Many congratulations to the makers of the VFX short film “Tech Troubles“, which has won the award for “Best Student Film-Maker” at the Eastern Europe Film Festival.
Directed by David Akinyose and produced by Louis Gaffney, Tech Troubles was a collaboration between undergraduate animation and vfx students, working together to create an original story.
The original score was composed by Ben Salwey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJDg_KEQwEs
Tech Troubles was directed by David Akinyose and produced by Louis Gaffney. Henry Claud N’Guetta was the editor and also the 2D Lead; James Bennet was the 3D Lead. Art direction was by Eren Arnold.
- David Akinyose – Director, Animator
- Louis Gaffney – Producer, 3D VFX
- James Bennet – 3D VFX Lead
- Henry Claud N’Guetta – 2D Lead, Editor, 2D VFX
- Iulineia Filip – Storyboard Artist, Animator
- Eren Arnold – Art Director, Animator
- Zoe Walker – Assistant Producer, Animator
- Ben Salwey – Original Score
- Danish Adeem – Animator
- Anand Sembhi – Animator
- Ishmail Kargbo – 2D VFX
- Samuel Parrado – 3D VFX
- Jamie Bennet – 3D VFX
- Keshava Walcott – 3D VFX
Tech Troubles 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
You can find Tech Troubles at the IMDB here:
- Best Student Film-Maker at the Eastern Europe Film Festival
- Best Original Score at the Rohip International Film Festival
- Best Original Score at the Indo Singapore International Film Festival
- Best SciFi at Future of Film Awards
- 5 Stars Award at the BIAFF
- Honourable Mention in the category of Best Score at the Milan Gold Awards.
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