Thursday 10 December 2020

"Joe" Wins "Best Genre Film" at Heroes Fest

Many congratulations to the makers of Joe, which has won the "Best Genre Short Film" Award at the Heroes International Film Festival.

 "Joe" is a short film directed by Callum Reeve and produced by Aidan Lonergan, completed as part of animation Module PR6001,  a Studio Project worth 60 Credits

This is the third festival award for Joewhich won the "Director's Choice" award at the Sci-On film festival and a "Four Stars Award" at the British International Amateur Film Festival.

Joe
Joe is a story about a cleanup robot that goes wrong. It was directed by Callum Reeve and Produced by Aidan Lonergan

It was completed as part of animation Module PR6001,  a Studio Project worth 60 Credits.

Student collaboration
Working with a team of ten students from both the VFX and animation departments, this collaborative short was filmed on location in London, with animation and VFX all completed at Escape Studios over three months.

Live action and animation
The live action plates were scanned and tracked, and were completed with digital animation in Maya, composited and rendered in Arnold.

The lead animator was Jack Thompson, and cinematography was by Clement Gharini. The 3D VFX Lead was Alfie Mitchell, and the Compositing Lead was George Randall.




Joe
Joe is a short film about a clean-up robot that goes wrong.

Director
Callum Reeve is a student at Escape Studios in London, studying the Art of Visual Effects. Joe was his first film.

Credits
  • Director - Callum Reeve 
  • Producer & Editor - Aidan Lonergan 
  • Editor - George Randall 
  • Sound Design - Robert Bibb
  • Lead Animator - Jack Thompson 
  • Director of Photography - Clement Gharini 
  • 3D VFX Lead - Alfie Mitchell
  • 2D VFX Lead - George Randall
  • FX Lead - Benjamin Fowler
  • FX artist - Alex Angert
  • Rigging - Jack Thompson 
  • Scripting - Aidan Lonergan
  • Animators - Aidan Lonergan, Ravi Limbu
  • 3D Artist - Adam Phillips
  • 2D Compositing - Callum Reeve, Charlotte Derry, Vincenzo Meola, Aidan Lonergan
Project supervisors
The VFX project is overseen by our 3rd year tutors:
Joe
2019 VFX Projects
To see other examples of successful VFX projects which have gone on to win awards in international film festivals in 2019, follow these links:

Festival Success

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