2012 Alumna Sari Rodrig Screenings and Honors

2012 alumna Sari Rodrig has had great success with her thesis film Brother at film festivals and other competitions since graduating in May. Brother has received the following honors:

MetroCAF 2012, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH - Screened
SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival 2012 - Screened as part of Daytime Selects
CG Student Awards 2012 - Highly Commended
Blue Plum Film Festival 2012 - Screened
Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA) 2012 - Semifinalist
Cal Shorts Film Festival 2012 - Screened
Feel Good Film Festival 2012 - Screened
Philadelphia Film & Animation Festival 2012 - Screened
Indie Memphis Film Festival 2012 - Screened
So Cal Film Festival - Screened

Congratulations Sari and let's hope for more to come!

2012 Computer Art alumni have great success at MetroCAF 2012!

This year, the 10th edition of the NYC ACM SIGGRAPH MetroCAF, TWELVE out of the total 26 films selected for the festival were by 2012 BFA Computer Art alumni, and TWO of them received Special Recognition Jury Awards. The following films screened at FIT's Haft Auditorium this past Friday, September 28:

Eternity by Byung Hoon Han
Karma by Da Suel Kim & Yun Ah Oh
Distance by Sang Joon Kim
Still I Breathe by Sang Ho Lee & Zack Lydon
Agape by Ha Na Gill
Spacebunnies! by John Youlen Sung
Alka by Ieva Sauciunaite
Virtus Vitae by Lazslo Ujvari
Encounter by See Hun Jeon
Totem by John Paul Lavin
Brother by Sari Rodrig
Ramus by Chris DeVito & Danica Parry

A total of four Special Recognition Jury Awards were given this year and two of them were awarded to our alumni:

Still I Breathe by Sang Ho Lee & Zack Lydon
Ramus by Chris DeVito & Danica Parry

Congratulations to our alumni whose films were accepted to this year' s MetroCAF s award winners!!

To learn more about MetroCAF and for the official awards announcement, follow this link.

And here are some pictures of our alumni who attended the event:

Ieva Sauciunaite, left (creator of Alka), with her guy, right

John Youlen Sung, left (creator of Spacebunnies!), and John Paul Lavin Jr., right (creator of Totem)

Sari Rodrig, right (creator of Brother), who brought a prospective Computer Art student!

MetroCAF 2012 Trailer

In anticipation of this Friday's MetroCAF Screening, here is a trailer of the accepted films:

YouTube

There may be more films accepted this year, but a total of TEN 2012 Computer Art films are featured in this trailer:

Totem by John Paul Lavin
Spacebunnies! by John Youlen Sung
Eternity by Byung Hoon Han
Brother by Sari Rodrig
Virtus Vitae by Laszlo L. Ujvari
Encounter by See Hun Jeon
Ramus by Chris Devito & Danica Parry
Still I Breathe by Sang Ho Lee & Zack Lydon
Agape by Ha Na Gill
Distance by Sang Joon Kim

Join us at the screening to congratulate and celebrate all of our accepted alumni!

2012 Computer Art Alumni Accepted at SIGGRAPH Asia Computer Animation Festival

The film Ramus by 2012 Computer Art alumni Chris DeVito and Danica Parry has been accepted at this year's SIGGRAPH Asia Computer Animation Festival! Ramus will be screened as part of the Electronic Theatre program, a two-hour overview of the best animation, visual effects, and scientific visualizations produced in the last year.

The film Eternity by 2012 alumnus Byung Hoon Han has been accepted as well. His film will screen as part of the Animation Theater, a program of all-day shows featuring the outstanding works selected by the Computer Animation Festival jury.

This is the 5th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference in Asia and will take place November 28 through December 1 in Singapore. For more details about the conference and the screening, please follow this link.

MetroCAF 2012 Screening THIS FRIDAY!

This Friday is the MetroCAF Screening! As many of you know, we have lots of success at this competition every year and it's a great opportunity to see and reconnect with our alumni.

Here are the details:

MetroCAF 2012 Screening
Friday, September 28, 7:00pm
FIT Haft Auditorium
W. 27th Street between 7th and 8th Aves

The Special Jury Recognition Awards will be announced at the screening. For more details, please visit their website www.metrocaf.org

Come celebrate the success of the class of 2012 - we hope to see you there!

BFA Computer Art Chair and 2012 Alumni featured in CGW Article

Included with the July 2012 edition of CGW, Computer Graphics World Magazine, is the annual Education Supplement. This year's supplement is an article titled Working Class, featuring the work by recent graduates from various programs, including several alumni from the Computer Art, Computer Animation & Visual Effects department.

