestones of this partnership include the Academy Award winning VFX "Independence Day" (1996), followed by "Godzilla" (1998), "2012" (2009), "Anonymous" (2011), "White House Down" (2013) and "Independence Day: Resurgence" (2016). For Volker Engel, animation is the ultimate fundamental training for the elementary understanding of motion. He encounters it in all visual effects areas. The purely technical aspect will become less important. And he continues to have people on the team, who also write a plug-in, if needed. They write the plug-ins in such a way that it is usable for all those who cannot program it.
