Blue Plum Animation Festival

Winning Selections from 2011

—Critic's Choice Award 2011—

The Critic's Choice award is given to the animation that receives the highest marks from the festival judges across all categories. "Photographs" by B.Ki.Animation surpassed entries in the student category to be noted as best in the festival for this year.

Photographs from B.Ki.Animation on Vimeo.

Judges Comments about "Photographs"

"It's hard to believe this is student work. Brilliant. Beautiful. And moving. It brought me to tears. Outstanding, and an inspiration."

"I absolutely loved this short! By far, my favorite of the bunch."

—Student Award 2011—

Blue Plum Animation Festival tradition is to award the runner up in the category from which came the Critic's Choice. Thus, the Student Award is bequeathed to "Estudio Mendizábal"—the second highest scoring student entry this year.

Estudio Mendizábal from Kiko Pérez on Vimeo.

—Professional Award 2011—

The judges called this year's professional winner, "hilarious and brilliant concept, story and characters," "clever" and "polished."

Friday Night Tights from joonki park on Vimeo.

—Independent Award 2011—

Back by popular demand, the Independent Animator Award goes to a "dapper" of an animation, "Deux Petits Bateaux".

Deux Petits Bateaux from Kate Raney on Vimeo.

—Audience Choice Award 2011—

The young folks attended the festival in droves and voted "Lava" as the audience favorite, putting it on a "hot streak."

Winning Selections from 2010

—Critic's Choice Award 2010—

The Critic's Choice award is given to the animation that receives the highest marks from the festival judges. "Mashed" by Adam Fisher surpassed entries in the professional category to be noted as best in the festival for this year.

—Student Award 2010—

The heartwarming animation "Catch a Falling Star" really caught the eye of our judges this year.

—Professional Award 2010—

Blue Plum Animation Festival tradition is to award the runner up in the category from which came the Critic's Choice. Thus, the mind-bendingly cool animation from Robert Kohr, "The Lift", is the Professional Award recipient this year.

—Audience Choice Award 2010—

The audience has spoken and "On the Rise" touched everyone's funny bone this year.