Visual Animation Department Sweeps Daejeon Visual Art Tech Awards
On October 11, it was announced that for the 4th year in a row, student teams from the DSU Visual Animation Department had received a host of prizes at the annual Daejeon Visual Art Tech Awards. This year, one team won the Grand Prize, one team the Excellence Award, and one team the Encouragement Award.
The 2022 Daejeon Visual Art Tech Awards, held at the Daejeon e-Sports Stadium on October 8, is an event that selects works that can contribute to the development of the field of Korean visual effects and discovers and awards outstanding artists. Hosted by Daejeon Metropolitan City and supervised by the Daejeon Information Culture Industry Promotion Agency, the event is also Korea’s largest competition in which amateurs as well as VFX experts active in the field participate.
Grand Prize winner Get Back was co-produced by students Shin Ju-eon (team leader), Baek Ja-yeon, Park Ji-hae, and Kim Ye-na, for which the team also a cash prize of 4 million won. The work is about a message of hope implicitly delivered in a short video amid the friendship and despair of a scientist who survived the destruction of the Earth and a robot he developed.
It is a work expressed with excellent visual beauty and realistic visual effects, and was evaluated as the most outstanding work of computer graphic expression anddirecting ability this year. Meanwhile, Excellence Award winner The Pendant was co-produced by Kim Dong-ik (team leader), Ha Yae-jin, and Ryu Ji-eon, for which they received 1 million won, and Encouragement Award winner Then, That Time, That Street was co-produced by Park Gi-beom (team leader), Kim Dahee, Kim Yu-ri, and Son Gyu-seob, for which the team received 500,000 won.
All these winning entries were the results of classes conducted in the Visual Animation Department using the DSU “LINC 3.0 Modular Capstone Design Support Program.” Professor Kim Si-hyeon, in charge of guiding the students, said of the receipt of the awards, “The news that students have won the contest for 4 consecutive years in Korea’s only visual and visual effect contest demonstrates the active support of our LINC 3.0 Modular Capstone Classes and our video animation professors. These proud achievements today are the result of a high-quality education centered on field practice.”