Animal Logic scores a double win

Australian visual effects and animation studio, Animal Logic, has picked up two awards for its creative work.

Animal Logic, which has offices in Sydney and Los Angeles, has won the inaugural AACTA (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts) award for Best Visual Effects for its computer animated film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole. The company has also won an International Mobius Award for its Hyundai Electra TV commercial, entitled Shell.

Grant Freckelton, Animal Logic art director, said it was an honour to win the AACTA award for the 2010 Warner Bros animated fantasy feature.

“It was great to get the award for Guardians,” he said. “Every single shot in the film was a technical triumph. We took technology and applied it creatively to an imaginative fantasy world in stereoscopic 3D, with almost everything you see generated within the shot, and then we put together some really good looking, impressive sequences.”

Animal Logic producer Morgan MacCuish said she was excited to win the Mobius award for the Hyundai commercial, which was shot in one room on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour.

“The project took about two months and around 20 artists, from design and concept, modellers, lighters, riggers, surfacing, animators and compositioners, so this award reflects the seamless work they all did,” she said.