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University up north!
By the way, you can also study at a university in Flensburg if you want to distance yourself as far as possible from the "Wild South". But what can you expect there?
FMX tickets now!
Ticket sales for FMX 2023 started today. This means that preparations for the Stuttgart trade fair, which will once again take place in hybrid form, are entering the hot phase. Ready?
Between HFF and VHS | Retro article
Looking back: A special film school opened in Mannheim in DP 06 : 2014. The non-profit organisation Flimmermenschen views film as a holistic cultural phenomenon. An educational programme for students, hobbyists and newcomers to the industry.
How can the human gaze be calculated?
Researchers at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg are working on a method to better assess the position of a person's head.
Apply now: Master’s programme at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences!
Going to Hesse to study? What didactic incentives does the h_da offer?
Open Source Editor | Image Editing
Adobe Research and Johns Hopkins University abolish mask pulling in image editing?
Battlefield 4 Fan Art Recreates an Abandoned Site in Unreal Engine 4
Environment artist Gilles Devos described building a Battlefield-inspired abandoned construction site in Unreal Engine 4.
ifs Cologne Graduates Present VFX and Animation Short Films
The ifs Cologne bachelor's class presented 11 fiction films, eight feature scripts and three animation projects: Circus in Town, Yûgen and Bloom.
ifs Cologne Launches MA in Entertainment Producing
The International Film School Cologne launched a four-semester MA in Entertainment Producing for 14 experienced media professionals.
ifs Köln Launches International MA Film Programme
The ifs internationale filmschule köln launched its MA Film programme under filmmaker Ciro Cappellari, bringing together ten international students.
FreeMoCap Project Targets Low-Cost Markerless Motion Capture
Jonathan Matthis presented FreeMoCap, an open-source framework designed to generate full-body motion capture from two USB webcams.
Rise and SAE Institute Launch VFX and 3D Animation Scholarships
Rise and SAE Institute offered three Visual FX and 3D Animation diploma scholarships, plus recurring internships at Rise studios in four German cities.
Digital Production 03:2021 Explores VFX Education and Production Tools
Digital Production 03:2021 surveys VFX and animation education, Mass Effect remastering, Weta Digital, Blender 2.92, Resolve codecs and production technology.
German Film Academy Establishes Animation Film Section
The German Film Academy created a dedicated Animation Film section to recognise and support German animated feature filmmaking.
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Hosts Online Study Information Day
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and Animationsinstitut presented courses, applications and virtual counselling during an online information day.
ESMA Showreel Highlights Student Animation and VFX
ESMA’s showreel presents animation and visual-effects work produced by students at the French creative-arts school.
Vessel Studios Presents Medical Animation Work
Vessel Studios combines artists, medical specialists, programmers and animators to create scientific and medical visualisation.
New3dge Showreel Highlights Student VFX
Paris-based New3dge presents a student VFX showreel spanning character work, environments, effects and compositing.
Research Simulates Detailed Water Droplets
Researchers combine sheet, filament and volume particles to simulate droplet surfaces, sprays and splashes with improved surface tension.
Vienna seeks professor of digital art compositing
Archive: Film Academy Vienna advertised a permanent, full-time Digital Art / Compositing professorship, planned to start in October 2019.
HBK Braunschweig seeks digital film expertise
Archive: HBK Braunschweig sought artistic staff for digital film production, camera work, cinematography and student supervision.
RheinMain seeks a film laboratory engineer
Archive: RheinMain University sought a film production and postproduction laboratory engineer for a 50% position starting in October 2017.
ifs Cologne seeks technology and scheduling staff
Archive: ifs Cologne sought a full-time employee for film equipment, postproduction, equipment management and technical support for students.
Still Time to Join the Project Course!
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg is accepting applications until May 15 for direct entry to the two-year project course at Animationsinstitut.
SAE Institute Open House
The SAE Institute open house takes place in eight German cities on January 31, 2016, from 12:00 to 17:00.
