Meet Our VES Award Winners
Silvia Bartoli, Concept Artist, London
The VES Awards celebrate and recognise outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials, and video games and the VFX supervisors, VFX producers and hands-on artists who bring this work to life. This year the event was hosted as per usual by Patton Oswalt and was presented virtually because of the pandemic.
Since the VES Awards launched in 2002, The Mill/MPC has won 14 awards, with Burberry’s ‘Festive’ & Arm & Hammer’s ‘Once Upon A Time’ winning this year for Outstanding Compositing and Animated Character.
We sat down with some of our winners to find out “What winning the VES Award means to them”.
For Shiny, winning the award means… BLESSED
Awarded work: Arm & Hammer ‘Once Upon A Time’ | Outstanding Animated Character in a Commercial
“This award means the world to me… It’s a physical piece of memory that will always travel along with me in my journey as an artist and remind me of the incredible winning moment at VES. I am happy and blessed to receive such a prestigious award.”
Shiny Rajan, Senior CG Artist, Bangalore
For Matias, winning the award means… RECOGNITION
Once Upon A Time’ | Outstanding Animated Character in a Commercial
“To me, winning a VES award means feeling that my work and effort is valued by my peers. It encourages me to become the best artist I can be and to continue to improve my skills every day. This project was the result of a huge collaboration between amazing artists, so this really showed me how far we can go if we all put our minds together into creating a beautiful image, achieving a lot more than one person could.”
For Alex, winning the award means… AN HONOUR
Awarded work: Burberry ‘Festive’ | Outstanding Compositing in a Commercial
“It’s the Oscars for VFX! What an honour. I’m so proud of the team. This is for everyone involved – Roto, Prep, Matchmove, Color & of course amazing CG.”
Alex Lovejoy, Creative Director, London
For Amresh, winning the award means… CONFIDENCE
Awarded work: Burberry ‘Festive’ | Outstanding Compositing in a Commercial
“VES – It’s a fuel for our upcoming achievements which demonstrates that we are on right path. It means that we have worked hard and in return, it paid us in form of motivation, pride and confidence to achieve more!”
Amresh Kumar, Compositor, Bangalore
For Silvia, winning the award means… RECOGNITION
Awarded work: Arm & Hammer ‘Once Upon A Time’ | Outstanding Animated Character in a Commercial
“To me, winning a VES award means feeling that my work and effort is valued by my peers. It encourages me to become the best artist I can be and to continue to improve my skills every day. This project was the result of a huge collaboration between amazing artists, so this really showed me how far we can go if we all put our minds together into creating a beautiful image and achieving a lot more than one person could!”
Silvia Bartoli, Concept Artist, London
