
AEAF announces this year’s winners
The 2017 Animation Effects Awards Festival (AEAF) was held on August 16 in Sydney with an entire day dedicated to speakers of top visual effects and the animation industry hailing from Animal Logic, MPC, Weta Digital, ILM, Iloura, The Sequence Group, Buck and Rotor Studios capped by the evening’s Awards Night networking event, screening and ceremony.
Now in its 18th year, the AEAF received more feature films VFX category entries than ever before ultimately giving away the Gold Award to Weta for War for the Planet of the Apes, Silver to MPC and again Weta for The Jungle Book and Bronze to ILM for Kong: Skull Island.
In another section of the animation/VFX artistic spectrum, this year, the TV Series children category was dominated by toon contenders with Sticky Pictures annexing the Go