Rob Au (Director of Animation/Producer) is a graduate from Brigham Young University's award winning animation program. Previous to working on Der Ostwind he was a character animator on the student short film Faux Paw. Since working with Kohl on the film he has worked on the student films Noggin, and Las Pinatas.
Professionally he worked on his first feature as a compositor at the LDS Motion Picture Studio on Joseph: The Prophet of the Restoration. He is currently the Producer and Visual Effects Supervisor of a faculty film called Sheriff for Professor Kelly Loosli. Rob is a San Francisco native where he lived until moving to Utah to attend college.