Tyron Montgomery
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Tyron Montgomery is a film director and media creative. Originally raised in Ireland
, near Limerick
, Montgomery today is a German citizen, living and working in Munich
.
After studying physics
in Wuppertal
, Tyron Montgomery studied visual communication
at the School of Fine Arts in Kassel
, focusing on film, animation, and photography. He passed with the highest distinction in 1998.
In 1996, while still a student, he directed his debut film Quest
which should become the most successful German short film ever, winning the Academy Award for the Best Animated Short Film and more than 40 international awards. Especially the Oscar let the unknown student shoot to fame almost overnight.
In 1997, as the youngest person in history, Tyron Montgomery was decorated with the Goethe Badge of Honor, the highest decoration of the Ministry of Arts & Science of Hesse
, "in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the cultural landscape of the State of Hesse" as is says in the ministry's official statement.
In the same year, a liaison with the French actress Aurélia Nolin, best-known for playing "Lena" in Éric Rohmer's
movie A Summer's Tale, lead Tyron Montgomery to Paris
where he lived and worked the following three years, especially as lighting director and video artist for theater productions. But mainly he worked in London
and Bristol
on technically challenging commercials as director
, lighting cameraman
, and VFX supervisor
. During this period, he developed the Interlaced Light Recording, a special recording procedure which reduces costs while allowing more flexibility in the post-production
.
In 1997, Tyron Montgomery founded his own film production company (Montgomery Film) und produced "Our Garden", the world's first stop motion
film for the cinema screen that was recorded and processed entirely digital. "Our Garden" was commissioned by the German Ministry of the Environment as opening film of an open-air show touring the country.
Having programmed since the early eighties and having created website
s for himself, since the early nineties, Montgomery founded a second company for web design
, multimedia
productions and application development in 1998 – the "X-Plosive Media Network". Uncommonly but successfully X-Plosive was operated as a unique teleworking
experiment: The twenty web designers and programmers of the network were scattered across the globe and actually never met in person.
The same year, the production of the feature film "The Green Cloud", based on Alexander Neill's
famous novel "The Last Man Alive", lead Tyron Montgomery to Germany once more. For 18 months he worked on the movie as VFX supervisor and his two production companies produced all model shots as well as a number of effects and animation sequences.
As a result of this work, Tyron Montgomery relocated from Paris
to Munich
in Germany
. Montgomery Film and X-Plosive Media were merged to "Augenreiz", a single production company for Internet, multimedia and film projects. Today, supported by a network of partners, Augenreiz operates as a full-service agency for clients in Germany
, Switzerland
and other countries.
In 2004, Tyron Montgomery married the German jewelry designer Anne Gericke. They have two children: Daughter "Ava" (born December 19, 2002) and son "Arian" (born March 10, 2008).
In 2007, together with Seymour Duncker and Rajesh Setty, Tyron Montgomery founded iCharts
, a computer software company located in the Silicon Valley, developing online software for data-visualization. In 2008 iCharts was selected finalist at the TechCrunch50
Conference.
Since 1997, Tyron Montgomery has been giving lectures at several German universities and film schools. He regularly leads workshops, gives speeches at film festivals and fairs, and is often invited as a jury member of film, multimedia, and design awards, such as the red dot design award
.
His film, Quest
, was included in the Animation Show of Shows
.
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
, near Limerick
Limerick
Limerick is the third largest city in the Republic of Ireland, and the principal city of County Limerick and Ireland's Mid-West Region. It is the fifth most populous city in all of Ireland. When taking the extra-municipal suburbs into account, Limerick is the third largest conurbation in the...
, Montgomery today is a German citizen, living and working in Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
.
After studying physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
in Wuppertal
Wuppertal
Wuppertal is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in and around the Wupper river valley, and is situated east of the city of Düsseldorf and south of the Ruhr area. With a population of approximately 350,000, it is the largest city in the Bergisches Land...
, Tyron Montgomery studied visual communication
Visual communication
Visual communication as the name suggests is communication through visual aid and is described as the conveyance of ideas and information in forms that can be read or looked upon...
at the School of Fine Arts in Kassel
Kassel
Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...
, focusing on film, animation, and photography. He passed with the highest distinction in 1998.
In 1996, while still a student, he directed his debut film Quest
Quest (short film)
Quest is a 1996 German animated short film directed by Tyron Montgomery, written and produced by Thomas Stellmach at the University of Kassel - Art College...
which should become the most successful German short film ever, winning the Academy Award for the Best Animated Short Film and more than 40 international awards. Especially the Oscar let the unknown student shoot to fame almost overnight.
