Jan Morgenstern is a German music and audio composer. His works include scoring and audio design for short films and video games, amongst them all the Blender Institute open-content movies and the Nintendo DS game Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled

Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled

Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled is an RPG for the Nintendo DS developed by Studio Archcraft, a video game developer which is based in Montreal, Canada. Black Sigil was published by Graffiti Entertainment on June 9, 2009, and will be localized for European and Japanese markets as well...

. Morgenstern has won two Jerry Goldsmith awards for his work in the open short film Sintel

Sintel

Sintel is a short computer animated film by the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation. The name comes from the Dutch word sintel, which can mean cinder or ember, as confirmed by Ton Roosendaal in a blog comment: " “Sintel” is [a] piece of glowing coal or metal...

: Best Score in an Animated Short Film; and Best Song ("I Move On").