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Leonard
05-02-2003, 03:55 PM
For those of you who don't know, we (i.e. the same people who bring you CGTalk) are co-organising the International 3D Awards. The nominees have just been announced.


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday 2 May 2003

Nominees Announced for the 1st Annual International 3D Awards

The International 3D Awards Committee is pleased to announce the final list of nominees for the 1st Annnual International 3D Awards, proudly sponsored by HP, NVIDIA and Alias|Wavefront. The winners will be announced at the International 3D Awards ceremony on 9th May, at Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark running in conjunction with the 3D Festival 2003. Winners will receive the Digital Hero trophy, hand sculpted by Dan Platt.

Feature Film VFX
The award for Best 3D Visual Effects for a Feature Film honors outstanding visual effects production used in a feature film. Entries were judged based on the criteria of Originality & Creativity, Design & Aesthetics and Technical Excellence.

Nominees
- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, DreamWorks, USA
- Spider-Man, Sony Pictures Imageworks, USA
- Stuart Little 2, Sony Pictures Imageworks, USA
- Star Wars Episode II, Industrial Light & Magic, USA
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Chamber Sequence, Framestore CFC, UK
- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Weta Digital, New Zealand

Television VFX
The award for Best 3D Visual Effects for Television honors outstanding use of 3D visual effects for a television-based production. Entries were judged based on the criteria of Originality & Creativity, Design & Aesthetics and Technical Excellence.

Nominees
- Wild Weather for BBC One, The Moving Picture Company, UK
- Dinotopia (mini-series), Framestore CFC, UK
- The Giant Claw/Land of Giants, Framestore CFC, UK
- The Future is Wild, 422 Ltd, UK

Commercials
The award for Best 3D in a Commercial is for outstanding use of 3D in a television or cinema commercial, fully CG or containing key 3D elements. Entries were judged based on the criteria of Originality & Creativity, Design & Aesthetics and Technical Excellence.

Nominees
- Levi's Stampede, The Mill, UK
- Nintendo, La Maison, France
- Levi's Odyssey, Framestore CFC, UK
- X-Box Mosquito, Framestore CFC, UK
- Carl and Ray: Kung Fu, Tippett Studio, USA
- Murphy's Peanut, The Mill, UK

Music Videos
The award for Best 3D in a Music Video is for outstanding use of 3D (composited with live action or fully animated) in a music video. Entries were judged based on the criteria of Originality & Creativity, Design & Aesthetics and Technical Excellence.

Nominees
- Nature is Ancient (Bjork), Glassworks Post Productions Ltd., UK
- Respire (Mickey 3D), André Bessy, Jerome Combe, Stéphane Hamache, Eric Prebende and Sylvain Tardiveau, France
- Miss Lucifer (Primal Scream), The Moving Picture Company, UK
- Courage, for Cartoon Network, FilmTecknarna Animation AB, Sweden
- Use Yur Imagination, Oddworld Inhabitants, USA

Short Films
The award for Best 3D Short Film honors an outstanding 3D-animated short film with no restrictions on commercial, studio or independent productions. Entries were judged based on the criteria of Originality & Creativity, Design & Aesthetics, Workmanship & Technical Excellence, Storytelling and Cinematography.

Nominees
- Show & Tell, Kapow Pictures, Australia
- The ChubbChubbs, Sony Pictures Imageworks, USA
- Cane Toad, Andrew Silke and David Clayton, Australia
- Mike’s New Car, Pixar Animation Studios, USA
- Polar Bears ‘Gary’s Fall’, Passion Pictures, UK

Independent Animations
The award for Best Independent 3D Animation honors an outstanding animation or short film produced by independent 3D artists. Entries were judged based on the criteria of Originality & Creativity, Design & Aesthetics, Workmanship & Technical Excellence, Storytelling and Cinematography.

Nominees:
- Pigly, Philippe Tailliez & Sandrine Auvertin, France
- This Wonderful Life, Liam Kemp, UK
- Eternal Gaze, Sam Chen, USA
- Chain Smoker, Ulf Lundgren, Sweden
- Henry's Garden, Moon Seun and Kevin Geiger, USA

Game Cinematics
The award for Best Non-Interactive 3D Game Cinematics honors an outstanding cinematic sequence produced for a game, with no restriction on pre-rendered or in-game-engine sequences. Entries were judged based on the criteria of Originality & Creativity, Design & Aesthetics, Workmanship & Technical Excellence and Storytelling.

