“Tatty” Wins Hon Mention for Best VFX at Athens Fest

Congratulations to the makers of the VFX short film “Tatty“, which has won an “Honourable Mention” in the category of “Best VFX” at the Athens International Film Awards.

Directed by Amelia Watson and produced by Wiktoria Swierk, “Tatty” was a collaboration between undergraduate animation and vfx students at Escape Studios, working together to create an original story. This is the latest of many festival awards for Tatty.

Tatty

You can watch Tatty below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiL39iLDEFA

Escape Studios is proud to present “Tatty“, the latest short film created by our third year animation and vfx students at Escape Studios. Directed by Amelia Watson and produced by Wiktoria Swierk, Tatty was a collaboration between undergraduate animation and vfx students at Escape Studios, 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.

Tatty

Tatty tells the story of a stuffed toy elephant in need of a little tender love and care. After all, there is no such thing as perfect.

Software

Tatty was animated in Maya, rendered in Arnold, and edited in Adobe Premiere.

Tatty Credits

Amelia Watson – Writer, Director, Animator
Wiktoria Swierk – Producer, Animator
Oz Arisoy – VFX Supervisor, 3D VFX
Emma Richards – 2D VFX Lead
Liam Jones – 3D VFX Lead
Ben Williamson – 2D VFX
Jasroop Sandhu – 2D VFX
Stefano Ferron – 2D VFX
Cameron Norris – 3D VFX
Matdawna Jn Philipp – Rigging
Conall Ferguson – Animation Lead
Bonnie Duncan – Animator
Jess Hiles – Animator
Muhammad Jowardhar – Animator

Escape Tutors

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

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

Feedback from ILM

Escape Studios would like to thank our friends Juani Guiraldes and Andrew Horner from ILM for their generous feedback and support throughout the project.

Festival Success