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Latest news on the animago AWARD & CONFERENCE: speakers, lectures, exhibitors, the award and much more.

06. August 2018

Time is running and in about three months it will be “And the winner is…” again. We are very pleased to announce Wacom as sponsor of our category “Best Character” again this year.

06. August 2018

This year Maxon is presenting itself with something really special: A living room stage within the animago exhibition.

23. July 2018

During the animago AWARD jury session the fictional advertorial clip “Lube-X” sure forced a lot of laughter. The project has been nominated in the category for “Best Advertising Production” mostly for its unique idea. We talked to Noah Demirci about this unusual project which the 3D artist created all on his own for his bachelor thesis at the Hochschule Luzern.

23. July 2018

Destruction on end time level and a baby in between – the Filmakademie team of “BreakingPoint set high expectations for realizing this final movie. Now the team is talking about this extensive process.

23. July 2018

Tomer Eshed and his team, now known under a studio name Lumatic, always realize their funny movies with extraordinary animal characters in the main role on an extremely high level of quality. The director and animator now explains how these movies are created and how it is to work in Berlin.

23. July 2018

Failure after failure – just to fly in the end regardless? The french inventor Hugo won´t give up until his lifetime dream has come true. The four-man team from the Fachhochschule Hagenberg is telling this story in their animated movie “Le Constructeur de Malheur”, which took a similar amount of willpower and endurance to make it happen.

23. July 2018

One-man projects in the CG area do impress indeed, especially with this level of quality. Visual designer Xiaolin Zeng (aka Zaoeyo) created the Opening Titles for the Pause Festival in Australia, which got a nomination for the „Best Motion Design“ category from the animago committee. And not just because there was a cat involved!

03. July 2018

What if cartoon characters were regular people working at regular jobs and enduring the same everyday routines like the rest of us? The short film “Afterwork” took up this train of thought and ended up winning the 2017 animago AWARD for “Best Short Film”.