At the start of our last year in about August 2021 every student had the chance to pitch a film idea which students and faculty voted on. At first I wanted to be a 2D animator but that course changed my mind.) (Our year was the first that got introduced to 3D with Blender and the experience was much better than when I tried Cinema4D years ago. We also learned about storytelling, world-building, pipeline, animation history and sounddesign.

Later during personal or applied projects we can deepen the knowledge in the techniques we choose for ourselves. At the beginning of our studies everybody gets inputs in the different animation techniques 2D, Stop Motion and 3D. Our Bachelor course is very open to all sorts of styles and narratives. Our school is called “Hochschule Luzern” (HSLU) which is one of the Schools of Applied Science in central Switzerland and I studied 3 years for a Bachelor in Animation.

I talked to Samuel Bienz, one of the directors.

Their school recently switched to Blender and with a few exceptions, they managed to create the entire project within Blender. In the course of a year and a half, students from Switzerland created a short film.

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