Ars Electronica Animation Festival
4 September - 8 September 2024
Contact: Emiko Ogawa
E-mail: emiko.ogawa@ars.electronica.art
Phone: +43 664 8126 210
Address:
Ars-Electronica-Strasse 1
Linz
4040
Austria
- About
- Submission Info
Ars Electronica Animation Festival is a condensed best-of of current productions in digital filmmaking, selected from the entries of this year’s Prix Ars Electronica, the international competition for cyber arts in the computer animation category. Trends of the last few years are continuing with further growth in AI-related themes, VR productions, installative works, large scale mappings, and interactive elements.
The Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s most time-honored media arts competition. Winners are awarded the coveted Golden Nica statuette, prize money ranging up to € 10,000 per category and an opportunity to showcase their talents at the famed Ars Electronica Festival in Linz.
Ars Electronica Animation Festival is concurrently held with the Ars Electronica Festival.
Year established: 1987
Is this festival exclusively animation?: Yes - this is exclusively an animation festival
Is there a marketplace at this festival?: No
Submission deadline:
29 February 2024
Entry fee:
FREE! There is no charge for this festival
Categories:
- Best Animated Feature
- Best Animated Music Video
- Best Animated Short
- Best Animated Short (Student / Graduation Film)
- Best Commissioned Film
- Best Experimental Animation
- Best VR / Immersive Film
- Computer Animation
- Interactive Art +
- Digital Communities
Submission methods:
- Online Upload (via festival site)
Requirements:
The “Computer Animation” category has been part of the Prix Ars Electronica since its very inception, and its development continues to display strength and vitality. It recognizes excellence in independent work in the arts and sciences as well as in high-end commercial productions in the film, advertising and entertainment industries. In this category, artistic originality counts just as much as masterful technical achievement.
In recent years, computer animation has become a driving force for many new areas that go beyond screens, both artistically and technically. To recognize this important role, the category’s jurors are once again eagerly looking forward to encountering exciting experiments and promising directions based on broadened interpretations of computer animation.
What should you enter?
Works of 2D or 3D computer animation, digital short films and narratives, character animation, abstract CG animation, scientific visualizations, commercials, music videos, visual effects, CG for the creative manipulation or enhancement of live action scenes, real-time CG, game cutscenes, machinima, generative visuals, VR, projection mapping, game, Installation focused on new visualization/animation, theater projects, opera project etc.
Who can submit an entry?
- The work entered must have been created, realized or significantly updated within the last two years.
- Participants may be individuals, groups, institutions, companies etc.
Link to Submit
