Comments on: The 2008 Blender Conference Animation Festival and Suzanne Awards outcome.

By: Fahassani

Fahassani — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:15:55 +0000

Congratulations to the winners! :-)
the Animations really rocked!

By: NathanKP

NathanKP — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:51:54 +0000

Its nice to hear about the highlights. Great work all you winners! NathanKP - Inkweaver Review

By: Jean-Sébastien Guillemette

Jean-Sébastien Guillemette — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:06:07 +0000

Congrats to the winners :)

It was amazing being there! Can't wait to see next year video lineup!

By: macouno

macouno — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:03:52 +0000

Thornae, they're not sorted in the order they ended up… I just moved the winners to the top last saturday. I have no idea who came 2nd/3rd and such.

Jona, I'm not entirely sure about legalities, the Blender Foundation can distribute this stuff, but whether you can… Dont' want to make this a huge discussion here. Maybe you ought to start a discussion thread at the blenderartists forums asking people to links to the websites of the competitors, then compile that list yourself to share with everyone else.

By: Jona

Jona — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:02:52 +0000

Can anyone make a torrent of them ?

I'm thrilled to see the work !

By: FishB8

FishB8 — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:11:12 +0000

I really thought "Gamelad" was an interesting music video. It was just plain fun to watch.

"Glimpse of light" was great eye-candy.

And I thought "Pitch" was an interesting story. The title doesn't really make sense till the very very end, and it made me laugh, despite the fact that it was a rather dark and depressing story line.

By: Thornae

Thornae — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:07:03 +0000

Yup, those were my picks, although the "Best Designed" category was a bit of a toss-up – they were all good.

As far as character animation goes, "Interviews from the Future" is a well animated head and shoulders above the others. "Sad, sad song" is good, with excellent guitar playing and movement, but the sheer depth of character conveyed from the animation in "IFTF", the lip syncing, the comedic timing… this is character animation that wouldn't look out of place at Pixar.

And "Hangar #5" obviously had to win, but I'm pleased that "Pitch" seems to be ranked second – it was a captivating piece of work, demonstrating that animation should be an aid to storytelling, rather the main objective.

Congrats to all winners and nominees!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:10:32 +0000

Congratulations to the winners!

By: meltingman

meltingman — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:43:04 +0000

Ronbravo For "kala and the mystery of the banana":
http://www.vimeo.com/1948944 english version :-)

Congratulations to the winners!
I'm Verry Happy to arrives here is for me the realy good think of the year 2008 :-).
But it's not finish for me, I continue my short film, with the part II (and we wil se wy the name of the short is " kala and the mystery of banana ").

Bravo para los primeros !
soy my alegre de haber yegado hasta aqui, para mi fue la mejor novela del ano 2008 :-)
pero no es terminado para mi, porque tengo que terminar mi corte metrage la parte II.
Donde veremos porque se lama "Kala y el mysterio de la banana magica" .

Chao chao ++

By: macouno

macouno — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:22:15 +0000

Most of these can already be found on vimeo or via the websites of the creators. Do a little searching, and you're there. Putting official blender videos on a service like vimeo is an option, but I don't think the right service has been found yet.