SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008 Highlights (2009)
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.
Featured in AIAF2009
Program Type: Films| E.T.A. Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen The only thing that makes long intergalactic journeys bearable is the lovely flight attendants. Denmark
Runtime: 4:20Year: 2008 |
| Still Life Maya Segal A digital recreation and re-imagining of the form and shape of books and paper. United States
Runtime: 2:50Year: 2008 |
| Re:Animation Juan Leon A veritable, super detailed line-drawn visual avalanche. United States
Runtime: 0:59Year: 2008 |
| Harmonix: 'Rockband' Pete Candeland Touring with a rock band is definitely not for the faint hearted. United Kingdom
Runtime: 1:34Year: 2008 |
| Wizard of OS: The Fish Incident Tom Jantol The animated abstract diary entries of a surrealist artist. Croatia
Runtime: 4:31Year: 2008 |
| Orangina 'Natrually Juicy' Fred & Farid A deer and a lion join forces in the quest for refreshment. United Kingdom
Runtime: 0:00Year: 2008 |
| Liquidator Johannes Schmid An eye-popping demo of some sophisticated fluid animating software. Switzerland
Runtime: 2:39Year: 2008 |
| Miniascape Mix Tomonori Hayase A lightspeed photo collage rendition and re-engineering of a stark urban environment. Japan
Runtime: 3:42Year: 2008 |
| Outer Planet Lee Seung Wook Despite the persistence of the rest of the solar system, one planet remains obstinately outer, South Korea
Runtime: 5:18Year: 2008 |
| Kudan Taku Kimura An uncommunicative man is transformed into a cow-bodied monster and learns his lesson. Japan
Runtime: 9:30Year: 2008 |
| Confine(s) Makoto Yabuki A film that pushes an animated imagination right through the speed barrier. Japan
Runtime: 2:40Year: 2008 |
| Angkor Ruins - The Bayon Temple And Its Faces Masaaki Sakata A 3D simulated rebuilding of a lost Asian temple. Japan
Runtime: 4:34Year: 2008 |
| Fly Out Blue Jack Shih An Esheresque, absorbing 3D film capturing the freedom of flight. Taiwan
Runtime: 12:43Year: 2008 |
| This Way Up Smith & Foulkes There's a right and a wrong way to deal with the soon-to-be-buried. And then there's the way these two accident prone undertakers go about it.... United Kingdom
Runtime: 8:38Year: 2008 |