Founder of Tippett Studio and two-time Academy Award and Emmy winner, Phil Tippett, has been selected by the VES Board of Directors as the recipient of the George Melies Award for Artistic Excellence. The award will be presented at the seventh annual VES Awards, which will be held at the Century Plaza Hotel in Beverly Hills on Saturday, February 21, 2009.
President and founder of RFX Inc., Ray Feeney has been selected by the VES Board of Directors as the recipient of the 2008 VES Founders Award. The award will be presented at the VES Annual Membership Meeting in September.
Feeney is a founding member and former Board Member and Vice Chairman of the Visual Effects Society. In addition, he has received multiple Academy Awards as well as the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation and most recently, the Academy honored Ray Feeney with the 2007 Gordon E. Sawyer Oscar.
Image Metrics, developer of performance-driven computer generated (CG) facial animation in video games and film, has won a Develop Award for Technical Achievement for its work on Rockstar Games' groundbreaking GRAND THEFT AUTO IV video game released in April.
Image Metrics developed facial animation for more than 80 characters in the cut scenes of the title. Natural Motion was also named as a co-recipient of the award.
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced its 2008 Winsor McCay Award recipients during a private reception Friday, July 25, at the Gaslight Marriott during Comic Con. This year's Winsor McCay recipients are: Mike Judge, John Lasseter and Nick Park. Award recipients will claim their trophies at the 36th Annual Annie Awards scheduled for Friday, January 30, 2009, at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California.
Linda Joy Media Arts AwardsDeadline: August 29, 2008
Atlantic filmmakers, animators and media artists are reminded the 2008 Joy Awards deadline is approaching. The deadline for applications is August 29, 2008 at 5 p.m. Application forms and details are available at www.lindajoy.com.
Disney's ENCHANTED proved magical at the 34th Annual Saturn Awards on Tuesday by receiving three Saturn Awards including Best Picture (fantasy), and Best Actress (Amy Adams).
Television honors were dominated by the ABC television series, LOST, which walked away with four awards, including Best Network Television Series and Best Actor (Matthew Fox). SWEENEY TODD, RATATOUILLE, and 300 each received two Saturn Awards.
The 32nd edition of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and the 18th Mifa (International Animated Film Market) have drawn to a close.
Channel Frederator, the largest Internet cartoon network in the world and one of the founding networks of Next New Networks, today announced the winners of the Channel Frederator Awards, recognizing extraordinary talents in animation and the Internet.
The Second Annual Channel Frederator Awards is available to watch online at www.channelfrederatorawards.com.
The 15th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film has just taken place over six exciting days from May 1-6, showing wonderfully varied animation films and programs to a highly appreciative audience. As the second largest international animation festival, and this year screening about 500 films in total, it is also a meeting place for animation professionals from all over the world.
The nominations for the Animation Screenplay Award for Animated Film 2008 at Stuttgart have been announced. Thirty-one screenplays for animated feature-length films were submitted. The jury has nominated the following for the award:
DER GOLEM UND DIE ZWEIFACHE WELT by Dominik & Benjamin RedingProduction: Eye! Warning Film production
DER LETZTE NEANDERTALER by John Chambers
DOCTOR DOBLINGERS GESCHMACKVOLLER KASPERLFILM by Richard Oehmann and Josef ParzefallProduction: Stephan Schesch/AnimationX
Anyone near the Southbank on the evening of March 27 would have noticed something special going on at Tate Modern as Lord Puttnam hosted the Escape Awards 2008 in partnership with Autodesk and AMD.
Key players from some of the biggest companies in Visual Effects, Games and Design Visualization were on hand to rub shoulders, enjoy a few cocktails and admire the stunning view.
However, there was also some serious business to be done as everybody was eager to hear who would take the top spots across the eight award categories.
Taking the Best Animation and Broadcast Design award at the 2008 Creative Hotshop Awards, post-production company iloura was chosen from a record number of finalists.
Works highlighted at the ceremony included the titles sequence for ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE (Working Title Films UK), an animation and design piece UBE SHADOW (Hakuhodo Inc) and a campaign piece for ASK: BABES WITH BLADES (Crispin Porter & Bogusky).
Three-time Academy Award- nominee Gerald Potterton will be awarded the Pulcinella Lifetime Achievement Award 2008 from the 12th Annual Cartoons on the Bay International Festival of Television Animation next month in Salerno, Italy.
The award, presented each year to "a prestigious personality of the world of cinema and television animation," will be given to Potterton during the awards ceremony on April 12.
SXSW announced the winners of the 2008 edition of the SXSW Film Festival.
