Monday 22 February 2021

"Kiwi's Dream" Wins "Best No Budget Film"

Kiwi's Dream wins Best No Budget Film at DSFF
Many congratulations to the makers of "Kiwi's Dream", which has won its third festival award, "Best No Budget Film" at the Dreamer's Short Film Festival

Directed by Paloma Zhu and produced by Daniel Rowe"Kiwi's Dream" is a short story about an origami kiwi who dreams of flight.  

"Kiwi's Dream" - Final Film

Kiwi's Dream from Daniel Rowe on Vimeo.

Module PR6001
In Module PR6001 our animation and VFX students join forces for the first time to produce a short animated visual effects project, with three months to take the project from initial pitch to final render.  

Kiwi's Dream was based on an original concept by Freddie Belsom about an origami kiwi who dreams of flying in the clouds.

Student collaboration
Working with a team of ten students from both the VFX and animation departments, Kiwi's Dream was filmed on location in London, with animation and VFX completed at Escape Studios.  Cinematography was by DOP Clement Gharini

Software
Paloma Zhu
Animation was done in Autodesk Maya; compositing was done in Nuke and the shots were rendered in Arnold.  Editing was done in DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro.

Director Paloma Zhu
"Kiwi's Dream" is the second short film directed by Paloma Zhu, a third year student at Escape Studios, who last year directed the award-winning short "Hotel Aloha", which won an award for "Most Charming Animation" at the Animafantasia Film Festival.  

"Kiwi's Dream" Credits
Project supervisors

The project was overseen by our 3rd year tutors:

"Kiwi's Dream" at IMDB
Three festival awards
You can find "Kiwi's Dream" at the IMDB here. 

The Escape Studios Animation Blog offers a personal view on the art of animation and visual effects. To find out more about our BA/MArt, now recruiting for September 2021, follow this link.   To apply, visit the official page here


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