Tyron Montgomery
Tyron Montgomery ( born April 29, 1967) was originally a native of Ireland, film and media creators, who now lives and works (now a German citizen ) in Munich.
After studying physics in Wuppertal Tyron Montgomery studied in the 90s at the Kassel School of Art Visual Communication with a focus on film, animation and photography ( graduating in 1998 with distinction ).
During his studies he made in 1996 with "Quest" Germany's most successful short film of all time, who received the SWR Audience Award at the Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart the same year. The following year, the film won an Oscar for best animated short film and more than 40 international prizes has been awarded. In particular, the Academy made the until then unknown film student famous overnight. As youngest winners in the history of the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art Tyron Montgomery gave 1997 the Goethe Medal of the State of Hesse in " recognition of outstanding achievements in the cultural life of the State of Hesse ", as stated in the official notice.
A love affair with the French actress Aurélia Nolin, known mainly from Éric Rohmer movie Conte d' été (summer), led Tyron Montgomery in 1997 to Paris, where he lived for the next three years and worked, especially as lighting designer, photographer and video artist for theater productions. In parallel, he worked in London and Bristol as a director, cinematographer and VFX supervisor on technically complex commercials. During this time he developed the interlaced Light Recording, a special model Trick recording method that allows more flexibility in post-production with simultaneous cost savings.
In 1997, Tyron Montgomery his own film production ( Montgomery film ) and produced with "Our Garden " the world's first stop-motion film for the big screen, all of which were digitally recorded and processed, as commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Environment. Shortly after, the second company "X- plosive Media Network " for web design and multimedia productions, which was operated as teleworking experiment: The 20 graphic designers, web designers and programmers of the network were spread across the globe and never got to know personally.
In 1998, the feature film " The Green Cloud " Tyron Montgomery returned to Germany. He was responsible for the film production for 18 months as a VFX Supervisor and his two companies produced all model tricks, and effects and animations, often referred to as cross-media productions using Internet technology. 2000 moved Tyron Montgomery - order from Paris to Munich - as a result of this work. From Montgomery Movie and X - plosive Media Agency eyes stimulus for the Internet, multimedia and film productions was.
2004 married Tyron Montgomery jewelery designer Anne Gericke, among other things, the café operates Portable in Munich. They have two children: daughter " Ava " (born 19 December 2002) and son " Arian " (born 10 March 2008).
In 2007, Tyron Montgomery, together with Seymour Duncker and Rajesh Setty in Silicon Valley, the company iCharts, the online software for interactive data visualization developed. 2008 iCharts was elected at the TechCrunch50 Conference to one of the 50 most innovative companies in the world. The underlying technology " Creation, Sharing and Embedding of Interactive Charts " was officially registered on 18 September 2012 as the patent from the U.S. Patent Office.
Since 1997, Tyron Montgomery was a guest lecturer at several universities and schools, including at the Bavarian Academy of Television. He is a regular speaker at film festivals and conferences, can be found in public and expert discussions acted as jury member at international film, multimedia and design, including at the red dot design award.