The Animationsinstitut is part of the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and one of the world's leading institutions for Animation, Visual Effects, Technical Directing, Animation/Effects Producing, and Interactive Media. Its curriculum is highly diversified, covering the full spectrum for linear and interactive formats. Projects range from artistically sophisticated, animated approaches to photo-realistic effect productions and technically innovative real-time variants. Students in various specializations work together to carry out hands-on projects in teamwork while they 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. For more information please have a look at our website: www.animationsinstitut.de

The following projects will be presented: 

Lollipop

Riyaaz Roy (Animation Directing), Rahul Rao Kanuparthi (Animation Effects Producing)

Giuseppe is a lollipop seller at the ‘Panda’ themed carnival where on one fine day, he comes across a girl who reminds him of his childhood. As a young boy, he was too fantasized by the whole idea of cute pandas, until he has a traumatic encounter with the ‘Man’ costumed lollipop seller who burns his hand with his cigarette. Thereon after, he’s trained to help this ‘Man’ with his daily job of entertaining kids, growing into a full fledged lollipop seller himself. In the present, when the kid follows Giuseppe into the same alley where Giuseppe had received his ‘burn’, Giuseppe sympathises with the innocence of the kid and gifts her a lollipop!

Bring Mom to Bed

Elias Weinberger (Animation Directing)

It is night, a living room is drowned in blue LCD screen light. On TV, we see a scene in an intensive care unit. A couple - a woman and a man - sit on the couch. The woman cries, tears streaming down her pale face. The man next to her and eats a yogurt, unfazed by his partner's distress. Their child sees this through the stained glass window, and has to make a decision - what should a kid do when her parents don't act like adults?

The Panic Inside 

Matthias Strasser (Director), Sabina Stöckler (Animation Effects Producing)

How does a chronic people-pleaser and social media addict, who struggles to say no to his friends' constant requests, finally learn to set boundaries, confidently say no, and reclaim his personal freedom?

Coming of Dorf

Vivien Jahn (Transmedia Games Director), Anna-Lena Haas (Animation Effects Producing), Cyril Fischer (Transmedia Games Directing)

Using a mysterious sourdough starter as a medium of resonance, a young woman explores her abandoned childhood home and a village full of hints, memories, and secrets—in search of what once was and what she wants to become.

Breakfall

Raphael Tonn (Animation Directing), Frederik Stapf (Producing), Malte Fasold (Character Animation), Michael Weigl (Technical Directing)

A person traverses a monotonous, abstract space and the more they rush, the more they stumble and fall. The more they realize that they can adopt and implement falling as a natural extension of their movements, the more they progress and structures form out of the space with which they playfully interact. The person loses themselves so strongly in the joy of movement that the space around them dissolves completely and their falling transforms into flying. During this transformation, their body also dissolves more and more into pure motion and changes its form. As their energy decreases, the motion slows, their body reforms, and returns to where they began, transformed by the journey.