“ICare” Wins Best Director (Hon Mention) at Art Film Awards

Congratulations to the makers of the short VFX film “iCare“, which has won an Honourable Mention in the category of “Best Director – Short Film” at the Art Film Awards.

Directed by Bruno Urzi and produced by Alex Sellen, iCare was a collaboration between undergraduate animation and vfx students, working together to create an original story.

This is the latest of many festival awards.

iCare

You can watch iCare below:

iCare | Student Short Film – Escape Studios from Bruno Urzì on Vimeo.

iCare
“iCare” is one of the latest short VFX films created by our third year animation and vfx students at Escape Studios. Directed by Bruno Urzi and produced by Alex Sellen, iCare was a collaboration between undergraduate animation and vfx students, working together to create an original story. 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 and produce an industry-quality outcome.

iCare

iCare tells the story of a care robot who looks after an elderly woman, played by Sara Wilson-Soppitt. The short was directed by Bruno Urzi and produced by Alex Sellen.

Software

iCare was animated in Autodesk Maya, rendered in Arnold, and edited in DaVinci Resolve. Meshroom was used for for photogrammetry.

iCare Credits

Sara Wilson-Soppitt – Lonely Lady
Bruno Urzi – Director, Assistant Producer, 2D Compositor, VFX Editor
Alex Sellen – Producer, Assistant Director
Wiktor Brodowski – Lead Animator
Jane Williams – 2D Lead
Matdawna Jn Philip – Rigger, Animator
Sebastian Petre – Rigger
Noemie Lafrontiere – Animator
Jessa Timog-Santiago – Animator
Andy Ramlika – Compositor
Jake Roberts – 3D Lead
Gino Demurtas – 3D Modeling, Scanning Lead
Owen Manley – 3D Modeling
Clement Gharini – Cinematography
Lorenzo Pelli – Original Score
Marco Giannini – Sound Design

Escape Tutors

iCare was overseen by four tutors at Escape Studios, offering expertise in 3D VFX, animation, and 2D Compositing.

Scene from iCare

Paul Harrison – Animation, Rigging
Sokratis Synitos – 2D Compositing
Steven Lall – Animation, general 3D skills
Sagar Rathod – 3D Skills & Animation

IMDB

You can find iCare at the IMDB here.

Festival Success

iCare has won a number of awards:

Honourable Mention in the category of “Best Director – Short Film” at the Art Film Awards
Best Student Film Maker and Best Director at the EEFF
Best Student Film at the 8 1/2 Film Awards
Best Director at the Future of Film Festival

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