Best Short Short at Lancaster Area Film Festival

Second award today!

Best Graduate Film at Ivy Film Festival

Sweet!

Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles

Forgot to post this earlier - I was excited to have Topi be included in the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles and also on their website.

College TV Awards Runner-up

Last weekend, I was down in LA to receive the 2nd Prize in the College Television Awards Animation category (aka the 'Student Emmys'). The awards are given out to the producers of each film by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and this is Topi's first 'industry' award.

The event was fun and included a gala dinner as well as the full red-carpet treatment. I was joined by several members of the cast, crew, and USC faculty.


Above: me with crew members Joanna Griebel, Sarah Zerina Usmen, and John Helton.

USC's animation department also placed this awesome ad in the programme:

Topi at Sala Parpalló

As I've mentioned elsewhere, Sala Parpalló is a contemporary art gallery in Valencia, Spain that has included 'Topi' in an audiovisual program about India that will run during May 2010. I just received a copy of their program:

Wish I could see it in person, the place looks really cool:

Topi on Japanese TV

Topi was recently featured on 'Gat Chane', a program that airs on public television in Japan. The show features the work of both students and researchers, and is aimed at college students.

An excerpt from Topi was included in their episode on motion capture at USC:

The motion capture stage shown is where I shot all the mocap for the film - it's at the Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts at USC. Zemeckis was also the co-instructor of my my mocap class and is featured right before Topi in the clip above.

Now if only I knew what they were saying...

Best Animation at International Short Film Festival of India

Topi won its first Indian award(!) in the animated film category at ISFFI 2010, which was held in Chennai, India.