Animationsinstitut Blog - Projects

Spectacular animation and VFX projects, technical innovations, creative games, visionary apps

Each academic year, many fascinating projects are developed at Animationsinstitut. Discover the wide range of projects and take a look behind the scenes.

For her diploma, Ella Estrella Tischa Raetzer created a walk-through audiovisual spatial installation: visitors slip into a womb-like, protected and intimate dimension to embark on an emotional journey. Find out what's behind the project.

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Jelly Pimple

Tao Zhang made a nasty pimple the star of her diploma project. She shows the adventurous coexistence between humans, pimples and their blackheads. Learn more about the making of the project and watch Jelly Pimple - It's snowing! here.

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Caught between reason and desire

The abstract 3D animation Sanity's Prison is about the conflict between the raw urges and morality. Learn more about the idea behind the powerful short film and about talented director Aleksej Skrypnik.

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Cat versus Human

Storyboarder, concept artist and director Felix Zehender graduated from Animationsinstitut in 2019. In his 2D animated diploma film Kater, he humorously tells of envy and self-doubt. Learn more!

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Hope, loss and burning flames

Ryoji Yamada from Tokyo spent one year as a guest student at Filmakademie’s Animationsinstitut. During his stay, he created Firehead, a bizarre 2D-animation set in a world where people burn down just like candles. Watch it now!

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Swimming Upstream

A few weeks ago, Michael Bohnenstingl received his diploma in animation. During his studies, he created, among other things, the humorous 2D animation this is a fish film, in which a small fish asks himself a big, even existential question.