Michael Coldewey
Professor of Concept Art, Drawing & Design, Media Design University of Applied Sciences in Munich
- Executive Producer, shareholder and CEO of COLD’N’TOWN PRODUCTIONS GmbH, based in Munich and Los Angeles.
- Professor for Visual Effects at University for Television and Film in Munich (HFF München).
- Professor for Concept Art, Drawing and Design at Media Design University of Applied Sciences in Munich (MD.H München).
Graduated 1990 with Diploma in Graphic Design, Coldewey started his career as Animation Assistant for PETER’S RIDE TO THE MOON in an animation studio in Munich. While he was Storyboard Artist and Supervisor on a TV series called FLITZE FIRETOOTH, he lectured animation at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Since 1993 Coldewey started Computer Animation as a pioneer at the times and produced various commercials as a freelancer. 1995 he founded with Producer Eberhard Junkersdorf (THE TIN DRUM) the largest Animation Studio in Germany at the time: Munich Animation Film and directed the animated feature THE FEARLESS FOUR (Warner Bros.). 1997 he directed the animated feature HEAVY METAL 2000, (Columbia Tristar, USA, produced by Kevin Eastman, creator of TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES). Coldewey founded 1998 TRIXTER and started his own IPs like the franchise of LILLY THE WITCH (based on KNISTER’s children books HEXE LILLI) and the French co-production DRAGON HUNTERS. On the service work he is credited for movies like: AVENGERS 1 and 2, IRON MAN 2 and 3, CAPTAIN AMERICA 1,2 and 3, CLOUD ATLAS, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Vol.2, SPIDERMAN HOMECOMING, CAPTAIN MARVEL, JIM BUTTON 1+2, BIOHACKERS and many more.