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Animation School Continues To Produce Winners
Animation School Continues To Produce Winners
Monday, 6 July 2009
Auckland, New Zealand - Lifeway College 3D
Animation student, Jonathan Mafi, has won the Auckland
Technical Prize as part of the 2009 Hamburg Animation
Awards.
The Hamburg Animation Awards are international
awards for animation cartoons. Hamburg is the epicentre of
German media including film, TV, advertising and music
production, with the contest open to graduates and students
of film academies, technical colleges and universities in
Germany. New Zealand entries are possible through the
Auckland City Council's strategic alliance with Hamburg,
signed in April 2007.
Jonathan’s animated short, Pride Comes before a Fall, was highly commended by the panel of industry representatives. This is the second year a Lifeway College 3D Animation student has been honoured through the Hamburg Animation Awards, with Austin Hillbrecht, winning the Country Award for New Zealand in 2008 for his film, The Missing Sock. Austin’s prize was 2000 Euros (NZ $4,000), and a trip to Hamburg to attend the award ceremony and to meet with Disney character designer, Stephen Silver.
“It
is great to see one of our first year students being
recognised among the best new talent in New Zealand. We are
extremely proud of a first class individual achievement by
Jonathan and like Austin before him, are looking forward to
seeing his potential released further in his second year of
our Advanced Diploma in 3D Animation. We believe this focus
on the individual needs of students combined with our
long-term relationship with the animation industry, is what
makes our graduates employable by star New Zealand companies
such as Weta and Huhu Studios” says Craig Hansen,
Principal of Lifeway College.
Jonathan’s short, Pride
Comes before a Fall, can be viewed here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qztsMebtnvQ&feature=channel_page
and was aired on C4, ‘Select Life’ on Monday 6
July.
Lifeway College School of Animation is currently accepting enrolments for February 2010. Places are limited.
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