Technical Directing

Animationsinstitut of Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg offers a 30-month training program for computer science graduates who are aiming to become Technical Directors (TD). The program combines students’ previous technical knowledge with actual film projects. Working in a production team, they learn how to solve real-world problems. They design setups and rigs, acquire experience in lighting, shading, rendering, textures and effects, learn how to work with expressions and scripts, to program tools and plug-ins, to automate animation and other processes as well as to set up workflows and production pipelines. As part of the curriculum, students can actively participate in the Institute's research and development projects.

Daniel Anderson, TD: Rigging and AI as a Techincal Director

The processes of rigging and discovering new ways of implementing AI into workflows.

Michael Weigl, TD: Stylized Rendering and Look-Dev 

This talk will present the ongoing development of a stylized rendering framework—focusing especially on water effects—at the Animationsinstitut, and offer a behind-the-scenes look at studying Technical Directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.

VFX Projects:

Set-Extension Workshop - ICVFX

Each year, the Set-Extension Workshop brings together students from the fields of animation/visual effects, camera and production design: In just three months, the interdisciplinary team creates a VFX short film - from brainstorming all the way to post-production. The workshop focuses on the technical and creative requirements and potential for traditional offline VFX using green screen and ICVFX with LED walls.

"Aurora"

Max Wolfmajer & Sören Schmidt-Clausen (VP Operator), Jan Fülöp (On Set VFX Supervision), Leo Pflug & Aaron Eisel (Unreal Artist), Leo Pflug (Tracking Operator). 

When the surface became uninhabitable. Mankind was forced to seek safety underwater. Odessa, our protagonist, explores daylight to keep the creatures and plants in her Archie alive. But her experiment goes wrong.

Spark

The young rebel Qi-Ra infiltrates an abandoned space station to find information about her father, who has been missing for years.