It literally seems like yesterday that I was sitting in front of my father's atari computer system, trying to load games and programs from a 2,5" floppy drive. It's hard to believe that was almost 30 years ago.

I was born in 1986 in a town called Rottenmann in Styria, Austria. I was raised by my parents and have lived there many years of my life.

I have always had the dream of becoming an architect, a product designer until or a Byte Bandit. I graduated from high school and began to work in an advertising agency. I enjoyed designing and programming of websites, it was all I spent my time on. I eventually realized I should focus on that work exclusively, and I suppose that's how I startet doing all this multimedia stuff.

After a few years working on my own as a graphic and multimedia design studio, I started studying 3d animation and web design. In July 1999 I created my first website “patric.at” with Macromedia Flash (no longer online).

I actually found a full version of Flash 3 in my room mixed in with a stack of audio CDs. I had no idea what it was or to whom it belonged to… This was long before I even knew what Flash was, but I asked if I could have it anyway. I took it and installed it and quickly I realized what it was. I started to play with it and made some simple animations like everyone does first ... ball rolling, spinning box, etc ... A few days later a friend of mine called, he asked me if I was well in using Flash, I lied and said "very well". Turns out he was about to create a new company and needed a website.

At that point I'd never even created a website before, but decided to accept the project anyway. I spent 3 months unpaid working on it and it turned out to be terrible, of course, but the "client" was happy :-)

I had already been doing 3d animation for a year or so, but being able to make interactive animations, especially 3d ones, just blew me away.

... You know how it turned out, right? ;-)