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| Winner "Four Stars Award" at BIAFF |
This is the fourth festival award for "Street Ratz", a teaser/trailer written and directed by Austin Hill, produced by Jack Wright, and supervised by Amedeo Beretta.
"Street Ratz" is a teaser/trailer set in a dystopian urban universe, following the adventures of a young girl "Tal", who, accompanied by her robot friend, must escape the underworld to find her mother on the top level of a city. "Zhu", the gangland mafioso, will do anything to stop her.
Austin Hill
"Street Ratz" is a teaser/trailer written directed by Austin Hill, a graduate student at Escape Studios studying for his MA in Storyboarding & Previsualisation.
Collaborative Project
The film was a collaboration between storyboard MA students, undergraduate students in the final fourth year of our BA/MArt in the Art of Computer Animation, undergraduate animators in their second year of studies, and the Pearson College Business School.
The project involved an ambitious cross-discipline collaboration between multiple classes at Escape Studios. It was produced by Jack Wright and overseen by animation tutor Amedeo Beretta and Storyboard tutor Iliana Franklin.
Covid-19
"Street Ratz" was completed entirely from home during the Covid Pandemic. Our students collaborated remotely, animated and rendered their shots relying on their own home resources.
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| "Street Ratz" software |
"Street Ratz" was storyboarded with Storyboarder, animated in Maya, textured in Substance Painter, rendered in Unreal Engine, and edited in Premiere.
Storyboard animatic
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| "Zhu" from "Street Ratz" |
Street Ratz at IMDB
You can find Street Ratz here at the IMDB.
Credits
- Austin Hill - Writer, Director, Cinematography, Art Direction and Editor
- Jack Wright - Producer
- Paulette Vassell - Music
- Leroy Dias - Concept Art
- Molly Babington - Concept Art
- Eleni Fouya - Concept Art, Texture Art, Animation
- Piotr Noworyta - Lead Animator, Previsualisation, Pipeline Development, Lead Rigging TD
- Tendai Mande - Modelling, 3D Layout
- Shannon Martin - 3D Layout, Lead Modeller and Texture Artist
- Alex Budulan - 3D Layout, FX TD
- Paloma Zhu - Animation, Rigging
- Callum Wylie - Animation
- Nickoel Izharudin - Animation
- Jessica Hiles - Animation
- Eilin Berrio Pena - Animation, Rigging
- Emily Lim Sarrias - Animation, Rigging
- Samira Bello - Lead Look Dev TD
This is the fourth festival award for "Street Ratz":
- Four Stars Award at BIAFF
- Best Trailer at Golden Nugget Festival
- Best Trailer at the Vesuvius Film Festival
- Best Trailer at the CFIFF in 2020
- Nominated for "Best Trailer" at the Assurdo Film Festival in Milan in July 2020.
The Escape Studios Animation Blog offers a personal view on the art of animation and visual effects. To apply for our BA/MArt in 3D Animation, follow this link. To apply for our storyboarding evening class, visit this page here. For the next 12 week animation course, click here.
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