UTS students have won each award within the Student Category of the 2023 Australian Effects and Animation Festival awards, with Gold, Silver and Bronze all being awarded to these budding animators and sound designers.
Students from the Bachelor of Animation Production, the Bachelor of Music and Sound Design, and the UTS Animal Logic Academy received their awards on Friday night.
The AEAF, an international competition and screening and speaker program, is now in its 26th year and boasts entries from around the world. The Awards recognise the work of Animators and VFX artists in a range of areas from feature films, television, commercials, corporate video, and more.
For the Music & Sound Design and Animation Production students, the Silver and Bronze winning works are their first films, a testament to their talent and hard-work.
The films were produced in the Animation subject Animation Studio (54405) and are a collaboration between second-year Animation and third-year Music and Sound Design students. Along with external partner Red Room Poetry, Australia's leading organisation for commissioning, creating, publishing and promoting poetry that reflects the excellence, invention and diversity of Australian voices.
Find the full list of the 2023 AEAF Awards winners here.
Winners
Bronze: 'Reawakened'
Animation, Design and Direction: Francesca Nikolic, Isaac Biag, Michael Cheng, Frank Ling and Aurelia Intan
Music and Sound Design: Joshua Copolelli and James Walker
Adapted from the poem ‘The Reawakening’ by Ella J
Silver: 'Night Vision'
Animation, Design and Direction: Xinyuan (Tony) Chen, Xiaofu Fang, Adrian Giusti and Bianca Trani
Music and Sound Design: Hugo Aguilera-Mendoza, Henry Lee and Jasper Curry
Adapted from the poem Night Vision (While We Sleep) by Luke Patterson
Gold: 'Robo Ramen'
Students from the UTS Animal Logic Academy