Florian Strobl

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Florian Strobl is a compositor at Digital Domain and was part of the company's visual effects team that was assigned to Star Trek.

Strobl began his professional career in show business as a camera operator and editor apprentice for TV Aktuell, a regional television broadcaster in Regensburg, Germany. In 2002, he began working at the German visual effects studio Frame FX, where he was a compositor on such films as Sumuru and Modigliani.

Soon thereafter, Strobl moved to the Dallas, Texas, and in 2004, he began working at Reel FX. Later that year, he became a digital compositor at DNA Productions, where he worked on CG-animated projects such as the 2006 film The Ant Bully (which featured the voice of Ricardo Montalban) and the TV series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.

As a compositor and technical director for the Canadian company MrX, Inc., Strobl worked on the films Shoot 'Em Up (starring Stephen McHattie), Closing the Ring (2007, starring Christopher Plummer), and Resident Evil: Extinction (2007, with Oded Fehr). Since joining Digital Domain in February 2007, Strobl has been a compositor on such films as Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (featuring Lee Arenberg), The Golden Compass, and Speed Racer (featuring music by Michael Giacchino).

After completing his work on Star Trek, Strobl began working on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which was also written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman.

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