
BreakingPoint wins VES Award for Outsanding VFX in Student Project
Animationsinstitut at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg and their diploma project BreakingPoint, which was directed by Martin Lapp and produced by Anica Maruhn (live action) and Tobias Gerginov (live action) as well as Francesco Faranna (effects producing), won a VES Award for "Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project" at yesterday's ceremony.
Only four days ago, Andreas Feix - who also won yet another VES laurel with his team from MPC Advertising for John Lewis; Buster the Boxer - claimed the Annie Award in the "Best Student Project" category with his diploma film Citipati.
BreakingPoint, which already took the honors as "Best Student Project" at SIGGRAPH Asia last December, is an outstanding example of interdisciplinary team work: the short film was realized in cooperation