Tech Troubles Nominee at Animex Film Festival

"Tech Troubles" - Nominee for Best VFX at Animex

Many congratulations to the makers of the VFX short film "Tech Troubles", which was a Nominee in the category of Best Visual Effects at the Animex Film Festival.

Directed by David Akinyose and produced by Louis Gaffney,  Tech Troubles was a collaboration between undergraduate animation and vfx students, working together to create an original story.  The original score was composed by Ben Salwey. 

Animex

Tech Troubles - Nominee for Best VFX at Animex

Animex is an international festival of animation, games and VFX. Animex takes place annually in November at Middlesbrough Town Hall.  

Animex is organised by the Animation Dept of Teeside University. 

Tech Troubles

You can watch Tech Troubles below

Tech Troubles

Tech Troubles was directed by David Akinyose and produced by Louis Gaffney.  Henry Claud N’Guetta was the editor and also the 2D Lead; James Bennet was the 3D Lead. Art direction was by Eren Arnold.

Studio 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.

Software

Tech Troubles was animated in Maya, rendered in Arnold and edited in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Tech Troubles Credits

• David Akinyose – Director, Animator
• Louis Gaffney – Producer, 3D VFX
• James Bennet – 3D VFX Lead
• Henry Claud N’Guetta – 2D Lead, Editor, 2D VFX
• Iulineia Filip – Storyboard Artist, Animator
• Eren Arnold – Art Director, Animator
• Zoe Walker – Assistant Producer, Animator
• Ben Salwey – Original Score
• Danish Adeem – Animator
• Anand Sembhi – Animator
• Ishmail Kargbo – 2D VFX
• Samuel Parrado – 3D VFX
• Jamie Bennet – 3D VFX
• Keshava Walcott – 3D VFX

Tutors

Best Original Score at the Indo Singapore Film Fest

Tech Troubles was overseen by four 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

Tech Troubles at IMDB

You can find Tech Troubles at the IMDB here:

Festival Success

Tech Troubles has won many festival awards:

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  Honourable Mention: Best Score at Milan Gold Awards

  Best Student Film-Maker at the Eastern Europe Film Festival
• Best Original Score at the Rohip International Film Festival
• Best Original Score at the Indo Singapore International Film Festival
• Best SciFi at Future of Film Awards
• 5 Stars Award at the BIAFF
• Honourable Mention in the category of Best Score at the Milan Gold Awards.  

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