The Animation & VFX curriculum at Animationsinstitut is highly diversified, covering the full spectrum from artistically sophisticated, animated films to photo-realistic effects productions and technically innovative real-time variants. Students in the various specializations work together across departments and academies to carry out hands-on projects in teamwork. Students can choose from all production and animation types in order to define their own style: Drawn animation, full CG, stop-motion, real-time animation, live action, interactive applications, VR and other techniques are all part of the curriculum. The practice-oriented workflow is central to every project realized at the institute.

Application for lateral entry in the third year of studies is open until May 15, 2021. For more information please go to animationsinstitut.de

Projects presented in this slot are:

Slouch 

Michael Bohnenstingl (Directing)

Wannabe musical legend Slouch is pushed by his song-writing-demon Nuffti to deepdive into his darkestemotions, while also confronting his transition into a harmonic family life.

The Most Boring Granny in the whole World

Damaris Zielke (Directing), Jiayan Chen (Animation Effects Producing), Verena Nomura (Assets Lead), Janik Otterbach (Technical Directing)

Greta has the most boring grandma in the whole world. When she falls asleep on the sofa, Greta gets the idea, to play funeral with her grandma. This confronts them with some questions they didn’t ask themselves before. Because what remains when you have to leave life behind?

Dodo´s Papa is an Engineer 

Yi Luo (Directing), Jiayan Chen (Animation Effects Producing)

Dodo is ten. Her father is a big blue bird. One day he flies away from the window, but has not come back since then. Mother and Dodo are monitored by mysterious men in grey suits. From that summer on Dodo hasn’t grown any more.

Klimax

Bea Höller (Directing), Jiayan Chen (Animation Effects Producing), Mariia Prokopenko (Animation), Justus Schmidt (Technical Director), Martin Egger (FX Artist), Ramon Schauer (Sculpting)

In KLIMAX, we create the inner world of the female organ with abstract and associative images. Our main protagonist, Barbie, goes through a process of transformation. She emerges like Alice in Wonderland into a magical world, a place of temptation and joy. It is a fantastic place that makes her change little by little to get rid of her stiffness and repression. She passes through several different phases, melting away with exhilaration until she reaches her climax - an implicit orgasm - becomes a liquid magic gel. In this process, eroticism is not created by explicit pictures, but by associative images and movement.