Awards
Animators Behind Glass.
The Museum of the Moving Image in London recently selected winners for
its 1997/98 Channel 4/MOMI Animation Scheme, a program which yearly places
four young animators in a residency at the museum. Sandra Ensby, Lizzie
Oxby and Sam Morrison, graduates of the Royal College of Art, and David
Evans, a Newport graduate, will spend the next three months, and £4400
in grants, working individually with a producer and script advisor to each
develop a short animated film. As a "live exhibit," the animators
work in a glass-walled studio within the museum. Of the 18 films so far
completed through this program, ten have already been broadcast on Channel
4, including Death and The Mother by Ruth Lingford, The Mill
by Petra Freeman and The Broken Jaw by Chris Shepherd.
CableACE Winners. The 19th Annual National CableACE Award winners
were announced in November, in a non-televised ceremony. In the Animated
Programming Special or Series category, the winner is Comedy Central's
South Park. In the Children's Special or Series - 8 and Younger
category, the winner is HBO's Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special.
In the previously announced Craft and International Categories, Rugrats
writers Jon Cooksey, Ali Marie Matheson, J. David Stern, Mark Palmer and
David N. Weiss were awarded for Writing in a Children's Special or Series.
Wild Brain's award-winning commercial,
UpDownUp.
© Wild Brain.
London Advertising Awards.
The London International Advertising Awards (LIAA) took place recently
in London. The global competition awarded commercials in 143 categories,
including three for animation:
Animation-Cel: Wild Brain (U.S.) for Mainstay Mutual Funds' UpDownUp.
Animation-Computer: Pytka (U.S.) for HBO's Chimps.
Animation-Stop Frame: Will Vinton Studios (U.S.) for Nissan's Toys.
LEAF Winners. The London Effects and Animation Festival (LEAF),
which took place in November as part of Digital Media World in London,
presented awards in eight categories. The jury, comprised of Bill Boffin
of The University of Bradford (U.K.), Jerry Hibbert of Hibbert Ralph Animation
(U.K.), Phil Hurrell and Terry Hytlon of SVC Television (U.K.), Christina
Pishirus of Televisual Magazine (U.K.), Ian Rosenbloom of BBC Open University
(U.K.), and Dave Throssel of The Mill (U.K.) acknowledged the following
films as "the best in computer generated animation and visual effects
from around the world."
Feature Film: Industrial Light and Magic (U.S.) for Men in Black.
Commercial: Industrial Light and Magic (U.S.) for Canada Dry Domino.
Education and Training: BBC Horizon (U.K.) for Walking With Dinosaurs.
Short Film: Ronin Animation (U.S.) for Ahoy, The Movie.
Music Video: SVC Television and The Framestore (U.K.) for Alisha's Attic:
Indestructible.
Titles, Idents & Stings: Garner MacLennan Design (Australia) for Arena.
Simulation: Ex Machina (France) for Mad Racers.
Student Work: Julien Villanueva and Yann Blondel for Ziride.
The 1998 LEAF will take place next November 17-19. For information and
entry forms, contact Digital Media International in London at Tel: (44)
181 995 3632 or Fax: (44) 181 995 3633
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