Escape Studios Animation Blog: "Papercut" VFX Finalist at The 2023 Rookies

Wednesday, 12 July 2023

"Papercut" VFX Finalist at The 2023 Rookies

"Papercut": finalist in The 2023 Rookies

Many congratulations to makers of "Papercut", which is a finalist in The 2023 Rookies in the category of "VFX Film of The Year".

Directed by Giorgos Konstantinou and produced by Victoria Arraez, Papercut was a collaboration between 3rd year undergraduate animation and vfx students, working together to create a short film. Papercut has won many festival awards.

The Rookies was founded in 2009 to "showcase the most talented student designers, illustrators, film makers, animators, developers, digital artists, and launch them into the career of their dreams."

About Papercut

Papercut is a short story about two paper figurines that come to life.

Directed by Giorgos Konstantinou and produced by Victoria Arraez, Papercut was a collaboration between undergraduate animation and vfx students, working together to create an original story as part of the 3rd year VFX Project.

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.

Live Action Shoot

The live action shoot, filmed by our in-house DOP Clement Gharini, took place at London Fine Art Studio in Battersea.

Software

Papercut was animated in Maya, edited in Premiere, and rendered in Arnold. Compositing was completed in Nuke.

Papercut

You can watch Papercut below:

"Papercut" Credits

Giorgos Konstantinou – Director, Animator
"Papercut": Best Micro Short at International Gold Awards
Victoria Arraez – Producer, 2D Comp
Anthony Sarmiento – Animation Lead, Previs Artist, Sound Design, Editor
Ellen Hughes – Art Director, Concept Art, Animator
Muhaddissa Hasham – VFX Supervisor, 2D Comp
Fiorella Bechtle – 2D Lead.3D Modeller, Sounds Design
Enrico Vaccari – Technical Director, Modeller, Look Dev, Texturing
Lorenzo Pelli – Original Music
Clement Gharini - Cinematography
Amy Husted – Storyboards, Animator, Rigging
Llewelyn Whitney – Animator
Ethan Smith – Modeller, Rigging
Paul Harrison – Rigging
Harry Dallimore – Sound Design, Texturing, Modelling
Meah Materego-Wardeck - Lighting Artist, Animator

Escape Studios Supervising Tutors

Papercut was overseen by a number of tutors at Escape Studios, offering expertise in 3D VFX, animation, and 2D Compositing.

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

Industry Feedback

Escape Studios is grateful for the excellent and generous feedback from our industry partners ILM: including Juani Guiraldes, Steven Godfrey, and Davi Stein.

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