Animationsinstitut

We hope you had a long spooky weekend and celebrated in style into November. 👻 Our students enjoyed Halloween to the fullest: next to self-made pumpkin soup for dinner, there were scary movies for dessert. 🎃

But as everything: all good things come to an end, so is our time here on Facebook. Don't get scared if we ghost you on here. You will still find us active on LinkedIn and Instagram. See you there!

🇪🇺 Hallo! 🇩🇪 Szia! 🇭🇺 Hej! 🇩🇰 Salut! 🇫🇷 ASF - Animation Sans Frontières 2022/2023 has officially begun.

ASF is a training program for junior European animation film and production professionals. It consists of several modules that take place at four different schools all across Europe. It started last week at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and its Animationsinstitut 🎊

A group of up to 16 young European animation artists, producers, scriptwriters and technical directors travel two weeks to each school. They undergo the entire animation film production process, from concept development till financing, production management, marketing and distribution.

The next stops are:
MOME Budapest
The Animation Workshop (Official Page)
Gobelins, l'école de l'image - Page officielle

🎓Graduated from Animationsinstitut in July and now already back as a lecturer: Give it up for Arne Hain 👏

Last week, Arne taught the basics of stop-motion to some of our students. The former animation student specialized in this detail-orientated handcraft. In fact, Arne was even working in Phil Tippett's team for STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER as well as MAD GOD during his studies at Animationsinstitut.

👉 If you like to learn to professionally animate stop-motion films yourself, check out our study program: https://bit.ly/3reru89

Project of the Month: A PRIORI 🎬 A librarian and his bat. Surely sounds like an unlikely pairing. In Maïté Schmitt’s short film, however, they become closer than you’d might expect…

Watch A PRIORI now and read about Maïté’s personal journey: https://bit.ly/3qWsvBJ

👉 Spoiler: Nowadays, she mainly works as a children’s book illustrator. How cool is that?!

TEAM
Director: Maïté Schmitt
Film Music: Georg Kästle
Sound Design: Stephan Dominikus Wehrle
Animation: Maike Koller, Sion Kim, Emilia Reich, Nadine Schwenk, Fabricia Schmitt
Executive Producer: Yuan Wang
Production Company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Our Interactive Media alumna Lea Schönfelder co-founded Fein Games, a game studio on a mission to develop casual games with a female perspective.

Lea already explored that approach in her diploma game PERFECT WOMAN eight years ago. Women are expected to balance career, family, s*x and many other aspects of life while being "perfect". By playing the game, it turns out that it's not always possible to be perfect in every phase of life, and that's perfectly fine.

Learn more about the game PERFECT WOMAN in our interview: https://animationsinstitut.de/en/blog/people/detail/perfect-woman-interview-with-lea-schonfelder

PERFECT WOMAN – Interview with Lea Schönfelder After completing her studies, alumna Lea Schönfelder founded a game studio that develops games by women for women. Learn more in the interview!

Interactive Media is hands-on ✋🔧 Students at Animationsinstitut don’t sit in lectures all day, they mainly work on their own projects and gain practical experience. Learning by doing 💪

At this year’s FMX, Interactive Media students, among others, presented all the projects they’re currently developing. Take a look: https://bit.ly/3REndXg

Graduation Projects Interactive Media, AniFilm/AniPlay of Filmakademie | FMX 2022 At FMX – Film and Media Exchange 2022, students of Filmakademie’s Animationsinstitut shared insights into their latest projects with the international audien...

Interactive Media stands for startups 🚀 After his studies at Animationsinstitut, Jan Fiess founded a company with the goal to build interactive climbing walls. For this, the team of Rocky Motion has developed special climbing holds that should be ready for the market this winter.

Typical climbing gyms offer a restricted number of climbing routes. But what if the holds could glow in different colors and, thus, enable a plethora of routes without rebuilding the whole wall? This was the initial idea behind Rocky Motion. 💡

👉 Read the full story on our blog: https://bit.ly/3RLuHaC

👉 You want to realize your creative ideas and maybe even found a company after your studies? Then stay in touch and register for our newsletter to receive invitations to upcoming Q&A sessions and other events: bit.ly/Study-Interactive-Media-AI

The Gamification of the Climbing Gym After receiving his diploma in Interactive Media, Jan Fiess founded a startup and developed innovative climbing holds. Read more!

One week till XR WEEK 2022 starts and we are on the program!

XR plays a key role at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and its Animationsinstitut. Therefore, on September 15, Constanze Bühner, head of studies at Animationsinstitut, will first introduce you to the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH as a whole at XR WEEK. Then, our Interactive Media students Nina Weilbaecher, Konstantin Schraps, and Eddy Schäfer take over to talk about their usage of XR within their program.

Directly afterwards, Volker Helzle will join to discuss research and development concerning XR at the Filmakademie. Project manager at FMX Mario Müller will conclude the panel by showcasing the importance of XR at FMX.

👉 Registration: https://xr-week.converve.io/registration.html

We hope to see you around!

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Dealing with the subject of death is considered one of the last social taboos. Yet, mourning is "an incredibly powerful emotion that is just as intense as love," says Ella Estrella Tischa Raetzer.

The Interactive Media alumna processed the death of her mother in her diploma project ARCHE MAMA, a medially spatial-immersive experience that appeals to many senses. Read more about her project: https://bit.ly/3RFC1o1

Arche Mama | Interactive Media For her diploma, Ella Estrella Tischa Raetzer created a very personal walk-through audiovisual spatial installation. Learn more about the project.

Interactive Media stands for transmedia projects 📽️🕹️ Combining various forms of media to create a whole new piece of art—that’s what the team behind CYBERCITY LOVESTORY wants to achieve.

Remember Animationsinstitut’s alumnus Eddy Schäfer from earlier this week? He works as a game designer on CYBERCITY LOVESTORY, a mixture between TV series and virtual reality game.

👉 The transmedia project is currently in development at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and its Animationsinstitut. On our blog, you find exclusive insights into the making of CYBERCITY LOVESTORY: https://bit.ly/3cBoaQZ

👉 If you want to work on pioneering transmedia projects in the future, study Interactive Media. You already have a degree? Great! You can take a look at our Postgraduate Study program: https://bit.ly/3CSYdae