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Jobs at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg’s Animationsinstitut

The Animationsinstitut is part of the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and one of the world’s leading training institutions for Animation, Visual Effects, Technical Directing, Animation/Effects Producing and Interactive Media. 

They currently have the following job vacancies:

Assistance Study Coordinator (m/f/d)
Your role:

  • Help organize and manage lectures and events
  • Assist in implementing teaching and production projects
  • Handle correspondence, mailing lists, and maintain educational databases
  • Be a key point of contact for students regarding organizational matters

Application deadline: April 18, 2025 | Job posting and application

Communications Trainee (m/f/d)
Your role:

  • Create compelling content for social media, online, and print
  • Develop new social media formats and engage with our audience
  • Keep their website up to date
  • Support their press work (e.g., writing press releases)
  • Assist in the organization and media coverage of events like FMX – Film & Media Exchange and Gamescom

Application deadline: April 22, 2025 | Job posting and application

Call for Applications: Two Professorships at Merz Akademie

The Merz Akademie in Stuttgart is a state-recognized university for design, art, and media under nonprofit sponsorship, offering approximately 250 study places. The fields of Film and Video, New Media, and Visual Communication are considered distinct yet closely related disciplines.

They are seeking to fill two positions:

Professorship in Emerging Media in Art and Design (f/m/d, W2, 80%)

They are looking for a candidate whose artistic-theoretical practice can relate current and emerging trends in media art to activism in a forward-thinking, ethical, and sustainable way. With this professorship, the Merz Alademie aims to promote experimental and documentary positions in areas such as media activism, human-computer interaction, networked environments, creative coding, AI, and games, while strengthening the critical and artistic engagement with social media.

Application Deadline: April 20, 2025 | Job Advertisement and Application

Professorship in Film and Video (f/m/d, W2, 80%)

They are looking for a candidate with an internationally recognized film practice, who represents fictional forms at the boundaries of documentary and experimental work in both research and teaching. Research and teaching in the field of Film and Video at the Merz Akademie should be in constant correspondence with the contemporary transformation of the film image, the implications of the digital media shift, and the current aesthetic, technical, and political challenges of time-based audiovisual narration. Their ideal candidate should demonstrate aesthetic experimentation, media reflexivity, and a strong affinity for culture- and society-critical theoretical discourse.

Application Deadline: June 22, 2025 | Job Advertisement and Application

    The Filmakademie is looking for a Coordinator Artificial Intelligence!

    The Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH is looking for a Coordinator Artificial Intelligence (m/f/d) as of April 1, 2025.

    The AI coordinator (m/f/d) is the central point of contact for the entire FABW on all topics related to artificial intelligence. He/she should act as a central advisor, multiplier and mediator for AI topics. He/she should stay up to date with established, new and emerging toolsets as well as the latest trends in AI and be able to contextualize them in terms of their impact on media production, evaluate them in terms of ethical and legal standards, and integrate them accordingly into the FABW’s production pipelines.

    Responsibilities (among others):

    • Central point of contact for AI topics at the FABW
    • Advising on adapting teaching methods and curricula to maintain relevance in a media industry that uses artificial intelligence in production
    • Close collaboration with research activities of the R&D department and AI-related projects at the FABW and Animationsinstitut in particular with regard to fair and sustainable use of AI
    • Initiation of regional (IPAI, AI Alliance, Cyber Valley…) and international contacts with relevant AI initiatives to address the needs of the FABW and enable potential future collaborations

    Application Deadline: February 28, 2025 | Detailed job description and online application

    Helping Hands Wanted for the ITFS 2025!

    The Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, which takes place this year from May 6 to 11, 2025, is looking for committed and motivated individuals who would like to support the ITFS team in various positions. Whether as a helping hand during the festival week or in a responsible position in advance – there are many opportunities to become part of the team.

    During the festival week (May 6 to 11, 2025) they are particularly looking for:

    • Cinema Stage Managers (Saalregie für die Kinos)
    • Guest Assistants (Betreuer*innen für die Festivalgäste)
    • Info Point Staff (Mitarbeiter*innen für die Infopoints)
    • Social Media Coordinators (Social Media Beauftragte)
    • Helping Hands for many areas of the festival (Helfende Hände für viele Bereiche des Festivals)

    They also offer positions that start in the run-up to the festival:

    • GameZone Project Manager (February 15 to May 15, 2025)
    • Hosting Staff (March 1 to May 15, 2025)

    You can find all the details about the tasks, application and remuneration here (German).

    ITFS 2024, Photo: Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Reiner Pfisterer

    Wanted: Freelance Animation Producer

    The Filmtank GmbH is looking for an Animation Producer (m/f/d) for their Stuttgart location to work on a feature-length documentary film in a mixed-media style. The project includes approximately 30 minutes of 2D animation, currently being produced by a Czech animation studio.

