 Once Upon a Christmas Village has been at it again, winning awards around the globe! Michael Attardi's short film, created by Graduates of the DAVE School, has gone on to be a hit!
OUACV was 1st runner-up at the Moving Picture Magazine Awards in the Short corner during the 60th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
It also won Grand Jury Prize for "Best CGI-Animation Film" at the 2007 Swansea Bay International Film Festival in Wales, United Kingdom.
OUACV won 10 categories of The 28th Annual Telly Awards: Animation, Musical Production, Cinematography, CGI Animation Film, Art Direction, Director of Camera, Sound Design, Music & Lyrics, Special Effects in Animation and Animated Comedy.
OUACV also took home the "Award of Excellence" and "Best Animation" prizes at the Accolade Awards.
Dream Balloon Productions is currently in development to produce a full-length feature film, Snowyville, based on the OUACV short. The project is slated to go into production no later than September 2007 for a November 2009 release.
You can view some clips of Christmas Village and read more about it on the DAVE School website.
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 The current Block 1 class has been busy working on their most recent project in character modeling, "The Fantasy Gang". Marco Fantechi, a talented artist, who designed the characters specifically for the DAVE students to create in 3D.
The assignment was as follows:
Fantechi was approached by Cartoon Network about turning his "Fantasy Gang" franchise into an animated show. He has chosen our studio to do the 22 minute pilot and if all goes well, our studio will be hired for the series. It is the student's job as an artist in the modeling department to bring the five main characters to life into 3D.
Treating the assignment as a real-world job is key to the DAVE School education. It prepares students for the transition from school to a production company. The students were instructed to stay true to the original 2D drawings of the characters they were given just like they would in a real job.
“I really enjoyed working from Marco’s design,” said Aaron Juntunen, Block 1 student. “I loved the challenge of staying true to the designer’s creation and was quite pleased with my first full character model.”
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