Thursday, 16 July 2020

Death From Above Best Trailer at Halicarnassus

Many congratulations to the makers of "Death From Above", which has won "Best Trailer" at the Halicarnassus film festival.

It's a well-deserved award for a film which was also a finalist in the TMFF - The Monthly Film Festival on April 30th.

Death From Above
Death From Above was directed by 2nd year animation student Jordan Coles, and produced by Callum Wylie.

Death From Above - Official Teaser Trailer [HD] from Callum Wylie on Vimeo.

Death From Above
Death From Above was completed as part of Studio Module PR5001, in which students collaborate together on short film projects.  Six students created Escape Studios' very first animated horror trailer.

The film was animated in Maya, rendered in Unreal Engine 4, and edited in Adobe Premiere and After Effects.  Directed by Jordan Coles, and produced by Callum Wylie, the project was edited by Daniel Brand-Sinyinza, and the CG supervisor was Edoardo Sartori. Storyboarding was by Niki Valera and Tequila Mason.


Covid-19
The project was completed entirely during the Lockdown. The Death From Above team worked from home, completing the project using their personal computers.

Rendering
Rendering was done in Unreal Engine, overseen by CG Supervisor Edoardo Sartori.

IMDB and Official site
You can find Death From Above at the IMDB . You can see more about "Death From Above" at the official site, and at the IMDB. You can also find it here at the Rookies.

Escape Studios Festival News
Here at Escape Studios we now have around 30 films in festival competition.  Despite the challenges caused by Corona, and many festivals cancelling or moving online, our student films continue to experience growing festival success. Scroll down to see which films are in which festivals over the coming months.

Adam & Eve Mk II - multiple awards
Adam & Eve Mk II
Multi-award-winning "Adam & Eve Mk II", directed by Sebastian Kuder, has been winning awards in film festivals for almost a year.  It has also been selected for three upcoming festivals:

 Animal Lover
"Animal Lover", directed by Anastasia Gurova, was selected for the Prague International Monthly Film Festival, 30 June 2020.

 Birds Connect Our World
Birds Connect Our World, directed by Escapee Lillian Fu, is also a semi-finalist at the  Lisbon Film Rendezvous, November 13-15

Death from Above - directed by Jordan Coles
Death From Above
Death From Above, directed by 2nd year animation student Jordan Coles, was a finalist in the TMFF - The Monthly Film Festival on April 30th. It has also been selected for:
Draw
"Golden Acorn" - Best Trailer

Golden Acorn 
Golden Acorn directed by Maciej Osuch is in three upcoming festivals:

 Home Sweet Home

Multi-award winning Home Sweet Home, directed by Maria Robertson, is in these upcoming festivals:

Hotel Aloha - Directed by Paloma Zhu
Hotel Aloha, directed by Paloma Zhu, has been accepted for three festivals:


Joe
"Jelly Cars" - 5 Stars Award at the BIAFF
Jelly Cars
"Jerich0" - BAFTA Shortlisted
BAFTA-shortlisted Jerich0, directed by Sarah Andrews, is in
"March of the Potguins" - 5 Stars Award at the BIAFF
March of the Potguins
March of the Potguins is a short film about the journey of two penguin salt-and-pepper pots to find safety in the frozen wastes of the kitchen. It is a semi-finalist in three festivals:

"Minuet" Winner: Best Animation & VFX at Screentest
Minuet
"Minuet", the award-winning short film about a young pianist preparing for a concert performance, has been selected for the Revere International Student Film Festival in Austin, Texas on 30 September.

Moon Rockz
Moon Rockz, directed by Molly Babington, has been selected for
"Moon Rock


 Nefertiti
Nefertiti, directed by Eilin Berrio Pena, is in

"Offcut" - Best Animation
Offcut
Offcut, directed by Petroc Menuhin, has won multiple festival awards. The film follows the adventures of a discarded scrap of wood who comes to life and finds meaning in music, will be screened at:
"Planet Mars" - directed by Sebastian Kuder
Planet Mars
Sebastian Kuder's short film "Planet Mars" has been selected for the Baghdad University International Film & TV Festival.

Quarantine Chorus
Quarantine Chorus: Winner - "Best Animation"
"Quarantine Chorus", the short film recently completed by our second-year animation students at Escape Studios about life under the Corona Lockdown, has already won two awards: Best Animation at the Berlin Flash Film Festival, and also Best Super Short Film at the Prague Monthly Film Festival.

Directed by Edoardo Sartori and produced by Nickoel Izharudin, the film was based on an original idea by Tequila Mason.  Quarantine Chorus has also been selected for
Street Ratz 
"Street Ratz": directed by Austin Hill
Street Ratz, directed by Austin Hill, has been selected for:
"Seeker"
Despite only having just been entered into festival competition, "Seeker" has already been accepted for two film festivals:
"Vivi Ossa"
The one minute short film "Vivi Ossa" has been selected for

Congratulations to all our talented students and Escapees on their continued success.

The Escape Studios Animation Blog offers a personal view on the art of animation and visual effects. To apply for our BA/MArt in 3D Animation, follow this link.  To apply for our storyboarding evening class, visit this page here. For the next 12 week animation course, click here.
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