Thomas Stellmach

Thomas Stellmach (born 1965 in Straubing, West Germany) is a German animated film producer and director. Stellmach has received many awards including the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for his 1996 film Quest.

Stellmach studied at the Department of Animation at the University of Kassel Art College in Germany, being taught by the well-known artist Paul Driessen. Having received his Degree of Arts in 1999 Stellmach founded the animation studio Lichthof, Film & Animation in Kassel with two partners and produced animation films for television and advertising. He has handed off his share of the company to focus on artistic animation projects since 2009. His field of experience contains computer animation, stop motion, animated cartoon and pixilation. Stellmach directed the animated experimental film Virtuos Virtuell with the artist Maja Oschmann to the overture of Louis Spohr's opera The Alchymist in stereoscopic.

So far he hold workshops at various academies, e.g.

2002 - now: annual animation workshop with the prize winners of the International Competition for Youths, youth creativ’ by the association of the German Volks- u. Raiffeisenbanken, Germany

2012: stop motion workshop at the Youth Training Institute, Hanau

2011: stop motion workshop at the Royal Film Commission, Amman, Jordan

2007 - 2011: annual stop motion workshop at the University of Television and Film Munich

2003: animation workshop at the University of Kassel Art College

1997, 2000 - 2001: animation lectures at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg

1997, 2001 and 2008: animation lectures at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne

1996: several animation lectures at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and DesignHis film, Quest, was included in the Animation Show of Shows.