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This winter graduated Australian native, Milly Yencken, with her film “The Eastern Rain”. “The Eastern Rain” is a quality and poetic film made with charcoal and oil paint, which brings the viewer through a dreamlike world of contemplation. ...

From the 28th of November through the 4th of December in the beautiful capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana, 28 of our students attended the wonderful Animateka International Animated Film Festival. Animateka is a ...

During PÖFF Dark Nights Festival, the animation department had the pleasure of inviting 3 animation director stars, Diana Cam Van Ngyuen, Joanna Quinn and Theodore Ushev to give talks in the EKA auditorium. ...

This past Friday EKA animation celebrated International Animation Day both in Tallinn and in Tartu.  In Tallinn we hosted presentations, in ...

2 PM in EKA auditorium presentations of animated projects currently in production  Everyone is welcome to have a peek into how several young authors have reached the phase of production and how far they ...

There is a well known saying: the better the outline of your thighs, the stronger the line of your pencil. Therefore, on a beautiful autumn day, animation department gathered to battle on a soccer field. Admittedly, it is now proven that ...

3 alumni of Eesti Kunstiakadeemia / Estonian Academy of Arts animation department (EKA Animatsioon) had a chance to present their films at BLON Animation and Games Festival. 

On a beautiful Saturday morning, animation department boarded a ferry from Patarei harbour to the island of Aegna to celebrate the beginning of a new school year.  We hiked, swam, got acquainted, relaxed, greeted the beautiful autumn.

On the 13th of June, five animation department students defended their bachelor degree. Although 8 of the films screened are visually varied, a common theme of environmental issues and nature prevails. Some films were just freshly ...

On 8th of June six MA students of the animation department of EKA defended their graduation works. Thank you all for your outstanding films and presentations Aspasia Kazeli, Lukas Winter, Sophia Michele Bazalgette, John F. Quirk, Jass ...

Our 2nd year bachelors have been preparing their film shoots throughout the spring semester. They have had to work fiercely in order to finish creating their animation puppets and film sets before the beach season begins. Under the ...

Students took a trip to Animatricks Animation Festival 2022 in Helsinki Finland this past week, with BA professor Martinus Klemet. In the international competition program of the festival, “Facial ...

We are happy to congratulate alumni Tamires Muniz and Sander Joon for receiving awards for their films in recent festivals this month.

One of the more important parts of producing a puppet film is obviously creating the puppets. In the course "Microfilm in puppet-film technique", the students were divided into 4 groups and devised scripts for their ...

Weekend before last, MA students took a trip to MaaJaam in the south of Estonia for a workshop taught by Timo Toots. MaaJaam is a farm dedicated to art and technology, exploring the relationships between people, ...

This year, Estonia will be represented by two films at the world’s largest and most important animated film festival: Annecy International Animated Film Festival, in france.

Last week students from both MA and BA classes partook in a book illustration workshop taught by Lucija Mrzljak. Lucija is a talented film director whos films are characterized by very strong style and visual character, which you also see in her ...

This week BA students have been partaking in a workshop to learn how to make direct animations, with professor Ülo Pikkov. Direct animation, also known as "drawn-on-film animation",  is an animation technique of scratching/ painting images ...