Meet cartoonist, illustrator and filmmaker Steven Appleby! This year he gives the keynote at the joint opening of Filmakademie and Akademie für Darstellende Kunst Baden-Württemberg.

After graduating in Audiovisual Media, Jiayan Chen applied to study producing at Filmakademie’s Animationsinstitut. Now, she is about to receive her diploma in Animation/Effects Producing. We talked to the young producer about her studies and about what it means to take responsibility for a team.

After completing his studies in Computer Science, Dimosthenis quickly realized that he wanted more than what the back-end has to offer. He started his creative journey at Animationsinstitut, graduated in Transmedia/Games Producing in 2019 and is now working as a Creative Director and Producer.

Markus Kranzler graduated in Technical Directing from Animationsinstitut in 2014. Find out how the mathematician landed his dream job at Pixar Animation Studios.