Eric was born in North Germany and grew up in South France. His passion for computers and video games showed very early on and when he got his first computer - a wonderful Atari 800XL - he taught himself programming and has never stopped since. Eric studied computer science and biology at the University of Saarbruecken (Germany), which is where he also made first contact with Softimage|3D, in about 1992. It was love at the first sight! About 7 years ago Eric began freelancing and then, in 2008 and on the advice of a good friend, decided to try making a living programming tools. The tools Eric has programmed to date include: emFluid, emRPC, emFlock, emPolygonizer, with many more to come. In 2010 Autodesk licensed one of his plugins (emPolygonizer v. 1.69) and integrated it into Softimage.