The Art Department Eindhoven

Set up as a festival and conference, The Art Department focusses and celebrates the art and design process for film, animation and games. We dive into the creative process and put a spotlight on artists that are responsible for the creation of world, characters and stories!

Launched in 2017, the fest has welcomed many industry greats such as character designers James Baxter (The Lion King), Crash McCreery (Pirates of the Caribbean), Carter Goodridge (Despicable Me), Loish (Horizon Zero Dawn), Peter De Sève (Ice Age), Angela Sung (Bad Guys), Aaron Blaise (Brother Bear), Borja Montoro (Moana), but also amazing concept artists, VR heroes and world builders like Jama Jurabaev (Ready Player One), FX Goby (Back to the Moon) and Santa Monica Studios (God of War) on our stage.

Year by year the event is steadily growing and we’re currently happy to welcome around 7.000 filmmakers, concept artists and other creatives in Eindhoven in our impressive industrial venue Klokgebouw.

Highlights from the 2025 program:
- artist talks from: Fortiche (Arcane), Iain McCaig (Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers:Infinity War, Harry Potter ant the Goblet of Fire), Dermot Power (Harry Potter franchise, Batman Begins, V for Vendetta), The Line, Aaron Blaise (Aladdin, Brother Bear, Beauty and the Beast), Moth, Mikey Please & Dan Ojari (Robin, Robin), Patrick Chin, Leon Tukker and many more
- Convoloot panels
- workshops from Alexandra Slava, Aaron Blaise, Wouter Tulp, Rolf te Booij
- art market
- expo
- portfolio reviews
- industry garden