“I thrive at the intersection of storytelling, art, technology, and business. I am particularly excited about collaborating with clients, partners, and inter-disciplinary teams to navigate ambiguity, understand complex concepts and challenges, and turn ideas into successful projects.”
Jan has amassed 21 years of experience in the entertainment, visual effects, and creative industry, thriving at the intersection of storytelling, art, technology, and business.
His journey began in 2000 as a designer and media producer with PIXOMONDO in Pfungstadt, Germany. Jan then moved to Ludwigsburg in 2004 to establish PIXOMONDO's first visual effects facility. As Head of Studio and visual effects producer for "The Red Baron," one of the most ambitious feature film projects produced in Germany to date, he paved the way for PIXOMONDO's growth from a small local player to a worldwide VFX company.
After that, Jan took up residence in China in 2009 as the COO Asia to oversee the development of PIXOMONDO facilities in Shanghai and Beijing. During his 12-year tenure, he transformed PIXOMONDO's brand perception from a post-production service provider to a creative partner and production house offering VFX solutions, previs, visual development, design, XR, virtual production, experiences, advertising and location-based entertainment.
In 2021, Jan began working as an independent consultant, collaborating among others with Technicolor and MPC on innovation topics such as XR, Metaverse, Digital Humans, and Brand Characters.
In 2022, Jan joined forces with Aslan Malik to revive a long-term passion project as Introducing:TheEnd & Gina Ltd.
Jan is proud of the award-winning teams he has built and been a part of. They have won all of the industry's top honors, including an Academy Award® Oscar, three Emmy® Awards, and several VES Awards. Jan is particularly proud of the awards won for projects from China, including Pixomondo's first Golden and Bronze Cannes Lions for their work on Volkswagen's "People's Car Project" campaign, as well as other prestigious national and international awards like the Golden Horse, the Asia Film Awards, and the Beijing Tiantan Award for their VFX work on domestic feature films.
Jan holds a Bachelor of Arts (first-class honors) in media production from the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt & Cork Institute of Technology and an MBA from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS).
Jan's
Experience
Credits
Feature Films, Episodical
Love You Forever (Wo zai shi jian jin tou deng ni) (2019) – Tingting Yao
Only Clouds Knows (Zhi you yun zhi dao) (2019) – Xiaogang Feng
The Mandalorian (2019) – Episodical
For All Mankind (2019) – Episodical
Midway (2019) – Roland Emmerich
The Longest Shot (Zui chang yi qiang) – Xu Shunli
Pegasus (Fei chi ren sheng) – Han Han
The Wandering Earth – Frant Gwo
Skyhunter (Kong tian lie) – Chen Li
Once Upon A Time (San sheng san shi shi li tao hua) – Anthony LaMolinara, Xiaoding Zhao
Pegasus (Tian Ma) – Roy Chin, Yu Yu
Ice Fantasy (Huan Cheng) – Zhi-Ning Sheng, Jingming Guo
The Secret (Xiao shi de ai ren) – Barbara Wong Chun-Chun
Impossible (Bu ke si yi) – Zhou Sun
Lost in Hong Kong (2015) (Gang jiong) – Zheng Xu
Beijing & New York (Beijing, Niuyue) – Rain Li
Zhong Kui fu mo: Xue yao mo ling – Peter Pau, Tianyu Zhao
Gone With The Bullets (Yi bu zhi yao) – Wen Jiang
Breakup Guru (Fen shou da shi) – Chao Deng, Baimei Yu
Game of Thrones – Episodical
Red Tails – Anthony Hemingway
Hugo – Martin Scorsese
Fast Five – Justin Lin
Sucker Punch – Zack Snyder
Hindenburg: The Last Flight –
Fallin Inside – Bernhard Landen
Knight and Day – James Mangold
2012 – Roland Emmerich
Ninja Assassin – James McTeigue
Schreibe mir – Postkarten nach Copacabana – Thomas Kronthaler
Crashpoint – Thomas Jauch
Lasko – Die Faust Gottes – Episodical
Phantomschmerz – Matthias Emcke
Kill Daddy Goodnight – Das Vaterspiel – Michael Glawogger
Valkyrie – Bryan Singer
Tandoori Love – Oliver Paulus
The Bridge (Die Brücke) – Wolfgang Panzer
The Red Baron (Der Rote Baron) – Nikolai Müllerschön
Selected Projects
Commercials, Experiential
Apple – Chinese New Year social media ads 2022
Mercedes – S-Class in car videos 2021
KDA – “The Interview” 2021
Adidas – Social Media campaign 2020
HBO – “Dream Raider” TV Show opening credits 2020
Apple – Chinese New Year social media adS 2021
Huawei – AE TVC 2020
Huawei – E+ TVC 2020
HONOR – Smart Screen X1 TVC 2020
Oppo – Reno2 TVCs 2019
Converse – Converse Basketball WKS 2019
Pepsi – TVCs 2019
Mercedes – Product Forum 2019
Sprite – TVC 2019
BanDai Namco – Logo Opener 2019
Converse – Chuck FA 2018
Mercedes – “S-Class 2020” 2018
Puma – Street Legend 2018 TVC – with Liu Wen
Puma – Street Legend 2018 TVC – with Liu Haoran
Puma – Running & Training 2018 Video – with Li Xian
Puma – Winterized 2018 TVC – with Nazha
Puma – Winterized 2018 TVC – with Yang Yang
Animal World – Feature Film Title Sequence 2019
Nike – AF100 2017
Vogue – Shanghai Fashion week SS cover shoot
Alexander Wang – Pepsi Black 2017
Apple – iPhone 8 & X launch 2017
Adidas – EQT 2017 – with Yan Yubo
Adidas – EQT 2017 – with Lu Han
Kingkey Media – Studio logo opener 2017
Adidas – NMD 2017
Nike – Rise 2017
Sony Pictures – “Passengers” Music Video 2016
Adidas – Tubular 2016
Apple – iPhone 7 launch 2016
Nike – Sneaker Slam 2015