As to Siggraph, few people know about it or heard about it. In Taiwan, even students who major in animations or multimedia may not know what Siggraph really is. Siggraph, actually, is a special interest group on graphics and interactive techniques. It held conference and animation festival every year from 36 years ago and now its awards in animation are some of the most important ones in this field. The winner of Siggraph Best in Show Award, as I mentioned in Animated Shotr Film : Oktapodi, can be directly nominated by Academy Awards Best Animated Short.
Since Siggraph animation awards are so important, there are always a lot of creators from every countries send their films to attend Siggraph every year. Cubic Tragedy is the first Taiwan student animation selected in animation festival and even in Electronic Theater. Moreover, people who attended this Electronic Theater voted Cubic Tragedy as their favorite film. Finally Cubic Tragedy got People's Choice Award.
What causes this film so successful is maybe the theme. Cubic Tragedy, in fact, is not that kind of animation for ordinary people to see. It’s about some jokes in 3D computer software and technique. A woman who lives in 3D world tries to make herself pretty, but she uses these 3D tools badly and doesn’t know how to undo it. Seeing this story, audiences in Electronic Theater – mostly were animators, would felt funny and just like seeing themselves because they may met the same embarrassing situation in front of the computers before.
Regardless of the theme, the animation in this film is quite good too. I like its opening of one cube to drag another cube into the same shape. They look so cute and elastic. It can also show that the creator of this film is very good at character animations.
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