FMX - Film & Media Exchange

🎇 For four days, FMX - Film & Media Exchange delivered on its theme and provided a space for CONNECTING IDEAS with 270 speakers, more than 3600 participants, spectacular presentations, intense Workshops and vibrant networking. 💡 “It’s been such a strong FMX: Connecting Ideas,“ says Conference Jan Pinkava, „The top studios, companies and talents have converged on Stuttgart to share the latest in film production, technology, and new insights. And everyone can’t wait to be back next year.“ 🫶 We would like to thank all our speakers, moderators, curators, partners, attendees and everyone else involved in making this edition of FMX a huge success! See you in 2025! 💃 📌 SAVE THE DATE: The 29th edition of FMX will take place May 06 to 09 2025. #FMX2024 #vfx #animation #stuttgart

🚀 The future of virtual production: VES Germany provides insights 📌 Everyone involved with Virtual Production and interested in the latest developments may want to check out Project Arena in Berlin. 📍 The event taking place on October 25 is hosted by VES Germany Section, a valued partner of FMX - Film & Media Exchange, in collaboration with Chaos, premium partner at FMX 2024, and LEDcave. It is is open to all VFX/CG professionals, lecturers, and students. ➡️ Registration is mandatory: https://lnkd.in/eitTNFsN

🎁 When outstanding artists from all over the world gather in one place, there will be memorable quotes. At FMX - Film & Media Exchange 2024, we have had the pleasure to welcome more than 250 experts in animation, visual effects (VFX), immersive and interactive media, where there shared their expertise with the audience. 🎞️ AI pioneers Andrew Cochrane, Ben Hansford and Bilawal Sidhu provide an outlook on the opportunities of Artificial Intelligence. German animation producer Thomas Meyer-Hermann („Fritzi & Sophie“) talks about motion capture. Hollywood producer Chris deFaria („Ready Player One“) explains what makes a director great. VFX-Supervisors Tara DeMarco and Sarah Eim („The Marvels“) offer a refreshing perspective on the business, Charley Henley („Napoleon“) some secrets about Ridley Scott. 🎬 Danish VFX specialist Jonas Ussing shares his view on the „no CGI“ myth, producer Julien Meesters on the importance of analog skills in the digital age. Dialog Editor Martin Kwok („Dune“) points out the importance of captivating storytelling, acting teacher Ed Hooks explains dramaturgical requirements. 📌 That about wraps up the 28th edition of FMX... – preparations for the 29th are underway! 📌 Save the date: FMX 2025 will take place from may 6 to 9. More to come soon, so stay tuned!   #fmx2024 #vfx #animation #conference #stuttgart

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Stop motion icon Henry Selick was the guest of honor of this year‘s Campus Opening Week at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany – invited by Jan Pinkava, Head of Animationsinstitut and FMX - Film & Media Exchange Conference Chair. Henry showed excerpts from animation classics like „Coraline“and „The Nightmare Before Christmas“ and inspired the students with his art and his free spirit. „This is a great opportunity to find out who you are and what you have to say“, Henry proclaimed, who has remained artistically independent throughout most of his career.

💬 In our FMX Q&A, VFX Supervisors Tara DeMarco and Sarah Eim talk about their favorite characters, managing huge productions and equity in the creative industries. 💡 They co-hosted an FMX - Film & Media Exchange 2024 presentation on the highly varied visual effects work in THE MARVELS. Both also worked on Marvel’s WANDA VISON, supervising over 3,000 shots and nearly two dozen vendors including the on set visual effects shoots with puppeteers and butterfly effects, among more. The series earned an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Special Visual Effects. #FMX2024 #animation #vfx #stuttgart #conference

