Selected screenings + Awards
22nd Annual Webby Awards // “2018 Peoples Voice” WEBBY (link)
Animation Effects Award Festival (AEAF) // GOLD for Short Film
Spark Animation 2017 - festival // USA RUNNER UP, Best Commercial, PSA & Self-Promotion
North American Film Awards 2017 // BEST ANIMATION (link)
Hollywood International Moving Pictures Film Festival // BEST SOUND DESIGN: Sander Houtman
SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 - Computer Animation Festival // Official Selection
KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2017 - Dutch Panorama Program // Official Selection (link)
RELATED LINKS
Official Site
Facebook Page
Materials / BTS on the Blender Cloud
Coverage on Cartoon Brew
KEY COLLABORATORS:
Producer: Ton Roosendaal
Studio: Blender Animation Studio
Directed by: Hjalti Hjalmarsson & Colin Levy
UPM: Francesco Siddi
Production Design: Andreas Goralczyk
Animation Leads: Hjalti Hjalmarsson, Nathan Dillow
Sound Design: Sander Houtman
Music: Vidjay Beerepoot
Colorist: Sean Wells
In Sept. 2016, I was invited to come aboard a second animated short at the Amsterdam-based Blender Animation Studio. I spent about eight months in the Netherlands directing this proof-of-concept short along with Hjalti Hjalmarsson, under the guiding hand of Ton Roosendaal and his fabulous crew of artists, developers and and animators. It was great to be back - six years after Sintel.
Ton and the Studio are currently developing Agent 327 as their first animated feature film, based on the celebrated Dutch Comic Agent 327 by Martin Lodewijk. This 3-minute short is designed to function as a teaser / sales tool, to help them set up the larger production.