Winner of Virgin Media Shorts People Choice award 2011

“Although our judging panel loved 2:20, it was a different film that went down a storm with our voters this year. You chose the adorable animated short InaniMate, about an alien searching for love, as your People’s Choice Award winner, so thank you to everyone who voted and a huge congratulations to Micheal O’Donogue, Soulla Josephides and Ying Hui Tan for creating such a hugely popular piece. We hope they’ll make good use of their prize – £2,000 of brand new film equipment – and go on to do wonderful things. And who knows, maybe we’ll see them in the shortlist again next year!”

http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/#page=1&filter=shortlist

http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/film/1583/inanimate

For more information on the course:
herts.ac.uk/?courses/?3D-Digital-Animation-BA.cfm

http://www.herts.ac.uk/courses/3D-Digital-Animation-BA.cfm

The film follows a lonely girl living atop a flying whale whose luck changes when a stranger drops out of the sky.

Models/Rigging/Texturing
ben-casey.co.uk/

Story/Animation/Cinematography
www.matt-smart.co.uk/

Art/Design/Compositing/matte painting and Foley
benclube.co.uk/

Tim Mehmet – www.limbo3d.co.uk

Matt Aldridge – www.matthewjamesaldridge.co.uk

Jeff Hatton – www.jeffhatton.co.uk

When one man’s greed for the ultimate feather leads to hunting down a rare phoenix, an unfortunate encounter finds the man in need of help. Even after the utmost sacrifice of the phoenix, the man’s lust for greed continues, through which the phoenix rises again, and takes the man’s soul.

Callum Welsh – www.callumwelsh.com

James Ogden – www.jamesogden.co.uk

Ryan Spencer – www.3d.ryan.spencer.ord

http://www.uhanimation.co.uk

Les Davies – www.les-davies.co.uk

Jack Waller – www.paddersplace.co.uk

Tim Padwick – www.jackwaller.co.uk

(Click below to findout official information)

Ba (Hons) 2D Digital Animation | Ba (Hons) Games Art

Ba (Hons) 3D Digital Animation | Ba (Hons) Visual Effects

The digital animation programme equips students with the high level of skills needed to succeed in today’s animation industry. It emphasizes creativity, character design, story, cinematography, VFX and compositing 3D and Games Art; all channelled through the advanced software skills needed to achieve inventive and engaging animation. These programmes develop digital modelling and character animation skills, virtual lighting and virtual camera work, exposing students to the latest professional 3D animation practices. The students create short animated final films or fully playable games levels. Employment opportunities include computer animation companies, work with games, TV and film special effects companies. Our graduated students have worked and freelanced with some of the world’s best known production and post production houses.

World War and Alienated both Win!

Congratulations to Vincent, Krissy and Aqeel whose films both won awards at 2009 Animex festival. Vincent’s film World War won the Games Art Award and Krissy and Aqeel’s film Alienated won the Visual Effects Award.
Very impressive to see how UH work is rated in relation to other European student films this year, and even greater that the judges were from Disney, SIGGRAPH, Sony Pictures Animation, Framestore, Aardman and EA games.

Well done, here’s to more success in future

Animex info link

Alienated

World War

World War – Vincent Chai wins Best Animation Award at Festival Filem Malaysia (21st Malaysian Film Festival)

Vincent Chai who also graduated this year from the University of Hertfordshire’s Digital Animation Programme recently won the Best Animation Award with his film World War at Festival Filem Malaysia, the largest film and animation award show in Malaysia, beating a host of film and TV production companies in the process.

http://www.sinemamalaysia.com.my/main/index.php?mod=film&p=info&id=742

the above page displays in Bahasa Melaya (Malay), you need to click the English link at top right to view the translated version.

World War can be watched online:
http://uhanimation.co.uk/2008/world-war-3d-animation/

There is a small attached poster of the film with this email

World War has also been shortlisted at Exposures Festival, Manchester and was runner up in the Global HD Animation Contest http://www.mytoons.com/blog/animation-news/

Two recent graduates of the Digital Animation programme at the University of Hertfordshire made it to the final twelve films to be shown at the Virgin Media Shorts awards at the BFI in London on September 29th with their third year film, Alienated. Alienated is a tale of an alien called Al, and his attempts to blend in and be accepted by human society. It mixes humour with an underlying message about the difficulties that people face when they move from one society to an alien one. Alienated was the only student film that made the final shortlist, the rest of the films were from production companies.

The graduates were awarded a 35mm film print copy of their animation, presented to them by Johnny Vaughn and Oscar nominated director Daniel Barber. The Oscar winning Actor and Director Kevin Spacey watched their film as well as many other notable members of the UK’s film and television industry.

Their film will now be shown in 200 Virgin Cinemas across the UK before the main feature of the evening.

Alienated can be viewed online at http://vimeo.com/1032854

In the attached group photo you can see (from left to right) Mohammed Aqeel Ahmed, Daniel Barber, Kristina Josephides and Johnny Vaughn

There is an interview with Aqeel on Virgin’s website where he talks about his experience of creating the film

http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/news/74

Alienated has also been shortlisted at Napoli Film Festival, Naples, Italy, HDFEST Film Festival, New York and Los Angeles, USA, Baltimore Women’s Film Festival, USA and Brisbane International Animation Festival, Australia