Street Ratz Wins Hon Mention at Tokyo Fest

Street Ratz wins Hon. Mention in Tokyo Fest

Many congratulations to the makers of "Street Ratz", which has won an Honourable Mention in the category of Best Production Design at the Tokyo International Film Festival. 

This is the latest award for "Street Ratz", which tells the story of Tal, a young girl locked in a dystopian universe who must avoid the clutches of a gangland mafia boss to escape the city underworld. 

Street Ratz is a teaser/trailer written and directed by Austin Hill,  and produced by Jack Wright.  Street Ratz has won many festival awards. 

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.

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

Street Ratz 

You can see Street Ratz at Vimeo below

"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.

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

Festival Success

"Zhu" from "Street Ratz"

Street Ratz has won many festival awards

• Best Production Design (Honourable Mention) at the Tokyo International Film Festival
• Best Production Design at the Athens International Film Festival
• Best Teaser/Trailer at the Changing Face International Film Festival
• Four Stars Awards at the BIAFF
• Best Trailer at the Vesuvius Film Festival
• Best Trailer at the Art Film Awards
• Best Trailer at the Golden Nugget Film Awards
• Best Trailer (Nomination) at the Assurdo Film Festival

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