CSM alumni Panagiota Chaidogiannou and Thomas Hebdon’s short film is being shown at the Climate Summit in Copenhagen.

Panagiota and Thomas had the following to say:

Upon discovering the 1minutetosavetheworld competition we were excited by the challenge of creating a film on such a prominent issue that we are passionate about, but within the constraints of 1 minute. The thought of having our work shown at The Copenhagen Climate change conference was appealing, definitely a new audience! We thought it a good idea to combine Flash generated animation with stop motion animation to create distinction between the computer game and the outside ‘real world.’ All aspects of the film were completed by ourselves. This was our first collaborative project.

Visit:
Postgraduate Diploma Character Animation course page
Panagiota’s website
Tom’s websiteClimate Summit website

Alex Dashina and Varvara Volodina, two second year students on BA Graphic Design directed the new video.

The video was premiered across hundreds of music and popular culture websites in Europe and America on October 9, 2009. In its first week, the promo was viewed 10,000 times on The Decemberists website alone and Colin Meloy, lead singer with The Decemberists, has been twittering: “The video referencing Baba Yaga, that lovable Russian folktale mainstay, is A++ in my book. The video was produced by Peter Cleak and Steve Radmall.

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BA Graphic Design course page
The Decemberists’ website

Check this video which won a ‘Tell Us About It’ bursary for Himanshu Desai – we think it’s great!

Find out more about the Tell Us About It bursary
Himanshu studied on the MA Creative Practice for Narrative Environments

Rebecca Bath, Course Administrator, writes the following about the private view:

I’ve only been supporting the course for 3 months and I was not able to attend the final assessment so I hadn’t seen any of the student’s work. I was extremely impressed by the animation work on display and I saw some amazing drawings in their portfolio folders. It was great talking to the students about their work and I’m looking forward to learning about their success stories in the near future.
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Emma received an Xbox console, extra games controller and wireless adaptor as well as a selection of games in recognition of her achievements on the Postgraduate Diploma in Character Animation.

Emma’s final film on the course was created in Maya for a project with the National Gallery. It was inspired by Hendrick Avercamp’s painting ‘A Winter Scene with skaters near a Castle’. She has also gained a place on the prestigious Framestore-CFC internship scheme this summer.

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Short film | Ceci n’est pas une mouche from

Carlos Fraiha’s graduation film ‘Ceci n’est pas une mouche’ has proved a hit on the festival circuit and now he’s waiting to hear whether he’s won 1st, 2nd or 3rd in the Festival Internazionale del Cinema d’Arte in Italy. We’ve got our fingers crossed for you Carlos!

Carlos Fraiha on Vimeo.

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