"Animal Lover" Wins Best One Minute Short in Sydney

Animal Lover wins "Best One Minute Short Film"

Many congratulations to the makers of the short film "Animal Lover", which has won "Best One Minute Short Film" at the Sydney Australia Film Festival. 

"Animal Lover" is a one-minute animated short written and directed by Anastasia Gurova, produced by Priya Shah, and edited by Daniel Brand-Sinyinza. This is the latest of many festival awards for "Animal Lover".

 

Short Film-Animal Lover from Priya Shah on Vimeo.

Animal Lover

"Animal Lover"  is a one-minute animated short created at Escape Studios and inspired by director Anastasia Gurova's childhood experiences growing up in rural Russia.  Like "Street Ratz" and "Moon Rockz",  the film was a collaboration between students from our master's degree in Storyboarding & Previsualisation and undergraduate students studying the Art of Computer Animation. 

PR5001 - Studio Project

Animal Lover "One Sheet"

Studio Project Module PR5001 is a second year module where students collaborate to work together on group projects.

Module PR5001 is a film-making module, the culmination of the second year of study at Escape Studios.

In this module students work together in teams, and the skills involved are just as much about film-making as they are about animation.

Animal Lover
Animal Lover was based on an original idea and storyboard developed by Anastasia Gurova.

Our 2nd year undergraduate animators collaborated with Anastasia to create the short film, in much the same way that the story and animation departments might collaborate in a commercial animation studio.

Animal Lover is a one minute short story based on Anastasia's childhood experiences growing up in Russia in the 1990s.

Anastasia Gurova

You can find "Animal Lover" at the IMDB here.  You can also find it among the winners at the Flicks Festival at their official site.

Credits

• Anastasia Gurova - Writer, Director, Art Editor
• Priya Shah - Producer, CG Supervisor
• Simone Costa - Animator
• Daniel Brand-Sinyinza - Editor, Animator
• Flynn Smith - Animation
• Jack Devereux - Animation, Animation TD (cloth simulation)
• Lanre Onifade - Animation

Festival Awards

This is the latest award for Animal Lover:

• Best One Minute Short in Sydney
• Best Micro Animation at the Berlin Flash Film Festival.
• Best Micro Short at Dreamachine Film Festival
• Best Animation at the Flicks Film Festival

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