Filmmaker Andreas Hykade took office yesterday as the new director of the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg. Previously the professor had worked at the Institute as sr. lecturer of animation.
Hykade studied at the Academy of Arts in Stuttgart from 1989 to 1990 and subsequently at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg from 1992 to 1995, as one of the Filmakademie’s first graduates in “Animation/Digital Art Work.” Hykade has been working as a freelance director of animated films since 1992, realizing projects for children as well as adults. His work includes award-winning short films such as “We lived in Grass” (1995), “Ring of Fire” (2000), “Love & Theft” (2010) and, most recently, “Nuggets” (2015). Also, Hykade has carried out popular German TV-productions, including “Tom and the Slice of Bread with Strawberry Jam & Honey” (2004-2012), as well as interactive projects. His artistic output has been honored with numerous retrospectives, including a show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 2007.
Since 2002, Hykade has been teaching at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg. Furthermore, he has worked as a lecturer at the renowned Art University Kassel (2005-2010) and as a visiting professor at a number of international schools, among them Harvard University (2008), Shenkar College Tell Aviv (2010) and Royal College of Arts London (2001-’02). In 2011, Hykade became sr. lecturer for Animated Film at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg and the head of the subject area Animation at the Institute of Animation. The 46-year-old succeeds professor Thomas Haegele as Institute director. Haegele led the Institute of Animation since its foundation in 2002 and retired in December 2014.
