Tobias Eckerlin was born 1993 in Schwetzingen [GER]. He began to study communication design at the HS Mannheim in 2012 and finished the studies in 2018 with a Master of Arts. During this time, his focus changed from photography over live action movie to CGI. He started freelancing during his studies and worked as an CGI-Artist in a small agency. Besides that, he also worked as a lecturer. Since autumn 2021 he started his project based studies in Animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.