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Michael Klein
Head of Studies for Digital Film Design - Animation/VFX • Mediadesign Hochschule / Virtual Republic animation and visual effects
Prof. Michael Klein is a computer animation pioneer and lecturer for animation/VFX. After his CGI-internship in 1989 at Voss & Partner in Düsseldorf, he graduated as a graphic designer in 1993 with computer animation. With an international graduation project at Niederrhein University, he started his career as a CGI-generalist. 2002 he founded the Virtual Republic animation with emphasis on visual effects.