AnimA TV

Since 1997 the magazine digital production awards cgi content with an award called the animago award. On the 8th of November in Karlsruhe, Germany, CGI talents and friends gathered in a nice hall with delicious fingerfood waiting for the animago to start.
Eleven awards waiting for delivery. The new concept of only 11 awards and the nice location increased my exspectations of the event.
The speaker has changed. The new voice belonged to Matthias J. Lange who is also the new editor in chief of the magazine Digital Production since the middle of 2007.
Although he read his text from a piece of paper, you could feel that he is a professional and is loving vfx and cgi of all kinds. Little technical misstakes where nicely talked away.

However the event was again not as professional as it should be by now: Big audio problems disturbed the event, Günther the DVD Player even crashed once. The handover of the awards lost its glamour as soon as the applaud became silent. The integration of international production into the award lost also its glamour since no one showed up. At least Bully sent a funny videomessage, although playing it twice did not make it better. The videomassage from Waltdisney was an extract from the bonus material from the Ratatouille DVD – very sad.

BUT: Most important are the cgi productions which made the audience laugh and wonder how they have done it. The award is great to get new inspirations and motivation. Meet friends from the German industry. Time will tell, where and when the next award will take place.

animago AWARD 2007 – The Winners: