The Stuttgart Media University (Hochschule der Medien, HdM) educates students to become media professionals. Its twenty programs of study include Printing and Packaging Technology, Computer Science, Audiovisual Media, Media Business, and Advertising, Library Science, Information Design and Publishing. This wide educational spectrum makes the Stuttgart Media University unique in Europe. The curricula emphasize training in science, technology, design and humanities, as well as real life problem solving in hands-on projects. Consecutive Master‘s degree programs offer the opportunity for students to enhance their skills acquired in undergraduate studies. Specializations in the Master’s programs (among others) are possible in the fields of Computeranimation, Media-Informatics, Visual Effects and Post Production as well as Media Management and Corporate Communications. The HDM presents 13 animated shorts from students.

www.hdm-stuttgart.de

• Wednesday, May 5., 3 pm, Gloria 2

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is an internationally reputed research-intensive tertiary institution – the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings 2008 placed it among the world’s top 100 universities.
The College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences is home to Singapore's first professional art school offering degree courses in art, design and interactive digital media: The School of Art, Design and Media (ADM) at NTU has started in 2005, offering six 4 year BfAdegrees, one of them being Digital Animation. ADM’s international faculty is a collective of talented, dedicated arts, design and media practitioners who have been picked for their extensive backgrounds in their fields of expertise.
Presently about 120 students are enrolled in the Digital Animation BfA-program: It provides a strong foundation in digital and traditional animation techniques in core courses, while offering the students the opportunity to specialize through their choice of electives.
This program selects the best of the student works from our first 5 years with techniques ranging from stop motion, classical drawn animation to VFX and 3D character animation. http://www.adm.ntu.edu.sg

• Thursday, May 6., 3 pm, Gloria 2

Animation at the Academy for Media Arts Cologne

This year the Academy for Media in Cologne is celebrating its 20th anniversary and animation has always been an integral part of the curriculum. Related to the field of film (experimental animation) and to art (3D animation), there is always an active connection between the two fields as well as to the other courses held at the Academy. In addition we also develop projects together with the dance department of the Folkwang School in Essen.
For the students it is important that they receive stimulus and criticism in both fields – film and art - and that they are able to specialise as they choose.
The works that will be included in the presentation in Stuttgart include everything from "animated film" using all the well-known techniques, television coproductions and experimental films to animation in installations. The influence of art, theatre, dance, television and film becomes visible. The films tell short stories, adopt television forms and sometimes deal abstractly with movement. The results could not be more different. Yet all have something in common: curiosity and fun in formulating thoughts and bringing them into a new form with the help of animation.

• Friday, May 7., 3pm, Gloria 2

The Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – National Film School, was established in Rome in 1935. It aims at the conservation, enrichment and restoration of Italian film heritage, through the National Film Archives as well as the development of film art and techniques through the National Film School’s training courses.
The Animation Department was founded in Piedmont in 2001, with the support of the Regional Government. The objective of the 3-year animation course is to train creators, artists and professionals who possess a general knowledge and understanding of the animation film development and production process and who have artistic and technical skills in the main pre-production and production areas of the animation film. 16 places per year are available. Entry requirements are a flair for storytelling through images, drawing skills, an understanding of film history and techniques, and strong motivation and committment. 

• Saturday, May 8., 3 pm, Gloria 2

The Filmmaking course at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg is part of a foundation course and is obligatory for all first-year students.

In the second year studies in this subject are more in-depth, but optional. During the course, students are taught the various approaches and methods that are important to contemporary film and television productions. The theoretical and practical consideration of what constitutes the specific character of a film, whatever the genre, is central to the course. A great many formal approaches are important to unusual narrative style and the course looks at as many of these as possible. In doing so, a whole range of experimental methods and real-scene and animation techniques are applied in mixed form. The focus is therefore on learning about the different artistic production methods and the use of filmmaking techniques that have not yet been standardised. At the same time, great importance is placed on each individual student’s form of expression. Students are explicitly encouraged to try out their own ideas and use techniques and creative tools which are more unusual and generally under-represented.

www.filmakademie.de

• Sunday, May 9., 3 pm; Gloria 2