    Responsibilities:

    • Setting up and budgeting the animation pipelines based on the content requirements (approximately one day in October)
    • Coordinating the animation work in close collaboration with the German animation director starting around spring 2025
    • Serving as the communication liaison with the Czech animation studio

    Website Filmtank

    Interested? Get in touch with them via Filmtank Stuttgart.

    halbautomaten are hiring!

    Our CREATORS from halbautomaten are a communication and design studio that turns information into experiences and complex content into impressive, accessible and understandable visuals to enable people to address topics that are relevant to them on a level playing field, without any barriers. 

    They are looking for a virtuoso copywriter (m/f/d) for complicated stuff in German and English.

    They offer:

    • Easy coordination and quick decisions in a small team.
    • Freedom and prospects to expand your writing and develop yourself further.
    • Flexible working. A real life balance with a time model that suits you.
    • An above-average salary.
    • Job ticket/job bike
    • Annual financial and time budget for further training

    Does this appeal to you? Click here for the complete job advertisement and application!

    AR app for science: Planetar Space Debris

    Sola Media is looking for a Producer!

    Our CREATORS from Sola Media are looking for a Producer (m/f/d) with a passion for films and experience in film production, ideally with animation projects (CGI). Starting September 2024, in Stuttgart or Munich.

    Sola Media is a world sales agent specializing in high-quality children’s films and family entertainment with a strong focus on animation features for the big screen.

    Fields of activity:

    • Management of the production area for film projects in the family entertainment and animation sector under the umbrella of Sola Media
    • Organization, planning and implementation of projects in development and scouting as well as development of new projects in close coordination with the management
    • Management and control of a small production team
    • Responsibility for all aspects of film production, scheduling and resource allocation, as well as budgeting, production cost control and reporting
    • Responsibility for funding applications: Submission and monitoring of film funding applications
    • Project coordination in close coordination with production, sales and marketing teams

    Curious? Click here for the complete job advertisement and application!

    The Super Elfkins

    Studio Soi are looking for a 3D Animator (m/f/d)

    Our CREATORS from Studio Soi are preparing for a variety of projects that will require experienced 3D animators on location at their studio in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

    3D Animation (Maya) with professional experience in character animation (full-time, fixed term of approximately one year) – Job description

    Please apply with a link to your most recent animation reel and a short CV to: work@studiosoi.de. Please use the subject line: Application for 3D Animator.

    Trude’s flatmate (TV series)

    RnDeep are looking for a Pipeline Developer and Team Lead VFX/Animation (m/f/x)!

    Our CREATORS from RnDeep – a company specializing in CGI pipeline development in Europe based in Stuttgart Feuerbach – are looking for a Pipeline Developer and Team Lead VFX/Animation (m/f/x).

    They are looking for you with 5+ years of professional experience. You will contribute your expertise in a hybrid working model as a Pipeline Software Developer from the areas of media and entertainment, especially VFX and animation, and help manage 2 junior developers.

    The tasks:

    • Development of long-lasting and robust customized software solutions using various technologies such as Python, Qt, Java- / TypeScript, C++, Unreal, Angular.
    • Management and support of 2 junior developers as well as organizational support of the entire team in internal projects.
    • Conceptual collaboration on a research project in which we implement animation tools using Unreal and web technologies
    • Creation of architectures and assessments of new project requirements

    You want to know more? Read the complete job description and find out how to apply!

    Image: RnDeep

    Jobs at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg’s Animationsinstitut

    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. In their Research and Development Department, a highly skilled and motivated team of researchers, engineers and artists works on the next generation of tools, workflows and content for Film, Animation, VFX and XR-Immersive Media.

    They currently have the following vacancies:

    Virtual Production Engineer (m/f/d), part time (50 %)
    The responsibilities include:
    Technical support in the virtual production environment incl. Mocap, Ncam, LED wall (incl. controller), studio lighting, high-end graphics workstation
    Supervision of virtual productions at the FABW incl. basic lectures
    Support for non-linear production formats (XR) with new technologies
    Job posting and application

    Lecturers to conduct a workshop on “Diversity-oriented teaching”
    The six major German film schools (German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB), Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, University of Television and Film Munich (HFF), International Film School Cologne (ifs), Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) and Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg) drew up a joint position paper with specific voluntary commitments entitled “Together for Gender Equality” at the beginning of 2018. A common goal of the film schools and part of the voluntary commitment is to strengthen the diversity skills of teaching staff. To this end, workshops are to be offered for teachers at the film schools between October 2024 and July 2025.
    Job posting and application

    To the job page of Animationsinstitut

    Photo: Animationsinstitut, FABW