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About Oculus Festum

Oculus Festum is an independent creative studio based in Austria, developing original fictional worlds through story, image and motion. Our work brings narrative, visual identity and worldbuilding together as parts of the same system, with projects ranging from manga and writing to illustration, animation and film. Alongside our Originals, we take on selected narrative and visual work for partners.

Stories, Worlds & Visual Experiences

We develop our own projects, including Ant Idol, and work with selected partners on visual and narrative productions. Our current strengths lie in illustration, comics and manga, visual development, writing, and worldbuilding. Other formats grow from the projects that genuinely call for them.

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Founders

Oculus Festum was founded together by David Scheidl and Laurenz Lin Sill. David leads creative direction, worldbuilding, narrative development, and long-term IP strategy; Laurenz shapes the studio’s visual language through illustration, animation, and design. The studio is still growing, with a structure open to new media and honest about the work, people, and production capacity behind every project.

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The Founders

Meet the people shaping the studio and the work behind it.

David Scheidl

David Scheidl

Co-Founder · Creative Director · Worldbuilder

David Scheidl is the co-founder and creative director of Oculus Festum. He leads the studio’s worldbuilding, narrative design, and long-term intellectual property strategy across projects that connect story, art, and technology. Before Oculus Festum, David worked in the blockchain industry as Project Manager for Stereum and StereumPlus - open-source and commercial-grade Ethereum infrastructure tools used globally by institutional clients and node operators. His background in leadership, systems design, and digital product strategy informs Oculus Festum’s structured approach to creative production.

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Core Expertise

WorldbuildingNarrative DesignCreative DirectionProduct Strategy

Oculus Festum at a glance

  • Oculus Festum is an independent creative studio based in Austria, developing original fictional worlds through story, image and motion. Our work brings narrative, visual identity and worldbuilding together as parts of the same system, with projects ranging from manga and writing to illustration, animation and film. Alongside our Originals, we take on selected narrative and visual work for partners.
  • Oculus Festum is based in Vienna, Austria, and works with clients in Austria and internationally.
  • Oculus Festum develops original intellectual property, fictional worlds, and narrative productions.
  • Oculus Festum works across illustration, comics and manga, writing, film, visual development, worldbuilding, and creative direction.
  • David Scheidl and Laurenz Lin Sill are the co-founders of Oculus Festum.
  • Ant Idol is an original dark fantasy manga and fictional universe developed by Oculus Festum.
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