Cosmos Laundromat wins SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival Jury’s Choice Award

Bart · July 7, 2016

This just arrived in my mailbox: Cosmos Laundromat has been awarded the Jury’s Choice of the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival – a HUGE honor. Congratulations and a big hug to the entire crew behind this amazing production!

There’s no online information available yet, will update this post once the information becomes available on their website.

Update: Ton just shared part of the email he received from SIGGRAPH:

Cosmos Laundromat wins SIGGRAPH Jury's choice award! See the Jury's response. Thanks everyone who contributed! #b3d pic.twitter.com/6ACrvArYJC
— Ton Roosendaal (inactive)? (@tonroosendaal) July 7, 2016

Link

Blender.org: Cosmos Laundromat wins SIGGRAPH 2016 Computer Animation Festival Jury’s Choice Award

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

14 responses

Mieke Roth

7 July 2016 at 17:10

wohooo!! great!!

Sayan Mondal

7 July 2016 at 17:12

Wow! That’s a great news. Calls for a party, doesn’t it?
-Sayan

Sparkwood and 21

7 July 2016 at 18:39

That’s brilliant news! Well done to all those involved.

henrique

7 July 2016 at 18:52

Wow, this is incredible! Cosmos Laundromat is such a beautiful animation… it touches me everytme I watch it!
Congratulations Blender Team!

Bart

7 July 2016 at 22:12

Post updated with the email Ton received from SIGGRAPH.

rogier van der list

7 July 2016 at 22:45

This is so great…

David McDermott

7 July 2016 at 22:57

WOW! congratulations. Well deserved.

PGTART

8 July 2016 at 01:26

Congrats, i always tought that movie was like a gap closing, with the looks of stop motion much alike “the where rabit”, but all made alive in pure blender CG, outstanding quality.

be2inas

8 July 2016 at 08:28

At last. I knew this open short is far more superior to the rest of movies done by Blender foundation. Very good story telling visual elements, lighting. I hope the rest pieces will be this sophisticated and well thought out.

m.ardito

8 July 2016 at 09:20

Congratulations to Ton and all people involved, and supporting the movie, of course (I will continue to support any other episode, whatever), because it really stands out as concept, plot and realization.

But also because, finally, the huge effort put in the path from freeing blender sources until here (and beyond), gets the attention it deserves.

This is way more than a excellent movie, it is a story of excellent people and excellent software. Well done.