“Many high-quality international productions have participated in the competition this year," said Jana Freund, head of marketing for the animago AWARD & CONFERENCE. "This clearly shows that the prize is internationally recognised and from the point of view of the ambitious digital content creation industry it is here to stay."

The categories and nominees:

Best Postproduction:
-    Audi Perfection, Parasol Island, Germany
-    Civilization V. Digic Pictures, Hungary
-    Get Out, Charlotte Boisson, Julien Fourvel, Pascal Han-Kwan, Tristan Reinarz, Fanny Roche, France
-    Im Schnee, Mackevision Medien Design, Germany
-    Sintel, Colin Levy, Blender Institute, Netherlands

Best Advertising Production:
-    Die Daheim WM 2010, The Soulcage Department, Germany
-    Grunwald. Battle of the Sescentenary II, Platige Image, Poland
-    Lada Niva Edition Roscosmos, Florian Friedrich Dünzen, Germany
-    Mercedes G-Class  "Fireworks", INFECTED Postproduction, Germany
-    Noem Mix Urgut, LIGA_01 COMPUTERFILM, Germany

Best Visualisation:
-    Animated Guide to Polish Success, Platige Image, Poland
-    Animated History of Poland, Platige Image, Poland
-    Kaefer "Insulation sulotions", Deli Pictures, Germany
-    Lufthansa A380 – Teaser, Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Germany
-    Philips Healthcare, REBUSmedia, Germany

Best Still:
-    Lamborghini: Street, Philipp und Keuntje, Ralf Lechner, Germany
-    Lufthansa A380 - Visuals 08, Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Germany
-    Rainy Night, Morteza Najafi, Turkey
-    Porsche Panamera 3, recom, Germany
-    Woistderdeinardt, lichtecht, Germany

Best Short Film (Films up to about 25 min.):
-    BABIOLES, Matray, Autour de Minuit, France
-    Chicory 'n' Coffee, Dusan Kastelic, Slovenia
-    LOGORAMA, H5, Autour de Minuit, France
-    Perfeito, Mauricio Bartok, Brasil
-    RUBIKA, Guillaume Plantevin, Autour de Minuit, France

Best Technical Realisation:
-    ARTIFICIAL PARADISE, INC, Jean-Paul Frenay, Autour de Minuit, France
-    Compositing Reel, Sandro Blattner, USA
-    PIXELS, Patrick Jean, Autour de Minuit, France
-    „PREDATOR“ DANFORTH, Sabotage Studio, France
-    LOOM, polynoid, Germany

Best Up-and-Coming Artist:
-    Farbzwerge, Regina Welker, Germany
-    MOBILE, Verena Fels, Germany
-    The Tale of Mr. Revus, Marius Herzog, Germany
-    Time for Change, Jun Ying Xu, Priyan Jayamaha, Kirsten Pretorius, Rupert Ashton, Jonathan Hagan, New Zealand
-    Dr. Banana - Fruit Clinic, Enrico Damm, Oliver Kling, Wilhelm Molderings, Kai Schadwinkel, Caroline Weidenhiller, Germany

Best Mobile Production:
-    SketchBook Pro, Autodesk, Germany
-    iDough, CrateSoft, USA
-    Layar Reality Browser, Layar, Netherlands
-    Storyboard Composer, cinemek, USA
-    Ghost, Effekt-Etage, Germany

Best Interactive Production:
-    3D-PDF - animierte Wassersimulation, Schreiber & Friends, Germany
-    A tangible experience –architectural design brought to life, Kommerz, Austria
-    aLife 1.0, q-bus Mediatektur GmbH, Germany
-    Der Ghostwriter, digital Images, Germany
-    Kubadilishana, Motiva, Spain

Best Game Design:
-    God Of War III, Sony Interactive, USA
-    Heavy Rain, Sony Interactive, USA
-    Mafia 2, 2K, Czech Rebublic
-    Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar Games, USA
-    Alan Wake, Microsoft, USA

Jury’s Award:
-    Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Digic Pictures, Hungary
-    Bob, Jacob Frey, Harry Fast, Anna Matacz, Germany
-    LOOM, polynoid, Germany
-    Thesis, Tomasz Cechowski, Grzegorz Paluch, Poland
-    Zerebrale Dichotomie, Andreas Atteneder, Florian Juri, Valentin Ortner, Sabine Pils, Christoph Struber, Austria

The Jury, under the lead of DIGITAL PRODUCTION, is made up of Tim Borgmann (bt-3d), Sebastian Dosch (DOSCH Design), Sascha Eichler (Maxon), Maik Euscher (DIGITAL PRODUCTION), Günter Hagedorn (DIGITAL PRODUCTION), Rangeen Katharina Horami (Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg), Matthias J. Lange (DIGITAL PRODUCTION), Andrea Peters (media.net berlinbrandenburg), Alexander Schillinsky (Liga 01) and Frank Alexander Zahn (exozet).
The main sponsor of the awards ceremony is Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, with additional sponsorship from AVID, eyeon, Maxon, PNY, 3Dconnexion and mStore.
Photo material and further information: www.animago.com/presse.

Press Contact:

Jana Freund / ATEC Business Information GmbH
Hackerbrücke 6, D-80335 Munich
T: +49 (0) 89 8 98 17 – 3 40
F: +49 (0) 89 8 98 17 – 3 50
E: jana.freund@digitalproduction.com

About animago AWARD & CONFERENCE and DIGITAL PRODUCTION:

Since 1997, the animago AWARD has recognised the best productions in the areas of 3D, visual effect and interactive media. The impressive display of talent documents the current technological progress in the industry. Creatives from over 80 countries take part in the animago AWARD, showing the international character and meaning of this prize.
The awards ceremony for animago is sponsored by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and takes place on 28 October during the animago CONFERENCE (28-29.10.10) in the fxCenter in Potsdam-Babelsberg.
The contest is hosted yearly by DIGITAL PRODUCTION (www.digitalproduction.com), the leading trade publication for all disciplines of digital media postproduction & visualisaion in the German-speaking market. DIGITAL PRODUCTION is published by the ATEC Business Information GmbH (www.atec-bi.de), an affiliated company of the European Professional Publishing Group (www.eppg.de).