Entertainment Design Expo (ENTX) 2025
Join us for ENTX 2025, a multimedia showcase celebrating the creative vision behind animation, concept art, and game design. This year’s event features:
General admission to the expo is free and features Animation Capstone, Animation Shorts showcases, special interactive experiences, and exclusive creative work from our talented students and alumni. Register today!
Tickets are required for both panels; however, free overflow seating will be available via livestream at a designated location outside the auditorium.
Schedule
All Day Events
11:30-5:00 pm
General Admission: Free
- Game Testing
- Chroma Corp, playtesting of the award-winning experience from the Games for Themed Entertainment class.
- Escape Room playtesting
- Concept Design Showcase
- Clay Modeling Gallery
- Alumni Gallery
- Stop Motion Studio, A Peak Behind the Scenes
- Outer Space Architecture exhibit – final projects from students’ collaboration with the Neutra Institute
- Animation Shorts “Making Of” Exhibit
- Production Design Gallery
The Wild Robot: A Discussion with the Filmmakers
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Entertainment Design chair, Ken Bielenberg, moderates a panel discussion with the team responsible for crafting DreamWorks’ Oscar-nominated film, The Wild Robot. The panel, featuring production designer Ramone Zibach, co-producer Heather Lanza, head of story Heidi Gilbert, head of character animation Jakob Jensen, and visual development artist (and ArtCenter alum) Chris Grun will detail how they created such an incredible and incredibly beautiful film. The session is sure to be a highly inspirational, behind-the-scenes peek into the making of a DreamWorks classic.
The Wild Robot team will also be available to sign books and autograph the ENTX program in the Ahmanson lobby from 1:00 – 1:30, immediately following the panel.
Tickets: $15
This ticket guarantees you a seat at the panel in the Ahmanson Auditorium, doors open at 11:30 am.
Animation Capstone Showcase
2:00-2:30 p.m.
Watch a selection of animated capstone project created by graduating students.
ArtCenter Alumni Industry Panel
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Join Entertainment Design faculty member, Gwyn Conaway, as she moderates a panel of ArtCenter alumni who are forging successful careers in the entertainment industry. The panelists include: Jin Kim, Shan Qiao, Shae Shatz, Gabriel Zamora, Amy Rhee, Jay Thakur, and Christina Yang. The alumni will reveal the secrets to their post-ArtCenter success at studios such as: Walt Disney, Santa Monica Studios, Bungie, Sony Pictures Animation, and Illumination. These alumni all have work on display in our Entertainment Design Alumni Gallery.
Tickets: $15
This ticket guarantees you a seat at the panel in the Ahmanson Auditorium, doors open at 3:00 pm.
Animation Shorts Showcase
4:30-5:00 p.m.
Watch a selection of short animated films created by students.