Pencillati Studios’ ‘Far The Days Come’ and Turtle in Motion’s ‘Shonku Diaries’ win at Delhi CG Animation Awards

Delhi CG Animation Awards is a platform where the Industry and education in media and entertainment sector come together. It has always strived as a platform for raising awareness amongst the youth about the latest trends in the digital design industry and this year too it has kept the tradition intact.

The awards are given in 28 categories with one winner in each. The categories for the students of MAAC have three winners in each.

Far The Days Come by Pencillati Studios won the 2D Animated Short Film award while Senti Mental by Digital Notion Motion Graphics won the 3D Animated Short Film award. In the Best 3D Archviz Walkthrough category, Sparrow Interactive’s The 42 grabbed the prize and Best Archviz Still again saw Sparrow Interactive’s Road to Heaven as the winner. For best CG Ad Film, Jayant Hadke nabbed the prize for Lays Boatman while Turtle in Motion Studios took home the best CG Feature Film award for The Shonku Diaries. Gali Gali Sim Sim by Rocket Science Animation won for Experimental Animation Short Film category and The School Bag by Dheeraj Jindal won in Live Action Film category.

Here is a full list of awards:

MAAC Student Category

3D Short Film

Gold: Unity ki Strength (SE)
Silver: Chutki (SE) and Kalyug Reborn (PP)
Bronze: A Polluted Love Story (PP) and Secret Santa (RG)

VFX Short Film

Gold: Point of No Return (PP)
Silver: The Final Battle (SE)
Bronze: Marvel Vs DC (SE)

Live Action Short Film

Gold: Cause ki Fauz (PP) and Belt (PP)
Silver: Saza-e-Maut (RG)
Bronze: Save Girl (RG) and Swachh Bharat (SE)

2D Animation Short Film

Gold: Digital Money-Mr Lonely (SE)
Silver: Cancer Velle Log (SE)
Bronze: Note ki Chot (SE) and Jinke Hum Mama Hai (SE)

Experimental Animation Short Film

Gold: Demonitization Dramebaaz (SE)
Silver: Death Race (SE)
Bronze: Ek Choti Si Seekh (RG) and 8 November (PP)

MAAC Student Specialisation Category

Best Set and Prop Modelling
Kalyug Reborn (PP)
Home Shop 19 (SE)

Best Texturing and Lighting
Unity ki Strength (SE)

Best Rigging and Animation
Chutki (SE)

Best Cinematography
Digital Money
Child Imitating Game

Best Background Score
Cancer Velle Log (SE)
Saza-e-Maut (RG)

Student Open Category

2D Short Film
The White Land by Soumen Roy

3D Animated Short Film
RDX Team by MAAC Pitampura

Digital Painting
Digital Painting by Soumen Roy

Info Graphic or Brand Illustration
Brand Illustration by Divya Jain

Live Action Short Film
Alterview by Himanshu Bansal

Matte Painting
Nature Beauty by Rajiv

UI-UX Design
Zenbu by Shashank Kaushik

Photography

Fashion Photography
Abhinav Shukla

Night/Low-light Photography
Piyush Thorat

Photo-Journalism
Abhinav Shukla

A still from ‘The Shonku Diaries’