Street Ratz Wins Four Stars Award at BIAFF

Winner "Four Stars Award" at BIAFF

Congratulations to the makers of "Street Ratz", which has won a "Four Stars Award" at the British International Animation Film Festival (BIAFF). 

This is the fourth festival award for "Street Ratz", a teaser/trailer written and directed by Austin Hill, produced by Jack Wright, and supervised by Amedeo Beretta. 

Street Ratz
"Street Ratz" is a teaser/trailer set in a dystopian urban universe, following the adventures of a young girl "Tal", who, accompanied by her robot friend, must escape the underworld to find her mother on the top level of a city. "Zhu", the gangland mafioso, will do anything to stop her.

Austin Hill
"Street Ratz" is a teaser/trailer written directed by Austin Hill, a graduate student at Escape Studios studying for his MA in Storyboarding & Previsualisation.

Collaborative Project
The film was a collaboration between storyboard MA students, undergraduate students in the final fourth year of our BA/MArt in the Art of Computer Animation, undergraduate animators in their second year of studies, and the Pearson College Business School.

The project involved an ambitious cross-discipline collaboration between multiple classes at Escape Studios. It was produced by Jack Wright and overseen by animation tutor Amedeo Beretta and Storyboard tutor Iliana Franklin.



Covid-19
"Street Ratz" was completed entirely from home during the Covid Pandemic. Our students collaborated remotely, animated and rendered their shots relying on their own home resources.

"Street Ratz" software

Software
"Street Ratz" was storyboarded with Storyboarder, animated in Maya, textured in Substance Painter, rendered in Unreal Engine, and edited in Premiere.

Storyboard animatic

"Zhu" from "Street Ratz"

The project was originally pitched at Escape Studios as a storyboard animatic, and was picked up by our undergraduate students in the final fourth year of our BA/MArt in the Art of Computer Animation.

Street Ratz at IMDB
You can find Street Ratz here at the IMDB.

Credits

• Austin Hill - Writer, Director, Cinematography, Art Direction and Editor
• Jack Wright - Producer
• Paulette Vassell - Music 
• 
  Leroy Dias - Concept Art
• Molly Babington - Concept Art
• Eleni Fouya - Concept Art, Texture Art, Animation
• Piotr Noworyta - Lead Animator, Previsualisation, Pipeline Development, Lead Rigging TD
• Tendai Mande - Modelling, 3D Layout
• Shannon Martin - 3D Layout, Lead Modeller and Texture Artist
• Alex Budulan - 3D Layout, FX TD
• Paloma Zhu - Animation, Rigging
• Callum Wylie - Animation
• Nickoel Izharudin - Animation
• Jessica Hiles - Animation
• Eilin Berrio Pena - Animation, Rigging
• Emily Lim Sarrias - Animation, Rigging
• Samira Bello - Lead Look Dev TD

Festival Success

This is the fourth festival award for "Street Ratz":

• Four Stars Award at BIAFF
• Best Trailer at Golden Nugget Festival
• Best Trailer at the Vesuvius Film Festival 
• Best Trailer at the CFIFF in 2020
• Nominated for "Best Trailer" at the Assurdo Film Festival in Milan in July 2020.  

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