2008 Machinima Festival Winners Announced

[DoctorFinger]

Winners were announced this past weekend for the 2008 Machinima Festival (http://festival.machinima.org/wordpress/?p=102), held at Eyeblast in New York City. "The Ship" by Eglis Medins and "The Monad" by Polygon Fiction led the pack with three wins each. The full list of winners:

Best Long Format - “Clear Skies” - Ian Chisholm
Best Series - “This Spartan Life” - Bong & Dern Inc.
Best Short Format - “World of Workcraft” - Stephen Mullane
Best Independent - “The Ship” - Egils Mednis
Best Student Work - “Azerothian Super Villains” - Beckman Movie Productions
Best Direction - “The Ship” - Egils Mednis
Best Virtual Performance - “The Monad” - Polygon Fiction
Best Voice Acting - “The Monad” - Polygon Fiction
Best Visual Design - “Apocalypsis Ex Machina” - Andrzej Kozlowski
Best Cinematography - “The Monad” - Polygon Fiction
Best Original Music - “Ignis Solus” - Lars Erik Fjosne
Best Sound Design - “Chevauchée Nocturne” - Les Riches Douaniers
Best Writing - “World of Workcraft” - Stephen Mullane
Best Editing - “Tales of the Past III” - Martin Falch
Best Technical Achievement - “Leaving the Game” - American Film Institute - Digital Content Lab
Best of the Festival - “The Ship” - Egils Mednis
Outstanding Achievement in Game Cinematics - “Mass Effect” - Bioware Cinematic Design Team

[Felonous]

Would have been nice to have a link in there somewhere to the web site that lets us check out the videos, or at least a link to the web site where we can see the winners ourselves.

[DoctorFinger]

Whoops, forgot the link. Even so, they don't host or link the winners either.

[Vyzov]

It's nice to see Ignis Solus on there. The music in that was perfect.

[KingGorilla]

Let me just say that Tales of the Past III is on par with most of the superhero cartoons I have seen, at least, from the last year It is no JLA or Gotham Knight, but it is as good as Superman Doomsday or those Hellboy toons. That says quite a bit for a free fan project. I would like to see Blizzard sell DVDs of this on their site.