🎞️What’s your favorite VFX sequence? Ian Failes and Hugo Guerra have been regulars at FMX for quite a while, contributing ideas, inspiration and a contagious love for VFX and animation. 💡Ian is a journalist based in Sydney specialising in visual effects and animation. He’s the Editor-in-Chief of the publication “befores & afters” and the curator of the FMX track “Then & Now”. Hugo works as a Director and VFX Supervisor in London. He also creates content on YouTube with his channel Hugo's Desk. Together, Ian and Hugo co-host The VFX Notes Podcast. 🎤 At FMX - Film & Media Exchange 2024, they brought it live on stage, interviewing the renowned Visual Effects Supervisor Michael Fink. He let the audience in on some VFX secrets about legendary movies like “Blade Runner” (1982), “Batman” (1989), “X-Men 2” (2003) and “The Golden Compass” (2007). Ian also organized a presentation and a masterclass with Todd Sheridan Perry, who spoke about the in-camera effects in “I’m a Virgo” and set up a forced perspective shoot in front of the audience. FMX has shared that session on YouTube.   In our Q&A, Ian and Hugo unveil their favorite VFX sequences and talk about their shared FMX experience. #FMX2024 #vfx #beforeafters #filmmaking

🎤 Our Sales & Marketing Manager, Vanessa Steinmann, will be soon speaking at the Event PRO Forum at Sofia Tech Park about "Navigating the complexities of large-scale event management". 💡 Curious about insights from FMX - Film & Media Exchange? Then see you on September 17 in Bulgaria! #FMX2025 #eventmanagement #sofiatechpark

🧩🧩 Reuniting a country in animation The animated series “Fritzi & Sophie" takes the audience back to the year 1989, when the wall came down, that had divided Germany for decades. The series is a followup to the 2019 feature animation “Fritzi – eine Wendewundergeschichte”. 🎞️ In eight episodes, the directors and producers Ralf Kukula, Matthias Bruhn and Thomas Meyer-Hermann tell the story of a friendship in the last weeks before reunification – with hundreds of characters, true-to-life locations in East and West and a production value of great cinema. 💬 At FMX - Film & Media Exchange, the three of them explained how they managed the task of realizing a project of this size entirely in Germany with a young team. They worked with a special pipeline: Motion capture / CGI with Blender / cartoon shading. They were joined on stage by Anke Lindemann, who as a producer came up with the idea for a series when the “Fritzi” movie was released in 2019. 🔎The FMX presentation went way beyond animation production – the four panelists, two of them born in East Germany and two in West Germany, also shared their reunification experiences with the audience. ✅ Matthias Bruhn is CEO, Art Director and Director of Trickstudio Lutterbeck GmbH in Cologne. He studied Graphic-Design in Düsseldorf, directed over 25 short films and the animation movie “Fritzi – A Revolutionary tale” (2019). ✅ Ralf Kukula has his roots in the DEFA studio for animated films. He founded Balance Film in 1993 and has been making animated, feature and documentary films for cinema and TV ever since. He has been an honorary member of the DEFA Foundation, the Saxon Cultural Senate, the German Film Academy and other organisations for decades. ✅ Anke Lindemann is head of the “Children and Family” editorial department at t he public TV station MDR MITTELDEUTSCHER RUNDFUNK. She studied at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. ✅Thomas Meyer-Herrmann produces personal shorts, music videos, commissioned films, and TV series at Studio Studio Film Bilder in Stuttgart, where he studied Graphic-Design at the Academy of Arts. He is the producer and the main character of Andreas Hykade’s series „TOM & the Slice of Bread with Strawberry Jam & Honey“. 📺 “Fritzi & Sophie” will be broadcast on the German children’s channel KiKA von ARD und ZDF starting October 3. #FMX2024 #tvseries #animation #filmmaking

🏁 Today marks the start of FANTOCHE International Animation Film Festival. Make sure to step by to stop by its 22nd edition in Baden, Switzerland. 🔎 About FANTOCHE Fantoche is one of the world's most important festivals for animated films and the largest cultural event in Switzerland dedicated to animation in all its forms. It’s a hub for both audiences and professionals, offering a rich mix of competitions, screenings, and in-depth insights into the medium of animation. With a focus on innovation and experimentation, Fantoche continuously broadens its horizons, attracting new audiences and industry experts alike. 👋 See you in the cinema seat! #fantoche #fantoche2024 #animation #filmfestival