Pearl was born in 1997 in Düsseldorf, where they grew up and went to school. Their early interest in Animation led them to enroll in a Summer Intensive Course at the VFS, and after graduation begin Internships at Take It Media and LAVAlabs. In 2016 Pearl went to the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, spent an Erasmus year at IADT in Dublin and graduated in 2022 with a BA.