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:

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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!

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!

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

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/

2010 Alumni selected for MetroCAF 2010

At this year's MetroCAF, the following ten films will screen on September 24th at 7:00PM at FIT's Haft Auditorium:

Where Did They All Go? by Steven Antholis
Trading Places by Ori Gellmen
Pork 'N Bones by Tyler Heckman
Hansel and Gretel Retold by Hee Sun Kim
Toy House by Yunjeong Ko
It's Five O'Cluck Somewhere by Christopher Meek
Beyond by Sang Do Park
Cheap Thrills by Olga Povarchuk
Balloon by Eric Xu
Hap-Pea by Shota Imai

MetroCAF (Metropolitan Area College Computer Animation Festival) is an annual, juried competition produced by NYC ACM SIGGRAPH. It features the best student work from the NYC metropolitan region in the areas of computer animation, visualization, and special effects. For more information, please visit their website MetroCAF.org.

2009 Alumni accepted at 2009 MetroCAF

At this year's MetroCAF, the following four films will screen on the night of October 1st:

Abyssus by Christian Haniszewski and Rogelio Olguin
Magic Theatre by Jordan Harvey
Le Cou Cou by Zed Bennett
The Wizard of Odds by Sheri Wong

A total of twenty-six films were accepted this year from schools in the New York City metro area, including films from SVA's own MFA Computer Art Department. This year's jury consisted of Michelle Barfoot (Mercer County Community College), Lucien Harriot (Mechanism Digital), Nadia Husain (Big Star), Susie Jang (UVPhactory) and Cesar Kuriyama (Charlex). MetroCAF's screening is held at FIT's Haft Auditorium. Please come see these films screen and find out which films receive Jury Recognitions. For more information on this festival and the screening, please visit their website www.MetroCAF.org.

2008 Alumni dominate at MetroCAF 2009!

At this year's MetroCAF, our 2008 alumni had huge success - a total of eighteen out of thirty films were from SVA, thirteen of which were from our department! The following films screened the evening of September 25th at FIT's Haft Auditorium:

Lilium Urbanus by Anca Risca & Joji Tsuruga
Henshin by Eric Huang *
Drop Shot of Doom by Richard Pernice & Maxim Kornev
Red; State by Sun Young Kim
Alien Abduction by David Han *
YEA by Adam Newman
Daydreamer by Roland Womack
Macabre Muse by Dan Devine
The Future King by Shayne Ryan
Bumbleflies by Michael Shin
Pollen by Marc Christoforidis
Vorota Diamos by Luis Perez & Denis Kozyrev
Dogface by Shai Halfon

*Both David Han and Eric Huang's films won Jury Recognitions, the highest award of this festival.

MetroCAF is an annual, juried competition produced by NYC ACM SIGGRAPH. It features the best student work from the NYC metropolitan region in the areas of computer animation, visualization, and special effects.

For more information please visit the website http://www.metrocaf.org.

2008 Alumni participate at MetroCAF 2008 - September 25th, 2007

Since its inception in 2003, MetroCAF has provided an exciting opportunity for all students in the NYC metropolitan area to gain international exposure for their computer-generated imagery and make contacts within the NYC-area computer graphics community. ACM SIGGRAPH is a non-profit, professional computer graphics organization serving the greater New York City area.

Every year our graduating seniors submit their films to this festival and every year they have had great success. Last year six of our seniors' films screened at MetroCAF, two of which received Jury Recognitions, and ten senior films were featured the year before that. This year, thirteen of our 2008 graduates are included in the festival.

Please join us this Thursday, September 25th at 7PM in FIT's Haft Auditorium to find out which of our 2008 seniors will be featured in this year's program, as well as any Jury Recognitions that might be awarded. For more information please visit www.metrocaf.org.

2007 Alumni dominate at MetroCAF 2007

On Thursday, September 27th, MetroCAF 2007 screened seven films by 2007 BFA Computer Art alumni. The films featured were:

The Big Upgrade by James Dick & Ryan Moran
A Faery's Tale by Sylvia Apostol
Pumpkin Head Boy by Masako Toyoda
The Kabob by Han Hu
Carpe Noctem by Leslie Chung
El Mono by Minchung Cho
Fish by Hyunjeen Lee & Sun Sik Na

Minchung Cho, Hyunjeen Lee and Sun Sik Na were awarded Jury Recognitions. MetroCAF screenings were held in the Fashion Institute of Technology's Haft Auditorium on W. 27th street between 7th and 8th Avenues in New York City. This is an exciting opportunity for students in the NYC metropolitan area to gain international exposure for their computer-generated imagery and make contacts in the computer graphics community.

For more information visit http: www.MetroCAF.org.

Class of 2006 featured and honored in MetroCAF 2006

Ten films from BFA Computer Art department graduates once again dominated the MetroCaf this year. MetroCaf 2006, the fourth annual Metropolitan Area College Computer Animation Festival, is organized by the New York based AMC SIGGRAPH, an organization devoted to excellence in the Computer Graphics field. The following BFA alumni were featured in this year’s festival, gaining them international exposure for their films:

Eric Wagner
Catherine Yoo
Shaun Reuter
Rodrigo De La Parra
Mothana Hussein
Josh Greer
Kitty Lin
Wing Luo
Veronica Min
Kristen Basile

Scary Pink, by Catherine Yoo, also received the MetroCaf 2006 Juror’s Award for Art Direction.