Pixomondo is an international visual effects company with a global network of studios in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, London, Beijing, Shanghai and Los Angeles. Manfred Büttner, COO and Head of Production of Pixomondo Babelsberg will talk about Pixomondo's contribution to the manufacturing of visual effects for "2012", for director Roland Emmerich and producers/visual effects supervisors Volker Engel and Marc Weigert, with an emphasis on both Pixomondo's intense previs work and f/x shot production 

About Manfred Büttner
Since 1985 Manfred Büttner has been working on digital visual effects for numerous commercials and more than 60 feature films, for instance /Run Lola Run, Maléna, Winged Migration, Whale Rider, Oliver Twist/ and /Der Baader-Meinhof Komple/x. Manfred Büttner worked for postproduction and VFX companies such as "Computer Animation Laboratory", "Scanline Production", "Das Werk" and "tvt.
postproduction". As director of studies of Babelsberg Film School he promoted the incorporation of visual effects in academic training. He is COO and Head of Production of the Babelsberg division of PIXOMONDO. As member of the board of directors of media.net Berlin-Brandenburg he brings his know-how to the biggest cross-sectoral business association of the creative industries in the capital region.