Brummbaer  Brummbaer (born August 18, 1945 - January 16, 2016) was a German digital artist who has done work as an art director, designer, graphic artist, and 3D modeler. As an actor, he has appeared in various German TV movies, and also produced and directed. In the latter part of his career he became focused on computer graphics, created several short computer-generated animations and made visual effects for movies. Brummbaer's fine art and underground magazine "Germania" brought him recognition in Europe during the 1960s, and he orchestrated light shows for musicians such as Frank Zappa and Tangerine Dream. He found his most expressive medium when he discovered the computer. He was one of the primary computer animators responsible for the special effects in the Tristar motion picture "Johnny Mnemonic". He also created an innovative opener for SIGGRAPH’s 1995 "Electronic Theater," and has long been a pioneer in the world of digital animation, where he has been noted for his signature hallucinogenic style. In the autumn of 2003 he was diagnosed with Head and neck cancer. During several months of chemo- and radiation-therapy he wrote a semi-biographical novel titled "RUNAWAY JESUS", which recounted his experiments with the drug dextromethorphan hydrobromide (DXM), followed by "What's so Wrong with Love and Peace"- Adventures in the European Underground 1965-67. Both available as E-books at Amazon, iTunes, etc. He survived the Head and neck cancer, but in 2007 was diagnosed with bladder cancer, which was treated with two bladder resections. He was cancer free from that time to 2013 when the bladder cancer returned. 2011 RUNAWAY JESUS was published in a German translation as DER GAMMLER. ( „Der Grüne Zweig“)  Between 1964 and 1967 Brummbaer traveled Europe as a pavement-painter and in 1967 he had his first exhibition of paintings at the Art's Lab in London. He later moved to Frankfurt in 1968 where he designed psychedelic posters and founded Germany's first lightshow-company, the “Exploding Galaxy.” They performed for Tangerine Dream, Amon Duul, The Fugs, Frank Zappa, etc. They also shot a Lightshow film: “Astronomy Domine” with Knollfick, (music Pink Floyd). Due to his large and rare collection of underground comics, Brummbaer translated and edited Robert Crumb’s first book in Germany.