AniJam Winner 2015
After two weeks of frantic voting and much deliberation by our judges the AniJam winner has been decided. This years theme for the 48 hour animation challenge was HERO and we had 5 teams who worked like heroes and successfully submitted a completed film. The efforts of every team was outstanding, which made deciding a winner extremely difficult and thier were split opinions amongst the judges. However, one film did manage to get two votes to take a majority and that winning films is ‘I Got This’ by Tom Gran and Madeleine Grossi
I Got This
Tom and Madeline took part in this years AniJam as reigning champions having won our last AniJam in 2013 with their film ‘Don’t Cross Me’, this time they took part as a duo having previously taken part as a team of four. Tom and Madeline are both Bristol based animators and studied animation at the University of the West of England. Madeline has a love for designing and writing for animation and eating churros, while Tom is also known for being one half of the Spin Kick Bros who are responsible for a series of humorous animation projects.
The winning film was deciding by a panel of four Judges including Jake Hobbs (Show Me The Animation), Kieran Argo (Encounters Film Festival), Chris Aitken (Short Com), and an audience vote. A breakdown of the voting included below:
Judge 1: I Got This
Judge 2: Heroes
Judge 3: I Got This
Judge 4 Audience Vote: Um.. Hero.
As winners Tom and Madeline will receive free passes to this years Encounters Film Festival in September, while our other teams don’t go unrewarded and will each receive 50% off passes to the festival.
From everyone here at Show Me The Animation we would like to thank all of the teams for participating in this years AniJam. We were truly amazed at the standard of films produced within the time frame so our congratulations go out to all of you.
We would also like to thank Kieran Argo, Chris Aitken and everyone of you who voted online in helping with a tough decision making process in choosing an overall winner. Finally we offer a huge thank-you to Encounters Film Festival for all their help in organising the event and providing prizes for out participating teams.
We look forward to returning with the AniJam event next year…Watch this Space!
