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The Mill’s Andreas Thomsen wins top CG award at SIGGRAPH Asia

Thursday, December 08, 2011

We are committed to recognising and developing new talent here at The Mill, so we couldn't have been more pleased when we heard that our CG Generalist Andreas Thomsen received the 'Best Student Project' award at this year's SIGGRAPH Asia, for his work on the short film 'Last Fall'.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 celebrates the future and present talents of animation industry, and this year's Computer Animation Festival honoured the top three works through a Best of Show award, the Jury award, and for the first time ever, the Best Student Project award.

The SIGGRAPH judges were particularly impressed by the film's high standard of graphics and animation achieved on a limited budget. "It has been very satisfying to see the level of talent in the animation and VFX industry. Working with the jury to curate and select the best was very challenging," said Computer Animation Festival Chair, Eric Liu, who had the uneviable job of choosing a winner from 558 entries from 21 countries.

Our talent team first met Andreas when he was at the Animation Workshop (where he created the winning film) in Denmark earlier this year.  Shortly after, he came to The Mill's London studio to do an internship and has now been working as part of our award-winning CG team ever since.

The SIGGRAPH Asia Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Technique runs from 12-15 December at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. 

Find out more here: http://www.siggraph.org/asia2011/