Robots in Therapy
Charming short film featuring CG robots in couples therapy from the ArtFX university in France
Love in times of global warming
Review: In DP 03 : 2014, we found out what happens when arctic pink creatures get involved with tropical fruit - and design students from HBK Braunschweig make 3D animation.
Fol’Amor Released
The graduation film from Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image has made the festival rounds and can now be seen on YouTube.
3D Image Editing 2.0
At Siggraph, researchers from the American Carnegie Mellon University are presenting software that can rotate objects in photos.
Siggraph 2010: Keyframe-Based Motion Tracking from 2D Material
Two researchers at Texas A&M University have used the keyframe technique familiar from video-editing programs and animation software as an alternative to marker-based motion capture – without camera arrays or markers.
Artists from France
Supinfocom provides first-class training in 2D and 3D animation, storyboarding, screenwriting and computer graphics.
Apple Launches iTunes U in Germany
Together with four German universities, Apple launches the iTunes U program in Germany today.
Applicant Numbers Continue to Rise at the Saar University of Fine Arts
Compared with the previous year, HBKsaar has recorded an increase of nearly 20 percent in student applicants.
PDF Annotator 2: Completing PDF Presentations Live
PDF Annotator 2 takes teaching at schools and universities to a new level: teachers and professors save the basic framework of a presentation as a PDF and project the pages onto a wall. PDF Annotator 2 makes it possible to complete the pages live, enabling an entirely new lecture style. The result is a finished PDF document that can be saved and offered online for general download.
Stuttgart Computer Graphics Professor Offered Position at Clemson University in South Carolina
A major honour for Stuttgart Media University (HdM): Professor Dr. rer. nat. Bernhard Eberhardt, a computer graphics specialist at HdM in Stuttgart, has received an offer from Clemson University in South Carolina, USA. The appointment is associated with leading its Digital Production Arts programme. The Stuttgart computer graphics specialist owes this distinction to his reputation in computer animation and graphics.
Georg Simon Ohm University in Nuremberg Succeeds with “All the Time in the World”
Students from Ohm University take second place in an online film competition
Powerflasher Expands University Partnerships
Free FDT licences for multimedia programmes at universities worldwide.
Nvidia Names First “CUDA Center of Excellence”
Nvidia selected the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as its first “CUDA Center of Excellence.” The university has made notable contributions to teaching in the field of parallel computing.
Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences Presents Graduate Projects
Twenty-four graduate communication designers present their work.
Macromedia University Announces 2008 Media Award for Upper-Secondary Students
EUR 1,000 in prize money; submission deadline 30 June 2008.
Information Event on the Master of Arts and SAE International Graduate College
Tomorrow, Wednesday, 7 May 2008, SAE Munich will hold an information event about the Master of Arts and SAE International Graduate College beginning at 5:00 p.m.
Casual Gaming Scientifically Proven to Reduce Stress
University Study Demonstrates Positive Health Effects of Casual Games
NVIDIA Awards Research Fellowships to Doctoral Students
The recipients of NVIDIA research fellowships for the 2008/09 academic year have been announced.
RTT Cooperates with Technical University of Munich
As part of its RTT University Programme, the manufacturer has concluded a new cooperation agreement with the Technical University of Munich.
HBKsaar: Ivica Maksimovic Remains Rector
The Saarland art academy confirms its head in office for another four years.
Image Gallery for the Animated Short Film “Entering Rockspring”
Sebastian Krieg, Mathias Herbster, Timo Käsinger and Alexander Schäferle created a short film in the fourth semester of Macromedia's Computer Animation programme.
Image Gallery for the “Online Bolzplatz” Project
Project by Macromedia student Andreas Küffner, Sports and Event Management, second semester, on the subject of "Web 2.0 in the World of Football".
