2011 Alumni Accepted at YoungCuts Film Festival 2012

At this year's YoungCuts Film Festival, SIX featured films were by 2011 alumni from BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation & Visual Effects. These films, along with all the other films accepted at this year's festival, are available for viewing on the YoungCuts website. The festival will also have a series of screenings at Condordia University in Montreal, home of YoungCuts.

The following films will feature during the 2012 Animation & Music Screening on Friday, October 12th at 3pm:

Bounty + Hunter by Eugene Chu
Hz by Seungmi Nam
King Killian by James McKenzie
Package Frank by David Chen & Carl Fong
Rabbitkadabra by Michelle Czajkowski, David Chen, Krzysztof Fus & Naomi Chen

Toast by Henry Jean has been selected as one of the festivals Top 10 of 2012 films and will be featured during their Grand rix (Best of) Screening on Saturday, October 13th at 9pm.

The YoungCuts Film Festival has also announced their Top 100 International Short Films of 2012 with several films by our alumni:

Bounty + Hunter by Eugene Chu
King Killian by James McKenzie
Package Frank by David Chen & Carl Fong
Rabbitkadabra by Michelle Czajkowski, David Chen, Krzysztof Fus & Naomi Chen
Toast by Henry Jean

Congratulations to our alumni whose films were accepted!

YoungCuts Film Festival is an event showcasing the best independent films by undiscovered talents. The Festival features short films produced by emerging filmmakers and serves as a launch pad for filmmaker careers. To learn more, visit their website.

SVA Computer Art Alumni and Students accepted at 2012 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival

This year our alumni and current students have had great success at SIGGRAPH's Computer Animation Festival. The following films have been accepted and will screen at the SIGGRAPH conference this August in Los Angeles - the program in which the film will screen has been listed after each title:

2011 Alumni:

Aquatic Bloom by Susie Hong & Bokyeong Kim (Daytime Selects)

Subject Code Q80-203 by Yunsung Cho (Daytime Selects)

2012 Alumni:

Brother by Sari Rodrig (Daytime Selects)

Karma by Da Suel Kim & Yun Ah Oh (Daytime Selects)

VOID by Arsen Arzumanyan (Daytime Selects)

Ramus by Chris DeVito & Danica Perry (Electronic Theater)

Encounter by See Hun Jeon (Daytime Selects)

Class of 2013:

Getaway by Eric Cunha, Ryan Chong, Seung Sung, Debbie Lim, Shane Simpson, Kolina Hang & Bryan Cha (Daytime Selects)

Congratulations to all our current and former students on this accomplishment! For more details about the festival, the SIGGRAPH Conference, and the screenings for these films, here are some links:

SIGGRAPH 2012 Los Angeles - http://s2012.siggraph.org/

Computer Animation Festival - http://siggraph.org/computer-animation-festival

Daytime Selects - http://siggraph.org/daytime-selects/

Electronic Theater - http://siggraph.org/electronic-theater

Alumni and 2012 Seniors Advance to Student Academy Awards Semifinals

Aquatic Bloom by 2011 alumni Susie Hong and Bokyeong Kim and Ramus by 2012 seniors Danica Parry and Chris DeVito have advanced to the semifinals of this year's Student Academy Awards. Both films will screen next Thursday, April 26th at the Lighthouse International Theatre in NYC. A panel of judges will be present to select which films will move on to the final round, which will screen in Los Angeles.

Official Selection of 2010 Alumni at Dead By Dawn Film Festival

"Pork N' Bones" by 2010 Alum M. Tyler Heckman has been selected to screen at Dead By Dawn 2012, Scotland's international horror film festival.

To learn more about this festival, please visit their website: www.deadbydawn.co.uk

2011 Alumna selected for Tricky Women 2012

We are very happy to announce that Cipher by 2011 alumna Catherine Nguyen has been selected for the Young Talents program of Tricky Women 2012, the first and only festival of animated short films by female artists. The 9th edition of Tricky Women will take place in Vienna, Austria, March 14 - 18, 2012. 

For more information about this festival, please visit http://www.trickywomen.at

2011 Alumni Nominated in 10th Annual VES Awards

Aquatic Bloom, by 2011 alumni Susie Hong and Bokyeong Kim, has been nominated for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project in the 10th Annual VES Awards. The nominees were announced by the Visual Effects Society on January 9, 2012 in Los Angeles by distinguished panels of VES members from around the world. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Tuesday, February 7.

