BA Examination Timeline

Graduation year 2025 / 2026

This page is the timeline for the BA Examination process and is is subject to changes, please consult regularly.

Also see at the entries starting with "3BA" on the Animation Students Calendar.

Date	Info	Location
Mon 15. Sep - Fri 03. Oct	Project Development Your project's content will be honed with Maja Gehrig and Špela Čadez	140
Mon 15. Sep 18:00 - 23:00	ALL Kükenfest
Mon 22. Sep 11:00	Name your Project Mentor Contact and get a "yes" from your mentor of choice. You can choose from our list of lecturers or someone from outside school if there is a solid reason for your need.   Email Kat no later than 11:00.
Fri 03. Oct	Project Development Presentations	REX
Mon 06. Oct 13:00 - 17:00	Written Thesis Kick-Off You will receive information from Tina Ohnmacht and Stefanie Bräuer about your upcoming thesis. Write down 2-3 potential topics and your preferred mentor on the etherpad „Topics for the BA Thesis“ in ILIAS	151
Thu 09. Oct, 09:00 - Thu 09. Oct, 12:30	Written Thesis Mentoring Room and further information as per Tina and Stefanie
Thu 30. Oct 12:00	Written Thesis Final Topic Deadline Hand in final topic, research question, hypothesis, bibliography on ILIAS by noon
Tue 11. Nov 13:00 - 14:30	Lineproducing Kick-Off Lineproducer Marwan Abdalla Eissa will introduce the production process. After his talk he will stay in order to answer questions. From then on he will talk to teams individually on a bi-weekly basis.	REX
Thu 20. Nov 12:00	Thesis Exposé Deadline Upload your exposé to ILIAS as a PDF with the following naming convention: year_yourname_titleofwork_Exposé (i.e. [year]_SaraSmith_WordsandImages_Exposé) Exposés will be graded
Fri 21. Nov 16:00	Dossier Fact Sheet Deadline email to Gerd and Sereina by 14:00
Mon 24. Nov - Fri 12. Dec	Dossier Module You will develop a written dossier and a storyboard to apply for funding with Gerd Gockell and Sereina Gabathuler
Thu 27. Nov 09:00 - 17:00	Production Meeting 1 short presentation by each team (7min max): how has the project developed? You can present: script, storyboard, style frames, animatic, animation tests (definitely needed from the experimental projects)	REX
Fri 12. Dec 12:00	Thesis First Draft Upload the first draft of your thesis (first chapter) on ILIAS as PDF named year_yourname_titleofwork_Draft   (i.e. [year]_WillShakespeare_Wordswordswords_Draft)
Tue 16. Dec - Thu 18. Dec	Animatic Editing Session 1 90min per group session with Dominik Gehring to discuss and evaluate the state of your project's current animatic     according to the schedule on gdrive	Alteliers
Tue 06. Jan 16:00	Animatic Upload to Server Upload your animatic as mp4 converted down to under 250MB! to the same folder as your Dossier PDF _[year]_3BA_Projektordner -> 02_Dossier -> [year]_FINAL    Naming convention:  year_projectname_animaticV1 (i.e. [year]_BestFilmEver_animaticV1)
Wed 07. Jan 09:00 - 12:00	Pitch ZHdK (BA & MA) ZHdK film-music composer students will visit us and receive a short presentation of your films after which you can network. Prepare a Vimeo/youtube upload off your Animatic as well as a fact sheet as learned in 2nd BA. The pitch is also for the speech-academy students, so do also include info about voice requirements in the Factsheet.	Rex
Thu 08. Jan 14:00	Dossier Deadline (digital) upload to server by 14:00   Upload your PDF named year_projectname_Dossier (i.e. [year]_BestFilmEver_Dossier) to server: projects -> _[year]_3BA_Projektordner/02_Dossier/[year]_FINAL
Mon 12. Jan - Tue 13. Jan	Animatic Feedback We will watch your animatics and give you feedback  Portfolio & Experimental: you will be asked to give us a short status quo on the 14th
Thu 15. Jan 12:00	Printed Dossier Deadline place one copy of your printed dossier on Kat's desk by 12:00
Fri 30. Jan 12:00	Written Thesis Deadline Late delivery implies the immediate disqualification from the BA-process. No FX possible! Upload your final thesis as PDF onto ILIAS year_yourname_titleofwork_BAThesis (i.e.[year]_TildaSwinton_WordsandImages_BAThesis) AND put 1 printed copy on Kat‘s desk in office 157 (in case the office is closed, leave them in the letterbox in front of the office) by 12:00
Mon 02. Feb 17:00	Sounddesign concept and Animatic Deadline send a current animatic (.mp4, less than 100MB) with your music layout and a description of your sound design concept to Thomas Gassmann, Jeroen Visser and Etienne Kompis
Wed 04. Feb - Fri 06. Feb	Sound Design talks First round of talks with our school sounddesigners Jeroen Visser / Etienne Kompis and Thomas Gassmann. Each group will have a one hour meeting. Invitation via doodle in January. Sequence of short meetings will be announced by Thomas Gassmann	U133/ Zoom
Thu 05. Feb - Fri 06. Feb	Acting Reference Shots Two guest actors will work with you on key shots of your film, each group has 45 minutes
Tue 17. Feb	Animatic Editing Session 2 a second session with Dominik Gehring to discuss and evaluate the state of your project's current edit.	ateliers
Thu 19. Feb 17:30 - 20:00	ALL Helpers Market with Apero   get extra crew on board by holding a presentation of your 3BA final project for your fellow Ani students and alumn* where you can tell them what you're looking for	TBA
Mon 23. Feb - Fri 27. Feb	Voice Recording Speech Academy Get in touch with Thomas Gassman if you want to reserve a session.	U133
