Graduate Jonas Stuckenbrock wins VES Award 2025

12.02.2025

The Visual Effects Society (VES) presented the VES Awards on February 11, 2025. The award for Best Lighting Composition went to Merz Akademie graduate Jonas Stuckenbrock, Karen Chang, Eugene Bondar and Miky Girón for the episode After Hours of “The Penguin”. Congratulations!

The Penguin is an American mini-series published in 2024, a spin-off of “The Batman” (2022) and focuses on the comic character Penguin.

The Visual Effects Society (VES) is a global professional honorary society and the entertainment industry’s only organization representing the full breadth of visual effects practitioners.

Jonas Stuckenbrock studied film and video at the Merz Akademie and graduated in 2009. He works as a senior compositor at Accenture Song. We are very happy with him about the great visual effect award!

Jonas Stuckenbrock with the VES Award

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