For more information, visit the Visual Effects Society website here: http://www.visualeffectssociety.com

2011 Alumni Featured on SIGGRAPH Asia Website

SIGGRAPH Asia has updated their website with information regarding the films accepted this year to the Computer Animation Festival, including Rabbitkadabra and The Fear. 

You can find the details in the Animation Theatre section here: www.siggraph.org/asia2011/animation-theater

2011 Alumni Featured In aNYmator Article About MetroCAF 2011

Recently posted on aNYmator, an online publication of ASIFA East, is an article by Tristian Goik about MetroCAF 2011. The article features two films by 2011 Computer Art alumni whose films were accepted and screened at the festival: Bounty + Hunter by Eugene Chu and Aquatic Bloom by Susie Hong and Bokyeong Kim. The image associated with the article is a still from Bounty + Hunter and the author includes some of Eugene's thoughts about his film: "He told me that his film demonstrates how the linearity of train travel plays off how we travel through our life-decisions and turn down different paths..." 

To read the full article, follow this link: http://asifaeast.com/aNYmator

Outstanding Success by 2011 Alumni at NYC ACM SIGGRAPH MetroCAF!

The ninth edition of MetroCAF featured TEN films by 2011 Computer Art alumni! MetroCAF is the annual NYC Metropolitan Area College Computer Animation Festival organized by the New York CIty chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH. 

The following films were screened at the FIT Haft Auditorium on September 15, 2011:

Witch October by Jason Bakutis

Toast by Henry Jean

Bounty + Hunter by Eugene Chu

Rabbitkadabra by Michelle Czajkowski, David Chen, Krzysztof Fus, & Naomi Chen

Package Frank by Carl Fong & Chang Shuen Lee

Piano Man by Selim Yang

King Killian by James McKenzie

Be Mine Bovine by Alexandra D'Amore

The Fear by Sung In Sohn

Aquatic Bloom by Susie Hong & Bokyeong Kim

This year a total of five Special Recognition Jury Awards were given and THREE of them went to projects from BFA Computer Art: 

King Killian by James McKenzie

Package Frank by Carl Fong & Chang Shuen Lee

Rabbitkadabra by Michelle Czajkowski, David Chen, Krzysztof Fus, & Naomi Chen

Congratulations to our alumni whose films were accepted and to this years' award winners!! 

For more information about MetroCAF, please visit the website: http://www.metrocaf.org/. For more information about NYC ACM SIGGRAPH, please visit this website: http://nyc.siggraph.org/

2011 & 2010 Alumni Films Selected For SCHLINGEL

Rabbitkadabra by 2011 alumni Michelle Czajkowski, Krzysztof Fus, David Chen and Naomi Chen has been selected for the Animation Film Competition of the 16th International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience (SCHLINGEL), which will be held October 10th - 16th, 2011 in the city of Chemnitz, Germany. The film will be eligible for the Animation Film Prize. 

Also, Aquatic Bloom by 2011 alumni Susie Hong and Bokyeong Kim, and Pork N' Bones by 2010 alum Michael Tyler Heckman have been selected for the Panorama section of the festival. For more information, please visit the festival website at www.ff-schlingel.de

2011 Alumni Films Accepted at SIGGRAPH Asia

Two films by SVA Computer Art alumni have been accepted at this year's SIGGRAPH Asia Computer Animation Festival in Hong Kong: Rabbitkadabra by Michelle Czjakowski, Kryzsztof Fus, David Chen and Naomi Chen, and The Fear by Sung In Sohn. More information will be available very soon, but to learn more about this event, please visit their website, http://www.siggraph.org/asia2011.

You can view Michelle Czjakowski, Kryzsztof Fus, David Chen and Naomi Chen's collaborative thesis, Rabbitkadabra, here.

You can view Sung In Sohn's thesis, Fear, here.

2011 Thesis Awards announced at Portfolio Night

At our annual Portfolio Night, the awards were announced for the following students: 

Jury Award for Best in Show
Rabbitkadabra by David Chen, Krzysztof Fus, Michelle Czajkowski, and Naomi Chen

The Students' Choice Award
Package Frank by Carl Fong and Chang Shuen Lee

Chairman's Award for Excellence
Witch October by Jason Bakutis

Outstanding Achievement in Computer Animation or Motion Graphics & Visual Effects

Bounty + Hunter by Eugene Chu
Subject Code Q80-203 by Yunsung Cho
Celsius by Jared Eng
Aquatic Bloom by Susie Hong and Bokyeong Kim
Toast by Henry Jean
King Killian by James McKenzie
Cipher by Catherine Nguyen
Hz by Seungmi Nam
Sad Robot by David Wendl
The Fear by Sung In Sohn