About
Mister Rhino is a design, visualization and production studio in Berlin, led by Hoorakhsh Pb. and crewed for each project.
When you work with Mister Rhino you work with me, directly, on every project. No account managers and nothing handed to a junior. You always know exactly who is responsible.
The story
I learned photography from my father when I was six. The same year I got my hands on a Pentium computer with three things on it: Photoshop, CorelDRAW and Duke Nukem 3D. Those three were enough to make me fall in love with computer graphics, animation and games.
Mister Rhino is the studio I always wanted to work for: the craft of cinematography, with AI in the toolkit, delivered with the speed and directness that modern brands actually need.
Berlin was the right place to build it. A city that rewards ambition, tolerates experimentation and takes creative work seriously.
Age six
Photography from my father, and Photoshop, CorelDRAW and Duke Nukem 3D on the family computer.
University
Studying, and working in an architecture studio at the same time, first as a 3D modeller and then as a junior designer.
2012
Web design, 3D visualization and camera work, straight after graduating.
2016
A master's in management at the University of Bologna, environment design for my first video games, and work with the Cineteca di Bologna and Il Cinema Ritrovato.
After Bologna
The Video Game Museum of Rome, and GameRome, Italy's biggest game developers' conference.
2019
The studio starts.
2023
The studio moves to Berlin in July.
Now
Running the studio, and teaching Environment Design, Unreal Engine and Cinema 4D at Catalyst Berlin.
The name
It started as a nickname. Hoorakhsh is a Persian name and my friends found it hard to say, so they called me Rhino, said "rino" as an Italian would. When I needed a name for the studio, Mister Rhino was the obvious choice.
He has become a character of his own: a humanoid rhino in love with film, design and game worlds, for whom the lines between architecture, web design, environment design and production are blurred, and who does almost everything out of passion.
He is not exactly me. A lot of the time, though, he feels like it.
The studio
Work is directed by the studio principal from the first conversation to the final delivery, and the crew is assembled for the job in front of it. A product engagement may run with one person; a film may run with five. The client signs one agreement, briefs one person and holds one studio accountable, which is how production has always worked.
Mister Rhino is the trading name of a freelance practice registered in Berlin, and the Impressum names the principal. A company is the next step rather than a hypothetical one. None of it changes the standard of the work or how a project runs.
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Values
We do the better version, not the faster one.
Where there is a quick way and a good way, we take the good one and usually absorb the difference. The name goes on the work. It is why clients come back, and why we are not the cheapest quote.
We start from your problem, never from a layout we already own.
No template reskinned and called a design. We keep our own tools, components and pipeline sharp so the time goes into the thinking rather than the setup, but the answer is built for the brief in front of us. A studio whose work is recognisable as its own template is selling its convenience, not your outcome.
When the tool does not exist, we make it.
We write our own software, run our own pipeline and teach the engine we produce in. Work does not get scoped down to fit a tool someone else chose, and a client is never told something is impossible when it is only unsupported.
Every claim, number and date has something behind it.
No figure is published without a source. No estimate goes out that we do not intend to hit. When something slips, the client hears it from us before they notice it themselves.
We show the reasoning and hand over everything.
Clients are walked through the decisions rather than presented with a result. At the end they get the files, the source and a specification precise enough that their next supplier never has to guess. Nothing is withheld to make anyone dependent on us.
Responsive during the project, reachable after it.
Questions get answered the same day, progress is visible while changing direction is still cheap, and small follow-on work is handled without a new negotiation. It is one of the things clients single out in their reviews.
Design, visualization and film, for clients in twelve countries.
