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Benjamin Simon

Co-founder and Creative Director of FOREAL, a boutique CGI illustration and animation studio in Trier, Germany, which he founded with Dirk Schuster in 2013.

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PODCASTS

Jul 21, 2026

Adobe Live: Studio Sessions

Adobe Live: Studio Sessions

Benjamin Simon & Dirk Schuster on Building FOREAL + Work-Life Balance

Jul 21 · 59m

Robert HranitzkyHOST

6:03

So tell me a little bit about where you're based, and when did you start, and how did this all start with you guys?

Benjamin SimonGUEST

6:10

We're based in a very small, well, not too small, but in a 100,000 citizen-sized city called Trier in the southwest of Germany, very close to Luxembourg.

Benjamin SimonGUEST

6:21

And we always bring that up in our talk.

Benjamin SimonGUEST

6:24

So we make fun of it the moment we talk to international clients.

Benjamin SimonGUEST

6:27

They always believe that we live in Berlin anyways.

Benjamin SimonGUEST

6:31

But in the end, nobody cares.

Benjamin SimonGUEST

6:33

So we have, yeah, we see it.

46 MINS LATER

Robert HranitzkyHOST

52:55

so how how did that i mean how did it come to you saying like strict i'm dropping the pen now