In the Jury Awards:
*REEL SHORTS-- Special Jury Award: THE SECOND LINE, director: John Magary.-- Winner: (Tie) WARLORD, Director: David Garrett and SMALL APARTMENT, director: Andrew T. Betzer.
*ANIMATED SHORTS-- Special Jury Award: I HATE YOU DON'T TOUCH ME OR BAT AND HAT, director: Becky James.-- Winner: MADAME TULTI-PUTLI, directors: Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski.
*EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS
The Linda Joy Media Arts Society reminds filmmakers of the upcoming Helen Hill Animated Award deadline on Oct. 26, 2007. This award commemorates noted filmmaker Helen Hill who died this past January, the victim of a random crime. The LJMAS wants applications from creative, original and challenging artists working with animation on film or digital media, which reflect the spirit of innovation that characterizes the films of Helen Hill.
The Linda Joy Media Arts Society has announced the winner of the inaugural 2007 Helen Hill Animated Award. This award is offered in memory of the life and work of internationally noted filmmaker and artist Helen Hill (1970-2007).
Fighting off stiff competition, Collingwood O'Hare Ent.'s THE SECRET SHOW made off with two awards at the BAFTA Children's Awards last night at the Hilton, Park Lane, London. The high-action comedy/adventure series for seven- to 12-year-olds received the coveted award for best Animation, as well as the Interactive award for its innovative website. The other winners were:
* Channel of the Year: CBeebies* Feature Film: HAPPY FEET* Independent Production Company: Aardman Animations* International: SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
NO WORDS (4th edition)International no-dialogue ShortFilmFestival
Films/videos without dialogues, about any topics, produced 2005, 2006 or 2007 can be submitted.FICTION, DOCUMENTARY, VIDEOCLIPS, ANIMATION and EXPERIMENTAL works are accepted, as long as they do not have dialogues or subtitles. In this competition, the film/video must be understood thanks only to the strength of the images. Music, sounds, environment and background noises, etc. are accepted.Entry to the competition is absolutely free.Deadline: July 15th 2007Awards:
Steven Spielberg, who is currently directing INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (with ILM doing the vfx under Pablo Helman's supervision), has been chosen to receive the VES Lifetime Achievement Award at the 6th Annual VES Awards on Feb. 10, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre Grand Ballroom in Hollywood.
Helen Hill Animated AwardWorld Wide WebOct. 26, 2007Deadline: Oct. 26, 2007
The 8th Int'l Bitfilm Festival for Digital Film has ended with an award ceremony in Barcelona. The Grand Prix TV Digital went to Zack Snyder's 300. The T-Home 3D Space Award was bestowed on Blur Studios' A GENTLEMEN'S DUEL, directed by Francisco Ruiz and Sean McNally.
The Autodesk FX Mix Awards went to FISSION by Kun-I Chang while the MTV Flash Award was given to THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES, directed by JiHyun Ahn. Phix's I'M ONLY SLEEPING won the Gee Machinima Award with the Hamburg 4 Micromovie Award going to Michael Reissinger's VW PHAETON GALAXY SHOW.
The main award at this year's Fantoche, the "High Risk" award, has been won by a Russian film, FOOLISH GIRL, by director Zoya Kireeva. The sixth Fantoche is Switzerland's biggest and most prestigious animated festival. This lends weight to the organizers' plans to make the festival an annual event.
Aardman Animation has announced the launch of "The Aardman Award for Storytelling," a prize that will be available to EU students who have made a frame-by-frame or computer-assisted animated film between Oct. 1, 2006 and Oct. 1, 2007. The winner will receive an expenses-paid trip to the Aardman Studio in Bristol, as well as several days of dramaturgical/script support to discuss the development of his or her film.
At Comic-Con, the winners of 2007 Eisner Awards were announced. This year D.C. Comics cleaned up with FABLES a big winner. For animation fans, GUMBY took home the prize for Best Title for a Younger Audience. Additionally, Neil Gaiman was presented with the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award.
Best Short Story"A Frog's Eye View," by Bill Willingham and James Jean, in FABLES: 1001 NIGHTS OF SNOWFALL (Vertigo/DC)
Best Single Issue (or One-Shot)BATMAN/THE SPIRIT #1: "Crime Convention," by Jeph Loeb and Darwyn Cooke (DC)
NFB's new stop-motion short, MADAME TUTLI-PUTLI, won the top animated prize at Toronto's Worldwide Short Film Festival. Directors Chris Lavis and Mciek Szczerbowski were awarded the C.O.R.E Digital Pictures Award for Best Animated Short, which comes with a $5,000 cash prize. By winning the festival, the short is now eligible for the Academy Award and Genie Award. In the film, a young woman takes a strange train ride on which she must confront her demons.
