ANİMİST is Bahçeşehir University’s Animation Festival organized by Cartoon and Animation Department. It appeals to everyone who is interested in animation including professionals, amateurs, students, educators. Its aim is to create a platform that will nurture the animation industry, the educational institutions, the people who are interested in animation to meet each other, get inspired, open up their horizons, make animation visible as a profession and art and communication form.
Hosted guests include Anna Kluza, one of the leading animators of the Oscar-nominated animated film Loving Vincent; Craig Caldwell, who specializes in storytelling for animation, VR and digital gaming; Murat Akbulut Turkey's first design center in postproduction company 1000V; VFX masters Burak Balkan and Arman Şernaz; Turkey cartoon veteran, animation film director Tan Oral; VFX supervisor of Oscar-nominated Christopher Robin, Guardian of the Galaxy, Avengers, Star Wars: Episode VII Framestore's UK's Arslan Elver and Comic-Con Eisner Award-winning comic book artist Rutu Modan from Israel, In addition, Prof. Namkook Lee from Republic of Korea, Ismail Fidan the creator of record breaking domestic animation Rafadan Tayfa and Varol Yaşaroğlu, creator of Kral Şakir.
Israel's oldest film school Bezalel and South Korea Hongik University student animation films were screened and Eskişehir Anadolu University and Kütahya Dumlupınar University instructors and students were also hosted.
The key actors and institutions in the field of animation industry in Turkey brought together by "Animations Without Borders: Academy and Industry Colloquia" as a special event of ANIMIST.
