DETERMINED. The last touches have been given to the final project – a game demo in which a Rambo-like warrior with bulging biceps and a short fuse hunts down a grumpy red monster.

31-year-old Mikael Johannesen is ready to greet the real world of the animation industry as a technical director after having spent 2 years taking Scandinavia’s most comprehensive private 3D education at the TRUEMAX academy located in Vanløse, Denmark. 

His first encounter with reality will be in the form of a six-month voluntary training position.

”My dream job is something within the games or film industries. First I will finish my six-month training position and after that I have no worries about my future. I’ll definitely find a job,” says Mikael Johannesen.

His training as technical director provides Mikael Johannesen with the necessary skills to manage visual effects in a graphic production. His parents were the ones who paid the DKK 200,000 bill for his two-year education at TRUEMAX.

”People from graphics companies come here often to give lectures, but they’re also keeping an eye on us,” says Mikael Johannesen, whose many years of playing computer games in his room provided him with the impetus to seek his dream job.

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”We know that there’s a real need for us,” says Mikael Johannesen, who paid DKK 200,000 in the hopes of attaining his dream job as a technical director in the animation industry.

Click here to view the original article in danish / printed in Urban 22.06.2005 / BY EMIL MØLLER SVENDSEN