The 2024 Digital Art & Creative Festival Animated Workshop (BEAST) Is Back In Bandung

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JAKARTA - The Animated Workshop in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry of the Republic of Indonesia and the Ministry of Communication and Information of the Republic of Indonesia again held the 2024 Digital Art & Creative Festival (BEAST) Animation Workshop, Saturday, May 25, 2024, at Holiday Inn Pasteur, Bandung.

This event was held offline, post-pandemic, and aims to become a platform for exchanging information and collaboration between stakeholders from the digital and creative art industry, ranging from animation studios/games, practitioners/professionals, educational institutions, students, students and related government institutions.

BEAST 2024 will bring in speakers from the background of the Games industry, Animation, Intellectual Property (IP), Illustration and Comics; Ronny Gani (CEO Bengkel Animasi & Senior Animator in Avengers, Pacific Rim, Transformers), Shieny Aprilia (CEO Agate International), total Wilson (CEO Kumata Animation Studio), Anintyas Wening (Operational Manager of Brown Bag Films Bali), and Bryan Valenza (Exclusive Color Artist Marvel Entertainment).

These professionals will share information and knowledge from their experiences during their career in large animation studios at home and abroad. This can certainly add insight for participants in developing their business and skills.

Ronny Gani, CEO and Co-founder of Bengkel Animasi explained, the Digital Art & Creative industry in Indonesia has experienced quite high growth in recent years, many local companies have been born that create creative products or provide services for foreign clients.

"Through the BEAST event, we are trying to bring a stronger synergy from all industrial stakeholders, especially business people and their human resources. The hope is that industrial growth can be more optimal, and no less important: human resource regeneration for young people to become professionals who in time, must be able to compete internationally," he explained, quoted on Tuesday, May 21.

This motivates Ronny in establishing Animated Workshops that focus on improving the quality of young animators, through training programs, organizing events, and also providing 3D animation-making services.

principal Wilson, CEO of Kumata Studio and as chairman of AINAKI (Indonesian Animated Industry Association) as well as one of the speakers at the BEAST 2024 event, added that Indonesia will get an Indonesian demographic bonus that will occur within the next 10-15 years, which will require a large job.

The labor-intensive animated industry sector can be a solution in terms of providing job opportunities and producing intellectual property (IP)-based products or providing animation production services to the local and global animated markets. AINAKI as an association that represents Indonesian industry players, supports BEAST activities which have the aim of providing socialization and networking to industry players.

"AINAKi's research data shows growth of 26 percent over the last 6 years where Indonesia's animation studio growth grows by 200% per year, therefore AINAKI will continue to open cooperation with various parties in building upstream to downstream programs so that the animation sector can take a role towards Indonesia Gold launched by the government," he explained.

Anintyas Wening, Operational Manager of Brown Bag Films Bali, who is also one of the speakers at BEAST 2024, revealed that Brown Bag Films Bali believes that this event is an extraordinary opportunity and forum to support the growth of the animation industry in Indonesia.

"We hope that sharing experiences and insight at the 2024 BEAST event will provide insights that will later strengthen the animation ecosystem in Indonesia," said Anintyas.