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NCCA Students Nominated at SIGGRAPH
The world's leading Animation Festival

This year we have three short animations, directed by 2005 BA (Hons) Computer Visualisation and Animation graduates, accepted for the SIGGRAPH 2006 Computer Animation Festival.

SIGGRAPH is the world's premier festival/conference for Computer Graphics and Animation and our graduates' work will be shown at the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Theater in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, between 30th July - 3rd August 2006.

Graduate, Georgios Cherouviem will be presenting his highly acclaimed animation "Theros", which has been nominated in several festivals this year inlcuding Southampton's Big Screen Festival, and Animex International Film Festival’s Audience Award. "Theros", which means 'harvesting' in Greek, is a non-narrative piece using strong imagery and repetitive animation to deliver a visual, emotional and political message. Georgios ustilised the National Centre for Computer Animation's (NCCA) industry technology, such as Maya and Shake, to produce this mesmerising piece.

Other graduates accepted to present in the SIGGRAPH 2006 Computer Animation Festival include Peter Nancollis with his animation "Sciatica" along with "Beloved" by Alexander Wilkie. Meanwhile Lei Chen, and his animation "Brush", has been accepted into both the Electronic Theatre as well as the SIGGRAPH Video Review. With approximately 750 entries this year, the selection process was incredibly competitive.

Watch the animations online at Southampton's Big Screen Festival website.

Students from The Media School regularly particpiate in this festival. Ari Sarafopolous, Course Leader for the BA (Hons) Computer Visualisation and Animation degree is very proud:" It's probably the biggest and most prestigious conference in computer animation and last year we had 4 student presentations there; 3 animations and one student paper."

Animation completed during courses at Bournemouth often get nominated for awards. This adds extra credibility to graduates' CVs, as well as enhancing the National Centre for Computer Animation's good reputation amongst the animation industry.

Five short animations directed by 2005 BA (Hons) Computer Visualisation and Animation graduates have also been accepted in Southampton's Big Screen Festival, these include: "Sciatica" by Peter Nancollis, "Angry Dragon Hidden Duck" by Jun Shimoda, "Sushi" by Bettina Fung, and "The Metal Detector" by Andrew Rowan-Robinson and "Theros" by Georgios Cherouviem. To see these short animations online please visit the The Big Screen - Animation website.

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