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This Way Up | Smith
& Foulkes | UK, 2008, 8’35 | Winner Siggraph Asia 2008,
Academy Award Nominee
AIAF Co-Director, Malcolm Turner, sat on
the SIGGRAPH Asia 2008
Jury which gave him the chance to sift through more than 1000 pieces
of the world’s best digital animation. In a specially curated
selection of works drawn directly from this experience, Turner brings
us a program that showcases the best of SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 as well
as some of the overlooked gems that alluded the jury consensus. |
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E.T.A.
Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen
Debmark, 2008, 4'30
Monsters, boredom and coffee come in many
different forms. A tale of intergalactic daily routine.
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still life
Maya Segal
USA, 2008, 2'45
A digital recreation and re-imagining
of the form and shape of books and paper.
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Re:Animation
Juan Leon
USA, 2008, 1’00
A veritable, super detailed line-drawn
visual avalanche – a cacophony of images that threaten to
escape the screen frame and run wild at any moment. |
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Harmonix: ‘Rockband’
Pete Candeland
UK,
2007, 1’45
Anything that’s worth doing is worth overdoing. It’s
time to get this show ON the road. |
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Wizard of OS: The Fish
Incident
Tom Jantol
Croatia, 2008, 4’30
A sumptuously rendered armchair ride of a film which breathes
life into the incomplete, abstract diary entries of an artist. |
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Orangina ‘Natrually
Juicy’
Fred & Farid
UK, 2007, 1’45
A slightly too sexy relationship between a bear and a deer
blows out to a hyper-animated Busby Barkly influenced epic. |
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Liquidator
Johannes Schmid
Switzerland,
2008, 2'45
A stunning demonstration of animated fluid control techniques. |
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Miniascape Mix
Tomonori Hayase
Japan,
2007, 4’00
A lightspeed photo collage rendition and re-engineering of
a stark urban environment. |
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Outer Planet
Lee Seung Wook
South
Korea, 2007, 5’15
A rich and unique surface texture contributes to this remarkable
visualisation of interconnected space componentry. |
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Kudan
Taku
Kimura
Japan, 2008, 9’30
Attempting to communicate with his son by donning a mask, a
man slips into a truly bizarre parallel universe in which he seems
to have become a mythical Japanese half-man, half-cow creature known
as a Kudan. |
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Confine(s)
Makoto Yabuki
Japan,
2007, 2’40
A film that pushes an animated imagination right through the
speed barrier and reassembles the pieces that fly out the other side.
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Angkor Ruins - The
Bayon Temple And Its Faces
Masaaki
Sakata
Japan, 2007, 4’30
A 3D simulated rebuilding of a lost Asian temple. |
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Fly Out Blue
Jack Shih
Taiwan,
2007, 13’00
With more than a passing nod to MC Esher, this absorbing 3D
film captures the freedom of flight as seen through the eyes of a
man who desperately needs an escape. |
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This Way Up
Smith & Foulkes
UK,
2008, 8’35
Winner: Best Film
SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Computer Animation Festival
A hilarious tale of funereal incompetence and necrophiliac
disrespect for all the family.
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Kudan | Taku Kimura
| Japan, 2008, 9’30 |
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