In 1997, as the youngest person in history, Tyron Montgomery was decorated with the Goethe Badge of Honor, the highest decoration of the Ministry of Arts & Science of Hesse
Hesse
Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...
, "in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the cultural landscape of the State of Hesse" as is says in the ministry's official statement.
In the same year, a liaison with the French actress Aurélia Nolin, best-known for playing "Lena" in Éric Rohmer's
Éric Rohmer
Éric Rohmer was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma....
movie A Summer's Tale, lead Tyron Montgomery to Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
where he lived and worked the following three years, especially as lighting director and video artist for theater productions. But mainly he worked in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
and Bristol
Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
on technically challenging commercials as director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
, lighting cameraman
Cinematographer
A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...
, and VFX supervisor
Visual effects supervisor
In the context of film and television production, a visual effects supervisor is responsible for achieving the creative aims of the director and/or producers through the use of visual effects...
. During this period, he developed the Interlaced Light Recording, a special recording procedure which reduces costs while allowing more flexibility in the post-production
Post-production
Post-production is part of filmmaking and the video production process. It occurs in the making of motion pictures, television programs, radio programs, advertising, audio recordings, photography, and digital art...
.
In 1997, Tyron Montgomery founded his own film production company (Montgomery Film) und produced "Our Garden", the world's first stop motion
Stop motion
Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence...
film for the cinema screen that was recorded and processed entirely digital. "Our Garden" was commissioned by the German Ministry of the Environment as opening film of an open-air show touring the country.
Having programmed since the early eighties and having created website
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
s for himself, since the early nineties, Montgomery founded a second company for web design
Web design
Web design is the process of planning and creating a website. Text, images, digital media and interactive elements are used by web designers to produce the page seen on the web browser...
, multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
productions and application development in 1998 – the "X-Plosive Media Network". Uncommonly but successfully X-Plosive was operated as a unique teleworking
Telecommuting
Telecommuting or telework is a work arrangement in which employees enjoy flexibility in working location and hours. In other words, the daily commute to a central place of work is replaced by telecommunication links...
experiment: The twenty web designers and programmers of the network were scattered across the globe and actually never met in person.
The same year, the production of the feature film "The Green Cloud", based on Alexander Neill's
A. S. Neill
Alexander Sutherland Neill was a Scottish progressive educator, author and founder of Summerhill school, which remains open and continues to follow his educational philosophy to this day...
famous novel "The Last Man Alive", lead Tyron Montgomery to Germany once more. For 18 months he worked on the movie as VFX supervisor and his two production companies produced all model shots as well as a number of effects and animation sequences.
As a result of this work, Tyron Montgomery relocated from Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
to Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. Montgomery Film and X-Plosive Media were merged to "Augenreiz", a single production company for Internet, multimedia and film projects. Today, supported by a network of partners, Augenreiz operates as a full-service agency for clients in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
and other countries.
In 2004, Tyron Montgomery married the German jewelry designer Anne Gericke. They have two children: Daughter "Ava" (born December 19, 2002) and son "Arian" (born March 10, 2008).
In 2007, together with Seymour Duncker and Rajesh Setty, Tyron Montgomery founded iCharts
ICharts
iCharts is a U.S. based SaaS company providing an easy and affordable online service for interactive chart creation and social sharing. iCharts offerings range from free consumer subscriptions to high-end business subscriptions...
, a computer software company located in the Silicon Valley, developing online software for data-visualization. In 2008 iCharts was selected finalist at the TechCrunch50
TechCrunch50
TechCrunch50 was a conference held at the Design Center Concourse in San Francisco, California on September 14-15, 2009, hosted by TechCrunch and Jason Calacanis. Its aim was to find the best Web 2.0 start-ups and launch them in front of the industry's most influential venture capitalists,...
Conference.
Since 1997, Tyron Montgomery has been giving lectures at several German universities and film schools. He regularly leads workshops, gives speeches at film festivals and fairs, and is often invited as a jury member of film, multimedia, and design awards, such as the red dot design award
Red dot design award
The Red Dot Design Award is an international product design prize awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany. There are prize categories for product design, design agencies, and design concepts. Since 1955, designers and producers can apply for the prizes with the winners...
.
His film, Quest
Quest (short film)
Quest is a 1996 German animated short film directed by Tyron Montgomery, written and produced by Thomas Stellmach at the University of Kassel - Art College...
, was included in the Animation Show of Shows
Animation show of shows
The Animation Show of Shows is a traveling selection of the year's best animated short films, curated and presented by Acme Filmworks founder, Ron Diamond. It began in 1998 with the aim of showing the most original, funny, intelligent short animated films from all over the world and presenting them...
.