Animation & film
Character animation, storytelling and pipelines for short films and series.
Work with us / Universities & researchers
Real projects for students and researchers.
We offer students and researchers in technology, design, media and learning real briefs with real products behind them, as semester projects, theses and internships.
- Semester projects
- Bachelor & master theses
- Required internships
- Research partnerships
01 Who we’re looking for
Is this you?
Design
Illustration, character, product, interface and sound design.
Technology
Embedded systems, connected objects, real-time 3D, AI tools for media.
Learning & childhood research
How young children listen, play and learn, and what good screen time looks like.
Media studies
Children's media across cultures and languages.
Sound & music
Sound worlds, music and voice for stories.
02 How we work together
Ways to collaborate.
Semester projects
A professor sets our brief for a class. We give a kick-off, feedback mid-term and attend the final presentations.
Theses
One student, one clear question, three to six months, with a supervisor from your university and one from us.
Internships
Placements that are part of your degree, working with the team on a live project.
03 Examples
The kind of work we do.
- “A cut-out animation pipeline for a children's character”
- “Testing story characters with three to five year olds”
- “A sound world for bedtime stories”
- “Designing a connected object for families without screens”
04 What you get
A good collaboration works both ways.
- A real brief and a real product
- Credit, and the right to show your work in your portfolio
- Mentoring from people building the products
- A reference letter, and first consideration for future roles
05 Questions
Good to know.
Who owns what students create?
Students work with our existing characters and worlds. The rights to use the project work are agreed in writing at the start; students keep credit and portfolio rights, and universities keep what they need to grade and archive.
Which universities do you work with?
We start in Berlin and are open to universities wherever our products are made and used.
We are a professor or programme lead. How do we start?
Write to us with your course or programme and timing. We will send a one-page brief you can adapt.
Let’s talk.
Tell us who you are and what you have in mind. We read every message and reply personally.