SIGGRAPH 2008 Computer Animation Festival Winners

From SIGGRAPH

ACM SIGGRAPH has announced the Computer Animation Festival’s Best of Show, Jury Award, Student Prize, Audience Prize, and a special Well Told Fable Prize for SIGGRAPH 2008, the 35th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.

The winners are:

Best of Show Winner: Oktapodi (Gobelins, l’école de l’image, France) — Gobelins’ third-year students direct this animated short about two octopi in their comical escape from the grasps of a stubborn and determined restaurant cook.

Best Student Piece Winner: 893 (Supinfocom, France) — These students combine story and style in this tale of honor, tradition, and imagination.

Jury Award Winner: Mauvais Role (École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle, France) — This is a tale that shows that you can achieve whatever you want, regardless of the opinions that surround you. Watch as a monster constantly cast in games, finds his perfect job in a game that you’d never choose for him.

Best Well Told Fable Prize: Our Wonderful Nature (Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen | “Konrad Wolf” Potsdam-Babelsberg) — This documentary uses time stretching, film camera work, and creative sound design to tell the story of water shrews in the wild.

Audience Prize: Oktapodi — Competition screening audiences were able to vote for their favorite selection to win the esteemed Audience Prize.

Source: SIGGRAPH