A cozy, informal morning chat with the animators from the competition program about their work, the creative process, and what goes on behind the scenes in the animation industry. Come meet them, chat, and get inspired.
The event will be held in English, without translation.
Location: “Džonis ir citrinos” café
A cozy, informal morning chat with the animators from the competition program about their work, the creative process, and what goes on behind the scenes in the animation industry. Come meet them, chat, and get inspired.
The event will be held in English, without translation.
Location: “Džonis ir citrinos” café
A lecture on how experimental comics can become a space where different languages, media, and narrative forms converge, opening up possibilities for projects that traverse various creative territories. It is also a personal journey through the most important stages of my creative work and projects—both solo works and those created in collaboration with the Shaman Garage studio.
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“Machinima” is a portmanteau of the words “machine,” “cinema,” and “animation” that describes films created from video game footage. Artist Isabelle Arvers introduces this still-underappreciated medium, which is transforming our relationship with animated cinema.
Together with the collective “Futurs Ancestraux,” she creates experimental films in Benin, in which 3D scans of sacred sites, voodoo artifacts, and documentary footage merge into hybrid spaces that blend the ancestral and digital worlds.
Together with Lívia Diniz, she organizes the “Beyond Green Games” creative workshops, during which participants collaborate to create films based on images, sounds, and other recordings of the natural environment.
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In her presentation, Menghui Huang will explore how abstract visual language can be used to create immersive virtual environments, emotional narratives, and new ways of world-building in virtual reality.
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I’ll tell you how I “drifted” from illustrating newspapers and magazines and writing books to posting a multitude of drawings on social media
The presentation will be in Lithuanian.
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Robertas Nevecka is a film director, animator, and, to some extent, an artist from Klaipėda. His drawings of people working on movie sets have spread around the world in unusual ways: from prints on decks of cards to tattoos in South America. Robertas will talk about observing his surroundings, drawing without knowing how to draw, and unconventional ways of distributing illustrations.
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Kaz Prapuolenis, an American artist, comic book creator, and writer of Lithuanian descent (“SpongeBob SquarePants,” “Camp Lazlo,” “Phineas and Ferb”) will present the entire creative process behind the “SpongeBob SquarePants” series—from the initial idea (“springboard”), storyboard, and script to the animatic. He will also discuss the early stages of the series’ development—the three-act structure in short-form animation and the creation of a dynamic ensemble of characters. At the end of the lecture, Kaz will compare television animated series created based on storyboards and screenplays and will briefly discuss working on screenplays for feature-length animated films.
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I would like to present our latest feature-length animated film, *Tales from the Mysterious Garden*, by reviewing its decade-long production process and revealing various aspects of this large-scale, unconventional co-production among European countries.
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Each animation technique has its own unique advantages and challenges. Therefore, this presentation will examine not only which production challenges can be avoided by combining traditional and computer-based 2D animation techniques, but also how to most effectively integrate the production processes of these different animation techniques (English: “pipeline”). Case studies of animated television and film projects will also be presented, highlighting various approaches to the application of hybrid animation. The presentation will be delivered in Lithuanian.
For more information: https://blon.lt/2026/talks
