Our creative director Yvonne van Ulden will be spending May 8 till 11 at FMX, a yearly conference on animation, effects, games and transmedia. Yvonne isn't hard to recognize with her red hair, and a klikker hanging around her neck of course, so it'd be nice to catch you there!

FMX takes place in Stuttgart, Germany, and is all about the newest technical stuff in animation, from hand-crafted stop-motion to fancy mocap methods. Big names from Ice Age 4, Arthur Christmas and The Pirates! will be revealing their secrets through a series of presentations. But next to sitting through talks, you can also get up and loosen up at the workshop 'Acting for Animators' by Ed Hooks. Then there's also a whole day on producing animated featurefilms in Europe, a program on what directors expect from VFX, and parties to end every day with.

Actually, there's just too much interesting stuff to sqeeuze into the few days the festival will be there. You can dig through the complete program at the website of FMX.

See you there!

(The picture on the left is of last year's FMX, by photographer Reiner Pfisterer. But we must admit that we secretly put a klikker in there, as inspired as we were by Waldo - so can you find it?)

Calling all animators from all over the globe! The KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival is eager to gather the latest harvest of short animated films for its competitions, so send in those puppies!

Films are eligible when the submitted film does not exceed 25 minutes and was finished after January 1st, 2010. For more regulations, read our Terms and Conditions. Submit your film online via our Submit a film page. Keep an eye on the deadline: June 1, 2012. If you'd like to be reminded of our Call for Entries a month before the deadline, you can subscribe to our newsletter.

*NEW* KLIK! Special Competition
Besides our regular competition categories, we now present the brand new KLIK! Special Competition. With this competition we will focus on a different aspect of animation during every edition, and our first focus is on the stereoscopic animated short. While the amount of stereoscopic feature-length films in the cinemas is fairly abundant, independant stereoscopic shorts are rarely shown in cinemas. So send in that eye-candy and show the world what can be done in stereoscopic cinema other than throwing random stuff in the viewer's face!

Don’t forget to decorate your envelope!
We have a longstanding tradition of decorating a wall during the festival with received envelopes from the call for entries. We've seen some awesome decorated envelopes in the past years, and because pretty decorated envelopes make us happy, this year there’ll be a price for the prettiest one of all! So bring it on!

KLIK! 2012
The 5th edition of the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival will take place from the 7th until the 11th of November in its spectacular new location: the EYE Film Institute! The finest animated films will be served up, along with the most eloquent masterclasses, theme programs on violence in animation, a plethora of special guests for all your Q&A needs, parties that will become legendary, music to soothe your ears, special stereoscopic animation, a lot of pleasant surprises and much, much more.

Already heard about fellow Dutch festival Go Short taking place next week? It's a great and fresh festival focussing especially on the European short film, live-action as well as animation. And our very own creative director Yvonne van Ulden will be there the whole week judging films as part of the Breaking Shorts and Dutch Competition Jury!

If you happen to be in Nijmegen during Go Short, be sure to check out the program and catch all the animated niceness. It includes performances and a program by Max Hattler (winner of the Political Animation Award at KLIK! 2010) and screenings of animated beauties previously screened at KLIK!, like Monster of Nix, Audition, The Itch (winner of the International Student Award at KLIK! 2010) and Mac'n'Cheese.

KLIK! for more info on Go Short.

KLIK!'s 5th edition: 7-11 November 2012!

We wish you a kliktastic holiday season and we hope to contribute to your happy New Year with the announcement of the newest edition of your favorite film festival! 2012 will see the festival's 5th anniversary and we'll celebrate it in our patented KLIK! style in a spectacular new location: the EYE Film Institute Netherlands!

New location!
Our festival's new home is being built as we speak, but we've already taken a sneak peek inside and we're very exited indeed. The EYE Film Institute Netherlands is located on the sparkly waters of the IJ, right across the Central Amsterdam train station and provides all our needs: large and intimate screening room, room to showcase art, a stage to facilitate live performances, a bar to lounge and dance in and a restaurant, all under one single shiny roof. Check out their website for more information on our prestigious new partner: EYE.

What to expect?
So mark your calender: from the 7th until the 11th of November in 2012, the 5th edition of the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival will combine KLIK!'s beloved ingredients with a host of new and exciting possibilities offered by our new location. We'll serve up the finest animated films, the most eloquent masterclasses, theme programs on violence in animation and more, a plethora of special guests for your Q&A needs, parties that will become legendary, music to your ears and a lot of pleasant surprises.

Call for Entries 2012
Our Call for Entries will start March 1st and is open until the 1st of June and we're looking forward to receiving all the lovely eye candy you made since the previous edition of KLIK! For more information click here.

Animatoren en Motion Graphics ontwerpers kunnen zich met een aantrekkelijke kortingsregeling bij de Beroepsorganisatie Nederlandse Ontwerpers aansluiten.

Als je nu lid wordt dan:
*betaal je geen contributie voor het resterende deel van 2011;
*krijg je meer dan 50% korting op de contributie in 2012 (€154 per jaar, normaal €335)

Je betaalt pas vanaf 2013 het reguliere tarief
Wil je meer weten over de voordelen van het BNO-lidmaatschap, check de voordelen hier

Voor wie?
Animatoren en Motion Graphics ontwerpers met een diploma van één van de in ons huishoudelijk reglement opgenomen opleidingen kunnen automatisch lid worden. Om in aanmerking te komen voor de speciale introductiecontributie voor animatoren verwachten we dat 75% van de activiteiten uit werkzaamheden voor animatie/motion graphics bestaat.

Info BNO Animatie/Motion Graphics
In 2009 lanceerde Rob Huisman (directeur BNO) tijdens het KLIK! Animatiefestival het platform BNO Animatie. Met de oprichting hebben animatoren hun eigen plaats binnen de vereniging. De oprichting is een initiatief van het bestuur van Stichting KLIK! en BNO. Het platform wil animatoren meer met elkaar in contact brengen door diverse activiteiten te organiseren. Het doel is om animatie meer bekendheid te geven, de ontwikkeling van het vak te bevorderen en professionalisering van animatoren te stimuleren.Hier vind je meer informatie.

Activiteiten platform BNO Animatie/Motion Graphics
BNO Animatie/Motion Graphics bestaat nu uit Jiek Weishut, Yvonne van Ulden en Dario van Vree. Het platform hard op zoek naar leden om de organisatie van nieuwe projecten op te pakken!

Meer informatie over BNO, lid worden en de activiteiten vind je op de website van BNO.