"Luciferin" Wins "Best VFX" at Makizhmithran Fest

Luciferin wins "Best VFX" Award

Congratulations to the makers of Luciferin, the VFX short created at Escape Studios by our graduating class of VFX artists, which has won "Best VFX" at the Makizhmithran Film Festival.

Directed by Jake Roberts and produced by Bruno Urzi,  Luciferin was a collaboration between 2D and 3D VFX Students, working together to create a short film.  Luciferin tells the story of a marine biologist working in a deep sea biosphere.  

This is the latest of many festival awards for Luciferin.  

Luciferin 

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Luciferin  

In Luciferin, a marine scientist working in a deep sea biosphere wakes up disoriented and confused following a mysterious accident.  As he recovers his senses he must confront a horror of his own creation.

What is Luciferin?

Luciferin (in case you didn't know) is the the light-emitting compound found in organisms that generate bioluminescence. 

Luciferin Credits

• Jake Roberts - Director, 3D Artist
• Simon Flynn - Scientist 
• Bruno Urzi - Producer, 2D Compositing, VFX Editor
• Clement Gharini - Director of Photography
• Sebastian Petre - Rigging
• Wiktor Brodowski - Lead Animator
• Harry Dallimore - 3D Lead
• Liam Jones - 3D Artist
• Cameron Norris - 3D Artist
• Wyndham Brunt - 3D Artist
• Ishmael Kargbo -2D Lead
• Fiorella Bechtle - 2D Compositing
• Ben Williamson - 2D Compositing
• Marco Giannini - Sound Design 
• Kayleigh Boshoff - Makeup

Supervising Tutors

Luciferin was overseen by supervising tutors Sagar Rathod (3D VFX) and Clement Gharini (2D VFX). 

Escape Method

Industry feedback is at the heart of what we do at Escape Studios, part of the "Escape Method", a blend of classroom teaching, online tutorials, constructive feedback, industry engagement, and group project work, simulation as closely as possible the workings of a real animation studio.

Festival Success

Luciferin has won many festival awards:

• Best VFX at the Makizhmithran Film Festival
• Best Sci-Fi at the Indo-Singapore Film Festival
• Best Trailer at the Dreamachine Film Festival
• Best Super Short at the International Gold Awards
• Best VFX at the Eastern Europe Film Festival
• Best VFX at the Rohip Film Festival

IMDB
You can find Luciferin at the IMDB here.

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