Nominees
- Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Blizzard Entertainment, USA
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, Lost Boys Studios for Electronic Arts, Canada
- Dead to Rights, Attitude Studio for Namco Hometek, France
- Primal, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe – Cambridge, UK

Logos and Idents
The award for Best use of 3D in a Logo or Ident honors outstanding use of 3D in a logo or ident. Entries were judged based on the criteria of Originality & Creativity, Design & Aesthetics and Technical Excellence.

Nominees
- The Presentators: Pets for Nickelodeon UK, Aardman, UK
- Morning Glory 1 for MTV Networks Nordic, FilmTecknarna Animation AB, Sweden
- Teletoon, Guru Animation Studio, Canada
- Big Brother Stings for E4, The Moving Picture Company, UK
- Santa Lights up New York for Radio City Music Hall, Kleiser-Walczak, USA

Technological Innovation Special Award
This award honors the best recent Technological Innovation in the 3D industry. Technologies nominated in this category demonstrate a high degree of technical novelty, quality of commercial and proprietary implementations, novelty and quality of implementations, breadth of applications and impact on recent and current productions.

Nominees
- The Terrain Engine Behind Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, Sony Online Entertainment, USA
- Animanium: An Application for Character Animation with Flexible Inverse Kinematics, The University of Tokyo and Sega Corporation Mirari R&D, Japan
- RealFlow: Fluid Dynamics, Next Limit, Spain
- FaceGen: Statistical based face generation technology, Singular Inversions, USA
- Shave and Haircut: Dynamic hair simulation technology, Joe Alter, USA
- NPR1: Non-photorealistic rendering system, Reyes Infografica, Spain

Industrial Design
The award for Best 3D Industrial Design honors outstanding use of 3D in a design project. Entries were judged based on the criteria of Originality & Creativity, Design & Aesthetics and Technical Excellence.

Nominees
- Philips MC-i200 Flash product presentation, Annemieke Froger (Philips Design/Communications), Netherlands
- AudiPhone, Gabor Vaszkun, Hungary
- Z1010, Jeanna Kimbré (Sony Ericsson), Sweden
- Philips eXp 431 Flash product presentation, Annemieke Froger (Philips Design/Communications), Netherlands

Architectural Visualization (Animation)
The award for Best Architectural Visualization (Animation) is for outstanding use of 3D in an animated architectural visualization project. Entries were judged based on the criteria of Originality & Creativity, Design & Aesthetics, Technical Excellence and Animation.

Nominees
- The Edge, Smoothe Ltd., UK
- My House, Architecture in Motion, UK
- Residential Housing 'Het Volk', AniMotionS, Belgium
- Bristol City Academy, Blink Image Limited, UK

Architectural Visualization (Still)
The award for Best Architectural Visualization (Still) is for outstanding use of 3D in still image for an architectural visualization project. Entries were judged based on the criteria of Originality & Creativity, Design & Aesthetics and Technical Excellence.

Nominees
- Venezia, Peter Hoffman, Germany
- Vertical Village project - bioclimatic tower, Igor Knezevic (Flare Group), USA
- My house, Architecture in Motion, UK
- Turning Torso, apt. A3, Aaro Designsystem AB, Sweden

Student 3D Animation
The award for Best Student 3D Animation is for a short film produced by an individual or team of students displaying outstanding use of 3D graphics and animation.

Nominees
- Bert, Moonsung Lee, USA
- On the Sunny Side of the Street, Wilhelm Landt (Hochschule für Künste Bremen), Germany
- Dronez, Paul Dreisen, Alexander Hupperich, Manuel Macha, Leif Arne Petersen (German Film School), Germany
- Tim Tom, SUPINFOCOM, France
- Ritterschlag, Sven Martin, Sebastian Frey, Florian Kraft, Stephan Haase, Oliver Bermes, Tim Weimann, Tom Bracht, Denis Behnke, Sven Dreesbach, Volker Willmann, Oliver Finkelde (Institut of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction), Germany
- Le Faux Pli, SUPINFOCOM, France

3D Art (Still)
The award for Best 3D Art (Still) is for an image of outstanding artistic nature using a 3D application. Entries were judged based on the criteria of Originality & Creativity, Design & Aesthetics and Technical Excellence.