Image Gallery for the Short Film “Blinder Musiker”
Project by Miriam Glück, Anna-Julia Geyer and Franziska Kutschenreuter, second-semester Media Management students at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences.
RTT 08: Video: RTT Opening Address Part 2
Christoph Karrasch, RTT's second founder, presents showcases from Adidas, Opel and Porsche.
Image Gallery: RTT Honours Young Award Winners
The pictures show the winners of RTT's young talent competition, the "RTT Emerging Technology Contest".
Image Gallery for the Communication Concept for BeTV
Ulrike Bauer, Elisabeth Schöning and Katharina Schwarz, fourth-semester students of PR and Communication Management at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences for Media, presented their a practice-oriented communication concept.
FIlm on the Macromedia Student Project
Students Agnes Berreth, Johannes Gehrke, Marc Falke and Thomas Schönweitz present a website and designed a fictional fashion label called "Smood".
Image Gallery for the Short Film “Munich – a Football Metropolis
Andreas Küffner and Philipp Perrey, fourth-semester Media Management students at Macromedia, presented their view of Munich and football.
Image Gallery for the Communication Concept for Sport1.de
Photo series on the project by Daniel Schuster, a fourth-semester Macromedia student in PR and Communication Management.
Image Gallery for the Short Film Paranoir
Stefan Marquart, studying PR and Communication Management, presented his short film Paranoir as part of the semester opening.
Pictures: Research Project Exploratory Eye. Tracking Study in BMW AG’s Brand World
Macromedia Students Launch an Eye-Tracking Study in BMW AG's Brand World.
Pictures: Media Design Students Greatly Expand Their Study Project and Earn Recognition
The fourth-semester Media Design students at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences were actually supposed to create a modern website. But that was not enough for the ladies and gentlemen. They expanded the assignment on their own initiative and succeeded.
3D-Modelling Symposium Berlin – Sophisticated Tools In Design, Architecture & Engineering
The Berlin University of the Arts, in cooperation with Visual-Dream Berlin, is organising Germany's first 3D-Modelling Symposium for industrial designers, architects and engineers.
The event for professionals and students from the above-mentioned disciplines takes place on the premises of UdK Berlin and comprises three modules: Lectures, Case Studies and Masterclasses. In these, experts from Germany and abroad demonstrate solutions to the requirements of contemporary architecture and construction as well as modern design using 3D modelling, predominantly with Rhinoceros software.
In the Lectures (45 minutes each), speakers present multidisciplinary applications, including on the subject of Generative Design; participants in the Case Studies (45 minutes each) are introduced to projects or product applications such as Paracloud. The Masterclasses (3 x 5 hours each) develop 3D modelling skills with experienced instructors in product, automotive and marine design as well as architecture. Evening Lectures are also planned with renowned architects, designers and engineers who are pioneers in the use of Rhinoceros for 3D applications.
Music Compressed 1,000 Times More Than MP3
A computer reproduces instrument performance from a compact model rather than storing conventional recorded audio.
Pictures: Keynote at the Macromedia Semester Opening
Michael Valentin Delivered the Keynote at the Semester Opening of Macromedia University of Applied Sciences for Media. Pictures of the Event Can Be Found in the Galllery
How stolen software can be found again
Developing software is expensive. This tempts some programmers to incorporate other people's software illegally into their own programs. The Chair of Software Engineering at Saarland University has developed a method for detecting this type of software theft.
Rewritable holographic display demonstrated
University of Arizona researchers demonstrate a holographic display that can be erased and rewritten within minutes.
SAE Institute opens European Degree Center in Oxford
Just one hour from London lies Oxford, the city of "dreaming spires" and home to one of the the oldest and most renowned universities in the world. This international centre of academic education, has now also been chosen as the location of the new European SAE Degree Center and thus provides the unique environment for study, knowledge and experience
Computer science graduate school offers scholarships immediately after a bachelor’s degree
Outstanding computer science students who would like to conduct research can apply in Saarbrücken for a doctoral scholarship immediately after completing a bachelor’s degree. The application deadline for the coming summer semester is February 29.
