Nominees for Best Animation Film at SIGGRAPH
By SIGGRAPH
May 22, 2008, 8:17pm
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| "Animation Mother" SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival 2008; copyright Meats Meier |
Groundbreaking films presented at the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival have amazed audiences for three decades. As in past years, 2008 saw hundreds of entries from all over the globe.
"The quality of submissions to the jury this year was incredible, ensuring that the juried programs are well-balanced, exciting, and a great snapshot of some of our industry's top material. The jury deliberated long and hard while selecting the final nominees," stated Jill Smolin, SIGGRAPH Conference Entertainment Director. "Thus, the films the jury selected are truly the best of the best, offering great technical and artistic achievement, with the added bonus of complex, sometimes very humorous, storylines."
What follows is a list of the highest caliber submissions that were not only accepted to be shown at the Festival, but were also selected as nominees for this year's Computer Animation Festival awards and prizes. Winners will be announced during SIGGRAPH 2008, rather than in advance of the conference.
Best in Show Nominees
Bolides
Supinfocom, France
From Supinfocom, this imaginative student film treats us to a chaotic, hilarious, wheelchair race through an old age home.
Carbon Footprint
Jellyfish Pictures, UK
Using computer graphics, Jellyfish Pictures drives home the point of global responsibility, presenting the decomposition of a single soda can over half a century, in a single seamless shot.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
DreamWorks Animation, USA
Hilarity, peril, romance, and zoo animals; everything expected from DreamWorks Animation, this glimpse into their upcoming film provides a whole new perspective on flying with animals.
Oktapodi
Julien Bocabeille, Francois-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, Emud Mokhberi, GOBELINS l'ecole de l'image, France
GOBELINS' third year students direct this animated short about two octopi in their comical escape from the grasps of a stubborn restaurant cook.
The Chemical Brothers 'The Salmon Dance'
Framestore CFC, UK
Great music combines with hilarious animation to provide a new perspective on aquaria, as a tank filled with rapping, beatboxing, and dancing fish comes to life, featuring over 300 hand-animated fish.
Best Student Piece Nominees
893
Supinfocom, France
Once again, France's Supinfocom combines story and style in this tale of honor, tradition, and imagination.
Al Dente
Supinfocom, France
Combine opera, pasta, and a knife-wielding chef and the result is another delicious animated short from this prolific school.
Baerenbraut
Derek Roczen - Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction, Germany
This tale of disproportionate love shows how relationships can change over time. This remarkable 2D animation illustrates a complicated subject and a complex relationship using the most limited of color palettes.
Blind Spot
Johanna Bessiere, Nicolas Chauvelot, Olivier Clert, Cecile Dubois Herry, Yvon Jardel, Simon Rouby, GOBELINS l'ecole de l'image, France
Peripheral vision is everything in this animation about a nearsighted grandmother, a clumsy robber, and a surveillance camera that doesn't quite tell the story of what's really going on in the convenience store.
Mauvais Role
Alan Barbier, Camille Campion, Dorian Fevrier, Frederic Fourier, Frederic Lafay, Min Ma, Jean-Francois Macem, Emanuel Reperant, Jeremie Rousseau, Olivier Sicot, École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle, Bretagne, France
This little tale tells the story of getting whatever you want, as long as you know what it is. Watch as a monster constantly cast in games, finds his perfect job in a game you'd never choose for him.
Jury Award Nominees
Chump and Clump
Michael Herm, Stephan Sacher, Germany
This short shows us just how distracting your friends can be...and just how they can lead you to miss your bus. Repeatedly.
Mauvais Role
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Oktapodi
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Our Wonderful Nature
Tomer Eshed, HFF Potsdam, Germany
This documentary uses time stretching, film camera work, and creative sound design to tell the story of water shrews in the wild.
The Plush Life
Timothy Heath, USA
This film, rendered entirely with NVIDIA's Gelato, shows us what happens when you pick at something that just shouldn't be picked at: you might just imperil your trip to work.
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