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London
Effects and Animation Festival (LEAF) Awards Call For Entries
LONDON --(Jul. 12, 2001)-- The Eighth
Annual London Effects and Animation Festival (LEAF) Awards is
now accepting entries. The LEAF Award is one of the premier
Awards in European Special Effects and Animation as it showcases
and promotes the best new work, skills and services of companies
and individuals involved in creative development of visual effects
and animation today.
The LEAF Awards Evening will be held at the London Hippodrome,
Leicester Square, on 13 November 2001. This evening sees the
presentation of the specially commissioned LEAF Award to ten
winners and a screening of the best work of 2001.
The post-production sponsor for the LEAF Awards 2001 is the
Moving Picture Company and it will be responsible for providing
a showreel of the entries and winners plus providing a judge
for the panel. The Moving Picture Company (MPC) is one of Europe's
leading digital post-production companies employing some 140
people based in the heart of Soho.
The company specialises in providing telecine, editing and compositing
facilities to the advertising, broadcast and music industries.
The company also designs and creates computer-generated animation
and digital visual effects for the TV and feature film industries
worldwide.
The LEAF 2001 Awards judging panel will consist of industry
professionals from leading organizations. Entries are invited
in the following sectors:
LEAF Award Categories 2001
- Commercials:
Animation - Best use of CGI to promote a product or service.
- Commercials:
Live Action Effects - Best use of CGI coupled with Live Action
effects to promote a product or service.
- Feature
Films - Feature length films using CGI, SPFX and/or Animation
produced for a full-length cinema or television screening.
Submissions must be edited to no more than 10 minutes in length.
- Pop
Promos - Most creative use of CGI, SPFX and/or Animation in
Music Videos.
- Short
Films - Creativity in partially or entirely computer generated
short films.
- Titles,
Idents and Stings - Title Sequences for broadcast, games,
films and video, idents, stings and trailers.
- Games
- Creativity and Technically excellent use of Animation or
Digital > Effects, Console or PC games.
- Web Animation
- Innovation and creativity through advanced CGI and Animation
used in online games or for transfer via the World Wide Web.
- Special
Area Award - Best Use of CGI, SPFX and/or Animation in other
areas, e.g.; TV Animation, Simulation, Education.
- Student
Work - Pieces of work undertaken during a recognised course
of study. Written confirmation of student status from a tutor
must accompany entries.
The London
Effects and Animation Festival is part of Digital Media World
exhibition, which runs from 13-15th November.
It is the UK's premier event for digital content creation, distribution
and management and includes three other conference events: Media
Asset Management, Streaming Media and Games.
Candidate Entry Details
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES IS 21TH SEPTEMBER 2001
For more information, visit www.digmedia.co.uk/leafawardsor
www.advanstar.com.
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