Nominees
- One Last Time, Steven Stahlberg, Malaysia
- Leaving the Fifties, Stephane Belin, France
- Trust, Dany Lyon, Switzerland
- Savage Warrior, Juan Jose Palomo, Spain

About the International 3D Awards
The International 3D Awards honors the achievements of companies and individuals in the 3D computer graphic arts industry. Held annually at the 3D Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark, it covers the entire spectrum of the 3D industry from animation and digital effects to gaming, architectural visualization and independent productions. The 3D Awards is a non-profit organisation held by a committee of industry luminaries. www.3dawards.org

About the 3D Festival
3D Festival is the leading European event for 3D computer graphic artists. Comprising of three conferences: 3D Festival Conference, Game Developers World and Architectural Visualization Conference; and the largest exhibition of creative services in Europe, 3D Festival prides itself in its ability to attract the industry's most prominent professionals to participate in the annual event. www.3dfestival.com
FloydBishop
05-02-2003, 04:31 PM
I hope "Cane Toad" and "Bert" win big in their categories.

I wish I could make it to this year's festivities :(.

Any word on any streaming feeds from the festival?
urgaffel
05-02-2003, 04:37 PM
Looks like it will be one hell of a ceremony :) See y'all there!
lildragon
05-02-2003, 04:41 PM
Originally posted by Floyd Bishop
Any word on any streaming feeds from the festival?

I'm working on a way. Proton will be bring his vid cam so we'll see what we can provide.

-lil
CGmonkey
05-02-2003, 04:41 PM
Hellyeah.. Looking good!
ward
05-02-2003, 05:01 PM
Congratulations everybody who participated, and of course congratiulations to the lucky Nominees!!



And very big congratualtions to my friend, Gabor Vaszkun, who is nominated to the Industrial Design Award!!!

(jo munka Doki, kuldheted a kepet megnezesre!!! :))


bye

ward
KotsVlok
05-02-2003, 05:34 PM
Lost Boys nominated, oh yeah...rock on Holland :airguitar
Confracto
05-02-2003, 06:23 PM
Holland?
there's a Lost Boys in Holland too? Because I'm quite sure it's talking about the Lost Boys studio in Vancouver, as NFS2:HP2 was made by BlackBoxGames in Vancouver (I know a few people who worked on it) and published out of EA here as well.
malducin
05-02-2003, 06:39 PM
Nice!!!

I have just one question, why was Harry Potter the only one singled out for a specific sequence? Why not the whole movie and creit the other companies like Mill Film, ILM, MIll Models, Cinesite and MPC?
Leonard
05-02-2003, 06:43 PM
Because Framestore were the only ones who entered that particular sequence. ILM entered Star Wars Episode II, and MPC decided to go with the TV route.

Leo

Originally posted by malducin
Nice!!!

I have just one question, why was Harry Potter the only one singled out for a specific sequence? Why not the whole movie and creit the other companies like Mill Film, ILM, MIll Models, Cinesite and MPC?
Hexodam
05-02-2003, 07:34 PM
Great :D

one idea though, could it be possible to release a special dvd with perhaps all the shortfilms and wallpaper sized screens of the still groups and perhaps trailers for the full release movies?

something that would act as a best of 2003 in 3d
Virtual Turtle-
05-02-2003, 07:39 PM
GO CARL AND RAY!!!!!!!!!!! ANYTHING ELSE IS JUST AN IMAGE. So sue me I will always be a big fan of that commercial.
j00st81
05-02-2003, 09:22 PM
oh man wish I could be there...:cry:

so much stuff I've never seen before :love:
dark_lotus
05-02-2003, 09:50 PM
Well best of luck to all the entrants, I hope that the 3D awards become the OSCAR's of our industry!

Good Luck in Picking the winners, they've all got insane stuff! You guys have a tough job ahead of youse!
Hugh
05-03-2003, 12:52 AM
It's very encouraging to see so many UK entries in there....

