Henry Braun was born in Southern Brazil, in a city called Porto Alegre, the land of Chimarrão and Churrasco, where we are known as Gaúchos. At 21 years of age he got his degree in Computer Science from PUCRS, worked on Microsoft Innovation Center, Processor Informática, Petrobrás Carbmap, Softmovel and HP Brazilian Labs, where he entered in CG world. He just finished PUCRS/Ubisoft's Game Development graduate programme and currently is a 2nd year master's student (PUCRS/ Visiting Scholar in Carnegie Mellon University), computer graphics researcher and game developer. His favorite hobbies are games, guitars, TV shows, airplanes and soccer.