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Unreal Megameetup Stuttgart #5 on September 28 at b.Rex

Our HEROES from b.Rex invite to their fifth Unreal Megameetup Stuttgart. This time you can try out numerous exhibits and present your own projects on the Open Stage. Additionally, networking will be in the foreground, as always. A short guest presentation will be given by Kaleidoscube, who will talk about their project “A Juggler’s Tale” (winner of the German Computer Game Award and the Epic MegaGrants).

Food (also vegetarian) and drinks will be provided by b.rex. Entertainment will be provided by their pinball and retro arcade machines. Weather permitting, the event will be held outside in the backyard and they will have a barbecue!

The Unreal Megameetup Stuttgart #5 will take place on September 28, 2023, 17:45 to 19:45 CET, at b.Rex, Reinsburgstraße 96/1, 70197 Stuttgart-West.

More information and registration

Next Stuttgart Animation Meetup on September 26, 2023!

The 16. Stuttgart Animation Meetup will take place on Tuesday, September 26, 2023, from 19:30 CET at Flora & Fauna (U-Bahn Mineralbäder). Let’s talk, drink and connect the regional industry!

The Meetup is open to everyone – whether student, senior artist, newcomer or animation fan! Here, everyone can chat about the industry, connect with each other, and whoever wants can scribble cartoons and characters with the others.

Tell your friends and colleagues!

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stuttanimmeetup/ 
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/329784908362059   
Whatsapp Community https://chat.whatsapp.com/HBy916VD5LpG9v2MGS9LGm
Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hkr1dv

Julia, Michael and Kris are looking forward to seeing you!

31st Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film calls for entries!

Photo: Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Reiner Pfisterer

The 31st Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) will take place from April 23 to 28, 2024. The festival (organized by Film- und Medienfestival gGmbH) focuses on artistic animated film as well as innovative interactive and transmedia works. Comprehensive film and competition programs as well as curated supporting programs guarantee exciting and extraordinary inspirations and insights.

Films completed after October 1, 2022 can now be submitted to the following competitions:

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2023:
International Competition – International competition for animated short films
Young Animation – International student film competition for animated short films
Tricks for Kids – International competition for animated short films and series for children
Trickstar Nature Award – Competition for animated short films that deal with the topics of climate protection, biodiversity, the environment and sustainability

Submission Deadline: January 17, 2024:
AniMovie – International competition for animated films of feature length

Entry forms and regulations

Source: Press Release

New AMCRS IP Presentation Forum on October 10! Register now!

You’ve got a great idea for an IP (intellectual property)? You are developing a new game or interactive format? You are in the middle of preparing your new animated short film or animated series? You are a resident of Baden-Württemberg? That’s perfect!

The IP Presentation Forum will take place for the seventh time on October 10, 2023. Come by and take the opportunity to present your project to professionals from the industry and to exchange ideas and get advice for the next steps!

Download flyer (PDF)

Register until October 5, 2023! Registration via: contact@amcrs.de

Location: MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg mbH
Breitscheidstr. 4
70174 Stuttgart

Organized by AMCRS

Symposium INPUT/OUTPUT – Impulses, Exchange, Story Market

The Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg is pleased to announce the two-day symposium INPUT/OUTPUT – Impulses, Exchange, Story Market, which will take place on Monday, October 9, and Tuesday, October 10, 2023, at the Filmakademie (Albrecht Ade Studio, Akademiehof 10, 71638 Ludwigsburg). The newly designed English-language symposium combines an impulse event (input) with an idea exchange (output) for industry, students and alumni. The focus will be on the exchange between technology and film.

The first day will be rounded off by a panel discussion on the topic of “Interfaces between real and animated film“. Guests will be the new head of Animationsinstitut, Oscar winner Jan Pinkava, and Filmakademie alumnus and producer Jochen Laube. The panel discussion will be moderated by Prof. Thomas Schadt, director of Filmakademie. The symposium will be moderated by Gerhard Maier, artistic director of the renowned Seriencamp Festival & Conference, which has been held annually since 2015.

Further information and registration

Organizers: Film Commission Region Stuttgart, Filmakademie BW

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

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

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

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.  

Read more about the Merz Akademie here!

Animation movie for the Herd Hover Project, CASCB, Konstanz (2022)

Games BW at Gamescom 2023 – with Pixelcloud!

Gamescom 2022 – MFG Games BW joint booth The Länd | Photo: Tobias Vollmer Fotografie

Since 2013, MFG Baden-Württemberg has been organizing a joint booth in the business area of Gamescom in Cologne (Business Area Hall 4.1, Booth C64). The exhibiting games companies have the opportunity to present their latest developments to the trade visitors and to establish contacts with the international games scene. For the second time, the 2023 event will be held under the motto “THE LÄND – Games made in Baden-Württemberg”.

Among the games companies from Baden-Württemberg represented there are also our HEROES from Pixelcloud!

On August 24, a Baden-Württemberg reception will take place at the THE LÄND booth starting at 13:30 CET.

To make it possible to experience the diversity of game productions from the southwest of Germany, MFG invites all trade visitors to the Publisher Pitch Pitch & Rise: Hangover Edition on August 25 from 10:00 to 12:30 CET at THE LÄND joint booth. At this pitch, selected game developers from Baden-Württemberg will meet publishers eager to make new discoveries. More info

Further information here

The trade fair appearance is supported by the Ministry of Economics, Labor and Tourism Baden-Württemberg. Partner of the Games BW joint booth is the K³ Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaftsbüro of the city of Karlsruhe.

Impressions of the joint booth at Gamescom 2022:

Sola Media in German Films Quarterly Portrait

Solveig Langeland, Johannes Busse © Samuel Ramm, 2022 (Screenshot germanfilmsquarterly.de)

Our HEROES from Sola Media, Solveig Langeland (Managing Director) and Johannes Busse (Head of Sales), were interviewed by German Films for the latest issue of German Films Quarterly on the occasion of Sola Media’s 20th anniversary next year. Read more about their work and projects: https://germanfilmsquarterly.de/portrait_sola_media_gfq.html

German Films Quarterly 2-3 / 2023 as PDF