Tobias was born 1978 in Copenhagen, Denmark, but spent his childhood among woodland fairytale creatures in a small rural village. He brought his backwood country superstitions back to the Danish capital as an adult. He has spent most of his life with storytelling, trained as a comic book artist at The Joe Kubert School in New Jersey, made comic books few people read and played folk music few people heard. He turned to microbudget DIY filmmaking as a way of dealing with turning 40.