about me
education, jobs
born: 14.11.1976
1983-1989 Elementary school
1989-1995 High school
1995-1999 College
1999-2003 University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (School of Teacher Education)
2002-2004 High school teacher (in Jonen, Switzerland)
2004-2005 Free working artist
2005-2008 Zurich University of the Arts in the game design department
2006-2008 Worked as a member of the "Gamedesigners of Switzerland" on a project called
"Tell - dawn of a legend" as a game designer, 3D artist, texturer and animator.
2007 Worked as a game designer on a design document for a pervasive game on cellphones
languages
German: Native speaker
English: Fluent; good vocabulary since I read books in English
French: I taught the language for 2 years. But there is still room for improvement for
my business vocabulry.
hobbies
gaming, game-design, drawing, wind-surfing, snow-boarding, motorbikes and kung-fu.
skills
3ds Max
Maya
ZBrush
Action Script
LUA Script
GIANTS-Engine
Unreal-Engine 2
Torque
Photoshop
Flash
After Effects
Illustrator
Soundbooth
Office
My favorite game designers
Tetsuya Mizuguchi
Kenta Cho
A picture of me
contact
mail: gerhard@oester.ch