Animated Com Award offers prizes for applied animation in the categories of advertising, spatial communication and technology.
The nominees for the Animated Com Award at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film 2015 have been selected.
With more than 85,000 visitors and 2.500 professionals each year, the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (ITFS, May 5-10, 2015) is one of the biggest and most important animation festivals worldwide. Since 2011, the ITFS presents the Animated Com Award, with prizes for applied animation in the categories of advertising, spatial communication and technology.
The jury has chosen 50 high class films, from 141 submitted international productions, for this year's shortlist of the Animated Com Award. Ten of them were nominated for the three prize categories. Additionally Daimler AG awards the extra prize “Future needs Derivation – Mobility in a Digital World” and U. I. Lapp GmbH the “Lapp Connected Award.”
The award ceremony will take place as a gala event at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart on May 8, 2015. Among other highlights, keynote speaker Jörn Großhans, VFX Supervisor at Mackevision – recently Emmy-awarded for Game of Thrones – gives insights into his work.
Animated Com Award Nominees:
ADVERTISING
- Nike Mercurial Superfly IV
Manvsmachine, Great Britain 2014 - Fruitsnacks – Claw Machine
Buck, Saatchi & Saatchi, USA 2014 - League of Legends
Arnaud & Jérôme, Passion Pictures, France 2013 - Sauza 901
Adam Perry, Strange Beast, Great Britain 2014 - France 3 Idents
Nicolas Deveaux, Cube Creative Productions, France 2014
SPATIAL COMMUNICATION
- Smart Ampelmännchen
Marten Persiel, Bigfish, Germany 2014 - TING – Technology and Democracy
Marc Tamschick, Tamschick Media + Space GmbH, Germany 2014
TECHNOLOGY
- Ghost Peloton
Mark Huskisson, NVA, Great Britain 2014 - Assassin’s Creed Unity: Arno Master
István Zorkóczy, Digic Pictures, Hungary 2014 - Casio: G-Shock ‚Test Field’
Alexej Tylevich, Logan TV, USA 2013
SPECIAL AWARD NOMINEES: “Future needs Derivation – Mobility in a Digital World” by Daimler AG
- Driving
Nate Theis, USA 2014 - Ride Away
Clémence Bouchereau, France 2014 - VRP
Hugo Leygnac, Olivier Lafay, Arthur Philippe, Marie Dossetto, Valentin Moriceau, France 2014
SPECIAL AWARD NOMINEES “Lapp Connected Award” by U. I. Lapp GmbH
- 9:30 AM
Alfonso de la Cruz, Mexico 2014 - Pass It On
Teresa Cruz, Portugal 2014 - Sumsing
Martin Rahmlow, Germany 2014 - The Wires
Tatjana Moshkova, Marina Moshkova, Russia 2014
This year’s prize sponsors are Daimler AG, U. I. Lapp GmbH and Animation Media Cluster Region Stuttgart. Partners of the event are Spotlight – Festival für Bewegtbildkommunikation, jazzopen stuttgart, netzwerk Pproduction, fischerAppelt, Hansgrohe, Ilg-Außenwerbung and KlickPiloten.
The jury of the Animated Com Award consists of renowned experts from the animation and advertising industries: Dr. Martin Feyock (CEO of the advertising section for the board of German Producers Alliance
Film & Television, CEO of Exploitation Company TWF Trust Company and the German Academy of Advertisement), Prof. Thomas Hundt (CEO Jangled Nerves), Prof. Kathi Kaeppel (Creative Director, Animation Artist, Illustrator), Michael Preiswerk (Creative Director, Consultant), Florian Rederer (CEO SCHOKOLADE Filmproduktion GmbH) and Mate Steinforth (CEO Sehsucht Berlin).
The Shortlist program of the Animated Com Award will be shown on May 7, in the Gloria 2 cinema, Stuttgart.
The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (ITFS), May 5-10, 2015 was founded in 1982 and is one of the largest and most important festivals for animated film worldwide. Prize money of 50,000 Euros is awarded in numerous competition categories. The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film works in close co-operation with the FMX, Europe’s biggest Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia, attracting industry professionals. Together with the FMX the ITFS holds the business platform Animation Production Day.
Source: Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
