Canimation Shortlist Announced!
Skwigly
Since its launch in October, hundreds of animation students, professionals and hobbyists have submitted their traditional, CG and stop-motion entries to Red Bull’s Canimation competition, a nationwide contest which offers its winners valuable software packages, internships at some of the UK’s top animation studios and the chance to have their work seen on Channel 4 and in cinemas across the country! In the last two weeks each animated entry’s public reception – through ‘like’s, comments and shares – has been evaluated and considered to put together a shortlist of finalists for each category. The final ‘student’ and ‘open’ competition winners chosen by the Canimation panel – James Farrington of The Mill, Merlin Crossingham of Aardman, Jayne Pilling of the British Animation Awards, Tom Tagholm of 4Creative and Dave Anderson of 12foot6 – will be announced tomorrow at the Red Bull Canimation Awards Ceremony, hosted by Alex Zane and taking place at London’s Leicester Square theatre. The full shortlist is as follows:
TRADITIONAL:
Andy Craggs
Bryony James
Chloe Rodham
Damian Tasker
Dean Wright
Deni Santana
Heidi Brown
James Marsh
Joanne Ruskin
Kara Darch
Kat Willott
Kensei Thomas
Latifah Salim
Mark Moynihan
Matthew Box
Matthew Frost
Nadia Hussein
Rebecca Mountain
Robert Johnson
STOP MOTION
Alex Hancocks
Anna Glogowska
Ben Hennessey
Bexie Bush
Chris Butcher
David Burnett
Don Mupasi
Drew Roper
Emily Parker
Georgina Dunn
Hannah Wright
Hayley Kyte
Lee Wignall
Mark Turner
Max Martin
Sam Osborne
Sarah Jones
Stuart Collis
Tom Crang
Tom Erik Smith
Victoria Edmonds
CGI:
Alice De Barrau
Andras Ormos
Antony Manley
Damien Tansey
Daniel Sweeney
Inês Boneca
James Hood
Jason Redway
Jon Ireland
Manu Tomar
Matthew King
Max Taylor
Michele Svaeren
Paul Barlow
Radoslaw Andrzejak
Raoul Quiroga
Scott Burrows
Scott Waddington
Suryanshu Rai
Ton Stanton
Canimation judge Merlin Crossingham (read his full Skwigly interview here) has described the quality of the submissions as being “very high across the board. Regardless of the relative experience of each entry, I appreciate that a lot of time and energy goes into animation of any style, so thanks to everyone who submitted a film, and well done to the short listed film makers. Judging is not going to be easy.”
Best of luck to everyone!