Mon 02. Mar, 10:00 - Mon 02. Mar, 16:00	Production Meeting 2: Orange light We will watch the current state of your animatic with lineproducing, sound and mentors to discuss the progress of your film. You will present your state of production and next steps & milestones.	140
Tue 17. Mar 11:00	Examination Criteria (practical work) Choose a a criteria from your project to be judged on in particular (for example set design, concept art, story, animation, character design, editing etc...)   Any changes in your subject after that must be discussed with Jürgen Haas!
Thu 19. Mar	Animatic Editing Session 3 last edit session with Dominik Gehring - if needed	ateliers
Fri 27. Mar	Greenlight for Foley Marwan and Thomas will give you the greenlight for the foley.  If needed, you will present your animatic to discuss your current state of the production.
Tue 31. Mar	Pre-Production Deadline At the latest by end of March you should be finished with your pre-production and move into production.
Tue 31. Mar 12:00	Animatic & Foley List Deadline Foley List & Animatic (via mail/wetransfer.com: thomas.gassmann@hslu.ch, jeroen.visser@hslu.ch, etienne.kompis@hotmail.com), for Foley Artists preparation
Mon 13. Apr - Fri 24. Apr	Foley Recordings PICTURELOCK for Foleys 2 days before your recording session	U133
Wed 20. May	Postcard Deadline upload two differet motifs as a tiff-picture (min. 1900 x 1370 px) and your sponsor's logos to server > projects > _[year]_3BA_Projektordner > Postcards    3mm will be cut off on each side! Optionally you can add a square picture as postage-stamp placeholder for the back.     We chose one motif from the proposals; for proposal deadline see email by Kat   Add the following information as an .rtf or .word file:  Film title, length in minutes, names of directors, e-mail addresses, sponsors. Important: your film title will be definite from now on! Postcard-designs must be greenlit by your mentors in advance, and by Jürgen
Tue 26. May 16:00	Poster Deadline The poster template is on the server > studierende > Vorlagen > Poster - add Logos of your major sponsors - poster-designs must be greenlit by your mentors in advance!   Upload to: server > projects > _[year]_3BA_Projektordner > Poster  Direct any queries to Elena
Tue 02. Jun 11:00	Credits and English Subtitles Upload screenshots or  a .mov (under 100MB!) of your credits for inspection to the server _[year]_3BA_Projektordner/07_credits no later than 11:00 Final OK will be given by Jürgen and Kat
Thu 04. Jun 15:00	FINAL FILM & English Subtitles Deadline Late delivery implies the immediate disqualification from the BA-process. No FX possible! Upload the film to projects/_[year]_3BA_Projektordner/08_FINALFILM no later than 15:00 !!! This version will be shown at your BA presentation and at the Werkschau For complete list of requirements, see "Required Records" under: BA Examination > only finished films will be shown at the Premiere
Thu 11. Jun	Animated Logo Colours Deadline Choose 2 key colours of your film for the animated Animation Lucerne logo.  Send Kat 2 jpegs of the colours or the RGB colour code as well as your film format and Jürgen will create it for you.
Sun 14. Jun	Deadline Premiere Version We only can show finished films at the Premiere. If there are uncompleted parts in the film it will be shown at next year's Premiere.
Tue 16. Jun 13:30 - 14:30	Presentation File Deadline Presentation may NOT be changed after this point. projects -> _[year]_3BA_Projektordner -> 09_presentation file -> NameOfYourFilm The files will be uploaded to the presentation laptop. Please come and check that your presentations work (fonts, audio, video, etc.)   NO LATER THAN 14:30 !!!!
Tue 16. Jun 16:00	AniWiki Entry Deadline Complete your personal page and the film page on the AniWiki The promotion coordinator will not promote your film without a completed page. Please always use the latest templates to create the pages: > Template for Studentfilm > Template for Studentpage Website Stills deadline For your entry on the Animation-Lucerne website, we need 3 stills from your movie that create an important / beautiful / visually interesting / content relevant sequence. Resolution: at least 1920 by 1080 pixel. Upload to: server > projects > _[year]_3BA_Projektordner > 13_Website Stills
Wed 17. Jun - Fri 19. Jun	FINAL PRESENTATIONS Each group presents in front of the Jury (see "Presentations" paragraph on the BA-Examination page).    In the afternoon of the third day your grades for the BA project and thesis will be announced in room 140	Kino REX
Mon 22. Jun 18:00 - 21:00	PREMIERE Premiere of all the BA and MA projects with an Apéro afterwards	Cinema MAXX
Tue 30. Jun	Return Corpus Give back your chest of drawers (Korpus) and lamps to ASI
Wed 01. Jul	Deadline Filmtrailer on Server 16:00 > Only films with trailers will be promoted > The trailer will be uploaded to our instagram and vimeo site  > Please create a link to our website as the producer of your film > Pay attention to correct use of HSLU logos   IMPORTANT: Do not upload your final film to any online platform without consulting the promotion coordinator first. You can upload you entire film after it has done its first round of important festivals (usually about a year).
Thu 02. Jul 09:00 - 17:00	Springboard Promo Day Promotion Day / Springboard to Reality Chantal Molleur and guests inform you of the further proceedings with your BA film. Topics will be: getting started in the professional world, how to work the festival run of your film & school support.
Sat 11. Jul 12:00	TShirt Design Deadline Email your t-shirt design (max 2 colors) to Jürgen