Digital facial recognition using just one photo
Researcher Hung-Son Le at Sweden’s Umeå University http://www.umu.se has developed a set of algorithms that enables facial recognition from photos.
International Documentary Film Conference in Germany for the First Time
"Visible Evidence XIV" events throughout Bochum / Artists, curators, researchers and filmmakers as guests
German Film School Files for Insolvency
Local court appoints insolvency administrator / Renowned film school to be preserved in the long term
RTT Opens Emerging Technology Contest 2008
Students and universities can enter projects in interaction, rendering, simulation and real-time 3D content until 8 March 2008.
Bachelor’s Degree Programme “Design” at the Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg
Time is running out: Until December 15, 2007, prospective students can still apply for the new Bachelor's degree programme in Design at the Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied
Sciences – Nuremberg University of Applied Sciences. For the first time, the programme can also start
in the summer semester in order to accommodate the rising number of applicants.
“WHO” or “when OHM is upside down”
New magazine from the Faculty of Design at Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg
Ten years of digital media at Harz University of Applied Sciences
The weekend of November 9 and 10 at Harz University of Applied Sciences, in the Department of Automation and Computer Science, is entirely devoted to media informatics. After ten years, a field of study has developed in Germany whose future has only just begun.
MFM: New Professorship for Computer Animation
Prof. Dr. Ing. Wolfgang Höhl is taking over the professorship for Computer Animation at the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences for Media (MFM) at the Munich campus.
Board of Trustees established at MFM
Managing directors of the most important Munich media companies and experts from politics and the media industry joined together last Friday to form the Board of Trustees of the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences for Media (MFM).
SIGGRAPH: FIEA shows its students’ game project
The Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA) presents its students' latest game project, Master Plan.
“Verified in Germany” Becomes a Quality Mark for German Software
Software errors cause economic damage of well over 100 billion euros annually in Europe. Because requirements are often misjudged during software development and the existing technology for troubleshooting is very laborious, manufacturers today spend 70-80 percent of their work on removing software errors.
Saarland University Seeks Students for “Visual Computing” Master’s Program
Interdisciplinary English-language degree program is intended to convey broad specialist knowledge with practical relevance
Macromedia University of Applied Sciences for Media Appoints Eckhard Rocholl Professor
Head of degree programme for media design and computer animation is to oversee both disciplines nationwide
New Visual Computing master’s degree launches in Saarbrücken
Interdisciplinary master's degree program begins in the winter semester 2006/2007, application deadline ends on September 15, 2006
First Full Professorship for Computer Games
TU Ilmenau establishes a chair for computer and video games
Medical Clip Art and 3D Models: Zygote Offers Educational Discount
Schools and other educational institutions receive a 30 percent discount at 3DScience.com
Rheinische Fachhochschule Provides Information on Media Design Degree Program
Event on January 7, 2006 in Cologne
German Film School Cuts Tuition Fees by up to 16 Percent
Reduction for New Entrants in Compact "Diplom Digital Artist" Degree Program / Another Degree Program in Preparation
“Media Design” as a Bachelor’s Degree Program at Rheinische Fachhochschule
Fee-Based Full-Time Degree Program over Six Semesters
IP TV: Free Channel for Universities
Artvoice provides universities with a free IP TV channel in exchange for content
Open Day at Macromedia Munich
On August 30 from 17.00, Macromedia - Academy for Media in Munich provides information about the study programmes
First Media Night at Rhine University of Applied Sciences
Lectures, discussions and film contributions by media professionals, lecturers and students / Participation free
Bachelor’s in Digital Design
In cooperation with Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, the Media Bildungszentrum in Stuttgart offers a bachelor's programme for aspiring TV producers and digital designers.
OpenLab Night at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Presentation of current research projects in the Media Systems degree programme