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And the winners of CG Whiz 2011 are… !

Thursday, December 15, 2011

The winners of Escape Studios' annual CG Whiz competition to uncover future stars of the CG industry were announced last night at an exclusive event hosted by Escape.  We were delighted to be able to offer the winner of the Amateurs category a 12 week work placement here at The Mill as part of the prize package, which also included a VFX classroom course at Escape.

Out of over 200 entrants, Daniel Danielson was named the winner of the Amateurs category and will be taking up his placement at our London studio next year.  The panel of judges, which included Tom Bussell, our Head of 3D, praised his reel for being 2very non-cliché, demonstrating different aspects of the vfx pipeline and utilising a wide variety of skills. Daniel shows a huge amount of potential, which we are all very excited about."



Kim Shaun Seong-Young claimed the runner's up prize in the Amateurs category for the film entitled, 'Ballet of Unhatched Chicks'.

In the Young Professionals category, for artists with professional credits with less than three years in the industry, Yunsung Cho from the US was awarded first prize.

Winners of the Users Choice awards, as voted for by over 4000 users on Facebook, were Jorge Barros from Portugal in the Amateurs category, with Amila Kumarasinghe from Sri Lanka taking the same honour in the Young Professionals category.

Commenting on the high standard of this year's entrants, Tom said: "We're delighted to have been involved in CG Whiz for the third year running.  Once again, we were stunned at all the great amateur CG talent out there and are pleased to be able to offer opportunities to Daniel and to help him build a career as a professional artist."

Huge congratulations to all of this year's winners!

To view the full gallery of entrants visit Escape Studios' Facebook page.