"iCare" Wins "Best Director" Award at FOFA

"iCare" wins "Best First-Time Director" at FOFA

Congratulations to the makers of the short VFX film "iCare", which has won "Best First-Time Director" at the Future of Film Awards (FOFA).

Directed by Bruno Urzi and produced by Alex Sellen,  iCare was a collaboration between undergraduate animation and vfx students, working together to create an original story.

This is the latest of many festival awards for iCare.

iCare

You can watch iCare below:

iCare | Student Short Film - Escape Studios from Bruno Urzì on Vimeo.

iCare

"iCare" is one of the latest short VFX films created by our third year animation and vfx students at Escape Studios.  Directed by Bruno Urzi and produced by Alex Sellen,  iCare was a collaboration between undergraduate animation and vfx students, working together to create an original story.  

Studio projects such as this one are part of what we call The Escape Method - bringing together students with multiple talents to work in teams and produce an industry-quality outcome. 

iCare

iCare tells the story of a care robot who looks after an elderly woman, played by Sara Wilson-Soppitt.  The short was directed by Bruno Urzi and produced by Alex Sellen.

Software

iCare was animated in Autodesk Maya, rendered in Arnold, and edited in DaVinci Resolve. Meshroom was used for for photogrammetry. 

iCare Credits

• Sara Wilson-Soppitt – Lonely Lady
• Bruno Urzi – Director, Assistant Producer, 2D Compositor, VFX Editor
• Alex Sellen – Producer, Assistant Director
• Wiktor Brodowski – Lead Animator
• Jane Williams – 2D Lead
• Matdawna Jn Philip – Rigger, Animator
• Sebastian Petre – Rigger
• Noemie Lafrontiere – Animator
• Jessa Timog-Santiago – Animator
• Andy Ramlika – Compositor
• Jake Roberts – 3D Lead
• Gino Demurtas – 3D Modeling, Scanning Lead
• Owen Manley – 3D Modeling
• Clement Gharini - Cinematography
• Lorenzo Pelli – Original Score
• Marco Giannini – Sound Design

Escape Tutors

iCare was overseen by four tutors at Escape Studios, offering expertise in 3D VFX, animation, and 2D Compositing.

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  Scene from iCare

  Paul Harrison - Animation, Rigging
• Sokratis Synitos - 2D Compositing
• Steven Lall - Animation, general 3D skills
• Sagar Rathod - 3D Skills & Animation

IMDB

You can find iCare at the IMDB here.

Festival Success

iCare has won a number of awards:

• Best Student Film at the 8 1/2 Film Awards
• Best First-Time Director at the Future of Film Festival
• Best Student Filmmaker at the EEFF
• Honourable Mention in the category of "Best Director - Short Film" at the Art Film Awards

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