"Threaded Together" Wins Hon Mention at AFA

Threaded Together wins Best Director (Hon Mention)

Congratulations to the makers of "Threaded Together", which has won an Honourable Mention in the category of Best Director at the Art Film Awards.

Threaded Together was directed by Shauna Ludgate and produced by Manos Zervoudakis. The original score was composed by Maria Cortes-Monroy.

Threaded Together tells the story of a needle who longs to be reunited with his friends.   This is the latest of many festival awards for Threaded Together. 

Threaded Together | Short Animation Film from Manos Zervoudakis on Vimeo.

Threaded Together

Threaded Together was created by our third-year animation students, working together in a group as part of the Studio Project PR6001. 

Group project work is at the heart of what we do at Escape Studios, one of the five pillars of what we call the "Escape Method". Students work together as a team, simulating as closely as possible the workings of a real animation studio - with a live client brief. 

Directed by Shauna Ludgate and produced by Manos Zervoudakis, Threaded Together tells the story of a needle who longs to be reunited with his friends.

Software

Threaded Together was animated in Autodesk Maya, edited in Adobe Premiere, and rendered in Unreal Engine. 

Threaded Together Credits

• Shauna Ludgate - Writer, Director, 3D Animator, Lighting & Rendering
• Manos Zervoudakis - Producer, Editor, Lighting & Rendering
• Liam Martin - Animation Lead
• Austin Hill - Storyboarding
• Oliver Gallagher - Character designs, 3D Animator
• Muhammed Mansoor - 3D Animator
• Aroosa Qureshi - 3D Animator
• Chanakan Jeffries - 3D Animator, 2D Artist
• Tsveti Kumanova - 3D Animator
• Shenaaz Suliman - 3D Animator
• Ella Grunberger - 3D Animator
• Gary Roche - 3D Animator
• Nicole Widmer - 3D Animator
• Miriam Di Benedetto - 3D Animator
• Cameron Haley - 3D Animator
• Louis Chevis - 3D Animator
• Maria Cortes-Monroy - Music Composition
• Mihail Sustov - Foley Artist

Escape Studios Tutors

Threaded Together was overseen by 3rd year animation tutor Paul Harrison.

Festival Success

Threaded Together has won many festival awards:

• Honourable Mention in the category of Best Director at the Art Film Awards
• Best Production at the Heart of Europe Film Awards 
• Best Animation at the Future of Film Awards. 
• Best Student Director at the Eastern Europe Film Festival
• Best Director at the Halicarnassus Film Festival

The Rookies

You can find Threaded Together at The Rookies here.

Industry Feedback
A special thank you to our industry partners - Juani Guiraldes and Felipe de Lanteuil from ILM, and animation director Will Lloyd-Cook from Blue Zoo, for all their generous feedback and support throughout the project.

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