Before Ganz ever taught compositing, before Alpha Chromatica, before HeyGanz.com, even before moving to Canada, he was already teaching under pressure.

During his National Service with the Singapore Army, Ganz served as an Auxiliary Trunk Communications Instructor at the Signal Institute.

Not as a trainee.
As the one responsible for others.

He prepared and conducted trunk communications lessons for new recruits and retraining signal officers.
He ran operator manual courses for 3rd Sergeants.
He helped organize outfield trunk communications exercises.
He managed signal equipment and vehicles where failure wasn’t theoretical
it was operational.

This wasn’t creative work.
It was clarity under constraints.

Precision.
Accountability.
Calm instruction when systems had to work.

That foundation matters.

Because Alpha Chromatica and HeyGanz aren’t built by people who discovered teaching on LinkedIn.
They’re built by people who were trusted to teach when the stakes were real.

That’s the through-line.

Same instinct.
Same standards.
Different tools.

And once you see it, you understand why the people here feel… different.