Dear animation-campus members, dear colleagues and friends,
The meeting in Paris on April 28 and 29 took place according to the established programme.
Many thanks to all those who have actively contributed to the animation-campus activities during the third year of its existence:
Laurence Herszberg, Slyvie Porte and Frédéric Lavigne at Forum des Images for hosting our fourth meeting and for the carte blanche student film program, as well as for the free entrance to the 'Carrefour de l’animation' and the 'Forum des images' at the 'Cité des Sciences';
Malek Yanik, responsible of 'carrefour numérique', for his welcome and his help with the facilities at the 'Cité des Sciences';
Olivier Riechsteiner, ESBA Genève, for editing the 'Carte Blanche' Student Film Program;
Sven Liebich, Stephane Natkin and Ulrich Goetz for the presentation and sharing of their experience in the world of games;
Lotti Bauer and Tanja Huber for their research and presentation of basic information on Game Design at Schools,
FOCAL for its general support and the dinner offered on Saturday evening.
Rather than detailed minutes, the following is a list of facts, ideas and proposals that were discussed during the meeting. This list is neither complete nor final. Please let us know if something essential has been left out.
Serge Verly succeeds Georges Sifianos to represent the ENSAD, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, FR. Georges Sifianos remains an associate member and will continue to help us with his precious advice.
Gilles Vuissoz, newly represents the EPAC, Ecole Professionnelle des Arts Contemporains, Saxon, Switzerland
Ulrich Goetz joins Lotti Bauer and Clemens Steiger for the HDK Hochschule der Künste Zürich, Switzerland
Stephane Natkin newly represents the ENJMIN Ecole Nationale du Jeu et des Medias Interactifs Numériques, Angoulême, France
Jean First joins Gerd Gockell for the HGK Luzern, Switzerland.
We are happy and proud to welcome the new members. Their interest in the animation-campus will establish new synergies between higher and further education on an international level. Hopefully it will help to develop co-produced workshops and allow the international exchange of teachers and students.
Lotti Bauer and Tanja Huber presented a paper with basic information on the work-split in development and production of games. In addition, a list of European schools teaching game design and development, a list of companies and publishers who are active in this field, and a glossary of terms used in the game profession are handed out.
Ulrich Goetz presented the programme and work of his students at the HDK Hochschule der Künste in Zurich.
Stephane Natkin developed the technical training and research opportunities in the high-paced field of games and interactive medias at the ENJMIN Ecole Nationale du Jeu et des Medias Interactifs Numériques.
Sven Liebich, Art Director at 'Phenomic Game Development Studio' in Germany, presented the conditions and criteria to get a job in the international game industry.
All lectures and presentations will be publishes on the animation-campus internet page >Activites > 2006–2007 Game-Design.
9 schools participated in this film show with 20 films of a total length of 75 minutes.
A DVD including all films has been given to each participating school.
01_Scuola Nazionale di Cinema, Dipartimento Animazione, Torino
Amperio 07:04min
Francesco Alliaud, Pietro Ciccotti, Michele Monti, Harald Pizzinini, Francesca Taurino
Mattia va al mare 06:12 min
Alessia Cordini, Giovanna Ferrari, Valeria Ghigone
02_Volda University College, Norway
The Pianoplayer, the Cowboy and the Singing Housewife 09:31 min
Nielsen Trygve
03_HGK-Luzern
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Luzern
Birdy 03:00 min
Dennis Furrer
Wolkenbruch 06:00 min
Simon Eltz
04_head-genève
Haute école d'art et de design, Genève
El mite de la caverna 07:55 min
Adriana Caso
05_HGK-Zürich
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich
Animation Basics 09:07 min
Collective of 26 students
06_ENSAD
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Walking 05:00 min
Alexandre Bayle
Utopique 05:00 min
Etienne Boguet
07_émaf-Fribourg
école de multimédia et d'art de Fribourg
Hurt me 01:21 min
Leibzig Fabien
It’s us 00:56 min
Gerber Patrice
Stranger 00:30 min
Multon Charles
Starshine 01:53 min
Multon Charles et Mignot David
Foncky Shit 00:35 min
De Diesbach Simon
Never be alone 01:35 min
Uldry Jérémie et Spuhler Arnaud
Dear catastroph Waitress 00:43min
Pillonel Luca
Trailer Radiohead 00 :40 min
Dumont Pierre et Pillonel Luca
Fish in the City 01:45 min
Leipzig Fabien et Nassar Karim
08_BFA-Beijing Film Academy, Beijing
Scrawl 01:28 min
Aqualung Art Group
09_e pac
école professionnelle des arts contemporains, Saxon
Les nains d’jardin 03:30 min
Collective of 23 students
The animation-campus internet page is in English. Individual contributions on > Activities and > Links however may be published in their original language.
Please check your data: name, address, phone and fax numbers as well as e-mail and web addresses.
Please report changes and corrections as soon as possible to animation-campus@focal.ch.
Private information like e-mail addresses, direct phone and mobile phone numbers are available only through a password. Please address your request for a password to animation-campus@focal.ch. On your demand your own personal address, e-mail and phone numbers may be deleted.
Please give us a short notice even when everything is correct and there are no changes!
Our next meeting is scheduled for December 2008 in Torino, Italy at the Sottodiciotto Filmfestival (Under-18 Festival)
www.aiacetorino.it
We don’t know the precise dates of the festival in 2008 yet, but we would already like to thank the 'Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia' in Torino for hosting our next meeting.
We are grateful to the Director Sergio Toffetti and our animation-campus partners from the Dipartimento Animazione: Chiara Magri, Laura Fiori, Eva Zurbriggen and Stefania Gallo for their generous proposition to meet in their school.
Many thanks also to Sarah Cortelazzo of AIACE Torino, Director of the Sottodiciotto Filmfestival.
The animation-campus assembly in Paris decided to launch a research on study plans and rules of animation schools all over the world. Our hope is to have a useful tool to compare the different study plans of animation schools and to stimulate the exchange of professional filmmakers as guest-lecturers, professors and students within the animation-campus network.
The result of this research will be presented in lecturing and discussion during our next meeting in Torino next year.
We are still looking for a competent person to be in charge of this project. Please announce yourself to animation-campus@focal.ch if you know somebody who could take over this task or who would like to join the research group. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have interesting information or questions on this subject.
More detailed information concerning the Torino event will follow in the next newsletter.
We wish you and your students a successful end of semester and a long and nice summer holiday.Katrin See you in Torino in December 2008!
Keep animating!
Robi Engler, Tanja Katrin Huber
FOCAL animation-campus