This year’s Nicktoons Network Animation Festival kicked off over the weekend with a two-day live event in Burbank, Calif. During the festivities, producers of recognized filmmakers with the Student Award, the Diversity Award, the Producer’s Choice Award and the Show Off Your Show Award. The winners were selected from entries that poured in from around the globe for the short animation festival, which will be broadcast online and on-air from Saturday, Aug. 26 through Thursday, Aug. 31 at 10 p.m. For more invormation, go to www.nicktoonsnetwork.com.
The winner of the $1,000 Student Award is David Bazelon of Los Angeles for his short film, Libraryhead. Meanwhile, Yeo Lee Nah of Singapore picked up the Diversity Award for Crocodile Journals and also received a $1,000 prize. Producers’ Choice went to Mark Shirra of Vancouver, Canada for A Great Big Robot From Outer Space Ate My Homework, which also screened at SIGGRAPH earlier this month. Shirra will receive a copy of Bauhaus Software’s digital 2D animation software, Mirage, along with an Apple Power Mac G5 to run it on. Rounding out the list of winners is 15-year-old Richard Wallace of Chino Hills, Calif., who walked off with the Show Off Your Show/Greater Creator Award and a prize package that includes a family trip to Los Angeles to visit the Nicktoons Studios, a chance to record his voice for an episode of Kappa Mikey episode and an afternoon Animation Academy at his school.
The $10,000 Grand Prize Winner will be announced on-air on Nicktoons Network on Thursday, Aug. 31, at 10 p.m. The Viewer’s Choice Award will be announced online at www.nicktoonsnetwork.com on Monday, Sept. 18. Voting closes on Friday, Sept. 15. This year’s panel of grand jurors includes comedic duo Shawn and Marlon Wayans, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, Disney animator Andreas Deja, famed indie animator Bill Plympton and last year’s Producers Choice and Student Award Winner, JG Quintel (The Naive Man from Lolliland).
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