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August 14, 2008
Siggraph 2008 Nominees
Computer Animation Festival Award Nominees 2008
Best in Show
Bolides
Supinfocom, France
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 new perspective on flying with animals.
Oktapodi
Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, Emud Mokhberi, GOBELINS l'ecole de la image, France
Third-year students directed 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
Story and style combine in this tale of honor, tradition, and imagination.
Al Dente
Supinfocom, France
Opera, pasta, a knife-wielding chef, and a delicious animated short.
Bärenbraut
Derek Roczen - Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, 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 in a convenience store, a clumsy robber, and a surveillance camera that doesn't quite tell the whole story.
Mauvais Rôle
Alan Barbier, Camille Campion, Dorian Fevrier, Frederic Fourier, Frederic Lafay, Min Ma, Jean-François Macem, Emanuel Reperant, Jeremie Rousseau, Olivier Sicot, École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle, France
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 Rôle
(see Best Student Piece Nominees for description)
Oktapodi
(see Best in Show Nominees for description)
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 on your way to work.
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Computer Animation Festival Awards
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