Especially in the TV VFX and Commercials categories...!
puu
05-03-2003, 03:03 AM
go Weta!!!!
lebada
05-03-2003, 03:42 AM
Go Carl Go Ray Go Carl Go Ray Go Carl Go Ray Go Carl Go Ray Go Carl Go Ray Go Carl Go Ray Go Carl Go Ray Go Carl Go Ray Go Carl Go Ray Go Carl Go Ray Go Carl Go Ray

nuff said:buttrock: :D
SuperMax
05-03-2003, 05:36 AM
If its possible can you link the Nominies to their respective nominated Item to see what they have been nominated for?
Or if its for a film Just a simple Picture from the film.

And About The Hero Statue, Does it symbolise anything?




Great Work guyes Keep it up! :thumbsup:
wgreenlee1
05-03-2003, 07:48 AM
Feature Film VFX
The award for Best 3D Visual Effects for a Feature Film honors outstanding visual effects production used in a feature film. Entries were judged based on the criteria of Originality & Creativity, Design & Aesthetics and Technical Excellence.

Nominees
- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, DreamWorks, USA
- Spider-Man, Sony Pictures Imageworks, USA
- Stuart Little 2, Sony Pictures Imageworks, USA
- Star Wars Episode II, Industrial Light & Magic, USA
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Chamber Sequence, Framestore CFC, UK

- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Weta Digital, New Zealand


:airguitar
thOrNes
05-03-2003, 08:16 AM
man I'm disgusted by those student entries, gonna see animated Mickey Mouses slippin' on bananas and animated matrix shit all my life if I stick to 3D ?
Congrats to all who try to be a bit differrent and I hope the 3dworld will evolve their minds half as fast as theri tools... that possible ???:rolleyes:
Gilgamesh
05-03-2003, 08:48 AM
Out of curiosity, how did the nomination process work? I'm especially curious about the student films, since there are so many schools in the world.
Leonard
05-03-2003, 08:51 AM
Originally posted by Gilgamesh
Out of curiosity, how did the nomination process work? I'm especially curious about the student films, since there are so many schools in the world.

Films were entered.

Digitized into QuickTime and put online for all international jury members.

Short listed.

Final judging for nominees and winners in London SOHO.

Will announce the Jury members after the awards.

Leo
Geckopunk83
05-03-2003, 01:12 PM
im sure im not alone (unless ive unknowingly been living under a rock for the past while) are curious if theres some way we can view all,some at least, of these nominations. a site or sites perhaps?
j00st81
05-03-2003, 01:14 PM
yeah give us the url to the quicktimes :D

(or at least tell us how to become a jury member :cool: )
Leonard
05-03-2003, 01:19 PM
After the awards, we will be giving mass coverage of the nominees. Watch this space.

Leo
iocomposer
05-03-2003, 04:25 PM
I'm curious as to why there is a category for "independant" animations when there are clearly independants in the nominee list for "best short"? What's the differentiation?
TRick
05-03-2003, 05:01 PM
Seeing the nominees for architectural stuff, I wonder if there was serious (European)competition:

To name some...

Hayes Davidson (http://www.hayesdavidson.co.uk)
RNA Studios (http://www.rna.hr)
Infarq (http://www.infarq.com)
Archimation (http://www.archimation.com)
Stack Studios (http://www.stack-studios.com)
parallax
05-03-2003, 07:06 PM
"Lost boys studios" and "lost boys", are two entirely different companies,
i dont believe they have any relation, except for the name.
Leonard
05-03-2003, 10:25 PM
Because they entered themselves in the Short Films category. It's up to the people entering whether they want to enter the short films category and go up against the studios, or stick in the Indie.

Leo

Originally posted by iocomposer
I'm curious as to why there is a category for "independant" animations when there are clearly independants in the nominee list for "best short"? What's the differentiation?
Leonard
05-03-2003, 10:26 PM
The problem is that the architects didn't catch whiff of the 3D Awards and by the time they did, they had missed the deadline for the entries.

Leo

Originally posted by TRick
Seeing the nominees for architectural stuff, I wonder if there was serious (European)competition:

To name some...

Hayes Davidson (http://www.hayesdavidson.co.uk)
RNA Studios (http://www.rna.hr)
Infarq (http://www.infarq.com)
Archimation (http://www.archimation.com)
Stack Studios (http://www.stack-studios.com)
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