At this year's Fantoche Festival the SGDA will present a program dedicated to the financing of projects. Philomena Schwab will talk about her successful crowdsourcing campaign with Niche Mario von Rickenbach und Michael Frei will present their transmedia project "KIDS" that is supported on a national level by the Federal Office of Culture. Kantonsrat (ZH) Andrew Katumba ... Read more
The experimental festival workshop explores interfaces between animation and game design. Animators and game designers are put into pairs to work together on developing a short, playable game. The finished prototypes will be presented on Sunday at Cinema Sterk. In cooperation with Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Animation Department and the Zurich University of ... Read more
At this year's Industry Day at the Fantoche Animation Festival in Baden, the SGDA will host a Table Talk with expert game developers which will answer questions about animation in the context of game production. Our experts are: Bulbware (Poland) Playables (Switzerland) Sunnyside Games (Switzerland)
At the Fantoche international animation film festival in Baden the SGDA will present the lecture "When Animation meets Game Design", marking the beginning of a series of lectures titled "Interactive Storytellers", which is supported by the Migros Cultural Percentage and strives to explore how (digital) stories are told by the media and by creative artists, notably in the context of games. How do creative ... Read more
Swiss video games that combine animation art with game design have proven to be highly successful on the global market over the past few years. How do they work together? This year, the SGDA will once more explore the intersection between animation and game design. Swiss and international game developers will show what can happen ... Read more
Auch dieses Jahr findet das internationale Animationsfilmfestival statt. Zusammen mit der SGDA wird eine der am längsten durchgeführten Event-Reihen zum Thema Animation meets Game-Design durchgeführt. Das Festival bietet die Chance, sich branchenübergreifend zu vernetzen.
Thanks to SGDA's close and long-standing cooperation with the Swiss animation film festival Fantoche, the games industry will meet the animation industry again this year. This year, on Saturday 11 September at 14:15, the SGDA is organising an industry panel in which we explore the opportunities and discuss possible solutions for the future of the industry. ... Read more
Fantoche is Switzerland’s most prestigious animated film festival and is one of the leading events for the medium in the world. It takes place every year in September over the course of six days in the Swiss town of Baden. The festival, which benefits from broad media coverage, attracts both industry professionals and the general ... Read more
Schweizer Spiele, die Animationskunst und Game Design vereinen, waren in den letzten Jahren auf dem Weltmarkt sehr erfolgreich. Wie gestaltet sich deren Zusammenarbeit? Die SGDA erkundet auch in diesem Jahr die Schnittstellen zwischen Animation und Game Design. Schweizer und internationale Spielentwickler*innen zeigen das Potenzial der Verbindung beider Disziplinen auf. Der Fokus liegt dieses Jahr auf aufstrebenden Talenten ... Read more
Fantoche is Switzerland’s biggest and most prestigious cultural event devoted exclusively to animation in all its many facets, in terms of the technology, content and media. Fantoche is both a festival for the general public and a meeting place for the film and creative industries in equal measure. It comprises an international and a national short film ... Read more