The front page of the article is taken directly from the thesis film Spacebunnies! by 2012 alumnus John Youlen Sung. Also included is a spotlight of the thesis film Ramus by 2012 alumni Chris DeVito and Danica Parry, regarding their recent selection at the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival's Electronic Theatre as well as comments by Chris and Danica about their creative and technical processes in creating the film.

Comments by John McIntosh are also included describing the process of creating and developing thesis projects by BFA Computer Art students. Too see a portion of the article including comments by our alumni and department chair, please see the pages below (click to enlarge).

2012 Alumni are Finalists at ADAA 2012

The Finalists for the 2012 Adobe Design Achievement Awards have been announced and Chris DeVito and Danica Parry are among them! These two 2012 Computer Art alumni have been selected for their film Ramus, which is one of four projects nominated in the Animation category of this year's awards. The winners will be announced on November 16 at the 2012 Design Thinkers Conference in Toronto.

To see the official announcement, visit the ADAA website: http://www.adobeawards.com/us/

MetroCAF 2012 Screening Details Announced!

NYC ACM SIGGRAPH's MetroCAF will be celebrating it's tenth edition this year with a screening on Friday, September 28th, at 7:00pm at FIT's Haft Auditorium. MetroCAF is an annual computer animation festival that features pieces by students from NYC-area schools. This year 26 pieces will be featured at the screening and our students have had great success every year. Additionally, the jury selects four films to be recognized for outstanding achievement - these awards will be announced the night of the screening. So come out and support SVA Computer Art. We look forward to seeing you there!

MetroCAF 2012
Friday, September 28th, 7:00pm
FIT's Haft Auditorium
W. 27th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues

For more information, visit their website: http://www.metrocaf.org

2012 Computer Art Alumni are Semifinalists at Adobe Design Achievement Awards

After the third and final round of judging, the Semifinalists for the 2012 Adobe Design Achievement Awards are official and 2012 Computer Art alumni are among them:

Chris DeVito and Danica Perry for Ramus
Byung Hoon Han for Eternity
Sang Joon Kim for Distance
Shendy Wu for Micho
Sari Rodrig for Brother
John Paul Lavin for Totem

Congratulations to our alumni for being selected! The winners will be announced on November 16 at the 2012 Design Thinkers Conference in Toronto. To learn more about the ADAA, you can visit their website.

SVA Computer Art @ CGSA: Winners, Finalists, and Commendations!

The CG Student Awards have announced the winners for this year's awards and our 2012 alumni have had outstanding success. One student from the class of 2013 also received recognition. Here are all the awards received from SVA Computer Art:

STUDIO INTERNSHIPS - 2012

Danica Parry - USA Internship Award Winner, The Mill, New York City
Chris DeVito - Finalist
Jonathan Lin - Finalist
Zack Lydon - Finalist
Sang Ho Lee - Finalist

STUDENT OF THE YEAR - 2012

Danica Parry - Finalist, 3rd - 10th
Jonathan Lin - Finalist, Top 20

HIGHLY COMMENDED - 2012

Huber Wozniak
Kyle Moy (Class of 2013)
Sari Rodrig
Da Suel Kim

http://www.cgstudentawards.com/winners

From over 360 entries worldwide, the panel has hand picked the winners. The voting process involved judges scoring each entry based on criteria including - creative skills, technical skills, presentation, variety of skills, raw talent and future potential.
Last year's winner of the CG Student Awards USA Internship was 2011 SVA Computer Art alumnus Krzysztof Fus.
Congratulations to the 2012 winners from SVA Computer Art!

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

2012 Alumni Are Among Top 20 Finalists At CG Student Awards

Two recent graduates from the SVA Computer Art, Computer Animation, and Visual Effects department have been selected as part of the Top 20 Finalists in this year's CG Student Awards. Danica Parry and Jonathan Lin will now compete for a Top 10 placement. These finalists will all receive prizes, with a single entry crowned Student of the Year and another Student of the Year - Runner Up. The Computer Graphics Student Awards is an annual international event which showcases and rewards excellence in computer graphics from students and recent graduates worldwide. The students submit their demo reel to a judging panel of industry professionals to compete for prizes and internships at the world's leading production s tudios, e Bolt, and The Mill.

 To learn more about Danica Parry and Jonathan Lin you can visit the CG Awards website to see their profiles: http://www.cgstudentawards.com

2012 Alumna accepted at Blue Plum Animation Festival

2011 alumni Sari Rodrig's film Brother has been accepted at this year's Blue Plum Animation Festival. The animation festival is one of many attractions in the overall Blue Plum Arts & Music Festival held in Johnson City, Tennessee. She is eligible for several awards and her film will be screening in June. More details to come–check it out here:

Blueplumanimation.com

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.