FMX opened its doors Tuesday in Germany to a reported 8,000 registered visitors, while some 50,000 attendees showed up for the concurrent Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film.
The FMX conference, an annual conference devoted to animation, effects, video games and digital media, runs through Thursday and is seeing an impressive recruiting drive from such prominent VFX houses as Sony Pictures Imageworks, Disney Animation Studios, Disney Interactive’s Brighton-based Black Rock Studios, London-based Double Negative and Stuttgart’s Pixomondo. The conference runs through May 8.
The festival, now in its 16th year, is set to screen more than 600 films through May 10. Among the major releases competing in the AniMovie competition are Igor, Coraline, Niko and the Way to the Stars, Summer Days with Coo, Mary and Max and Idiots and Angels.
The festival also features an international competition, a young animation competition and a section called Tricks for Kids.
