September 9, 2023

Pre Fixe with Animation Lounge on October 9 about SYMBLINGS

Together with the Film- und Medienfestival gGmbH (organizer of Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film) and the AMCRS, MFG organizes the Pre Fixe with Animation Lounge as a prelude to the monthly network meeting of the film industry (Jour Fixe), at which speakers from the animation film scene report on current projects using practical examples and provide insights into their work.

On October 9, 2023 at 18:00 CET, Lennard Fricke, Dominik Girod, Sylvia Jorde, Anita Kerbel and Caroline Keulertz will be presenting their project SYMBLINGS. Across different courses of study, they have come together in their third year at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg’s Animationsinstitut.

SYMBLINGS was initially their semester project as part of “Anifilm/Aniplay”, before they decided to expand the world and the story further and develop a 2D Metroidvania game. The game is about a contaminated and doomed world, where plants and mushrooms are separated by a bitter enmity. In the midst of this conflict, the Symbling, a symbiosis of a chestnut and a mushroom, tries to reunite the two hostile worlds in order to save the world.

With SYMBLINGS the team set the cornerstone of their company, which they have now founded parallel to their studies.

Team of the Game „SYMBLINGS“ | Photo: Filmakademie BW

The event will take place at the Kulturzentrum Merlin, Augustenstraße 72, 70178 Stuttgart. Admission is free.

More info here

September 9, 2023

New Funding Program for Gamification and Animation Media

The Ministry of Economics, Labor and Tourism Baden-Württemberg has launched a new funding call.

With the funding program “KMU-Transfer KREATIV – Gamification und Animation Media“, the Ministry of Economics promotes the cooperation of companies from the fields of gamification, animation media and other 3D technologies with companies from other industries. The funding program is intended to support SMEs in improving existing business models or making them more resilient, opening up new product developments and markets, and strengthening innovation and competitiveness. Companies from Baden-Württemberg with up to 250 employees are eligible to apply.

“With the new funding program, we are supporting small and medium-sized enterprises in the application of gamification, animation and other 3D technologies to make them fit for the future,” said Minister of Economic Affairs Dr. Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut.

Applications can be submitted from now until November 10, 2023. More information on the funding program and the application documents can be found here (in German): https://wm.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/service/foerderprogramme-und-aufrufe/liste-foerderprogramme/kmu-transfer-kreativ-gamification-und-animation-media

September 9, 2023

The Merz Akademie expands the AMCRS!

Project Partners from the University of Konstanz visiting the VR Lab at Merz Akademie, 2023, copyright: E. Böker, CASCB

The university area of the AMCRS is expanding! We are very pleased to welcome the Merz Akademie – University of Applied Arts, Design and Media from Stuttgart as new HEROES in our network!

The Merz Akademie positions itself as an innovative place of learning between a classical art academy, a design university and a aculty of humanities. Their focus areas are film and video, new media and visual communication with a special emphasis on theory and cultural studies.