"Crawl Space" Wins "Best Animated Short" Award

Crawl Space wins Best Animated Short Award 

Escape Studios is delighted to congratulation the maker of "Crawl Space", a new short animation created by MA Animation student James Hothi, which as won Best Animated Short Film at the Makizhmithran Film Festival. 

James Hothi is studying the Art of Computer Animation at Escape Studios, taught by industry veteran Kevin Richards.  

James Hothi produced and directed the short film, and did all the animation and FX work.  This is the first festival award for Crawl Space. 

Crawl Space

MA 3D Animation

Crawl Space was completed as part of the MA 3D Animation, in which animation students work on short film projects, simulating as closely as possible the environment and pipeline of a real animation studio. The project was supervised by veteran animator Kevin Richards.

Software
Crawl Space was animated in Maya, rendered in Arnold, and edited in Adobe Premiere Pro.

"Crawl Space" Credits

Crawl Space was written, directed and animated by James Hothi.

Industry Feedback

Industry feedback was generously provided by Escapee Jamie Floodgate, lead animator at Blue Zoo. Blue Zoo is one of the UK's leading animation studios, and a regular industry guest at Escape Studios. 

IMDB
You can find Crawl Space at the IMDB here. 

Festival Success

Best Animated Short Film at the Makizhmithran Film Festival.

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