Siggraph 2007 Computer Animation Festival
At Siggraph 2007 this week there was also a Computer Animation Festival, films from around the globe were shown and a couple were picked out for special merit.
Ark was previously shown at Cannes and looks at a dark future where a virus has destroyed most of the human race with the few remaining survivors escaping on an ark. The film is produced by Marcin Kobylecki and Grzegorz Jonkajtys. Grzegorz Jonkajtys previously won awards for his Mantis film. The pair has worked on films such as "The Cathedral (2002)" an equally artistic film so it's not too surprising to discover that Marcin Kobylecki comes from a painting background. I'm also pleased to see that Grzegorz has some animated fleas.
Dreammaker is a student film by another Polish chap, Leszek Plichta from the film school in Baden-Württemberg. Adobe were so impressed with the images that he's made using 3DMax that they put the images into their current 3dMax brochure.
Dreammaker (Trailer)
JURY HONORS
Germany
Leszek Plichta
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
The final award went to a Tango film, En Tus Brazos (In Your Arms) by Fx Goby, Matthieu Landour and Edouard Jouret.
En Tus Brazos
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
France
François-Xavier Goby, Edouard Jouret, Matthieu Landour, Directors
Supinfocom Valenciennes
There is an opportunity to see En Tus Brazos and Dreammaker at the Bitfilm festival in Hamburg next month.
Although it did not win an award Joel Green's "The Itch" was shown on the BBC Breakfast news today.
The Itch
United Kingdom
Joel Green
Bournemouth University
Details of other films shown:
http://www.siggraph.org/s2007/attendees/caf/et.html
http://www.siggraph.org/s2007/attendees/caf/at.html
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