La Salle Campus Barcelona, founding member of Universitat Ramon Llull, organizes the Animation&Arts Week this week and claims once again as one of the leading university centers in the animation and digital arts sector. The event will consist of workshops, conferences with international speakers, exhibitions and presentations of the work of animation and digital arts students. The different activities are concentrated between June 25 and 28 in several spaces on campus.
One more course, the students of the Animation and VFX and Digital Arts degrees claim their talent and show the academic excellence of their studies along with the presence of top-level international speakers such as Rudi Bloss, animator and director of Disney+, special guest this year, who gives workshops and conferences about the industry and his 30 years of experience in the sector.
For a week, animation and digital arts offer the campus the opportunity to learn from references in the profession and to learn about the reality of the sector at a global level.
Animation & Arts Fest: Rudi Bloss, 30 years in the animation sector
Animation&Arts Week is pleased to have Rudi Bloss, an animator and director with more than 30 years of experience in the audiovisual sector and who currently directs The Proud Family, on Disney+. In his long career Rudi Bloss has worked as a 2D and 3D animator, director, screenwriter and character designer for companies such as Disney +, Warner Brothers or Dreamworks. During this week, he gives workshops and mentors animation students on June 25, 26 and 27.
On Friday, June 28, within the framework of La Salle Animation & Art Fest, Rudi Bloss will give a conference in the campus Auditorium in which he will review the current state of the sector, the changes that he has experienced and the challenges that lie ahead.
Project presentations at the Centre d’Arts Digitals IDEAL
Animation students on campus present their final projects during the week and one of the presentations will take place at the Center d’Arts Digitals IDEAL, a pioneering space that experiences virtual reality in large-format exhibitions. The student Laia Tarragó presents her Final Degree Project in this space on June 25.
A unique show at the IASLab
The IASLab, the multisensory laboratory of the La Salle Campus Barcelona, is the setting where animation students exhibit their work, using all the resources that the building's immersive room puts at their disposal. Furthermore, this is an opportunity to discover the works that the campus has recently exhibited at Sónar.
On the other hand, on June 28, starting at 6 p.m., the IASLab Community Show is held, a small festival where the candidates for the Master of Science in Digital Arts and Creative Technologies present their proposals and proposals for experimental art in Live A/V format. Performances, Immersive Experiences and Installations. This edition has been mentored by the artistic studio DESILENCE and the artist and researcher Portrait XO.
