Animex Festival

31/08/2026

⏰ Last chance to submit!

Tonight is the deadline for the Animex AI Forum — your final opportunity to contribute. If you work where AI meets animation, VFX, games, digital creativity, education, or creative technology, we'd love to hear from you.

The forum is a platform for researchers, practitioners, artists, educators, and industry professionals to share ideas, projects, experiments, and critical perspectives on AI’s changing role in creative practice.

👉 Full details and submission info: https://www.tees.ac.uk/minisites/animexconference/aiforumcpc.cfm

Please share with colleagues, students, and anyone active in this exciting, fast-moving field.

The Animex Research and Innovation Conference Special Forum - Call for Contribution

24/08/2026

⏳ One week remaining to submit!

You still have time to contribute to the Animex AI Forum. If you work with AI in animation, VFX, games, education, digital art, or creative production, we’d love for you to share your research, projects, insights, or experiences.
📅 Deadline is fast approaching.

🔗 Full details: https://www.tees.ac.uk/minisites/animexconference/aiforumcpc.cfm
We’re excited to hear about the innovative work happening across the creative tech community.

The Animex Research and Innovation Conference Special Forum - Call for Contribution

17/08/2026

🎓 Students: Share Your Voice at the Animex AI Forum

Are you experimenting with AI in your creative work? Using AI in animation, games, VFX, digital art, storytelling, coding, or research projects? Or are you worried about the impact of AI on your career?

The Animex AI Forum is a great opportunity to showcase your ideas, concerns, creative practice, and research alongside other students, academics, and industry professionals exploring the future of AI and creativity in the Animation, VFX, and Games industries.

💡 Contribute to important discussions about the future of creative technology

Find out more and submit your contribution here: 🔗 https://www.tees.ac.uk/minisites/animexconference/aiforumcpc.cfm

Tag a friend, course mate, or fellow creative who might be interested!

The Animex Research and Innovation Conference Special Forum - Call for Contribution

14/08/2026

Have you submitted to the Animex AI Forum yet? We're inviting contributions that explore the opportunities, challenges, innovations and critical debates around AI in creative fields — submit here: https://www.tees.ac.uk/minisites/animexconference/aiforumcpc.cfm

The Animex Research and Innovation Conference Special Forum - Call for Contribution

10/08/2026

Animex AI Forum - Call for Contributions

Researchers, creatives, educators, students and industry practitioners are invited to contribute to discussions on AI and creative practice.

📌 Learn more and submit: https://www.tees.ac.uk/minisites/animexconference/aiforumcpc.cfm

Please share with anyone working at the intersection of AI and creativity.

The Animex Research and Innovation Conference Special Forum - Call for Contribution

06/08/2026

📢 Reminder: Call for Contributions — Animex AI Forum is now open

We're seeking submissions from researchers, practitioners, artists, educators, students and industry professionals interested in AI’s effects on animation, VFX, games, creative technologies, and education in the creative sector.

Whether you’re developing new workflows, conducting research, building creative projects, or critically examining AI’s role in practice, we’d love to hear from you.
🔗 Find out more and submit: https://www.tees.ac.uk/minisites/animexconference/aiforumcpc.cfm
Please share with your networks!

The Animex Research and Innovation Conference Special Forum - Call for Contribution

28/07/2026

Don't forget to submit your abstracts for the Animex RIC AI Forum.

for details of the full call go to

The Animex Research and Innovation Conference Special Forum - Call for Contribution

24/07/2026

Special Forum — Impact of AI on the Animation, Games and VFX Industry
Animex – Call for Contributions

As organisations across animation, games, and VFX formalise their positions on AI, this forum invites academics, industry practitioners, and students to reflect on how AI is reshaping creative labour, production processes, and the industry's future. The session aims to foster dialogue, identify challenges, and map potential futures. Formats may include short talks, discussion panels, or world café–style exchanges; the final programme will follow submissions. The event is in-person only and may produce future outputs (e.g., an edited collection).

Topics of interest include:
- Bias and embedded ideologies in AI systems
- The shifting role or displacement of artists
- Labour, precarity, and economics of AI-driven production
- Integration of AI into creative workflows and tools
- Ethics, ownership, and IP in AI-generated work
- Implications for learning, pedagogy, employability, and skills
- Aesthetics and authorship in machine-assisted creativity

Contributions are welcome from students, practitioners, and researchers. Formats: micro talks, short presentations, provocations, case studies, or facilitated discussions.

For details of the full call, visit: https://www.tees.ac.uk/minisites/animexconference/aiforumcpc.cfm

Fill | Impact of AI on the Animation, Games and VFX Industry

16/07/2026

Special Forum — Impact of AI on the Animation, Games and VFX Industry
Animex – Call for Contributions
Thank you to everyone who submitted a paper to the conference. In response to emerging themes and concerns, we will be hosting, as part of the main in-person event, a special forum. As organisations across animation, games, and VFX formalise their positions on AI, this forum invites academics, industry practitioners, and students to reflect on how AI is reshaping creative labour, production processes, and the industry's future. The session aims to foster dialogue, identify challenges, and map potential futures. Formats may include short talks, discussion panels, or world café–style exchanges; the final programme will follow submissions. The event is in-person only and may produce future outputs (e.g., an edited collection).
Topics of interest include:
- Bias and embedded ideologies in AI systems
- The shifting role or displacement of artists
- Labour, precarity, and economics of AI-driven production
- Integration of AI into creative workflows and tools
- Ethics, ownership, and IP in AI-generated work
- Implications for learning, pedagogy, employability, and skills
- Aesthetics and authorship in machine-assisted creativity
Contributions are welcome from students, practitioners, and researchers. Formats: micro talks, short presentations, provocations, case studies, or facilitated discussions.
Submission deadline: 31 August. Please submit a 250–300 word abstract/outline and a 100-word biographical statement via the MS Form:
https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=WxHSQ16ltkad97AziOz8YKOdYUWvrdBDmFQr0PFhKD9UMDdLNFpDUFNSVk9RWVdQQ1I0MEJWRFNaOC4u&route=shorturl

Notifications by 17 September. In-person session as part of the main one-day conference on 18 November 2026.

10/07/2026

Today's the final chance to submit your paper for the Animex Research and Innovation Conference.

Here's the link to the full call:

We're seeking submissions for proposals for 20-minute conference presentations from across the fields of animation, VFX and games.