Moon Rockz "Hon Mention" at Wild Indie Fest

Moon Rockz Best Student Film (Hon Mention)

Congratulations to the makers of the short film "Moon Rockz", written and directed by Molly Babington, and produced by Stevie Stedman, which has received an Honourable Mention in the category of Best Student Film at the Wild Indie Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival. 

This the third award for "Moon Rockz", which last year won "Best Sci-Fi" at the Flicks Film Festival, and also won "Most Witty Animation" at the Animafantasia Film Festival in 2020.

Moon Rockz 

Semi-finalist Sweden Film Awards

"Moon Rockz" is a short animated film made at Escape Studios which tells the story of the moon landings from the point of view of the moon.  

Collaboration

Moon Rockz was a collaboration between students on our master's degree in Storyboarding & Previsualisation, MA students studying animation, and also undergraduate students studying the Art of Computer Animation.  

Molly Babington

Moon Rockz was based on an original idea by Molly Babington, who also did the storyboard animatic.  The animatic was pitched to the second year animation students as one of a number of projects at Escape Studios which could be taken forward into production.

Moon Rockz - Final Film
Below you can see the final film. It is just over two minutes long.

Moon Rockz Colour Script

"Moon Rockz" Colour Scripts
Colour scripts were also created by Molly for "Moon Rockz". The colour scripts were an essential first step in deciding the look and feel of the film, and what the textures and final lighting would look like.

Software
"Moon Rockz" was animated in Autodesk Maya, edited in Adobe Premiere, and rendered in Arnold.

Credits

• Molly Babington - Writer, Director, Art Director, 3D Layout, Modeling and Rigging
• Stevie Stedman - Producer 
• Victoria Pleschko - Editor, Co-Producer, Compositing Supervisor
• Austin Hill - Sound Design
• Leroy Dias - CG Supervisor
• Charalampos Avraam - 2D Supervisor, modeling
• Brandon Pascal - Lighting Supervisor
• Erica Melino - Compositing Lead
• Anastasia Gurova - Art Dept
• Timothy Jones - Art Dept, Animation, Credits
• Musharaf Hussein Rasel - Modeling
• Andrew Watson - Modeling
• Paolo Amadini - Animation, Modeling, Rigging
• Michaela Butler - Rigging
• Heidi Prescot - Lead Texturer
• Jonathan Humphries - Animation
• Giada Carnevaletti - Animation
• Natasha Di Maggio - Animation
• Matt Neputin - Animation
• Marco Ramos - Animation
• Robert Hagan - Compositing
• Christian Heim - Compositing
• Jing Ding - Compositing
• Guy Buckley- Compositing 

Awards

Best Sci-Fi at Flicks Film Festival

This the third award for "Moon Rockz", which has now won

• Hon Mention for Best Student Film at the Wild Indie Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fest
• "Best Sci-Fi" at the Flicks Film Festival
• Most Witty Animation" at the Animafantasia Film Festival in 2020

IMDB Listing
You can find "Moon Rockz" at the IMDB here. 

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